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Gabbard Says She Made Criminal Referrals to DOJ of Obama-Era Officials Over 2016 Election Documents
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said in a Sunday interview that she has made criminal referrals to the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) based on findings from declassified documents released last week related to an investigation into alleged Russia collusion involving President Donald Trump. “The implications of this are frankly nothing short of…
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Michigan Supreme Court Lets GOP Sue Over Election Poll Worker Parity
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The Michigan Supreme Court has ruled that the state Republican Party and the Republican National Committee (RNC) can proceed with a lawsuit accusing the City of Flint of failing to maintain partisan balance among poll workers during the 2022 elections, reversing lower court decisions that said the parties lacked standing to sue. In a 5–1…
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Trump Refiles Iowa Lawsuit Accusing Pollster and Des Moines Register of Election Interference
President Donald Trump on June 30 dropped his federal lawsuit against the Des Moines Register, pollster Ann Selzer, and related defendants and refiled it in Iowa state court. The new complaint renews his claims that a poll conducted and published shortly before the 2024 presidential election was intentionally misleading and designed to sway voters against…
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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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North Carolina Election Board Director Puts Forth Proposal Amid Lawsuit From Trump Admin
North Carolina Board of Elections Director Sam Hayes has put forth a proposal in an apparent attempt to resolve an election-related lawsuit filed by the Trump administration over votes being allegedly counted when they should not have. This proposal, which must be approved by the board, would consist of contacting voters who have not registered…
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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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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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Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Executive Order on Elections
A federal district judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to overhaul U.S. federal elections, siding with a group of Democratic state attorneys general who said the order violated the Constitution. In the ruling, U.S. District Judge Denise Casper agreed to grant a preliminary injunction that was sought by the attorneys general from…
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House Passes Bill to Remove Noncitizen Voting in District of Columbia
The House of Representatives passed two bills on June 10 to repeal District of Columbia laws on policing and noncitizen voting. The first would prohibit noncitizens from voting in local District of Columbia elections. It passed with 266 members voting in favor of it, 148 voting against, and one member voting “present.” The second would…
