A federal judge in Boston on Tuesday will hear a bid by Democratic-led states and voting rights groups to block U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order aiming to tighten rules for mail-in voting.
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The latest polls show Democrat and former Biden cabinet secretary Xavier Becerra leading, with Democratic billionaire Tom Steyer and Republican television personality Steve Hilton also challenging for the right to move on to the November 3 general election.
Civil rights groups have filed a lawsuit over alleged human rights abuses at the United States’ largest immigration detention center in El Paso, Texas, where three people have died in the nine months since it opened.
Potential rulings in the coming weeks on mail-in ballots and an attempt to further chip away at legal limits on money in campaigns could help Republicans in the November midterms.
Retired federal judges filed a motion saying the settlement is fraud and a product of collusion.
They can back the president’s fund to benefit his allies or defy a commander-in-chief who just ended the careers of two Republican senators.
A federal appeals court on Friday cleared the way for Texas authorities to enforce key parts of a law that would allow state officials to arrest and deport people suspected of having illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border.
A federal judge on Friday pressed a lawyer for the government to explain how President Donald Trump had the authority to impose a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers and whether that power had any limits.
Louisiana Republicans on Friday approved a new congressional map that dismantles a Democratic-held, majority-Black seat, boosting their party’s odds of retaining the U.S. House of Representatives in November’s midterm elections.
The U.S. Postal Service would require states to provide a list of voters who received mailed ballots as part of new rules proposed on Friday, one day after a federal judge declined to immediately block President Donald Trump’s related executive order.