179 congressional Republicans formally oppose the 14th Amendment challenge before SCOTUS.

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Daily Docket — Thursday, Jan. 18

This morning, we published our annual report ([link removed]) on democracy-related litigation in 2023, highlighting the major litigation trends affecting how and when voters can cast their ballots pulled from our database of over 660 lawsuits. Here’s what you should know:
* Last year saw 51 new pro-voting lawsuits and 22 new anti-voting lawsuits.
* Republicans filed 68% of the new anti-voting lawsuits that we tracked in 2023, an increase from 52% of anti-voting cases in 2022 and 25% in 2021.
* There were 83 victories for voters across 26 states, more than double the amount of losses.

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Democracy Docket’s 2023 Litigation Report ([link removed])

By Democracy Docket

Here are some updates from today.
* Republicans across the country have signed ([link removed]) onto briefs urging the U.S. Supreme Court to keep Trump on the ballot in Colorado, including 179 Republican members of Congress, 25 Republican attorneys general and 11 Republican secretaries of state.
* Third-party group No Labels sent ([link removed]) a letter asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate an "alleged unlawful conspiracy" by activists and groups to keep No Labels off the ballot in some states.
* A court in Arizona heard oral argument in a right-wing lawsuit ([link removed]) challenging the state's signature matching procedures for mail-in ballots.
* The Republican National Committee is using ([link removed]) a case over a Georgia absentee voting rule to argue that the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. After the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a crucial provision of the legislation last year, the GOP is trying to dismantle other parts of the law.

Here’s what to expect coming up in the U.S. Supreme Court.
* The Court will rule soon on whether to pause a district court decision ([link removed]) requiring the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission to redraw the state's legislative maps.
* Tomorrow, the justices will meet to consider whether to take two federal redistricting cases over Washington’s legislative map. One lawsuit ([link removed]) argues that the map dilutes Latinos’ voting power in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act while the other ([link removed]) argues that the districts are racially gerrymandered.
+ After tomorrow’s conference, the Court may issue orders in the cases as soon as Monday.

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