Court Blocks GOP Bid to Seize Control of North Carolina Elections Board
The ruling comes at a pivotal time for the ongoing legal saga over the state’s still-uncertified 2024 Supreme Court election.
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Federal Appeals Court Halts Ballot Curing in North Carolina Supreme Court Election
A federal appeals court blocked North Carolina from beginning ballot curing as part of Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin’s effort to overturn the results from the state’s 2024 Supreme Court race.
SCOTUS Could Get Chance to Disenfranchise Voters Whose Ballots Arrive After Election Day
Mississippi’s secretary of state asked SCOTUS to weigh in on the state’s mail-in ballot receipt deadline.
Judge Halts Trump’s Mass Firings at Consumer Finance Watchdog Agency
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from gutting an independent agency tasked with protecting people from financial fraud.
Federal Judge Extends Block on DOGE’s Access to Social Security Data
A federal judge Thursday extended restrictions on Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency accessing Americans’ personal data held by the Social Security Administration.
Federal Judges Continue to Denounce Trump For Wrongfully Removed Maryland Man
A three-judge panel for the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals again unanimously rejected a Trump administration request to overturn a lower-court order requiring it to secure the freedom of a Maryland man it erroneously sent to a hard labor prison in El Salvador.
Jefferson Griffin Moves to Disenfranchise More North Carolina Voters
The latest update in the ongoing legal saga of the 2024 North Carolina state Supreme Court election.
Key Federal Elections Agency Moving Forward With Trump’s Anti-Voting Order
An independent federal agency is going forward with President Donald Trump’s sweeping elections executive order despite a barrage of lawsuits challenging it as an assault on states’ constitutional authority to run their own elections.
In Promising News for Riggs, North Carolina Cuts Number of Ballots at Risk of Rejection
The latest filing boosts Riggs’ chances of prevailing in the ongoing election saga.
Judge Finds Cause to Hold Trump Admin In Contempt Over Alien Enemies Act Removals
A federal judge Wednesday said he’d found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt of court for showing “a willful disregard” toward his March 15 orders requiring it return to the U.S. the hundreds of Venezuelan migrants it sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador using the Alien Enemies Act (AEA), an 18th century wartime law.
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