White town leaders in Alabama argue that the Black mayor can’t sue them under the Voting Rights Act.

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Daily Docket — Tuesday, May 21

Attorneys in Michigan were sanctioned for peddling lies about the 2020 election. They still haven’t paid.
* The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld ([link removed]) sanctions against attorneys who brought a lawsuit trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Michigan. A lower court punished the attorneys, saying the case was a “historic and profound abuse of the judicial system.”

White town leaders in a small Alabama town argue that the Black mayor doesn’t have the right to sue them.
* The town leaders in Newbern, Alabama, who allegedly locked their first Black mayor out of the town hall, are now claiming ([link removed]) that he doesn’t have the right to sue them under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

Wisconsin’s highest court declined to immediately weigh in on an absentee ballot case.
* The Wisconsin Supreme Court won't immediately take up ([link removed]) a case about whether voters can discard their previously submitted absentee ballots and cast a new one — a process known as ballot “spoiling.” The case will continue in a state appeals court.

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