State News
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DOJ Sues California County Over Noncitizen Voting Records
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The Trump administration has sued California’s Orange County Registrar of Voters Robert Page for allegedly withholding information that could reveal noncitizens were registered to vote. The lawsuit, filed in federal district court, alleges that Orange County undermined voter confidence by “refusing transparency of its voter information in violation of federal voting laws” and “concealing the…
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America First Legal Sends Letter to Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell, Accusing Her of Violating Attorney Ethics Rules
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America First Legal (AFL) sent a letter to Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell last week informing her that her legal analysis stating that AFL cannot represent Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap in his lawsuit against the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors (MCBOS) is incorrect. AFL copied the State Bar of Arizona in its letter, accusing…
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Supreme Court Won’t Hear Virginia’s Request to Dismiss Felon Voting Case
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The Supreme Court on June 23 rejected Virginia’s request to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the state’s lifetime voting ban on convicted felons. The new order in O’Bannon v. King took the form of an unsigned order. No justices dissented. The court did not explain its decision. The petitioner, John O’Bannon, who is chairman of the…
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Court Upholds Disbarment of Trump’s Former Attorney John Eastman
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The State Bar of California’s (SBC) Review Department upheld the bar disciplinary judge’s decision to disbar John Eastman, President Donald Trump’s former attorney. Eastman was disbarred for representing Trump in his legal challenges related to the 2020 election. The court agreed with California Bar Disciplinary Judge Yvette Roland, who has a history of donating to…
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FBI Renews Scrutiny Over Handling of 2020 Election Interference Allegation Against China
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WASHINGTON—The FBI has stepped up scrutiny over how it handled previously undisclosed documents containing source claims over alleged Chinese interference in the 2020 elections. The documents, which the agency’s director declassified on June 16 and shared with Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), were dated months before the 2020 presidential election. They show the FBI alerting federal…
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Grassley Probing Withheld FBI Records on Alleged Chinese Election Interference
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WASHINGTON—Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is asking the FBI for additional records regarding alleged Chinese election interference files after finding the agency had sought to destroy relevant information. FBI Director Kash Patel has shared a file with Grassley in response to the senator’s request for an intelligence information report from its Albany Field Office dated Sept.…
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Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap, an Election Integrity Champion, Sues Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Over Usurping His Office
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After months of unsuccessfully attempting to recover key parts of his office back from the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors (MCBOS), Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap, who was elected on an election integrity platform last year, filed a lawsuit against the MCBOS. Represented by America First Legal (AFL), he demanded back control over early voting,…
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LIVE NOW: House Rules Committee Holds Meeting on HR 884: Banning Non-Citizen Voting in DC Elections and More
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The House Rules Committee holds a meeting at 4 p.m. ET on June 9 on the following bills: H.R. 884—To prohibit individuals who are not citizens of the United States from voting in elections in the District of Columbia and to repeal the Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2022 H.R. 2056—District of Columbia…
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Arizona GOP Files Brief Supporting Trump’s Election Integrity Order
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Tags :Abe Hamadeh, activist judge, amicus curiae brief, Arizona, Arizona Republican Party, AZGOP, documented proof of citizenship, election integrity, Executive Order 14248, Gina Swoboda, Justice, News, President Donald Trump, State News, The West, U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, voter registrationThe Arizona Republican Party (AZGOP) submitted an amicus curiae brief in May supporting Trump’s Executive Order (EO) 14248 addressing election wrongdoing, “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections.” U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, who was appointed to her position by President Bill Clinton, has already temporarily blocked part of the order requiring documentary…
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Grassroots Group Investigates 2022 Arizona Attorney General’s Race, Concludes Improprieties Helped Mayes Win
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The grassroots organization We the People AZ Alliance (WPAA) presented a video review last week of election improprieties in the 2022 election, stating that it believes these improprieties contributed to Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes’ victory over Republican Abe Hamadeh by 280 votes. Shelby Busch, who leads WPAA, and WPAA’s attorney Bryan Blehm, who represented Kari Lake in…
