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The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday reversed a lower court injunction that had blocked a North Carolina law requiring voters to present photo identification. In 2018 North Carolina voters approved a state constitutional amendment (Art. VI sec. 2(4)) requiring in-person voters to “present photographic identification before voting.” The same year, [...]

A Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Judge ruled in favor of the Trump campaign Thursday, finding that ballots may not be counted if the voters failed to provide proof of identification by November 9. The court order by Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt says Secretary Kathy Boockvar lacked the statutory authority to allow the change of deadline for [...]

“The mass-man has no attention to spare for reasoning; he learns only in his own flesh.” – Jose Ortega y’Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses (1930) In the United States, prima facie, presidential elections represent a core fixture of democracy. Nonetheless, though necessary – and never more so than in the just-completed defeat of Donald [...]

The Texas Supreme Court on Saturday temporarily reinstated Governor Greg Abbott’s ban on multiple drop-off sites for mail-in ballots. The ban will remain effective until the Texas Supreme Court fully resolves challenges to Abbott’s ban. This new order stems from several cases over the governor’s order. Abbott appealed To the Texas Supreme Court from a [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Monday reinstated Texas’s procedures for rejecting ballots with signatures that appear not to match those on record with elections officials. The Early Voting Ballot Board (EVBB), which is responsible for processing early voting results, will only accept ballots if the voter’s signature is determined not [...]

In September, China launched an initiative to set the standards of global data-security rules. This is on top of other efforts that China has taken to launch a data governance regime. This, for America, should be the spark that ignites the conversation around American data governance policies. Data is, after all, as many quip “the [...]

The tumultuous controversy about whether President Trump and the Senate should try to fill the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat before the upcoming election presents high stake political and constitutional risks for both Republicans and Democrats. It also presents risks for long-term public confidence in the integrity of the Supreme Court. Republicans can hardly [...]

A three-judge panel from the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has dismissed a lawsuit by the Alabama NAACP that alleged that the state’s 2011 Photo Voter Identification Law was unconstitutional. The law requires voters to present a form of photo identification at the polls. The state chapter of the NAACP filed the [...]

Amid days of protests across the country in response to the killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Tony McDade by police, the Washington, DC, council approved emergency reforms to policing Tuesday. The reforms were approved on only a temporary basis, and the council wrote that some of the goals of these reforms were to [...]

The coronavirus pandemic has affected a lot of citizens: migrant workers, laborers, corporate job-holders and many more. However, what does it entail for the transgender community? There is a heightened responsibility on the government to grapple this issue where millions are affected. While the new labor laws are the talk of the town, the issue [...]