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 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 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 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.