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Ga. Plans to Appeal Judge's Redistricting Decision but Won't Seek to Pause Ruling for Now

The filing came Wednesday in a second case challenging Georgia's electoral districts being pursued by different plaintiffs. The decision not to seek a stay of the ruling could forestall that second trial.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Upstate New York Voters Set to Select Surfeit of DAs

A slate of seven contested races for district attorney offices in the Nov. 7 general election dot jurisdictions outside of New York City's five boroughs.
9 minute read

Daily Report Online

Court Arguments Begin on Blocking Trump From the Presidential Ballot Under the 'Insurrection' Clause

The Colorado hearing is the first of two states' lawsuits that could end up reaching the U.S. Supreme Court. Monday's testimony began with details about the 2021 assault that was intended to halt certification of Joe Biden's election win.
7 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Partisan Gerrymandering Is Racial Gerrymandering

Where political affiliation is polarized by race, a partisan gerrymander will be motivated by race. The politicians who draw district lines understand this. The Supreme Court should also.
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

The Trump Georgia RICO Case and the Expanding Ripple Effect

The guilty pleas set in motion a far-reaching ripple effect that will extend beyond the initial guilty pleas. As part of their pleas, these defendants agree to testify for the prosecution in the RICO trial and other trials. The dominos have started to fall.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Legitimacy of Mass Voter Challenge on Trial in Political Battleground Georgia

Scott Berson took the stand in federal court in Gainesville at the start of a trial to determine whether the conservative voting organization True the Vote violated federal law when it announced it was challenging the eligibility of more than 360,000 state voters and taking other action on the eve of the 2021 runoff election.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Meet the Candidates Running for NY State Supreme Court Justice in the Lower Hudson Valley

The eight candidates are running to fill just four seats, and include incumbent justices, county judges, town justices, and attorneys.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

New U.S. House Speaker Tried to Help Overturn 2020 Election, Raising Concerns About the Next One

Mike Johnson, the Louisiana congressman who was elected speaker of the House of Representatives on Wednesday after a three-week standoff among Republicans, took the lead in filing a brief in a lawsuit that sought to overturn Joe Biden's 2020 presidential election win. That claim, widely panned by legal scholars of all ideologies, was quickly thrown out by the U.S. Supreme Court.
7 minute read

Daily Report Online

Judge Says Georgia's Congressional and Legislative Districts Are Discriminatory and Must Be Redrawn

U.S. District Judge Steve Jones, in a 516-page order, ordered the state to draw two new Black-majority districts in Georgia's 56-member state Senate and five new Black-majority districts in its 180-member state House.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Feds Urge Judge to Reinstate Trump Gag Order, Citing Comments About Ex-Chief of Staff

In a motion filed Wednesday night, special counsel Jack Smith's team encouraged Chutkan to put the restrictions back in place. Prosecutors cited in part statements in social media and at a news conference over the last day by Trump about his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, who was reported by ABC News on Tuesday to have testified before a grand jury after receiving immunity from prosecution.
3 minute read

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