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President Joe Biden vetoed a bipartisan bill that would add 63 new federal judges over the next decade, explaining that the bill “fails to resolve key questions” about the allocation of judges and senior status judges.
Jefferson Griffin, the GOP candidate for the Supreme Court of North Carolina, filed new legal actions against the state election board’s decision to reject his challenges to more than 60,000 ballots in his race.
The newly-elected 119th Congress will be sworn in Friday and the GOP — which has repeatedly targeted voting rights — is set to control both chambers for the first time since 2019.
The articles that garnered the most clicks on Democracy Docket this year reflect the key legal and political developments that shaped public conversation during the most litigated election in history. From major Supreme Court decisions to important state-level voting reforms, these stories highlight the issues that defined democracy in 2024. Top 10 Breaking News Stories […]
What do George Conway and Hillary Rodham Clinton have in common? They each starred in a top-clicked Democracy Docket video this year, gaining about 1.5 million views apiece.
The Senate confirmed President Joe Biden’s 235th judge to a lifetime appointment on Friday evening, which would surpass the number of judicial vacancies that President-elect Donald Trump filled during his first term.
The majority of voting lawsuits filed during the 2024 election cycle were related to election administration and voter registration, not mail-in voting, which is a departure from 2020 election litigation.
Republican legislators’ attempt to upend election administration in Arizona prevailed after a court blocked part of the state’s 2023 Election Procedures Manual (EPM), which sets rules for how elections are run.
The Georgia Court of Appeals disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting the 2020 election subversion case against President-elect Donald Trump and dozens of others but rejected a request to dismiss the indictment.
For at least seven years, Arizona officials knew about the administrative error that led to hundreds of thousands of residents registered to vote without showing proof of citizenship.
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