Susan Crawford performed strongly across Wisconsin yesterday, and she flipped ten counties that voted for Trump in November.
Turnout was roughly 30 percent higher than the state’s 2023 supreme court race, and nearly double the 2019 supreme court race.
In Arkansas, organizers working on ballot initiatives already face a mountain of technical rules to satisfy — down to the color of ink that notaries must use on petitions. The state government just passed a barrage of new laws to make this even tougher.
Prisons across the U.S. rely on incarcerated labor, often paying people cents per hour—or nothing at all. Historian Robert Chase answered readers’ questions on how this system developed, how it works today, and efforts to challenge it.
A December audit of Utah’s elections found just two improper votes among 2 million ballots cast statewide. Yet Republican lawmakers cited “election integrity” concerns in pushing to roll back vote-by-mail.
Arkansas Senator Kim Hammer authored several new bills this year restricting ballot initiatives. Now, he’s running for secretary of state — where he’d oversee the very rules he created, with new sweeping powers over citizen-led measures.
Colorado became the first state to require polling places in all county jails, despite officials insisting incarcerated people already had ballot access. The result? Turnout in jails surged statewide.
First, LA sheriff’s officials lobbied to get a watchdog prosecuted. Now, they’re using the case “as justification for refusing to submit to meaningful oversight” and declining to share misconduct records, says former oversight commissioner Sean Kennedy.
Two years after liberals flipped Wisconsin’s supreme court, ushering in a new era on election issues from gerrymandering to drop boxes, conservatives hope to win it back in April.
Robert McWhirter, an expert in constitutional and immigration law, is not aware of any past instance in which a local law enforcement official has faced federal charges for not complying with an ICE directive. And yet the DOJ is threatening prosecutions.
