(Headline USA) A judge on Friday cleared the way for more absentee ballots to be counted in Michigan, saying envelopes postmarked by the eve of the Nov. 3 election are eligible, even if they show up days later.
The decision is significant in a state that is anticipating waves of absentee...
(Headline USA) Pennsylvania’s highest court gave the Democratic Party a series of victories Thursday, including one allowing repairs to glitches and gray areas in the battleground state’s fledgling mail-in voting law and another that kicked the Green Party's presidential candidate off the November ballot.
The state Supreme Court, which has a...
(Headline USA) A week after a three-judge panel blocked an order from President Donald Trump seeking to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from the numbers used to determine how many congressional seats each state gets, the Trump administration on Wednesday gave notice it intends to appeal.
It wasn't immediately clear...
Four California parents sued Gov. Gavin Newsom and other high-ranking officials for keeping schools closed, arguing that it violates the constitutional right of their children to education.
The Freedom Foundation filed the lawsuit Shasta County Superior Court on behalf of the parents and children, according to a press release.
Attorneys said...
A Maryland judge blocked the Trump administration from enforcing new asylum restriction this week and ruled that acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf is serving in his role unlawfully.
Judge Paula Xinis, an Obama appointee, was narrowly confirmed to the federal bench in 2016 after having served as an activist...
(Headline USA) The Trump administration can end humanitarian protections that have allowed hundreds of thousands of people from El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti and Sudan to remain in the United States, a divided appeals court ruled Monday.
While an appeal is imminent and orders to leave wouldn't take effect for months, the...
The Wisconsin Supreme Court ordered Monday that the Green Party presidential candidate should not be added to the ballot, clearing the way for local clerks to resume mailing absentee ballots to more than 1 million voters who have requested one.
The 4-3 order comes just seven weeks before the Nov....
U.S. District Judge William Stickman IV, who President Donald Trump nominated last May, ruled Monday that Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf's unilateral limits on gathering sizes and business shutdowns are arbitrary and unconstitutional.
Stickman said the state's orders violate the "the right of assembly enshrined in the First Amendment," the Philadelphia...
(Headline USA) Voters can't try to abolish an embattled Georgia police department that was wrapped in controversy even before the department oversaw the initial investigation into the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, a judge ruled Friday.
Superior Court Judge Charles Paul Rose ruled that the referendum on abolishing the Glynn...
(Headline USA) Florida felons must pay all fines, restitution and legal fees before they can regain their right to vote, a federal appellate court ruled Friday in a case that could have broad implications for the November elections.
Reversing a lower court judge's decision that gave Florida felons the right to...
(Headline USA) A federal appeals court has dealt another blow to vote-by-mail advocates in Texas.
A push by the state’s Democrats and some voters to allow mail balloting --- using the excuse to increase safety during the COVID-19 pandemic --- had been upheld by a federal district judge.
But a divided three-judge...
(Courthouse News Service) A California judge on Thursday ordered a megachurch to stop holding indoor worship services in the ongoing legal battle between Los Angeles County health officials and church officials who refuse to follow health orders meant to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
The Grace Community Church of the...