Author: Ashley Oliver, Washington Examiner

Nathan Wade told Congress on Tuesday during a long-awaited closed-door deposition in Washington, D.C., that his work as special prosecutor on the election interference case against former President Donald Trump in Georgia was aboveboard. Wade told the House Judiciary Committee the Trump case was “not politically motivated” and that he did “nothing to compromise the…

A group of Florida election supervisors asked state Secretary of State Cord Byrd on Tuesday to give more than a dozen counties additional flexibility to vote in the 2024 election, citing recent back-to-back hurricanes. Florida Election Supervisors, an association comprising the top election officer in each county, asked Byrd in a letter for numerous deadline…

The Department of Justice’s recent lawsuit against Virginia marked the second attempt in as many weeks from the federal government to stop states from cleaning their voter registration lists in the lead-up to the election. The DOJ’s lawsuits against Virginia and Alabama came only after the department had also filed a lawsuit in Wisconsin and intervened in cases in Arizona…

Voting disputes are traveling quickly through the court system in the final weeks of the election, and some cases could see resolutions that will have real-world consequences ahead of November. Cases involving cleaning voter rolls and accepting ballots after Election Day could see resolutions before Nov. 5 and cause last-minute changes ahead of a presidential…

States in play for both candidates in this year’s presidential election all allow voters to cast their ballots by mail, a process that has attracted controversies and legal battles in the final weeks of campaigning. That includes Pennsylvania, Michigan, and North Carolina — each of which has seen concerns raised over absentee ballots. These swing states see varying…

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is urging an appeals court to stop the federal government from enforcing a provision of a $1.7 trillion government spending bill, arguing that the House violated the U.S. Constitution when it relied on proxy voting to pass the measure in 2022. Paxton wrote in a brief filed Wednesday night that…

Nathan Wade, a former special prosecutor for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, is set to appear for a deposition before Congress next week. The closed-door interview is scheduled for Tuesday morning with the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee, according to a subpoena copy reviewed by the Washington Examiner. The deposition is part of the committee’s…

Christopher Steele, who wrote the famed and since-discredited dossier about former President Donald Trump and Russia during the 2016 election, discussed his views about disinformation on Tuesday in an op-ed as part of a broader media campaign to promote his new book and salvage his credibility. Steele, a former British intelligence officer, wrote in Newsweek…

Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes is moving forward with allowing about 218,000 registered voters to participate in the 2024 election despite lingering questions about their citizenship. The conservative group America First Legal sued to receive a list of the voters by Monday, while a Republican state lawmaker demanded the list in a letter. Fontes,…

The Supreme Court declined to take up a case on Monday involving parents who alleged that the Department of Justice stifled their free speech when it announced it was investigating protests at school board meetings. The case, brought three years ago by the America Freedom Law Center, centered on a memo Attorney General Merrick Garland…