The New Jersey Assembly canceled a vote on a bill to decriminalize marijuana Monday after a Senate Amendment included a provision that also decreased the penalties for psilocybin, or magic mushrooms. The debate over the marijuana decriminalization bill comes after a decisive vote by New Jersey residents in favor of legalizing marijuana. Earlier this month, [...]

The Trump campaign withdrew a major section of its legal complaint Sunday against heavily Democratic counties in Pennsylvania which alleged that 682,479 mail-in ballots were accepted and processed without review by political parties. The central legal theory behind the lawsuit was that processing some ballots with the proper supervision, but not processing other ballots with [...]

The New York Times reported Monday that there is concern among lawyers at firms representing the Trump campaign in its various litigation efforts following the 2020 election. The campaign, and the firms representing the campaign, have garnered controversy for filing various lawsuits that judges have frequently dismissed as lacking any evidence of fraud or irregularities. [...]

The Trump campaign faced another setback Monday after an appeals court rejected an appeal from a lower court decision that sought to cease the counting of ballots in Michigan until the campaign’s sought relief was granted. The Trump campaign first filed the Michigan lawsuit on November 4, the day after Election Day. The lawsuit alleged [...]

A US federal judge Monday rejected a case brought by Texas Republicans which sought to toss out 127,000 drive-through votes cast in Harris County, Texas, concluding that the plaintiffs did not have standing to bring the lawsuit. Many states have recently changed their voting laws due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but Texas has still generally required [...]

California voters will render a verdict Tuesday on Proposition 16, a controversial ballot measure that would repeal Proposition 209 (1996), which says that the state cannot discriminate or grant preferential treatment based on race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in public employment, education or contracting. When Prop 209 was first passed, it spurred a [...]

A judge for the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit Court, Lake County, Illinois, on Friday granted the prosecution’s motion to extradite 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse to Wisconsin to face charges of murder and attempted murder. Rittenhouse’s lawyers argued that the extradition documents did not conform to statutory standards and that extraditing Rittenhouse violated his constitutional rights. The judge rejected [...]

A federal judge concluded Tuesday that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) could not intervene in a defamation lawsuit filed against President Donald Trump by a woman who accused the president of rape, and whom the president called a liar. The issue arose when E. Jean Carroll, an author, journalist and advice columnist, accused Trump [...]

The Trump campaign has sued the state of Nevada in an effort to temporarily halt the counting of mail-in ballots in the closely contested state. According to the Trump campaign, “There has been great concern whether the rolls are clean and properly registered voters are the ones receiving ballots, signing them and mailing them back.” [...]

A unanimous three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled Monday that Tennessee must allow first-time voters to vote by absentee ballot. Under Tenn. Code Ann. § 2-2-115(b)(7), individuals who register to vote online or by mail must vote in person the first time they vote. Tre Hargett, the Secretary [...]