Jacob is a reporter at Democracy Docket and covers anti-Trump accountability litigation. He is from South Dakota and earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism, English and political science from Augustana University. Before joining Democracy Docket, he covered breaking news at Axios.
A federal judge in Tennessee dismissed the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) criminal charges against Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia Friday, ruling that the case against him amounted to a selective and vindictive prosecution.
Federal prosecutors in Chicago dropped all misdemeanor charges against a group of people who protested President Trump’s aggressive immigration raids in the Windy City last year outside an immigration detention facility.
Tulsi Gabbard, the top U.S. intelligence official who played a central role in President Trump’s efforts to investigate the 2020 presidential election, announced Friday that she will resign from her post as Director of National Intelligence later this summer.
Georgia Republicans baselessly claimed Tuesday that a delay in Fulton County’s primary election reporting was evidence of fraud — and sought to use the episode to advance their push to have the state take over election operations in the Democratic stronghold.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Monday that he’s confident Democrats will still win back the House of Representatives, despite Republicans now being poised to come out ahead in President Trump’s redistricting war.
Voting rights organizations across the South Friday pledged to oppose the GOP’s efforts to rig congressional maps in its favor after the Supreme Court gutted a key part of the Voting Rights Act last week.
The FBI questioned a senior election official in Wisconsin this week about the 2020 presidential election, indicating that the Justice Department may be expanding its efforts to probe and relitigate Trump’s loss.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) signed a series of laws Thursday to approve the GOP’s new congressional map that eliminates the state’s only Black-majority district and its lone Democratic seat.
In the aggressive congressional gerrymander they adopted Thursday, Tennessee Republicans also removed a provision in state law requiring the government to alert voters about changes to their designated polling places when electoral lines are redrawn.
The GOP-held Tennessee General Assembly Thursday changed state law to adopt a new congressional map that dilutes the state’s only Black-majority district and breaks up its lone Democratic seat.