Daily Docket — Tuesday, Aug. 29

Here are some recent updates.

  • Today, North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls (D) sued a state judicial oversight board. Earls says the board is investigating her for making First Amendment-protected comments on the lack of diversity in North Carolina state courts.

  • Last Friday, five Republican state senators filed a petition for judicial review in the Oregon Court of Appeals challenging an administrative rule, passed by 68% of voters, that bars legislators, the plaintiffs included, with more than ten unexcused absences from running for reelection. 

  • Tennessee's new voting rights restoration policy is effectively keeping 470,000 Tennesseans from regaining the right to vote, with Black and brown voters comprising a disproportionate number of those disenfranchised.

Here’s what to expect tomorrow.

  • The proposed orders are due in a redistricting lawsuit over Florida’s 5th congressional district ahead of the judge’s decision on the case. 

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