A federal judge let Tennessee's new congressional map stand, even as civil rights lawyers warn it strips Memphis's Black voters of a unified voice in Congress just months before the midterms.
The Justice Department just put all 50 states on notice — knowingly leave a noncitizen on the voter rolls, and an election official could be looking at criminal charges.
The Trump administration suffered its first appellate defeat Wednesday as a divided federal appeals court ruled the Justice Department lacks legal authority under the Civil Rights Act of 1960 to compel Michigan to surrender confidential voter registration data.
A federal three-judge panel rejected Alabama's latest Republican-drawn congressional map Tuesday, finding it deliberately dilutes Black voting power ahead of the 2026 midterms — and ordered the state to keep using a court-drawn map instead.
Gov. Brian Kemp signed a proclamation Wednesday ordering Georgia lawmakers into a rare special session on June 17, directing them to redraw the state's congressional and legislative district maps in compliance with a landmark Supreme Court ruling — and to resolve a looming ballot tabulation crisis before the fall election.
The League of Women Voters of Alaska and the Alaska Black Caucus filed suit against state election officials Wednesday, alleging the transfer of unredacted voter records to the DOJ violates Alaska's constitution.
