As news editor, Matthew leads reporters and guides coverage — both breaking news and in-depth reporting. He has an extensive background in investigative and public interest journalism. He previously worked for Voice of America, The San Francisco Standard and OCCRP, and also spent six years abroad as a reporter and editor in Kyiv and Moscow.
When President Donald Trump announced he was endorsing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) in Texas’ U.S. Senate primary, he appeared to have one thing at the front of his mind: the SAVE America Act.
The Texas Supreme Court has rejected an effort by GOP officials to expel Democratic lawmakers who briefly fled the state last summer in an attempt to prevent Republicans from passing a partisan gerrymander.
An FBI agent visited the home of Milwaukee County’s elections director earlier this week in an attempt to question her, the county clerk has said.
Trump has previously said he would like the federal government to “take over” the midterm elections.
Democratic leaders harshly criticized the Virginia Supreme Court Friday after it threw out a special election in which voters approved the state legislature’s plan to redraw congressional districts and fight back against President Donald Trump’s wave of partisan gerrymanders in GOP-led states.
The Virginia Supreme Court has approved a GOP bid to throw out the results of a special election in which voters approved a new congressional map proposed by Democrats.
Alabama has asked a federal court to allow it to return to a 2023 congressional map that courts previously deemed an illegal racial gerrymander.
Pro-democracy organizations are asking the court to strike down the new map because a Florida constitutional amendment bans partisan redistricting.
Litigation challenging the map, which could hand the GOP a 24-4 advantage in the state’s congressional seats, is expected to be filed imminently.
The legal cases are primarily concentrated in the South, where America’s legacy of racial discrimination still casts the longest shadow over voting rights.
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