Marc E Elias
#DemocracyDocket
Here are key dates and case developments coming up.
July 6, 2023: Oral argument in an appeal of a state-level lawsuit that will determine whether the white, conservative chief justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court can appoint unelected judges in Jackson (the state’s majority-Black capital) under a recently enacted, anti-democratic law, House Bill 1020.
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Marc E Elias
#DemocracyDocket
We are waiting for decisions in the following lawsuits.
A set of lawsuits that will determine whether FL omnibus voter suppression law, Senate Bill 7050, will be temporarily blocked.
A lawsuit challenging TN legislative maps and a lawsuit challenging part of the state’s felony disenfranchisement scheme.
A lawsuit challenging AR legislative maps that will dictate whether private plaintiffs have the right to bring lawsuits under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act