Wisconsin Supreme Court Hears Trump Campaign Request to Toss Out Thousands of Votes
While a few conservative justices are receptive to part of the campaign’s argument, none seem inclined to disenfranchise voters en masse.
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While a few conservative justices are receptive to part of the campaign’s argument, none seem inclined to disenfranchise voters en masse.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is not expected to sign the bill.
The federal Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Alabama, alleging that conditions in the state’s prisons are illegally bad. In its complaint, the Justice Department claims that Alabama and its corrections system have taken insufficient steps to protect prisoners from violence—violence from their fellow inmates, and from facility staff, too. According to National
Even the two justices who said they would not have denied the lawsuit outright clarified they would not have granted the complaint’s demands.
However, it remains to be seen whether the three plaintiffs can challenge the deeply-entrenched doctrine of qualified immunity, which protects most civil servants from lawsuits.
Michigan Attorney Dana Nessel said she is planning to appeal the decision.
One attorney general called Texas’s attempts to discard millions of legally-cast ballots “Faustian.”
Sen. John Cornyn, Texas’s former attorney general, publicly said he cannot rationalize the lawsuit’s legal basis.
More than 40 state attorneys general have filed an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook, with the federal government spearheading its own litigation.
Rep. Porter, a California Democrat, alleged that McConnell is holding coronavirus relief talks captive to win liability exemptions for careless corporations.