Biden is set to fill more judicial vacancies than Trump did.

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Tuesday, November 26

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Missouri judge upholds strict voter ID law
* Yesterday, a Missouri court upheld ([link removed]) a strict voter ID law. House Bill 1878 imposed ([link removed]) new photo ID card requirements for in-person and absentee voting and repealed previously accepted forms of voter ID, including voter registration cards and student IDs.
* The League of Women Voters of Missouri, Missouri NAACP and three voters filed ([link removed]) a lawsuit challenging this law in August 2022. These groups have already indicated their plan to appeal yesterday’s decision in the near future.
* Read here ([link removed]) to learn more about voter ID laws across the country and how photo ID and proof of citizenship requirements differ.

Voter ID requirement could be on the ballot in Maine
* A conservative group in Maine has been ([link removed]) pushing to put a voter ID requirement on the ballot in November 2025. A couple of weeks ago, the group announced that it gathered enough signatures to qualify its measure for the ballot.

Biden set to fill more judicial vacancies than Trump did
* “As I write this, there are 16 nominees currently pending on the Senate floor — four circuit nominees and 12 district nominees,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin said ([link removed]) in an NBC News op-ed published yesterday.
* Durbin added there are “several more pending in committee, including two nominees who had their hearing last week and who are expected to be advanced after the Thanksgiving recess and ultimately confirmed.”
* As of now, President Joe Biden has filled 221 judicial vacancies throughout his presidency, and if the aforementioned nominees are confirmed during the lame-duck period ([link removed]) , he will surpass President-elect Donald Trump’s number of judicial appointments during his first term, which was 234.

Trump’s anti-democratic picks for his administration so far
* Trump named ([link removed]) Florida attorney Pam Bondi as his new choice to lead the U.S. Department of Justice. Bondi was Trump's main attorney during his 2019 impeachment and spread false allegations of election fraud after the 2020 election.
* Stephen Miller was named ([link removed]) as the White House deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security advisor for Trump’s second term. Since 2022, his right-wing legal group has attacked voting rights across the country.

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