Daily Docket — Monday, Aug. 28

Here are some updates.

  • U.S. Rep Nikema Williams (D-Ga.) announced 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 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 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 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 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 for March 4, 2024 in former President Donald Trump's Jan. 6 case in Washington, D.C.

  • A judge rejected John Eastman's 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 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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