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Saskia Hatvany/OPBA new analysis from a Democratic-aligned voting rights group shows that eliminating mail-in voting would be more disruptive to Democratic voters than Republicans. -
Claire Rush/APThe Democratic-led states, including Oregon and California, suing to block enforcement of President Donald Trump’s executive order to restrict mail-in voting warned in briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday the policy would have disastrous consequences for the upcoming midterm elections if it is allowed to move forward.
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California announced a new lawsuit over President Trump’s executive order on mail-in voting, arguing in part that the Constitution gives states’ power over elections. -
The U.S. Supreme Court found Monday that states sued too early to prove they would be harmed by the order. -
The proposal uses a playbook, growing nationwide, that could test how far states can go to rein in big money in politics. -
States do not have time before November’s midterm elections to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order mandating overhauls of their mail-in-voting systems, officials from California, Oregon and nearly two dozen other states told the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday. -
The Supreme Court ruled nothing in federal law prohibits California, Oregon and other states from accepting ballots that arrive via mail after Election Day. -
Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Grants Pass v. Johnson decision — which allowed governments to enforce public camping bans without violating the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment — more than 350 cities and 14 states have adopted laws or measures to crack down on street homelessness. -
The U.S. Supreme Court has narrowed the Voting Rights Act over the past decade. The law in California was primarily used to help Latinos gain political representation. -
Elections officials say it wouldn’t be difficult to transition back to a hard Election Day deadline, which was in place until 2022. -
The Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for California schools to tell parents if their children identify as transgender without getting the student's approval, granting an emergency appeal from a conservative legal group. -
Oregon led the coalition of states arguing the president did not have the authority to levy widespread import taxes. -
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that President Trump does not have the authority to impose broad tariffs under the emergency act he has cited. Tariffs have affected California ports, farms, businesses, workers and consumers. -
Supporters of Measure 114 are confident in their chances to defend the law despite some uncertainty over the viability of high-capacity magazine bans.
