Daily Docket — Friday, Aug. 11
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Here are some updates.

  • In a win for voters, a federal judge struck down Washington state's legislative districts, ruling they violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by diluting the voting strength of Latinos in the Yakima Valley region.

  • The Ohio Supreme Court unanimously rejected a GOP lawsuit seeking to disqualify an abortion rights amendment from the November ballot. This decision makes certain that voters will have the chance to enshrine reproductive freedom in the Ohio Constitution.

  • Pro-voting groups filed a lawsuit challenging a Michigan law that makes it a crime to hire transportation to bring voters to the polls. The groups argue the law hinders get-out-the-vote efforts and violates the Michigan Constitution.

  • The federal judge in Washington, D.C overseeing the election subversion case against former President Donald Trump ruled that Trump is prohibited from publicly discussing sensitive materials, which she said can include witness testimony and recordings.

  • Pro-voting parties filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court urging the Court to affirm a lower court's decision to strike down South Carolina's congressional map for racial gerrymandering.

Here’s what to expect coming up.

  • On Monday, there will be a hearing in federal court over Alabama’s new congressional map passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature. The enacted map only has one majority-Black district, but a federal court decision, which was affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court, ordered that the map must have two.

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