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.
Heeding President Donald Trump’s call, Republicans in Tennessee moved forward with legislation to clear the way for their aggressive gerrymander just months before the midterm elections.
Roughly 42,000 voters cast ballots in Louisiana’s elections when Gov. Jeff Landry’s (R) suspension of congressional primaries went into effect, according to recent early voting data published by state officials.
In a filing, Fulton County asked a federal judge to quash a new Justice Department demand seeking election workers’ and volunteers’ names, home addresses, emails and phone numbers.
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry’s (R) suspension of active elections after the Supreme Court deemed the state’s congressional map unconstitutional has ignited confusion and a flurry of lawsuits across the Bayou State. Here’s where things stand.
After the Supreme Court gutted a key provision in the Voting Rights Act, President Trump insisted over the weekend that Republicans should rig political maps in their favor ahead of the upcoming midterms — even if that means scrapping active elections.
Following a federal court order earlier this week, the Justice Department Friday turned over key details behind its seizure of 2020 election records in Fulton County.
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act, another set of laws is also in danger: state-level statutes that seek to bar racially discriminatory voting practices.
After the Supreme Court’s six Republican-appointed justices gutted the Voting Rights Act, Democrats across the country said they will respond with their own redistricting efforts and, eventually, new pro-voting laws.
Following the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act Wednesday, legal scholars and advocates across the country demanded reforms to the Supreme Court to preserve free and fair elections and voting rights in the U.S.
A top Republican official at the U.S. Election Assistance Commission announced Wednesday that he would be leaving the commission by the end of the month, marking the first major shakeup of the commission’s leadership in over seven years.