Daily Docket — Monday, June 26

Here are some updates you may have missed.

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated an order blocking Louisiana’s congressional map for diluting the voting strength of Black voters. The move paves the way for Louisiana to redraw its congressional map with a second majority-Black district. Litigation for the case now goes back to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Also today, a lawsuit was filed challenging Virginia’s felony disenfranchisement provision, which denies the right to vote to all people convicted of any felony. The plaintiffs ask a federal court to block its enforcement. [link removed]

Pro-voting groups filed a brief in support of their petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lawsuit challenging Texas voter suppression law Senate Bill 1111. The groups are asking the Court to review the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal's dismissal of the lawsuit after a lower court initially blocked the law. Now, the Supreme Court will decide whether to take up the case next term. [link removed]
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There was a hearing on a motion to dismiss a conspiracy-filled Oregon lawsuit that seeks to prohibit electronic vote tabulators from being used in any election and to dismantle the state's mail-in voting system. [link removed]

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld most sanctions issued against former President Donald Trump's attorney Sidney Powell and other lawyers who filed a lawsuit to decertify the results of the 2020 presidential election in Michigan. [link removed]

Last Friday, a New York appellate court heard oral argument in an appeal of a case challenging New York City’s noncitizen voting law. Previously, a trial court struck down the law after finding it violated the New York Constitution and state laws. Now, the defendants are seeking to have the ruling reversed.
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Also last week, Michigan Senate Democrats introduced a bill package that would establish the Michigan Voting Rights Act. [link removed]

Here is what is coming up.

Tomorrow, at 10 a.m. EDT, the U.S. Supreme Court will issue opinions in previously scheduled cases. We are keeping an eye out for a decision in Moore v. Harper, the landmark case about the fringe independent state legislature theory.
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ICYMI, listen to our latest episode of Defending Democracy. In the podcast episode that dropped last Friday, Paige and Marc discussed the types of voting bills Republican-led states prioritized enacting this year compared to those in Democratic-led states.
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