Algerian voters approved major amendments to the country’s constitution Sunday. The referendum took place on the anniversary of the start of Algeria’s war for independence from France in 1954. Capitalizing on the timing, one campaign slogan said “November 1954: Liberation. November 2020: Change.” The National Independent Elections Authority (ANIE) announced on Monday that the revised [...]
A Nevada state judge on Monday denied a Republican Party attempt to discount mail-in ballots. The Trump campaign and the Nevada Republican Party alleged the county failed to comply with public record requests pertaining to signature verification on mail-in ballots, calling for a temporary restraining order. Carson City District Court Judge James Wilson denied the [...]
The Supreme Court of the United States Monday rejected an appeal by the NFL and DirectTV to avoid a class action lawsuit. The appeal stemmed from a case where the plaintiffs, Ninth Inning Inc., “challenged the National Football League’s contract with DirecTV for the television rights to out-of-market games.” The District Court dismissed the plaintiff’s [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday invalidated an order by the US Court of Appeal for the Fifth Circuit that granted prison officers qualified immunity in a lawsuit brought by a Texas inmate. Inmate Trent Taylor sued ten prison officials within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for violating his Eighth Amendment rights, when they [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday vacated the decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Mckesson v. Doe, a case arising out of the Black Lives Matter movement. The case stems from a demonstration to protest the death of Alton Sterling, a Black man who was shot at close range [...]
US District Court Judge Stanley Bastian issued an order Friday for the US Postal Service (USPS) to “make every effort” to deliver ballots on time to voters in Michigan and Wisconsin. Bastian issued the order after Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson requested a hearing regarding concerns over slow mail delivery. The order and hearing form [...]
A judge for the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit Court, Lake County, Illinois, on Friday granted the prosecution’s motion to extradite 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse to Wisconsin to face charges of murder and attempted murder. Rittenhouse’s lawyers argued that the extradition documents did not conform to statutory standards and that extraditing Rittenhouse violated his constitutional rights. The judge rejected [...]
A US federal judge Sunday ordered that the US Postal Service must implement measures to prevent a ballot processing slowdown. In his order, Judge Emmet Sullivan mandated reforms that requires the Postal Service to perform late and extra trips, keep a record of ballot deadlines, and create reports on ballot deliveries: It is FURTHER ORDERED [...]
A US federal judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Friday postponed President Trump’s TikTok ban. The court’s order follows after three US influencers filed suit over the ban. In deciding that the ban should be postponed throughout the entire United States, Judge Wendy Beetlestone found that postponement of the ban nationally was the only [...]
A get-out-the-vote rally in Graham, North Carolina, ended Saturday after police officers reportedly pepper-sprayed and arrested the participants. Videos of the incident were broadcasted online as witnesses took to Twitter to describe and remark on what they saw. Saturday’s demonstration took place outside Alamance County’s Courthouse, where organizers emphasized the importance of early voting and [...]
