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This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it will hear a racial gerrymandering case out of South Carolina on Oct. 11. A lower federal court previously struck down the state's congressional map for intentionally discriminating against Black voters. Republican legislators appealed the decision to the Supreme Court.
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This afternoon, failed Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake asked for her lawsuit contesting her loss in the 2022 gubernatorial election to be transferred to the Arizona Supreme Court due to "extraordinary new evidence." Lake wants to bypass the appellate court after the trial court rejected her case.
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Also this afternoon, a federal court ordered Lake's legal team to pay $122,200 to Maricopa County for bringing a frivolous lawsuit seeking to ban electronic vote tabulators in Arizona. Lake's attorneys were also previously sanctioned for this case.
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Yesterday, the U.S. House Committee on House Administration approved House Republicans’ American Confidence in Elections Act, a sweeping “election integrity” bill that committee Chairman Bryan Steil (R-Wis.) calls the “most conservative” election bill to be considered in decades. The committee voted 8-4 on party lines to send the bill to the full House for consideration.
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