Chris Geidner
North Carolina State Board Of Elections Extends Voting In A Handful Of Precincts
A lawsuit seeking a 90-minute voting extension for all of Durham County, North Carolina, however, was rejected. Earlier, a lawsuit in Nevada from the Trump campaign seeking to keep early votes in several polling places from being counted on Election Day was rejected.
Chris Geidner
After Election Day, The Politics Of The Supreme Court Will Change
Most Republicans are likely to take a second look at Obama's Supreme Court nominee if Hillary Clinton wins on Tuesday — regardless of what they're saying now.
Chris Geidner
Supreme Court Denies Democrats' Request For Ohio Anti-Voter Intimidation Order
A lower court judge had issued a broad order against voter intimidation, but the federal appeals court overruled that on Sunday, handing the Trump campaign a victory. The Democrats had asked the Supreme Court to step in.
Chris Geidner
Judge Denies Dems' Request To Hold RNC In Contempt For Trump Voter Fraud Fight
The Democrats couldn't convince a federal judge this week that the Republican National Committee is violating an agreement banning them from "ballot security" measures — but the judge will allow the Democrats to make their case, with more evidence available to them, after the election.
Chris Geidner
The Supreme Court Basically Told Judges To Stop Messing With Voting Laws Before The Election
With a Saturday morning order, the justices presented a united front in allowing enforcement — for now — of an Arizona law making so-called "ballot harvesting" a felony.
Chris Geidner
Federal Court Backs Protections For Gay Worker Under Existing Law
"There is no more obvious form of sex stereotyping than making a determination that a person should conform to heterosexuality," US District Court Judge Cathy Bissoon writes.
Chris Geidner
Lawyers Fight Out Election Lawsuits On Final Weekend Of The Campaign
The decisions sent Democratic and Republican lawyers scrambling, sending a case out of Arizona to the US Supreme Court and leading Donald Trump's presidential campaign to fight against an order that it says would violate people's First Amendment rights in Ohio.
Chris Geidner
RNC Advised Against "Ballot Security" Efforts By Members With State Party Roles
"Given the seriousness of the Consent Degree ... you are encouraged not to engage in 'ballot security' activities even in your personal, state party, or campaign capacity." The Michigan and Pennsylvania party chairs — who are both RNC members — went ahead with such activities anyway.
Chris Geidner
Supreme Court Grants Stay Of Scheduled Alabama Execution
Tommy Arthur was scheduled to die Thursday for a 1982 murder-for-hire. The Supreme Court halted the execution just before midnight.
Tasneem Nashrulla
RNC's Lawyers Try To Distance Themselves From Trump's "Rigged Election" Claims
Under a longstanding, court-enforced agreement, the Republican National Committee is barred from engaging in the type of "ballot integrity" efforts that Donald Trump has been encouraging in recent months.
Chris Geidner
Federal Appeals Court Says Michigan "Ballot Selfie" Ban Will Stay In Effect For Now
A lower court had stopped enforcement of the law earlier this week.
Chris Geidner
Supreme Court To Hear Critical Challenge Over Transgender Rights
Gavin Grimm's challenge to a Virginia school district's anti-transgender restroom policy will be heard by the justices this term, the court announced on Friday.
Chris Geidner
How The Obama Administration Delayed Transgender Workers’ Protections For Years
During the time in question, more than $1 trillion in federal contracts were awarded without transgender protections. Documents obtained in response to a BuzzFeed News public records request shed new light on the delay. The third article in a BuzzFeed News series on transgender rights in America.
Chris Geidner
The Stories Behind America’s Transgender Progress In The Law
A former law professor now on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and a transgender woman who “knew it was wrong” when she lost a job offer have changed the course of transgender history. The first article in a BuzzFeed News series on transgender rights in America.
Chris Geidner
Donald Trump's Lawyers Want To Pretend His Presidential Campaign Didn't Happen
A trial against Trump and Trump University is set to begin weeks after the presidential election. During the campaign, Trump repeatedly questioned the ability of the judge — an American born in Indiana — to be impartial because of his Mexican heritage.
Chris Geidner
Republican Lawyers Group Backs Trump On "Rigged" Election Warning
A top conservative lawyer denounced Donald Trump's "dangerous and unprecedented attack on our democratic institutions." But the chair of the Republican National Lawyers Association called it a "possibility."
Chris Geidner
Justice Ginsburg Says Her Earlier Kaepernick Criticism Was "Inappropriately Dismissive"
"[M]y comments were inappropriately dismissive and harsh. I should have declined to respond," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says.
Chris Geidner
Florida's New Death Sentencing Law Is Unconstitutional, State High Court Rules
Florida Supreme Court rules that the recently passed law is unconstitutional because it allows a non-unanimous decision of the jury — here, 10 of 12 jurors — to impose a death sentence on a person.
Chris Geidner
Justices Grapple With Racial Bias In Juror Deliberations
While uncomfortable with allowing a racist juror to change the outcome of a criminal trial, several justices asked what limits would protect juror deliberations from after-the-fact investigations.
Chris Geidner
Full Federal Appeals Court To Reconsider Case On Gay Protections
On Nov. 30, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals will rehear a case on whether discrimination based on sexual orientation is covered under existing civil rights law.
Chris Geidner
