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Appeals Court Allows Trump to Keep Control of Illinois National Guard but Bars Deployment

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 15h

BREAKING: A federal appeals court lets Trump keep control of Illinois’ National Guard but bars him from deploying troops into Chicago streets — for now.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 18h

The fight for democracy is the defining battle of our generation, and protecting free and fair elections must be our top priority. That is why my law firm is litigating 63 voting cases — to preserve our basic civil and political rights, Marc Elias writes.
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Why My Law Firm is Litigating 63 Voting Rights Cases

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Mail Ballots Were Found in an Amazon Box in Maine. Some Suspect a Political Dirty Trick.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 20h

A Mainer received an Amazon package containing 250 missing ballots for a GOP-backed referendum that would restrict ballot access. Amazon claims the box contained only the expected items, leading some to ask whether the mishap was a political stunt. https://bit.ly/42DKdwZ

‘We Could Not Have Clearer Facts’: Minority Advocates Say Racial Motive Is Evident As Texas Redistricting Hearing Wraps Up

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1d

NEW: A panel of three federal judges will soon decide whether to block Texas from using its new congressional map in the 2026 election, after a contentious nine-day hearing concluded Friday.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1d

The Texas redistricting hearing started last Wednesday in El Paso. Democracy Docket has covered it every day like it is the most important case for free and fair elections in the country — because it is.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1d

NEW: The Georgia NAACP and two Black voters sue the Meriwether County Board of Elections, arguing its 2022 redistricting map violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by diluting Black voting power and eliminating the board’s only Black commissioner.

🚨 Georgia State Conference of the NAACP v. Meriwether County Board of Elections and Registration

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GOP Could Lock in House Control for a Generation if SCOTUS Ends Key VRA Protection, Report Warns

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1d

A new report reveals that an upcoming Supreme Court case could eliminate:

❌ 27 blue congressional districts
❌ 30% of Congressional Black Caucus seats
❌ 11% of Hispanic Caucus seats

And the effects could ripple for over a generation.

Trump's Terminally Online DOJ Could Be Killing Its Cases Just to Own the Libs

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1d

NEW: Between her personal and DOJ accounts, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon tweets over 100 times a day — a behavior that can safely be categorized as chronically online. But could her social media presence be killing her cases? @jimsaksa.com explains👇

Mail Ballots Were Found in an Amazon Box in Maine. Some Suspect a Political Dirty Trick.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1d

NEW: Last month, a Mainer received her Amazon order — along with 250 missing absentee ballots for an upcoming GOP-backed referendum that would restrict ballot access in the state. Now, some are questioning whether the referendum's backers staged the stunt to elicit fears around election security.

Supreme Court's Shocking New Agenda Revealed

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

NEW VIDEO: The Supreme Court’s 2025 term will decide critical voting rights cases that could reshape American democracy, the Voting Rights Act, and election law nationwide. I am fighting to protect free and fair elections and defend election integrity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iKo...

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1d

ICYMI: Top GOP mapmaker Adam Kincaid revealed that while he’s been instructed in the past to preserve minority congressional districts protected by the Voting Rights Act, the White House gave him no such directive when drawing Texas’ new gerrymander.
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Top GOP Mapmaker Describes a Texas Gerrymander Ordered Up By Washington

Illinois Sues to Block Trump’s Deployment of Texas National Guard in Chicago

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1d

Since taking office for his second term, Trump has been federalizing the National Guard by sending its troops to largely Democratic-led cities. His latest target? Chicago.

Here’s where things stand with his deployment of troops to the Windy City👇
https://bit.ly/4q4KEL4

New Attack on Free Speech: South Carolina GOP Wants to Criminalize Sharing Abortion Info

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 2d

The South Carolina GOP is pushing for one of the nation’s strictest abortion bans. If passed, the bill would:
✅Make abortion a felony equivalent to homicide
✅Narrow the legal definition of contraceptives
✅Criminalize sharing information about abortion
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New Details Emerge in Federal Court About Texas’ Secretive Redistricting Map

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 2d

NEW: In federal court Thursday, some information about Texas’ secretive redistricting process started to come into focus as Republican leadership took the stand.

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Federal Judge Halts Trump’s Chicago Military Deployment

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 2d

BREAKING: A federal judge shuts down President Trump’s attempt to deploy any National Guard troops in Chicago, ruling he lacks such authority and that his “rebellion” claims were not credible.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 2d

No one is covering the GOP's scheme to rig congressional maps for 2026 as closely as us. We’re providing gavel to gavel coverage of an ongoing hearing that’ll decide whether Texas’ gerrymander can be used in the midterms.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 2d

🚨 BREAKING: A federal grand jury indicts New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) on one count of fraud. The indictment comes after Trump ordered the DOJ to go after his perceived enemies more aggressively last month.

In Latest Political Prosecution, Trump’s DOJ Indicts New York AG Letitia James