Daily Docket — Wednesday, June 12


Montana Republicans ask for more time to file a radical petition in the U.S. Supreme Court

  • After the Montana Supreme Court struck down four voter suppression laws, state Republican officials appealed the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court and have asked the nation’s highest court to reconsider a discredited legal theory that could upend American elections.


Biden campaign says that Trump needs to tell his MAGA allies to drop their mail-in voting lawsuits

  • The Biden campaign has called on the Republican National Committee (RNC) to withdraw its lawsuits trying to restrict mail-in voting since the committee and Trump have both publicly embraced the voting method.


  • According to Democracy Docket’s case database, the RNC is involved in at least 19 ongoing lawsuits challenging mail-in voting rules across 12 different states.


Absentee voting case faces setback but will move forward in Georgia

  • A case challenging Georgia’s absentee ballot application deadline will move forward against Fulton County election officials. The lawsuit alleges that the state's shortened window to request absentee ballots violates the Voting Rights Act.


  • Today, a federal judge found that the International Alliance of Theater Stage Employees should not have sued the state election board and dismissed them from the case.







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