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Here are some updates from the last few days.
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A Nevada judge denied the Nevada Republican Party’s (NV GOP) request to block a state law mandating parties to hold primaries for the 2024 presidential election. This is a major victory for voters as the court rejected the NV GOP’s blatant attempt to rewrite the state’s election law and disregard voters’ preferences.
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The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), a right-wing legal group, filed a lawsuit challenging a North Dakota law that allows the counting of mail-in ballots that are postmarked by Election Day and received by officials up to 13 days later. PILF argues that this statute violates federal law.
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Lawsuits challenging the Commissioners Court maps of Galveston County, Texas will be going to trial on Aug. 7. Voting groups and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) claim that the districts are racially gerrymandered and violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
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The DOJ submitted a statement in a lawsuit challenging Florida's "wet signature" requirement for voter registration. The DOJ refutes the Republican National Committee’s arguments and maintains that the Materiality Provision of the Civil Rights Act can be enforced by private parties.
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The Utah Supreme Court heard oral argument in a lawsuit alleging that the state's congressional map is gerrymandered to benefit Republicans and violates the Utah Constitution.
- Senate Democrats sent a letter to the chair of the rule-making committee for federal courts asking to end single-judge divisions, which effectively allow litigants to select which judge hears their case. Critics often call the practice "judge shopping."
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