Court Activity

City ignores federal law, keeps thousands of felons on voter rolls.

The three were charged with taking part in a scheme in 2014 to buy votes for Democrats.

ALEXANDRIA, VA (Nov. 17, 2016) — The American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) has sent notices to eight more Texas counties that they are in violation of Section 8 of the National Voter ...

The ACRU filed the lawsuit in June based on evidence that the county has more people registered to vote than the number of citizen age-eligible residents.

The Kansas Secretary of State and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have reached a temporary agreement over the state’s voter registration laws, keeping Kansas’ chief elections officer from a contempt of ...

Just weeks before the Nov. 8 election, a federal appeals court has ruled that Ohio’s method of purging names of inactive voters from voter rolls is unconstitutional. Ohio, a battleground state in the ...

Bad news for the Ohio Democratic party: On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a one-line order denying the party’s application for a stay in Ohio Democratic Party v. Husted — the ...

A top appeals court has overturned a federal official’s ruling that effectively allowed three states to insist on proof of citizenship when their residents try to register to vote. The official, U.S. Election ...

BISMARCK, N.D. — A federal judge on Monday (Aug. 1) blocked North Dakota’s voter identification law after a group of American Indians said it unfairly burdens them — the latest court ruling ...

A federal appeals court struck down North Carolina’s voter ID law on Friday (July 29), finding that a series of provisions approved by lawmakers in 2013 were “enacted with racially discriminatory intent.” Among ...

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe said Saturday he already has begun restoring the voting rights of convicted felons one-by-one, after the state Supreme Court rescinded his executive action granting voting rights en masse ...

AUSTIN — A federal appeals court ruled on July 20 that Texas’ strict voter ID law violates the Voting Rights Act and ordered changes before the November election. The ruling from the 5th ...

WICHITA — The American Civil Liberties Union filed a class-action lawsuit on July 19 seeking to block a Kansas election rule that could throw out thousands of votes in state and local ...

A former Weslaco city commissioner has admitted to cheating to get re-elected in 2013. Lupe Rivera on July 11 pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawfully assisting a voter — one of ...

By Hans von Spakovsky (June 30) Yesterday was a great day for election integrity and everyone (other than the Obama administration and its political allies) who wants to make sure non-citizens don’t illegally ...

Florida’s Second Largest County Has More than 100 Percent of Residents Registered to Vote. ALEXANDRIA, VA (June 28, 2016) — The American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) has filed a lawsuit alleging that officials ...

Residents of Kansas, Georgia and Alabama will have to prove they are U.S. citizens when registering to vote for federal elections using a national form, a judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Richard ...

Sunshine State’s Second Largest County Has More than 100 Percent of Residents Registered to Vote. ALEXANDRIA, VA (June 28, 2016) — The American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) has filed a lawsuit contending that ...

ALEXANDRIA, VA (June 20, 2016) — Opponents of North Carolina’s voter photo ID law wrongly sought to use an illegal interpretation of the Voting Rights Act to attack North Carolina’s election integrity ...

FARGO — A federal judge has been asked to temporarily block the enforcement of North Dakota’s Voter Identification Law. The request was filed by attorneys who represent members of the Turtle Mountain Band ...

ALEXANDRIA, VA (June 20, 2016) —- Opponents of North Carolina’s voter photo ID law wrongly sought to use an illegal interpretation of the Voting Rights Act to attack North Carolina’s election integrity ...

DENVER — Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach contends massive voter confusion will occur if an appeals court doesn’t block a lower court’s order to register thousands of state residents for November’s ...

By Robert Knight The Democrat felon voting express train in Virginia hit a sharp curve on Monday when Republican lawmakers went to the state’s highest court to derail it. Constitutional attorney Charles J. Cooper’s ...

Virginia Republicans on Monday asked the state’s highest court to block more than 200,000 felons from voting in November, arguing that Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe abused his power by restoring the voting ...

WICHITA – A federal judge said Tuesday that Kansas can’t require people to show proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote for federal elections at motor vehicle offices. U.S. District Judge ...

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected an emergency appeal to stop Texas from enforcing its challenged voter ID law. But the court said it could revisit the issue as the November elections ...

RALEIGH — A federal judge has upheld North Carolina’s voter ID law in a ruling posted Monday evening. U.S. District Judge Thomas Schroeder issued a 485-page ruling dismissing all claims in the challenge ...

More than 200 outraged New York voters have joined a lawsuit claiming the party affiliation on their voter registration changed without their consent. The voters say they are unfairly being shut out ...

Arguing that its five-year-old law requiring voters to have a photo ID before they may cast a ballot will not deny anyone in Texas the right to vote, state officials urged the ...

The ACRU is suing Philadelphia over city officials’ refusal to open voter registration records for public inspection as required by federal law. In a complaint filed April 4 in U.S. District Court under ...