The Supreme Court on Tuesday delivered a strong rejection of a controversial legal theory that threatened to upend state election laws nationwide and give state legislatures unchecked power over federal election rules in the case Moore v. Harper. In a 6-3 decision, written by Chief Justice ...
Comments from several Supreme Court justices indicate they are likely to take up a case that would determine whether state lawmakers or state courts have control over elections. CBS News legal contributor Jessica Levinson spoke with anchors Anne-Marie Green and Errol Barnett about the consequences a...
The Wisconsin Supreme Court grappled Monday with a case affecting whether the swing state's nonpartisan top elections official, who has been targeted by Republican lawmakers over the 2020 presidential election, can remain in her post despite not being reappointed and confirmed by the state Senate....
Using an original dataset containing county-level election results (N = 15,237) from 2000-2018 for all states that hold partisan or nonpartisan state supreme court elections, we examine the influence of presidential vote share in state supreme court elections. A number of important findings emerge...
About $97 million was spent on state supreme court elections during the 2019-2020 election cycle, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University’s law school. Spending records could be shattered this year in states targeted by the right and left. One group is Allian...
The Colorado Supreme Court said last December thatTrump could not stand for electionin the state because he had "engaged in insurrection or rebellion". The judges there ruled Trump was disqualified because he had incited the 6 January riot. ...
While many of the cases involve disputes over state laws that will be decided by state courts, some cases may wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court, though many observers believe the court will try to stay out of the election. Ever since the high court's controversial ruling in Bush v...
granted two separate requests — one from a group of Black voters and civil rights groups and thesecond from the state of Louisiana— to put on hold a decision from a three-judge federal district court panel that blocked Louisiana from using the newly redrawn map in any upcoming election. ...
Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election this spring will decide just one seat, but the contest already is shaping up as one of the most costly and contentious battles of the new year – with the control of the seven
Together, the cases have thrust the court into the middle of this year’s presidential election in a way it has largely managed to avoid since its decision in Bush v. Gore effectively decided the 2000 election between former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Al Gore. ...