In a sweeping victory for voters, a Utah judge struck down the GOP’s latest gerrymander, ruling that lawmakers violated the state constitution. The court ordered that a fairer map be used for 2026, likely giving Democrats one of the state’s four congressional seats.
President Donald Trump has broad, unreviewable powers to flood U.S. cities with National Guard troops, the Department of Justice argued in an expansive new filing to the Supreme Court.
Made as part of the Supreme Court’s request for additional briefing on the legality of Trump’s attempted military deployment in Chicago, the letter marked the latest step in Trump’s authoritarian effort to militarize cities and to integrate soldiers into routine policing.
In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, a pair of Democratic senators said the DOJ’s efforts to seize voter data from states “appear to be driven by blind allegiance to the President’s unlawful” sweeping anti-voting order and pose serious privacy risks.
A state trial court dismissed a lawsuit brought by the West Virginia ACLU challenging the governor's deployment of West Virginia National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. in August.
Shortly before dismissing the case, the court denied plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction, finding that because the president requested the troops, the governor's deployment was legal. West Virginia troops will remain in Washington, D.C. likely through the end of November.
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