A Democrat will oversee a crucial swing state’s election process in November
Democrat Ann Jacobs, who led the Wisconsin Elections Commission during the 2020 election, was unanimously reelected chair of the panel and will lead the bipartisan commission in the key battleground state this fall.
The commission is tasked with overseeing the election process in the swing state but does not run elections.
Trump attorney in Wisconsin gets suspended from a judicial committee
The latest on Alabama’s new voter suppression law
Pro-voting groups have filed a lawsuit challenging Alabama’s new law that makes it illegal for anyone other than close family members or cohabitants to help someone request, fill out or return an absentee ballot.
The Justice Department wrote a brief to the court yesterday, arguing that the Voting Rights Act preempts the state's law.
Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee submitted a “friend of the court” brief in the case last week, defending the state’s new voter assistance prohibitions.
A deep dive into Judicial Watch, one of the many right-wing groups wreaking havoc on our democracy
Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group, is filing lawsuits across the country in an attempt to purge voter rolls and roil the election process in battleground states.
The president of Judicial Watch is one of Trump’s most trusted informal legal advisers. Coupled with the group’s media ecosystem of disseminating misinformation, voting rights advocates worry about the group’s dangerous influence this election season. Read more here.
Democracy Docket’s first candidate Q&A interview of 2024 is out now
Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) is vying to become Delaware’s next senator. In a new candidate Q&A video, Courtney Cohn asks Blunt Rochester about why she’s running for office, the fights for ballot access in Delaware and her personal connection to voting rights.
"I saw how close we were to losing [our democracy],” Blunt Rochester said as she described her experience in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
