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Democracy Docket is the leading digital news platform dedicated to information, analysis and opinion about voting rights and elections in the courts.
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🚨BREAKING: Senator Schumer announces plan to push through filibuster and proceed with voting rights legislation using a procedure known as "messages between the Houses" in a caucus memo. Here's what you need to know🧵👇.
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"The kind of threats that you hear coming out of Donald Trump should scare every American because with an authoritarian, you never know what side of the bed they'll wake up on." — Former U.S. Secretary of State @HillaryClinton
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🚨BREAKING: Majority Leader Schumer confirms that if Senate Republicans block a cloture vote, he will put forward a proposal to change the rules to allow for a talking filibuster on the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act.
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SEN. COLLINS says full restoration of the preclearance provisions of the VRA isn't necessary because Section 2 still exists. SEN. OSSOFF shoots back asking, "but if Section 4 & Section 5 were vital when you voted to reauthorize them in 2006, why aren't they vital today?".
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BREAKING: The Board of Elections of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania votes AGAINST certifying its election results. More to come.
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🚨CLARK COUNTY, NEVADA VOTERS: There are 9,659 ballots that need to be cured in order to be counted. If you were notified that your ballot needs to be cured, the deadline to do so is Monday, Nov. 14, at 5 pm. If you have any questions or issues, call 702-455-6552.
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BREAKING: In a win for voters, U.S. Supreme Court issues a decision in Allen v. Milligan blocking Alabama's congressional map. The Court rules that the map violates the Voting Rights Act by diluting the voting strength of Black voters. More to come:
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Trump should be impeached.Hawley should be expelled.Giuliani should be disbarred.
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BREAKING: Judge rules AGAINST Kari Lake in her lawsuit contesting her loss in the Arizona gubernatorial race. The court "DOES NOT find clear and convincing evidence of misconduct" and is "confirming the election of Katie Hobbs as Arizona Governor-Elect.".
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NEVADA VOTERS: 10,000+ mail-in ballots are at risk of being rejected — but the votes will be counted if voters cure their ballots and fix any errors!. The cure deadline is 5:00 pm on Nov. 12. Check the status of your ballot and cure it today, if necessary:
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REP. RASKIN: "Republicans changed Texas state law to permit astronauts to vote absentee from space. They want to make it easier to vote from space and they want to make it harder to vote on Earth. " 1/2.
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"Alito struck me almost immediately. as a radical, as a fanatic, about his views of culture and the role of religion in our society and his religion. And I found him scary.". @HillaryClinton explains how she views the current Supreme Court. Watch here:
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BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court blocks Louisiana's congressional map. Lower courts found that the map dilutes the voting power of Black voters. Louisiana will have to redraw its congressional map to add a second majority-Black district.
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🚨COLORADO VOTERS: If you were notified that there is a technical mistake on your mail-in ballot, text COLORADO to 2VOTE (28683) to cure your ballot. The last day to cure your ballot is Nov. 16 at 11:59pm.
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BREAKING: U.S. Senate votes 50-49 to confirm civil and voting rights attorney Dale Ho to a lifetime appointment on a federal court in New York.
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🚨ALERT: The results of Maricopa County's election audit are in: NO evidence of fraud or “vote-switching” was found during the 2020 general election. The audit was requested by Republicans after President Biden won Arizona's largest county. #azpol.
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BREAKING: Oregon Supreme Court bars Republican state lawmakers with 10+ unexcused absences from running in 2024 and 2026, upholding a voter-approved amendment that disqualifies truant lawmakers from seeking reelection to the state legislature.
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BREAKING: Results of the Arizona attorney general recount announced. Kris Mayes (D) defeats Abe Hamadeh (R) by 280 votes. Previously, Mayes beat Hamadeh by 511 votes.
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🚨BREAKING: Federal court rules that Alabama’s new congressional map likely violates the Voting Rights Act and orders a new map to be drawn within the next 14 days.
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BREAKING: Judge rules from the bench and REJECTS the election contest brought by Abe Hamadeh (R) and the Republican National Committee challenging Hamadeh's loss for AZ attorney general, saying "the bottom line is you just haven't proven your case."
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NEW: A group of U.S. Senate and House Democrats led by @SenMarkey (D) reintroduced the Judiciary Act of 2023, a bill that would add four seats to the U.S. Supreme Court and bring the bench from nine to 13 justices. The bill was first introduced in 2021.
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BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court issues 5-4 decision affirming that Alabama's congressional map diluted the voting strength of Black voters. The Court upholds Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. This is a massive victory for voting rights.
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🚨BREAKING: Georgia judge extends ballot receipt deadline for over 1,000 Cobb County absentee voters after the county failed to send their ballots on time. Affected voters will have their ballots counted if postmarked by Election Day & received by Nov. 14.
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🚨CLARK COUNTY, NEVADA VOTERS: .If you were notified that your mail-in ballot has a technical mistake on it, the last day to cure your ballot is Monday, November 14, at 5 pm. If you have any questions or issues, call 702-455-6552.
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🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court of North Carolina STRIKES DOWN legislative and congressional redistricting maps for unfairly benefiting Republicans, ruling that partisan gerrymandering violates the North Carolina Constitution. More information to come.
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BREAKING: Two Republican officials in Cochise County, Arizona were indicted for failing to certify the county's 2022 elections on time. The pair face felony counts of conspiracy and interference with an election officer. Read the indictment:
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BREAKING: Supervisors of Cochise County, Arizona vote to postpone election certification and will NOT certify the county's results today. Today is the deadline for Arizona counties to certify. More to come.
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Here's what happens: when chambers disagree on bill text, they can send the bill back and forth to each other with revisions until a final text is agreed upon. Once the bill has been sent between chambers 3 times, the motion to proceed CANNOT be filibustered in the Senate.
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BREAKING: Federal court strikes down county commissioner districts of Galveston County, Texas. The court found that the map violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by diluting the power of Black and Latino voters. More to come.
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BREAKING: Federal court strikes down North Dakota's legislative maps, finding that the districts violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, Spirit Lake Tribe and voters alleged the maps harm Native voters.
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NEW: D.C. Circuit affirms that Donald Trump does not have absolute immunity from a lawsuit alleging that he, his campaign and the RNC engaged in efforts to disenfranchise Black voters during the 2020 election.
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🚨BREAKING: Federal judge reads a temporary restraining order from the bench blocking Clean Elections USA and its members from engaging in certain activities, like openly carrying firearms or speaking to voters, near drop boxes. More to come.
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NEVADA VOTERS: Over 10,000 mail-in ballots in Nevada are at risk of being rejected. But if voters cure their ballots by 5 pm PT today, their votes will be counted. Check the status of your ballot here:
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NEW: A lawsuit alleging that Donald Trump, his campaign and the RNC tried to disenfranchise Black voters during the 2020 election has been reassigned to Judge Tanya Chutkan, the same judge in Trump's DC election subversion case. đź”—:
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BREAKING: Senate Judiciary Committee votes to subpoena Harlan Crow and Leonard Leo as part of an ethics investigation into U.S. Supreme Court justices.
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BREAKING: Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate race will officially go to a recount. GOP candidate David McCormick is leading incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey by less than 0.5% in the vote total, triggering an automatic recount under state law.
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NEW: Former Trump attorney John Eastman has officially lost his law license after a California judge recommended he be disbarred for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. đź”—:
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BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court issues decision in Moore v. Harper. The Court rejects the independent state legislature theory, ruling that state courts have the power to review election laws and maps enacted by state legislatures.
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UPDATE: Wisconsin judge rules that lawmakers cannot oust the state's top elections official, Meagan Wolfe, while litigation continues. The judge reiterated that the state Senate's vote to remove Wolfe had no legal effect and she remains head of the Wisconsin Elections Commission.
NEW: Wisconsin Republicans admit that they do not have the power to remove the state's top election official, Meagan Wolfe, and their vote to do so was only "symbolic." They concede that Wolfe is still "lawfully" holding office. Read the filing:
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BREAKING: Nevada Supreme Court allows abortion measure to be on the ballot this November. If passed, the measure would enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution. Read the ruling:
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Once the Senate receives the bill, it will go to the floor for debate. Senate Republicans will be unable to filibuster debate on the bill like they had done 3 times prior on voting rights legislation in 2021. They will have to come to the floor and debate the bill.
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📺WATCH! Listen to @marceelias. None of the political theater we're witnessing right now will change the outcome of the 2020 election. Our advice: turn OFF the TV and get ready to celebrate on January 20th🎉
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Democrats in the House will take a bill that has already undergone messages between the Houses 3 times, substitute the bill's language for the #FreedomToVoteAct and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, pass the legislation and quickly send it to the Senate. #JLVRAA.
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BREAKING: Democratic candidate Judge Daniel McCaffrey wins the race for Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Democrats now have a 5-2 majority on the court.
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BREAKING: Nashville Metro Council votes to send state Rep. Justin Jones (D) back to the Tennessee General Assembly after he was expelled by state House Republicans last week for protesting alongside voters for gun safety legislation. The vote was 36-0, with no abstentions.
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BREAKING: Arizona judge rejects Kari Lake's election contest again and confirms Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) as the winner of Arizona's 2022 gubernatorial election. Read the ruling:
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NEW: Texas appeals court rules that Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) can face disciplinary action from the Texas Bar for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, rejecting Paxton's arguments that he has immunity as a state official.
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While it's not known how long debate will last, we can expect that a final vote will happen by Monday — Martin Luther King Jr. Day — at the latest. This was the deadline Sen. Schumer set earlier this month in a "Dear Colleague" letter.
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🚨ALERT: #SCOTUS DENIES motions to fast-track consideration of Trump-related lawsuits seeking to overturn the 2020 election results. This confirms that the Court will NOT hear these cases prior to the Inauguration. Since 11/3, Trump and his allies have lost 63 lawsuits in court.
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🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court of North Carolina GRANTS a preliminary injunction in ongoing redistricting cases. The order halts candidate filing and prohibits the use of the maps in elections as litigation challenging the maps as Republican gerrymanders continues. More info to come.
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AG Garland: "Today, I am announcing that within the next 30 days, we will double the [Civil Rights Division]’s staff for protecting the right to vote.".
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🚨READ! Love that WE are the go-to source in the Texas #SCOTUS lawsuit!🤓. REMINDER: this lawsuit is going absolutely nowhere.
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NEW: A Pennsylvania judge ruled that Washington County erred when it didn't tell voters that their defective mail-in ballots would be rejected. The county must now notify voters whose mail-in ballots have defects & let them vote provisionally at the polls.
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BREAKING: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, joined by Senators Warnock, Murphy, Padilla and Schatz, call on the Department of Justice to investigate Tennessee Republicans' expulsions of two Black Democratic lawmakers.
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BREAKING: Panel of 3 North Carolina judges blocks enforcement of SB 749, a new law that transfers the power to appoint board of elections members from Gov. Roy Cooper (D) to the Republican-controlled state legislature. Litigation will continue. #ncpol .
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BREAKING: Federal court BLOCKS Kansas voter suppression law that prohibited organizations from sending personalized mail-in ballot applications to voters. Voting rights groups argued that the law violated the U.S. Constitution and limited their work.
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🚨WAR ROOM ALERT: Trump and his allies are 1-24 in court.
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BREAKING: Federal court dismisses lawsuit from Pennsylvania Republicans alleging that President Biden and Gov. Josh Shapiro's (D) efforts to expand voter registration in the state violated the U.S. Constitution.
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BREAKING: Federal court adopts a new congressional map in Alabama with a second district where Black voters have an opportunity to elect their candidate of choice. Alabama officially has a fair map in place for 2024.
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BREAKING: Washington Supreme Court upholds the state's Voting Rights Act. The court rejects a constitutional challenge to the law brought by a local Republican official. More to come.
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BREAKING: After three Supreme Court rulings and unprecedented defiance from Republicans, Alabama finally has a fair congressional map with a second Black-opportunity district in place for the 2024 elections.
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NEW: Republican National Committee, North Carolina Republican Party and other Republicans voluntarily dismiss their lawsuit seeking to allow more partisan poll observers at voting locations. The case is over.
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🚨BREAKING: Rudy Giuliani's law license has been SUSPENDED in Washington, D.C. following his license suspension in New York due to his role in trying to overturn the 2020 election results and propagation of the #BigLie. Read the order here👇 .
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NEW: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) promotes Justice Natalie Hudson to chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. Hudson will be the first person of color to ever lead Minnesota's highest court when she takes over in October.
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BREAKING: Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul (D) files a lawsuit arguing that the Senate's vote to remove Meagan Wolfe has no legal effect and that she is still the "lawful" administrator of the Wisconsin Elections Commission. Read the complaint:
BREAKING: Wisconsin's Republican-controlled Senate voted to remove the state's top elections official, Wisconsin Elections Commission administrator Meagan Wolfe.
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NEW: Fake Trump electors from Wisconsin settle lawsuit against them and agree that Biden won the 2020 election. The fraudulent electors agree to not serve as electors in 2024 or any presidential election where Trump is on the ballot.
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BREAKING: Federal judge strikes down Georgia's congressional and legislative maps, ruling they violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by diluting the power of Black voters. New, fair districts must be drawn before the 2024 elections.
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🚨UPDATE: Senate Democrats introduce the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act under the bill number #S4. Among its provisions, the bill would restore the preclearance requirement for election law changes in jurisdictions with histories of racial discrimination. #RestoretheVRA.
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BREAKING: Mississippi Supreme Court strikes down a part of #HB1020 for violating the state constitution. The provision would have allowed white state officials to appoint 4 unelected judges to serve in Hinds County, home to Jackson, which is over 80% Black.
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BREAKING: In a win for voters, the Supreme Court won't review a decision striking down Washington's legislative map for violating the Voting Rights Act. The decision will remain in place & Washington must redraw districts to fairly represent Latino voters.
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BREAKING: 5th Circuit upholds that voters and private parties can sue to enforce Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, rejecting Louisiana's request to reconsider the Circuit's precedent.
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After senators speak, a motion will be made to end debate on the bill and move to final passage. Republican senators could filibuster the motion, but that would be the opportunity for Senate Democrats to pass a carveout of the filibuster rules for voting rights legislation.
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BREAKING: Alabama has until July 21 to enact a new congressional map, federal court says. This follows the U.S. Supreme Court's decision affirming that Alabama must draw a second majority-Black district to comply with the Voting Rights Act.
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🚨ALERT: Judge DENIES Georgia Secretary of State's attempt to completely throw out a @fairfightaction lawsuit. Today's ruling affirms that the case will continue toward trial and will address disenfranchising tactics used by GA election officials. #gapol.
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BREAKING: North Carolina court strikes down power-grab law that transfers the ability to appoint members to the state board of elections from Gov. Roy Cooper (D) to the Republican-controlled state legislature. More to come.
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🚨🆕: Judge Craig Karsnitz SUSPENDS Lin Wood's right to practice in Delaware (i.e. pro hac vice), calling his conduct in the post-election period "a toxic stew of mendacity, prevarication, and surprising incompetence." . FULL FILING HERE:
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🚨BREAKING: DOJ sues Texas over redistricting maps, claiming that the plans violate Section 2 of the VRA for denying or abridging the rights of Latinx and Black voters to elect representatives of their choice.
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BREAKING: In a victory for voters, a federal judge rejects a lawsuit from the RNC that sought to reject mail-in ballots in Mississippi that are cast by Election Day and received shortly after. The ruling protects voters from disenfranchisement.
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BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court rejects request from Kari Lake and Mark Finchem to take up a lawsuit challenging the use of electronic voting machines in elections. SCOTUS will not review their claims, which a lower court dismissed as "frivolous.".
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BREAKING: Tennessee court BLOCKS anti-democratic law #HB48, which would force Nashville — and only Nashville — to cut the size of its Metro Council. Lawsuits argue that the law disenfranchises voters and violates the state constitution. More to come:
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NEW: Federal judge dismisses a lawsuit from Michigan Republicans seeking to decertify and "rerun" the 2020 presidential election in the state. More to come.
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🚨ALERT: Texas federal judge DISMISSES lawsuit challenging 2020 presidential election results over lack of standing.
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Not tired of winning. Not tired of winning. Not tired of winning. Not tired of winning.
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BREAKING: Arizona Supreme Court denies a petition from the Arizona Republican Party seeking to strike down the state's 1991 no-excuse mail-in voting law. Two lower courts previously dismissed the Arizona GOP's case. More to come.
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BREAKING: New York jury finds Donald Trump GUILTY of all 34 felony counts in the hush money case –– marking the first time a former U.S. president has ever been criminally convicted.
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UPDATE: The 9th Circuit dismissed a conspiracy theory-riddled Oregon lawsuit that sought to dismantle the state's mail-in voting system and ban electronic voting machines.
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NEW: The Justice Department will monitor elections in Portage County, Ohio to ensure compliance with federal anti-voter intimidation laws after the county's sheriff urged residents to mark down the addresses of homes with Kamala Harris yard signs.
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BREAKING: An order requiring North Dakota to redraw legislative districts remains in effect, the 8th Circuit rules. A lower court found that the map violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and ordered lawmakers to draw new districts by Dec. 22.
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BREAKING: Arizona Supreme Court denies Kari Lake's motion to transfer the appeal of her dismissed election contest directly to the state's highest court — again. A trial court rejected her contest twice for lack of evidence.
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🚨ALERT: New Hampshire Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN restrictive voter residency law that targeted young, low-income and minority voters. The court ruled that the law violates the state constitution by imposing “unreasonable burdens on the right to vote.”
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During floor debate, you can expect senators to give speeches about the bill and filibuster reform. Amendments can also be added to the bill. Republicans will likely propose amendments to try and remove voter protections.
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BREAKING: In a win for voters, federal court rules Pennsylvania's practice of not counting valid mail-in ballots that are missing a handwritten date, or have the "incorrect" date, on the outer envelope violates the Civil Rights Act's Materiality Provision.
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The next few days will be very busy in the Senate. Catch the latest updates on our live #DemocracyAlerts page.👇
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When the House and Senate pass different versions of the same bill, the bill must go through reconciliation in order for the chambers to approve the same bill text. Messages between the Houses is a form of reconciliation.
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🚨WAR ROOM ALERT: Trump and his allies are now 2-34 in court.
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BREAKING: Alabama lawmakers advance a new congressional map out of committee. The proposed map does NOT include a second majority-Black district as the U.S. Supreme Court required.
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BREAKING: Arizona Supreme Court issues sanctions against Kari Lake and her attorneys: "Because Lake’s attorney has made false factual statements to the Court, we conclude that the extraordinary remedy of a sanction. is appropriate.".
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