The U.S. Justice Department reportedly has evidence against six members of the Russian government allegedly involved in the computer hack of the Democratic National Committee.
Perkins Coie lawyer Marc Elias hired the company that compiled a dossier with allegations about Donald Trump’s Russia connections, the law firm confirmed on Tuesday.
A Texas judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking the state from turning over voter information to a voter fraud commission established by President Donald Trump.
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy appeared skeptical on Tuesday when he questioned lawyers defending a Wisconsin electoral map in a challenge contending the redrawn lines amounted to unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering.
Presidential candidates who want to appear on the California ballot would have to release their tax returns if a bill passed earlier this month is signed into law.
President Donald Trump is reportedly paying his legal bills in the special counsel probe of Russian influence with donations to his re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday evening stayed federal court decisions requiring the redrawing of some congressional and state electoral districts in Texas because of racial gerrymandering.
Facebook revealed last week that it had discovered an operation likely based in Russia had spent $100,000 on political ads. The disclosure raises questions about whether the ad buys were illegal.
The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is allowing Texas to use voter ID procedures for 2017 elections that were adopted in a revised voter ID law.
A Russian lobbyist who attended a June 2016 meeting in which Donald Trump Jr. expected to receive damaging information about Hillary Clinton has reportedly testified before a grand jury used by special counsel Robert Mueller.
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. on Monday stayed a decision by a three-judge panel that required the redrawing of two congressional districts in Texas because they were racially gerrymandered.
A federal judge in Texas has blocked a revised voter ID law in Texas after finding its provisions “fall far short of mitigating” parts of the original law that discriminated against African-Americans and Hispanics.
U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos of Corpus Christi issued a permanent injunction blocking the old and revised laws on Wednesday, report the New York Times, NPR, Politico, the Associated Press and the Texas Tribune. Ramos said the law violates the Voting Rights Act and the 14th and 15th Amendments of the Constitution.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said in a Sunday interview that special counsel Robert Mueller can investigate any crimes discovered in the scope of his probe, but “we don’t engage…
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