Senate Republicans were undeterred by former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro’s election denialism. They confirmed her nomination to be U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia on Saturday night by a 50-45 vote. After agreeing with a guest on her radio show earlier this year that January 6 prosecutors should face criminal charges, Pirro will […]
The White House briefed state election officials on a revamped citizenship verification system Tuesday, selling them on an untested solution for a nearly nonexistent problem. Attended by a bipartisan group of more than a dozen secretaries of state and other election administrators, the briefing was led by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) Director Joseph […]
Democrats are ready to pull the alarm. A forum on voter threats to fair elections, held Wednesday by Senate Democrats and headlined by former Attorney General Eric Holder and North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs warned about a coordinated attack on American democracy, while insisting that it hasn’t succeeded yet, and that elections still […]
AUGUSTA, ME — Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (D) issued a defiant response to the wide-ranging request from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) — first reported by Democracy Docket — for the state’s sensitive voter information and voting systems data. “The Gulf of Maine is awfully cold, but maybe that’s what the DOJ […]
Former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro’s election denialism and Islamophobia were no reasons for Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee to reject her nomination for U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. The panel advanced her nomination to the Senate floor unanimously Thursday after Democrats walked out of the vote in protest over the rushed […]
If Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials can brief an election-denier group on how states are now using its databases to verify voters’ citizenship, then they can brief Congress, a trio of Democratic senators wrote to DHS Sec. Kristi Noem Tuesday. Under President Donald Trump, DHS upgraded its Systemic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system, […]
Much of President Donald Trump’s anti-voting executive order has been blocked by judges. But it’s having an impact nonetheless — by encouraging and emboldening state-level Republicans to pursue its anti-democratic goals.
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