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Democracy is on the docket in courtrooms across the country today. Here’s what’s going on in Florida and Minnesota.🧵
A district court in Florida will begin trial in a federal challenge voter suppression law SB 7050 which limits mail-in voting assistance and imposes penalties on voter registration organizations. Trial is expected to last 10 days. democracydocket.com/news-alerts/fl…
In July 2023, a federal judge blocked certain provisions of the law for violating the U.S. Constitution. democracydocket.com/news-alerts/fe…
STARTING NOW: A federal appeals court is hearing arguments in a critical lawsuit that could potentially impact thousands of mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania ahead of the 2024 election.
Today's arguments will revolve around whether Pennsylvania's rule of not counting mail-in ballots for simply missing a handwritten date, or containing an “incorrect” date, on the outer envelope violates federal law. More background can be found here.👇
TODAY: The 3rd Circuit is holding oral argument in a case challenging Pennsylvania's rule of not counting mail-in ballots for simply missing a handwritten date, or containing an “incorrect” date, on the outer envelope.
Pennsylvania voters must handwrite the date they completed their mail-in ballot on the outer return envelope in order for their ballot to be counted. This handwritten date serves no administrative purpose as mail-in ballots are time-stamped by election offices when received.
Since the time stamp determines if a ballot was received on time, a federal district court ruled that rejecting otherwise valid ballots simply due to a missing or incorrect date violates the Materiality Provision of the Civil Rights Act.
STARTING AT 10 AM: The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument about former President Donald Trump's ballot eligibility under the 14th Amendment due to his involvement in Jan. 6.
BREAKING: 8th Circuit severely weakens Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in certain states by ruling that there is no private right of action under Section 2. This means that only the DOJ — not individuals and organizations — can sue under Section 2. democracydocket.com/cases/arkansas…
This is a catastrophic decision that will impact organizations' ability to use Section 2 to protect voters from racial discrimination in voting in all the states under the 8th Circuit's jurisdiction: Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota.
This decision stems from a lawsuit filed by @NAACP Arkansas and @ARpanel1963 arguing that Arkansas' legislative maps violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by diluting the voting power of Black Arkansans.
TODAY: Trial begins in a lawsuit challenging True the Vote’s alleged voter intimidation tactics in Georgia. Plaintiffs argue that the right-wing organization's actions violate the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Here's what you should know. 🧵 democracydocket.com/analysis/true-…
True the Vote (TTV) is a Texas-based right-wing group whose mission is “to train citizens to protect election integrity at the polls.” In 2020, TTV launched the largest mass voter challenge in Georgia history by contesting the eligibility of over 364,000 voters.
TTV targeted Georgia because control of the U.S. Senate rested on the runoff elections between Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff and Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler in Jan. 2021.