Court filings revealed that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will not appeal a judge’s order blocking part of President Donald Trump’s election order that imposed a documentary proof of citizenship requirement when registering to vote.
GOP effort to overturn North Carolina Supreme Court election blocked
In a major win for voters last night, a federal court blocked a months-long Republican effort to disenfranchise thousands in North Carolina, affirming Justice Allison Riggs’ (D) victory over Jefferson Griffin (R) in the state Supreme Court election, and ordering the state to certify the result.
“Permitting parties to ‘upend the set rules’ of an election after the election has taken place can only produce ‘confusion and turmoil [which] threatens to undermine public confidence in the federal courts, state agencies, and the elections themselves,’” Judge Richard E. Myers II, a Trump appointee, ruled.
DOJ won’t appeal judge’s order against Trump’s anti-voting decree
Court filings revealed the Department of Justice (DOJ) will not appeal a judge’s order blocking part of President Donald Trump’s election order that imposed a documentary proof of citizenship requirement when registering to vote — a win for voters. Litigation is ongoing.
Speaking of the DOJ…
Justin Levitt, a constitutional law scholar and a former deputy assistant attorney general in the DOJ’s civil rights division, told Democracy Docket he sees the reassignment of senior voting section managers to other roles as “a pretty clear sign that the civil rights division doesn't plan to enforce voting rights laws at all in this regard.” We dive into it here.
And last night, Trump posted on TruthSocial that he’s directing the DOJ “to take all necessary action to help secure the release of” Tina Peters. Peters is a former GOP election clerk in Colorado, and an election denier, who was sentenced to nine years in prison last year for her role in a voting system data breach, in a failed attempt to find voter fraud.
Kansas sued over law that rejects ballots through no fault of voters
In 2020, over 32,000 Kansans relied on a three-day grace period to ensure their ballots were counted in the presidential election. A new state law eliminated that window, threatening to disenfranchise thousands. Now, advocacy groups are suing.
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