Federal judge finds rules governing presidential debates 'arbitrary and capricious'
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Wednesday that the Federal Election Commission (FEC) "acted 'arbitrarily and capriciously'" in enacting rules for presidential debates. Judge Tanya Chutkan granted...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday filed to join a suit in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York against the New York Board of Election (NYCBOE) for improperly...
JURIST Guest Columnist Tom Rodgers, a Washington, DC-based lawyer engaged in Native American economic and social empowerment advocacy, discusses the equal access challenges faced by Native American voters in the West in light of the resurgent voting rights movement in...
NAACP challenges North Carolina 'en masse' voter registration cancellations
The North Carolina National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) filed a federal lawsuit on Monday challenging North Carolina's sudden cancellation of voter registrations across three counties. The voter removals, executed by the...
JURIST Guest Columnist Michael T. Morley of Barry University School of Law discusses the recent Newby case in regard to the necessity of proof-of-citizenship required by Alabama, Georgia and Kansas ... Citizenship, a time-honored concept that traces back to the...
JURIST Guest Columnist Michael Gilbert of the University of Virginia School of Law discusses a decision by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals on the Newby case, in reaction to Alabama, Kansas and Georgia's requirement on proof of citizenship before...
JURIST Guest Columnist Ciara Torres-Spelliscy of Stetson University College of Law discusses how Kansas, Georgia and Alabama pushed forward with efforts to require additional proof of citizenship by new registrants, despite the Supreme Court decision on invalidating state's requirements on...
Federal appeals court strikes down Ohio purging of inactive voters from rolls
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Friday struck down a procedure implemented by the Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted that effectively eliminated inactive voters from registration rolls if they...
Federal appeals court blocks voter proof of citizenship requirement in three states
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday blocked a proof of citizenship requirement imposed upon voters by the states of Alabama, Georgia and Kansas. The court found that the parties...
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on Tuesday ruled that the 2014 elimination of the state's early in-person (EIP) voting was unconstitutional and in violation of Section 2 of...
