Category: 2024 election

Supreme Court Rejects Wisconsin Election Map Drawn by Democratic Governor

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on March 23 Wisconsin state legislative maps drafted by the state’s Democratic governor and approved by the Supreme Court of Wisconsin. At the same time, the U.S. Supreme Court also declined to block a new congressional map for the state that was chosen by the Wisconsin court. Republicans currently hold…


US Elections Officials, Workers Call For More Protection

Three-quarters of local elections officials and staff who responded to a nationwide survey say the federal government is not doing enough to support their needs or protect them from a rising tide of threats in the wake of the 2020 elections. That perceived lack of support and fears of “false political attacks on the election…


Trump Rules Out Pence as Running Mate for Potential 2024 Bid

Former President Donald Trump will not pick his former vice president as his running mate if he does run again for president in the upcoming election. “I don’t think the people would accept it,” Trump told the Washington Examiner. Trump and Pence presented a united front during much of their time in office but diverged…


Wisconsin GOP Appeals Redistricting Loss to Supreme Court

Wisconsin Republicans are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reject an electoral map drawn by the state’s Democratic governor, Tony Evers, which they say is racially skewed, in favor of one crafted by the GOP-controlled state legislature. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin voted 4-3 to adopt congressional and legislative districts drawn by…


Illinois Illegally Denied Election Group Access to Voter Records, Federal Court Rules

A federal court ruled that Illinois violated the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) when it refused to provide an election integrity group with access to the state’s voter roll. “Election officials must allow citizens to see what they are doing,” said J. Christian Adams, president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), the successful plaintiff in the…


Illinois Illegally Denied Elections Group Access to Voter Records, Federal Court Rules

A federal court ruled that Illinois violated the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) when it refused to provide an election integrity group with access to the state’s voter roll. “Election officials must allow citizens to see what they are doing,” said J. Christian Adams, president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), the successful plaintiff in the…


Pence Doesn’t Rule Out 2024 Presidential Bid

Former Vice President Mike Pence on March 8 declined to rule out running for president in 2024. “All my focus right now is on 2022,” Pence said when asked if he wanted former President Donald Trump to run and whether he would be joining the race. “I think we have a historic opportunity to reclaim…


States Want a Huge Federal Top-Off to ‘Zuck Bucks’ for Future Elections, but They’re Already Sitting on a Pile

Drawing on research from a multimillion-dollar Mark Zuckerberg-linked initiative viewed as pivotal in the 2020 presidential election, 14 states carried by Joe Biden have appealed to him for billions of dollars more to secure elections for the next decade. But most of them have spent less than half their shares of previous federal funding to…


Digital World Shares Surge After Launch of Donald Trump’s Truth Social

Shares of the Digital World Acquisition Corp., a blank-check company funding a controversial social media venture, have skyrocketed following the release of the company’s flagship app. The new social media app is a project affiliated with Donald Trump, and its name, Truth Social, bears a striking resemblance to the former president’s surname, consistent with his…


Coalition Backs Keep Nine Amendment to Cap Supreme Court Membership

A bipartisan group is pushing for the proposed Keep Nine Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would, once and for all, block efforts to pack the Supreme Court by fixing the number of members of the high court at its current nine. When then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat, tried in the 1930s to pack…