⚠️ Democrats are demanding assurances that the DOJ will not interfere in the upcoming midterms after the department quietly removed from its website a manual that has long guided federal prosecutors on how to safeguard elections. https://bit.ly/4xkDgi7
The DOJ wants more time to implement Trump’s executive order attacking mail-in voting, imposing a legal strategy that appears to be aimed at bypassing legal challenges to the order.
However, a federal judge seemed inclined to block the potentially unconstitutional order in a hearing last week.
The changes appear aimed at making it less likely that a court blocks the executive order.
Government collaborators are on the verge of controlling a massive share of American news, and they’re pushing out the journalists who won’t play along, Brian Tyler Cohen writes.
“Trump is reshaping the media landscape to maintain and extend his grip on power.” https://bit.ly/4uuUhUj
One day before SCOTUS may decide a case that could disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters, the New York Times handed the vote suppressors a gift. We won't.
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Federal law has a 90-day window before elections designed to stop last-minute voter purges. Trump’s DOJ just found an argument for why it doesn't apply.
Here’s how it could give states a way to remove voters right before Election Day:
🚨BREAKING: Pamela Evette, Trump’s pick in South Carolina’s GOP governor race, advanced to a runoff.
Evette is running on an extreme anti-voting platform — and could help revive Republican efforts to weaken Black voting power through gerrymandering.
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🗳️ PRIMARIES TODAY: Polls are beginning to close in Maine, Nevada, North Dakota and South Carolina.
We’re keeping an eye on the races that could shape who controls key levers of democracy in their state and nationwide.
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A new state has taken center stage in Trump’s assault on free and fair elections: California.
Rather than viewing the time that careful ballot counting requires as a sign of integrity, Marc Elias says, Trump seeks to weaponize it with false claims of fraud. https://bit.ly/4ec9ymv
Steve Hilton, a Trump-endorsed former Fox News host, advanced to the general election for governor in California.
Hilton, an avid supporter of new voting restrictions in the state, will face off against Democrat and former Biden official Xavier Becerra.
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Learn about the lawsuits that Democracy Docket is keeping an eye on.
If accepted by the court, DOJ’s argument could give states a way to remove voters close to an election based on federal referrals, so long as those removals are framed as individualized rather than pa...
Hilton, who regularly perpetuates unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud in California, is an avid supporter of a Republican-backed ballot measure that would create new voter identification…
