Here are some recent updates

• Wisconsin voters asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to adopt a new congressional map before the 2024 election, arguing that the current map violates new redistricting criteria established by the court in a recent decision and unfairly benefits Republicans.

• A Maine judge paused Secretary of State Shenna Bellows’ (D) ruling removing former President Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot until the U.S. Supreme Court decides if Trump is eligible under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

• The Louisiana Senate passed a new proposed congressional map, creating a second majority-Black district as required by a federal court order. The map now heads to the state House.

• Virginia Senate Democrats blocked a Republican effort to drastically shorten the state's early voting period. Virginians will continue to have 45 days to vote early.

• A new amicus brief penned by over half of the Republican state attorneys general in the country exposes the GOP’s cynical plot to make sure votes are discarded for trivial errors completely unrelated to a voters' eligibility.

• A Mohave County official filed a lawsuit arguing that a letter sent by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) "influenced" and "threatened" their vote to not hand count ballots and asks the court to declare the use of voting machines as optional.

• The U.S. Supreme Court held oral argument in a case that could undo decades of precedent and empower judges to make public policy decisions instead of agency experts.

  • Read more about the case from Alliance for Justice President Rakim Brooks here.

• On April 1, the Minnesota Supreme Court will hear a right-wing challenge to the state's new rights restoration law that returned voting rights to more than 55,000 individuals with felony convictions. A lower court dismissed the lawsuit.

Here’s what to expect tomorrow.

• We will be releasing our comprehensive year-end report summarizing the court cases that impacted democracy and voting rights in 2023.

• Oral argument will be held in a lawsuit filed by right-wing groups and an Arizona voter that challenges the state’s signature matching procedures.