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Here are some recent updates.

• The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear a case challenging Texas voter suppression law Senate Bill 1111. Latino civil rights groups had asked the Court to reverse a decision dismissing the lawsuit for lack of standing. This case is over and the law remains in place.

• Wisconsin voters filed a federal lawsuit arguing that a state law requiring absentee ballots to be completed in the presence of a witness violates the Voting Rights and Civil Rights Acts.

• The North Carolina Alliance for Retired Americans filed a federal lawsuit challenging a North Carolina anti-voting law that requires voters to reside in the state for at least 30 days prior to the election in which they seek to vote, alleging the requirement violates the Voting Rights Act. 

• A Florida appeals court scheduled oral argument for Oct. 31 in a lawsuit over the state's congressional map. A lower court struck down the map for violating the state constitution by diminishing the voting power of Black voters in North Florida.

• Democrats on New York’s Independent Redistricting Commission (IRC) released a statement asking for public input on the state’s congressional map. The statement comes as the New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, is considering an appeal of a lower court decision that ordered the IRC to draw a new congressional map. 

  • ICYMI, after New York Democrats put their trifecta to work and enacted 10 pro-voting laws, Republicans in the state fought back, filing their second lawsuit challenging the state’s mail-in voting laws in less than a month.

• Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) approved ballot language for a constitutional amendment that would create an independent redistricting commission. Yost had previously rejected language for the proposed amendment two separate times.

• Louisiana voters filed an emergency petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to pause a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that is delaying the creation of a congressional map with a second majority-Black district.

  • Justice Samuel Alito has asked Louisiana to respond by Oct. 10.

• Alabama voluntarily dismissed its appeal asking the Supreme Court to reverse an order striking down the state’s redrawn congressional map. Litigation will move forward to enact a map with two majority Black districts.

• A federal court rejected a request from Dinesh D’Souza and the entities behind the debunked election propaganda movie “2000 Mules” to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that they violated the Ku Klux Klan Act. The case will continue.

Here’s what’s coming up tomorrow.

• There will be a hearing in a federal lawsuit over Alabama’s congressional map on proposals submitted by a court-appointed special master for new 2024 congressional districts that comply with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

ICYMI, listen to our latest episode of Defending Democracy. In the podcast episode that dropped last Friday, Marc spoke with Democracy Docket contributor and president of Alliance for Justice Rakim Brooks about how we can restore confidence in the courts. Listen now on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.  

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