Here’s what to expect in the courts this month.

To prepare you for the month ahead, we’ve outlined what courtroom activity and fillings we anticipate as well as what outstanding decisions we are watching for.

Here are key dates and case developments coming up.

• Sept. 11, 2023: Trial begins in a consolidated federal lawsuit challenging Texas’ omnibus 2021 voter suppression law, Senate Bill 1. 

• Sept. 11, 2023: Hearing in a state-level lawsuit challenging New Hampshire voter suppression law, Senate Bill 418, which requires voters who register to vote for the first time on Election Day — but who lack a valid photo ID — to vote on an affidavit ballot, which is then separated from other completed ballots.

• Sept. 11, 2023: Trial begins in a federal lawsuit filed by a conservative group challenging New Mexico’s ability to criminally prosecute the group for violating New Mexico laws that protect voter data. 

• Sept. 11, 2023: Deadline for Republican legislators to submit their reply brief in a case concerning whether South Carolina’s congressional map is racially gerrymandered. The case is currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.  

• Sept. 12, 2023: Oral argument in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Republicans’ appeal of a lawsuit challenging the use of electronic voting machines in Arizona. 

• Sept. 13, 2023: Briefing due to the Ohio Supreme Court in a set of redistricting lawsuits challenging Ohio’s congressional map for being a partisan gerrymander. 

• Sept. 13, 2023: Hearing in a Republican-backed lawsuit challenging a statute that authorizes noncitizens in Winooski, Vermont to vote on referendums involving the city’s school board and education budget as well as in municipal elections. 

• Sept. 19, 2023: Oral argument before the Kentucky Supreme Court in a redistricting lawsuit that challenges Kentucky’s state House and congressional maps for partisan gerrymandering. 

• Sept. 26, 2023: Trial in a federal lawsuit challenging Florida’s congressional map for intentionally discriminating against Black voters in violation of the 14th and 15th Amendments.

• Sept. 27, 2023: Trial begins in a state-level lawsuit brought by Republicans challenging New Mexico’s congressional map for being an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. 

We are waiting for decisions in the following lawsuits. 

• A lawsuit that will determine whether Alabama’s new congressional map that lacks a second majority-Black district — drawn by Republican legislators after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Allen v. Milligan — complies with the Voting Rights Act (VRA). 

• A lawsuit that will determine whether or not New York’s Independent Redistricting Commission (IRC) will have to immediately reconvene and redraw the state’s congressional map or if the decision ordering the IRC to reconvene is paused. 

• A lawsuit challenging Arkansas’ legislative maps that will dictate whether private plaintiffs — and not just the U.S. Department of Justice — have the right to bring lawsuits under Section 2 of the VRA. 

• A federal lawsuit challenging Idaho law House Bill 124, a newly enacted voter suppression law that eliminates the use of a student ID as an acceptable form of identification for in-person voting.  

Here are some election subversion indictment updates from today.

• Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to the 13 criminal charges in Fulton County, Georgia and waived his right to an in-person arraignment.

• Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro each filed motions to separate their trials from all other defendants in the Fulton County election subversion case. Trump in turn asked to separate his case from Powell and Chesebro due to their requests for a speedy trial.