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.
A federal judge has thrown out the Trump administration's attempt to compel Rhode Island to hand over private data on nearly 750,000 registered voters, dealing the Justice Department another legal blow in its nationwide campaign to obtain sensitive voter records from states.
Newly filed court documents reveal that attorneys representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement acknowledged a key internal memo they cited for months to justify mass arrests outside immigration courts never actually authorized those detentions — a disclosure that could reshape one of the most consequential civil rights battles currently before the federal judiciary.
