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On Tuesday, the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals will hear oral argument over a Tennessee policy requiring individuals with prior felony convictions to produce additional documents to prove eligibility when registering to vote. A district court last year said the policy violated federal law.
A federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit from voting rights organizations challenging a Tennessee statute requiring voters to be “bona fide” members of a political party in order to cast a ballot in the state’s open primary elections or otherwise face a threat of criminal prosecution.
Over a year after the Republican-controlled Tennessee Legislature attempted to shrink the size of Nashville’s Metro Council from 40 to 20 members, a state court has blocked that plan for good.
Civil rights advocates are now threatening to sue Republican Secretary of State Tre Hargett over the letters.
A few months after a federal judge blocked Tennessee from wrongfully denying people with past felony convictions of their right to vote, a conservative panel on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has paused the decision.
Tennessee election officials sent letters this month to over 14,000 individuals asking them to verify their U.S. citizenship in what one Democratic state legislator is calling an attempt to intimidate voters.
In a new brief, nine Republican secretaries of state are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take a case out of Pennsylvania pushing the independent state legislature theory, a radical legal theory that could upend American elections.
Democratic lawmakers in Tennessee are asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate a series of recent policies put in place that disenfranchise voters.
Today, a 2-1 panel on a Tennessee trial court ordered the Tennessee Legislature to redraw the state Senate map and upheld the state’s House map.
On Thursday, Oct. 5, a three-judge panel on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court decision dismissing a challenge to a Tennessee law that criminalizes absentee ballot application distribution.
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