FBI conducting Arizona 2020 election probe

Monday, March 9

The FBI has subpoenaed records from a discredited audit of the state’s 2020 vote, the Arizona Senate president confirmed. It’s the latest effort by President Donald Trump to lay the groundwork for undermining fair elections going forward.
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Utah GOP passes 11th-hour law to protect its pro-gerrymander ballot measure

The law makes it harder for voters to remove their signatures from the GOP's petition to legalize partisan gerrymandering. Some voters have said they were misled into signing the petition, which is for an initiative Republicans are pushing after courts struck down their congressional map for violating a gerrymandering ban.
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Judge disqualifies ‘triumvirate’ leading U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey

Attorney General Pam Bondi violated federal law when she replaced Alina Habba, the former interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, with a triad of attorneys, a federal judge ruled today.
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Conservative justice on Wisconsin Supreme Court will step down next year

Justice Annette Ziegler’s departure will create an open seat that could allow liberals to deepen their majority on a court that could have a major say on redistricting.
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Trump ‘will not sign other bills’ until Republicans pass SAVE America Act

He also repeated demands to include a mail voting ban and anti-trans provisions.
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Even red states are defiantly rejecting DOJ’s demands for private voter data

At least eight states led by GOP election chiefs have so far refused the DOJ’s demands to hand over their unredacted voter rolls.
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Coming up tomorrow

The Missouri Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on whether state law allows for mid-decade redistricting
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A Republican-aligned political group is targeting Black voters in Virginia with a deceptive mailer that attempts to equate the state’s upcoming redistricting special election with the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow-era voting restrictions.
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A federal court in North Carolina upheld a law prohibiting ballot selfies.
Goodbye Kari? A federal judge ruled that noted election denier Kari Lake had been illegally appointed to the helm of the U.S. Agency for Global Media and that all her actions at that post — including firing hundreds of journalists at Voice of America — were illegitimate.