The Associated Press

August 27, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Republican allies of former President Donald Trump argue the rules just reinforce a county election board's existing duty to thoroughly examine election results, noting each board member must swear an oath to compile "true and perfect" results.

By Jeff Amy and Kate Brumback | The Associated Press

5 minute read

August 27, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Judge Brandon Neuman ordered Washington County to notify any voter whose mail-in ballot is rejected because of an error—such as a missing signature or missing handwritten date—so that the voter has an opportunity to challenge the decision.

By Marc Levy/The Associated Press

3 minute read

August 26, 2024 | Daily Report Online

The appeal is the latest development in a prosecution that many legal experts have long considered a straightforward criminal case given the breadth of evidence, including surveillance video and an audio recording, that Justice Department investigators accumulated during the course of the investigation.

By Eric Tucker | The Associated Press

4 minute read

August 26, 2024 | Daily Report Online

The rulings by Michael Malihi, an administrative law judge, would block the qualifications of independents Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cornel West, as well as the Green Party's Jill Stein and the Party for Socialism and Liberation's Claudia De la Cruz.

By Jeff Amy | The Associated Press

3 minute read

August 26, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Although Moorehead was in Washington, D.C., to attend Donald Trump's "Stop the Steal" rally, he said he never got closer than a mile to the Capitol and was not among the rioters who stormed the building. He has never been charged with a crime.

By Michael Rubinkam/The Associated Press

4 minute read

August 23, 2024 | Daily Report Online

The complaint was the first court challenge over a 2022 congressional redistricting map that carved up Democratic-leaning Nashville to help Republicans flip a seat in last year's elections, a move that critics claimed was done to dilute the power of Black voters and other communities of color in one of the state's few Democratic strongholds.

By Kimberlee Kruesi | The Associated Press

4 minute read

August 22, 2024 | Daily Report Online

A federal judge is being asked to block the state from using the same nitrogen protocol that the state used in January to execute Kenneth Smith. The court filing cited witness descriptions of the execution and the findings of an autopsy conducted on Smith.

By The Associated Press

4 minute read

August 21, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Kennedy showed up an hour and 40 minutes late, blaming a canceled flight from Boston to Philadelphia the previous night, and never testified after Commonwealth Court Judge Lori Dumas chose to proceed without him as a witness.

By Marc Levy/The Associated Press

5 minute read

August 21, 2024 | Daily Report Online

The Alabama attorney general office wrote in a Friday court filing that the new law cannot be used to block people from voting in the upcoming election, because the Alabama Constitution prohibits new election laws from taking effect within six months of the general election.

By The Associated Press

3 minute read

August 20, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Democratic Party-aligned challengers say Kennedy's candidacy paperwork states a false home address and contains other damning shortcomings, such as the wrong names of people who supposedly attested that they gathered the signatures of thousands of voters.

By Marc Levy, The Associated Press

3 minute read