Search Results for: michigan

Proponents of fair congressional maps breathed a sigh of relief this past June when the United States Supreme Court issued its opinion in Allen v. Milligan. The decision was in many ways unremarkable: a conventional application of the Court’s precedents involving Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Enacted to protect the voting rights of [...]

A US federal district court on Friday denied former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’ request to remove two Georgia state criminal charges to federal court. Meadows asked to transfer his charges to federal court under 28 U.S.C. § 1442(a)(1). The statute allows a US federal officer acting under duties of their office [...]

Prior to Donald Trump, no US president — current or former — had ever been indicted. That all changed on April 4 when Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced that a New York grand jury had indicted Trump on 34 criminal counts. Since then, he has been the subject of three additional criminal indictments. He [...]

Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows asked a Georgia federal court on Tuesday to take up the criminal case against him. Meadows was indicted with former US President Donald Trump and 17 others by a Fulton County, Georgia grand jury on Monday over their attempts to overturn the 2020 US presidential election in [...]

A Georgia grand jury indicted former US President Donald Trump on 13 criminal charges late Monday night. The 41-count indictment alleges that Trump, along with 18 other individuals who were also charged, conspired to interfere in Georgia’s election process during the 2020 US presidential election. This is now the fourth criminal indictment Trump faces as [...]

Abortion rights advocates in Arizona filed the initial paperwork on Tuesday to put a proposed amendment to the state constitution on the ballot in 2024 that would affirm the right to an abortion in Arizona. The group that filed the amendment, Arizona for Abortion Access, is supported by a coalition of groups, including Planned Parenthood [...]

Former Republican State Representative Daire Rendon and former Trump-backed Michigan attorney general candidate Matthew DePerno were charged Tuesday over efforts to access and tamper with voting machines in Michigan following the 2020 US presidential election. Both politicians were arraigned in Oakland County’s Sixth Circuit Court. The charges arise from an ongoing investigation into attempts by [...]

Former US President Donald Trump claimed Tuesday that he received a letter on Sunday from Special Counsel Jack Smith, the Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney leading two criminal investigations into the former president, that indicated he was the subject of an investigation into attempted 2020 election interference and the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot. Trump [...]

A District of Columbia (DC) Bar Association Disciplinary committee released a report Friday recommending that former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani be disbarred and prevented from practicing law due to his involvement in lawsuits attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. Giuliani was Mayor of New York City from 1994-2001, a 2008 presidential candidate, a [...]

The US Supreme Court effectively ended affirmative action, which allowed US colleges and universities to consider race in their admissions programs. In a consolidated case brought by Students for Fair Admissions, Inc., the court found that Harvard University—a private university—and the University of North Carolina (UNC)—a public university—violated the US Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause by [...]