#electionlaw — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #electionlaw, aggregated by home.social.
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#Trump Solicitor General Sauer pushed back on Judge Talwani’s assessment in the brief to #SCOTUS, asserting that the #USPS plan fell under the agency’s bounds to adopt rules “as may be necessary in the execution of its functions” & compared the rules for #MailBallots to Postal Service “preparation requirements for the mailing of CREMATED REMAINS & replica EXPLOSIVES.” [seriously]
#law #ElectionInterference #VotingRights #Constitution #Congress #states #ElectionLaw #midterms #elections #USpol
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#Trump Solicitor General Sauer pushed back on Judge Talwani’s assessment in the brief to #SCOTUS, asserting that the #USPS plan fell under the agency’s bounds to adopt rules “as may be necessary in the execution of its functions” & compared the rules for #MailBallots to Postal Service “preparation requirements for the mailing of CREMATED REMAINS & replica EXPLOSIVES.” [seriously]
#law #ElectionInterference #VotingRights #Constitution #Congress #states #ElectionLaw #midterms #elections #USpol
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#Trump Solicitor General Sauer pushed back on Judge Talwani’s assessment in the brief to #SCOTUS, asserting that the #USPS plan fell under the agency’s bounds to adopt rules “as may be necessary in the execution of its functions” & compared the rules for #MailBallots to Postal Service “preparation requirements for the mailing of CREMATED REMAINS & replica EXPLOSIVES.” [seriously]
#law #ElectionInterference #VotingRights #Constitution #Congress #states #ElectionLaw #midterms #elections #USpol
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#Trump Solicitor General Sauer pushed back on Judge Talwani’s assessment in the brief to #SCOTUS, asserting that the #USPS plan fell under the agency’s bounds to adopt rules “as may be necessary in the execution of its functions” & compared the rules for #MailBallots to Postal Service “preparation requirements for the mailing of CREMATED REMAINS & replica EXPLOSIVES.” [seriously]
#law #ElectionInterference #VotingRights #Constitution #Congress #states #ElectionLaw #midterms #elections #USpol
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#Trump Solicitor General Sauer pushed back on Judge Talwani’s assessment in the brief to #SCOTUS, asserting that the #USPS plan fell under the agency’s bounds to adopt rules “as may be necessary in the execution of its functions” & compared the rules for #MailBallots to Postal Service “preparation requirements for the mailing of CREMATED REMAINS & replica EXPLOSIVES.” [seriously]
#law #ElectionInterference #VotingRights #Constitution #Congress #states #ElectionLaw #midterms #elections #USpol
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She added that the #USPS rule “clashes with #Congress’s statutory scheme, & is #unconstitutional where it intrudes not only on Congress’s #elections clause powers but also that power left to the #states.”
#law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #ElectionInterference #VotingRights #Constitution #ElectionLaw #midterms #USpol #Trump #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy
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She added that the #USPS rule “clashes with #Congress’s statutory scheme, & is #unconstitutional where it intrudes not only on Congress’s #elections clause powers but also that power left to the #states.”
#law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #ElectionInterference #VotingRights #Constitution #ElectionLaw #midterms #USpol #Trump #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy
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She added that the #USPS rule “clashes with #Congress’s statutory scheme, & is #unconstitutional where it intrudes not only on Congress’s #elections clause powers but also that power left to the #states.”
#law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #ElectionInterference #VotingRights #Constitution #ElectionLaw #midterms #USpol #Trump #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy
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She added that the #USPS rule “clashes with #Congress’s statutory scheme, & is #unconstitutional where it intrudes not only on Congress’s #elections clause powers but also that power left to the #states.”
#law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #ElectionInterference #VotingRights #Constitution #ElectionLaw #midterms #USpol #Trump #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy
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She added that the #USPS rule “clashes with #Congress’s statutory scheme, & is #unconstitutional where it intrudes not only on Congress’s #elections clause powers but also that power left to the #states.”
#law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #ElectionInterference #VotingRights #Constitution #ElectionLaw #midterms #USpol #Trump #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy
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The trial court judge, Indira Talwani, wrote that the legal challenge to the #USPS plan by Democratic-led states & voter rights organizations was likely to succeed. The groups had argued the plan violated the #Constitution’s #SeparationOfPowers, which gives #states & #Congress responsibility over #elections, not the executive.
#law #SCOTUS #ElectionInterference #VotingRights #ElectionLaw #midterms #elections #USpol #Trump #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy
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The trial court judge, Indira Talwani, wrote that the legal challenge to the #USPS plan by Democratic-led states & voter rights organizations was likely to succeed. The groups had argued the plan violated the #Constitution’s #SeparationOfPowers, which gives #states & #Congress responsibility over #elections, not the executive.
#law #SCOTUS #ElectionInterference #VotingRights #ElectionLaw #midterms #elections #USpol #Trump #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy
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The trial court judge, Indira Talwani, wrote that the legal challenge to the #USPS plan by Democratic-led states & voter rights organizations was likely to succeed. The groups had argued the plan violated the #Constitution’s #SeparationOfPowers, which gives #states & #Congress responsibility over #elections, not the executive.
#law #SCOTUS #ElectionInterference #VotingRights #ElectionLaw #midterms #elections #USpol #Trump #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy
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The trial court judge, Indira Talwani, wrote that the legal challenge to the #USPS plan by Democratic-led states & voter rights organizations was likely to succeed. The groups had argued the plan violated the #Constitution’s #SeparationOfPowers, which gives #states & #Congress responsibility over #elections, not the executive.
#law #SCOTUS #ElectionInterference #VotingRights #ElectionLaw #midterms #elections #USpol #Trump #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy
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The trial court judge, Indira Talwani, wrote that the legal challenge to the #USPS plan by Democratic-led states & voter rights organizations was likely to succeed. The groups had argued the plan violated the #Constitution’s #SeparationOfPowers, which gives #states & #Congress responsibility over #elections, not the executive.
#law #SCOTUS #ElectionInterference #VotingRights #ElectionLaw #midterms #elections #USpol #Trump #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy
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Candidates pay discounted rates for TV time around an #election under federal #law, & in March the #FCC’s Media Bureau said certain party-coordinated ads are entitled to those prices as well.
Four #Democrats, including Sen #JonOssoff of Georgia & former Sen #SherrodBrown of Ohio, challenged the finding in court. They won a victory from a divided panel of the US 4th Circuit Court of appeals.
#law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #PartisanCourt
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Since #SCOTUS’ April ruling, largely #white #Republican-led legislatures across the #South have moved to dismantle #Black political #power at stunning speed, breaking apart voting blocs at the urging of a failing president desperate to keep control of #Congress in this fall’s midterm #elections.
#RepresentationMatters #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #law #ElectionLaw #ActivistCourt #VotingRights #VotingRightsAct #VRA #redistricting #elections #USpol #Trump #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy
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A Shocking Betrayal of #Black Americans
by Mara Gay
The dismantling of Black political #power in the South is a great betrayal, & its effects will ripple through our #democracy.
#RepresentationMatters #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #law #ElectionLaw #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #VotingRights #VotingRightsAct #VRA #redistricting #elections #USpol #Trump #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/opinion/voting-rights-act-black-voters-south.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oVA.qSCM.vEpY9cDXlL3Z&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
#Louisiana Approves Map Eliminating a Majority #Black District
Louisiana lawmakers gave final approval on Friday to a new congressional map that would eliminate 1 of the state’s 2 majority-Black districts, making it the second Southern state to draw & approve carving out such a district since #SCOTUS weakened the #VotingRightsAct last month.
#law #ElectionLaw #VotingRights #VRA #Trump #BigLie #ActivistCourt #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #redistricting #gerrymandering
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/us/politics/louisiana-redistricting-map-majority-black-district.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
As expected, #Alabama asks #SCOTUS to allow use of congressional map helping GOP, despite Federal Appeals Court unanimously ruling it is racially biased
#law #ElectionLaw #VotingRights #VRA #RepresentationMatters #redistricting #gerrymandering #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-alabama-redistricting-congress-elections-d41988d640f26714a52d2c18271af05e -
The political drama in #SouthCarolina is part of a #Republican strategy—propelled by #Trump — to redraw voting districts to the #GOP’s advantage in an attempt to hold on to a slim #House majority in the #midterms. #Republicans have been moving quickly to try to leverage a recent #SCOTUS ruling that weakened minority protections under the federal #VotingRightsAct.
#VotingRights #VRA #redistricting #law #ElectionLaw #RepresentationMatters #WhiteSupremacy #gerrymandering #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow
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Some senators said it was simply too late to make a change.
“#SouthCarolina citizens are going to the polls today. And neither my conscience or common sense is going to let me stop an #election that is already underway,” #Republican state Sen. Richard Cash said.
#VotingRights #VRA #redistricting #law #ElectionLaw #RepresentationMatters #WhiteSupremacy #gerrymandering #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #SCOTUS #Trump
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Great news! #SouthCarolina Senate rejects #Trump call to redraw congressional maps
As early in-person voting began Tuesday in South Carolina’s primaries, the state Senate rejected a #Republican plan to #cancel those congressional votes & instead schedule a new primary under revised districts designed to help the #GOP oust the powerful #Democrat #JamesClyburn.
#VotingRights #VRA #redistricting #law #ElectionLaw #WhiteSupremacy #gerrymandering #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow
https://apnews.com/article/redistricting-congress-voting-rights-trump-6d2daecd387cc0ad1dd56e94f621eda5 -
The ruling further confuses the electoral landscape across the #South, as #Republican-led legislatures have raced to implement new district lines after #SCOTUS narrowed the #VotingRightsAct of 1965. It also demonstrates how the ruling from the nation’s highest court has further muddled how lower courts interpret the landmark #CivilRights #law.
#VotingRights #VRA #redistricting #ElectionLaw #RepresentationMatters #WhiteSupremacy #gerrymandering #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #Trump
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Court Rejects #Alabama #House Map, Calling It Unfair to #Black Voters
The Alabama #Republican led legislature, Governor & AG are likely to appeal the ruling, which stops an effort to use a new congressional map that would likely cost #Democrats a majority-Black district.
#VotingRights #VRA #redistricting #law #ElectionLaw #RepresentationMatters #WhiteSupremacy #gerrymandering #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #SCOTUS #Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/us/politics/alabama-congress-map-redistricting.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
CW: Sedition; US politics; Corrupt (and functionally illiterate) #Republicans
I don't know which is worse: a sitting member of Congress calling for a declaration of martial law to overturn the results of an election, or the fact that that member of Congress thinks "martial" is spelled "Marshall".
#RalphNorman (D-SC-5) #sedition #Jan6 #corruption #TFG #elections #electionLaw #RachelMaddow