Daily Docket — Thursday, March 28

Here are some recent updates.

• A federal court allowed South Carolina to use its current congressional map for the 2024 elections, citing the Supreme Court's delay in ruling on the issue. The lower court previously ruled Rep. Nancy Mace's (R) district is racially gerrymandered.

  
  

  • The Supreme Court still needs to issue its final decision by the summer, which could have a far-reaching impact on maps across the country. Our senior social media coordinator, Sophie Feldman, explains what's at stake here.

    
    

• North Carolina’s new Republican-drawn state Senate districts will remain in place for the 2024 elec
  tions, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled. Black voters allege the map violates the Voting Rights Act by diluting their voting power.

  
  

• A California judge recommended that former Trump attorney John Eastman be disbarred and pay a $10,000 fine for his efforts in orchestrating a scheme to overturn the 2020 election.

  
  

• The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard a case challenging an Illinois law that allows mail-in ballots to be received and counted for up to two weeks after an election as long as they are postmarked or dated on or before Election Day.

  
  

• The U.S. Supreme Court bent the law to accommodate Trump, a person with no respect for institutions or democracy. In an op-ed published today, constitutional law expert Robert J. McWhirter questions whether the Court will one day bend too far and irreparably harm our democracy. Read it here.

Three major court decisions dropped yesterday afternoon.

• The Montana Supreme Court struck down four major voter suppression laws, which eliminated Election Day registration, made it more difficult to vote with a student ID and more. Read about this victory for voters here.

  
  

• A federal three-judge panel upheld Florida’s congressional districts, rejecting a lawsuit from civil rights groups that alleged the map intentionally discriminates against Black voters. Get the full breakdown here.

  
  

• Mail-in ballots missing a voter's correct handwritten date on the outer security envelopes won't be counted in Pennsylvania after a federal appeals court reversed a prior decision. Learn how this reversal will impact voters here.