Author: Ashley Oliver, Washington Examiner

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced Tuesday that a grand jury indicted six noncitizens who allegedly voted in elections in his state over the past decade. All six noncitizens were living in the country legally, and some or all of them allegedly cast ballots in multiple recent elections, including the 2016 and 2020 elections, according to…

Advocates pushing to restore the voting rights of felons recently celebrated the Nebraska Supreme Court ruling that people who have completed their criminal sentences can vote, saying the decision meant that thousands more will be able to participate in the 2024 election. Since the 2020 election, there have also been at least a dozen other…

Nathan Wade told Congress during a closed-door deposition that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis began preparing to prosecute former President Donald Trump before she took office in January 2021, according to a transcript released Monday. Wade said Willis began outreach for a Trump-related search committee prior to her taking office on Jan. 1, 2021,…

The Supreme Court denied Michael Cohen’s request to revive a lawsuit alleging former President Donald Trump retaliated against him when the Department of Justice ordered Cohen to return to prison in 2020. The high court included its denial of Cohen’s petition among a list of orders it released on Monday, effectively ending a yearslong court…

Michigan has more than 8.4 million registered voters, but in some counties, the number of registered voters exceeds the number of people who are of voting age, a striking discrepancy that has attracted scrutiny and lawsuits. Michigan, a closely watched battleground state, has “one of the most bloated voter rolls in the nation” with 500,000…

Judge Tanya Chutkan unsealed hundreds of pages of special counsel Jack Smith‘s highly anticipated evidence against former President Donald Trump on Friday, but they contained few new revelations. The four-volume document dump consisted of more than 1,800 pages of evidence, but most of it was redacted or previously known information. One volume contained transcripts of…

Former President Donald Trump urged Judge Tanya Chutkan on Thursday to postpone unsealing evidence in his criminal case in Washington, D.C., until after the election, arguing releasing the information would unfairly disadvantage him. Trump’s attorneys asked Chutkan to delay the release for one month, until Nov. 14, so that they could have time to compile…

Ten House Republicans, led by Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), argued on Wednesday to an appellate court that the House’s pandemic-era proxy voting rules were unconstitutional and pointedly accused Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) of flip-flopping his position on them. The lawmakers made the arguments in an amicus brief, authored by Mountain States Legal Foundation…

A judge barred the Alabama secretary of state from moving forward with a program designed to clear noncitizens from the state’s voter rolls, saying in an order on Wednesday that the program violated federal law and had a high error rate. Judge Anna Manasco said that when Secretary of State Wes Allen, an elected Republican, deactivated more than 3,200…

The Nebraska Supreme Court ordered the secretary of state on Wednesday to begin allowing felons who have completed their sentences to register to vote immediately, a decision that activists say could result in thousands more participating in the 2024 election. Nebraska’s highest court, which has a Republican majority, did not directly rule on the challenges…