Daily Docket — Wednesday, April 10

In a win for voters in Arizona, Michigan and Nevada, three anti-voting lawsuits were dismissed.

• An Arizona appeals court rejected failed Republican candidate Abe Hamadeh's lawsuit trying to overturn his loss in the 2022 state attorney general race, marking the seventh time the election denier has lost in court.
  

• A federal judge rejected a lawsuit from 11 Republican lawmakers in Michigan trying to invalidate two voter-approved voting rights amendments using the rejected independent state legislature theory. The amendments will remain in effect.
  
  

• A federal judge — for the second time — rejected a right-wing challenge to a new Nevada law that makes it a felony to harass and intimidate election officials. The crucial law will remain in place.
  
  

Here are some other updates.

• Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt (R) and civil rights groups asked the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider its decision requiring Pennsylvania to reject mail-in ballots for simply missing a correct date on the outer return envelope.
  
  

  • Our new YouTube video explains how the 3rd Circuit’s decision will disproportionately impact Democratic voters. Watch it here.
    
    

• Arizona Senate Republicans recently proposed a ballot measure to effectively end term limits for state judges, which could allow for all members of the state judiciary to serve lifetime terms. Should the measure pass a vote in the state House of Representatives, it will be on the ballot for voters in November.
  

• The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reopened a lawsuit challenging Ohio's congressional map and ordered further proceedings, ruling that the lower court wrongly dismissed the case. The lawsuit alleges that Ohio's districts harm Black voters and violate the U.S. Constitution.
  
  

• A group of voters filed a lawsuit claiming Florida's state Senate districts are racially gerrymandered by packing Black voters into the 16th Senate District in the Tampa Bay area. The voters ask for a new map to be enacted.
  
  

  • Also in Florida, a federal court ruled that the city commission districts of Miami are racially gerrymandered. The map is struck down and remedial districts will be created.
    
    

• Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen (R) notified national and state Democrats that President Joe Biden is at risk of not making it on the state’s ballot this fall because of the date of the Democratic National Convention this summer.

Here’s what’s happening tomorrow.

• The Nevada Supreme Court will hear oral argument in a lawsuit challenging a ballot initiative to establish a seven-member independent redistricting commission that would draw the state’s congressional and legislative districts beginning in 2027.