Daily Docket — Wednesday, May 15

The U.S. Supreme Court weighed in on which congressional map Louisiana is allowed to use in November.

• In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court allowed Louisiana to use its congressional map with two majority-Black districts for the 2024 elections. A lower court said the districts discriminated against "non-African American" voters.

  
  

Ohio Republicans reduce the number of people eligible to vote in the state.

• Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R) moved to remove 137 alleged noncitizens from the state's voter rolls. Alleged noncitizens will receive two written notices from LaRose’s office to confirm their citizenship status.

  
  

• Lawmakers claim that Ohio's voter ID law is needed to combat voter fraud. In reality, it suppresses student, elderly and disabled voters to exclude these groups from the count, argues IGNITE National fellow Cameron Tiefenthaler.

  
  

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and others seek to prevent AI from negatively impacting the 2024 election.

• A Senate committee passed three bipartisan bills aimed at protecting against the misuse of artificial intelligence in our elections. The bills head to the Senate floor for a vote.

  
  

Here are some other updates.

• The Supreme Court is expected to release at least one decision in argued cases tomorrow at 10 a.m. EDT. We’re on the lookout for rulings on whether South Carolina's congressional map is racially gerrymandered and whether Trump is absolutely immune from criminal prosecution.

  
  

• Louisiana voters whose registrations were suspended due to a felony conviction must continue to provide extra documentary proof of eligibility to vote while a lawsuit challenging the policy continues, a federal judge ruled.

  
  

• Centre and Luzerne counties in Pennsylvania have not certified the results from the April 23 primary election due to ongoing court cases regarding which ballots should be counted. The certification deadline in Pennsylvania was Monday.