Lawsuit filed challenging Ohio’s reproductive freedom amendment language

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Daily Docket — Monday, Aug. 28

Here are some updates.
* U.S. Rep Nikema Williams (D-Ga.) announced ([link removed]) a package of eight bills that would greatly improve voting rights and election administration. The announcement comes on the 60th anniversary of the historic March on Washington.
* A lawsuit was filed ([link removed]) in Ohio challenging the new misleading language for a reproductive freedom constitutional amendment that will be on the ballot for Ohioans this November.
* Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch (R) and Secretary of State Michael Watson (R) appealed ([link removed]) a decision by a federal judge that temporarily blocks a Mississippi law that limited who can help voters with disabilities return mail-in ballots. Voting rights groups argue that the statute violates Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act.
* Longshot Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy argued ([link removed]) that implementing restrictive election practices like single-day voting and nationwide voter ID requirements would have prevented the attack on Jan. 6.
* A Wisconsin court held a hearing ([link removed]) in a conservative lawsuit challenging the state’s guidance allowing voters to ask election officials to "spoil" (or void) their absentee ballots and request a new ballot if they make a mistake or opt to vote in person.

Here are some election subversion indictment updates from today.
* Trial has officially been set ([link removed]) for March 4, 2024 in former President Donald Trump's Jan. 6 case in Washington, D.C.
* A judge rejected John Eastman's ([link removed]) bid to delay his disbarment proceedings in California due his criminal charges in Georgia and potentially being indicted as a co-conspirator in Trump's Washington, D.C. case.
* A hearing ([link removed]) is being held in Fulton County, Georgia to determine whether or not former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’ case will be moved to federal court.

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