Daily Docket — Monday, April 24

Here are some updates from the past few days.

Today, Bill Barr and Karl Rove's right-wing legal group asked to file an amicus brief in lawsuits challenging Pennsylvania's policy to not count undated or wrongly dated mail-in ballots. Read more about it in our Twitter thread. [link removed]

Also today, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed the new state Assembly map proposed by the state’s redistricting commission into law. [link removed]

Finally today, two of the plaintiff groups challenging Georgia’s S.B. 202 filed a renewed motion for a preliminary injunction against a portion of the law. [link removed]

On Friday, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled explicitly for the first time that partisan gerrymandering violates the state constitution. This landmark ruling arises from a consolidated lawsuit challenging the state’s legislative districts drawn with 2020 census data. [link removed]

Also on Friday, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) signed a controversial bill into law that would create an unelected court system over parts of Jackson, the state capital. The national NAACP and Mississippi NAACP filed a lawsuit against the law, alleging that the new court system, along with a law expanding a state-run police force, violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. [link removed]

On Thursday, the Minnesota Senate passed an omnibus state government funding bill that includes several pro-voting election reforms. The 182-page bill already passed the House, but lawmakers must agree on the differences between each chamber’s version before it heads to Gov. Tim Walz (D) for his signature. [link removed]

Here’s what to expect coming up.

Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis indicated today that she expects to announce possible criminal indictments in her investigation of alleged election interference by former president Donald Trump and his allies between July 11 and Sept. 1. [link removed]

ICYMI, listen to our latest episode of Defending Democracy. In the podcast episode that dropped last Friday, Marc and Paige discuss how GOP lawmakers in Tennessee, Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana and North Carolina are determined to strip power away from their states’ bluest areas. [link removed]

Can’t get enough news? You can always find more details about these updates on our News page. [link removed]

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