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The US Supreme Court on Friday ruled the Trump administration can use a controversial new federal database that would ostensibly verify voter citizenship in November’s elections. Critics argue the administration is exaggerating the threat of non-citizen voters – an extreme rarity in US elections – to implement policies
Recent developments highlight ongoing tensions over election integrity and media access, ranging from US court rulings on voter verification and White House press access to international concerns over election fairness in Russia, India, and Serbia. These events impact public trust in democratic institutions and the ability of citizens to access independent information about their leaders. Moving forward, observers are monitoring the implementation of new voter verification systems in the US and the political fallout from shifting electoral support in Germany.
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Elections
The justice called out her colleagues in a speech she made at the UDC school of law, hours after Trump filed his latest requestUS supreme court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson acknowledged serious concerns about her colleagues’ handling of emergency requests, the method Donald Trump often uses to seek approval from the c
Elections
Trump and officials claimed it combats voting by noncitizens but critics said it could disenfranchise eligible votersThe US supreme court has lifted restrictions on a controversial federal database of voters as Donald Trump seeks to impose tougher restrictions on voting ahead of November’s midterm elections.While the p
Elections
The US Supreme Court on Friday ruled the Trump administration can use a controversial new federal database that would ostensibly verify voter citizenship in November’s elections. Critics argue the administration is exaggerating the threat of non-citizen voters – an extreme rarity in US elections – to implement policies
Elections
The EC had said that the interim order, passed under the Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, 1968, would be in operation during the current byelections and will continue till the final determination of the dispute over the party
Immigration
A ruling to halt deportations of people to countries other than their own threw a core immigration policy of the Trump administration into question, at least temporarily, and prompted a desperate appeal to the Supreme Court on Thursday.
Immigration
Attorney general Todd Blanche requests that justices overturn lower court ruling that halted such removals The Trump administration has asked the US supreme court to allow it to deport immigrants to countries other than their own, the latest effort to seek approval for a controversial policy that fulfils Donald Trump’s
Elections
Court says Chad Bianco’s conduct unlawful and seizure of ballots ‘creates substantial risk to election integrity’California Republican sheriff Chad Bianco must return more than 650,000 ballots his department confiscated earlier this year in an unprecedented move that violated election law, a state supreme court ruled o