"When Gov. Maura Healy signed the PROTECT Act in Chelsea last week, she called it the strongest law in the country to protect people against the “dangerous” tactics of President Trump’s federal immigration enforcement actions." (References SDRI Research).
"Glenwood Springs City Council members voted Thursday to sue the owner of the building where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is running a short-term detention facility in violation of city zoning rules, hoping to avoid a more risky legal confrontation with the federal government as it attempts to stop the operation."
"Missouri Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins said Tuesday that he wouldn’t certify a referendum seeking to undo the state’s new GOP-drawn congressional map, arguing that the effort was unconstitutional."
"The federal government is suing the city of Milwaukee over its ordinance preventing law enforcement officers from wearing masks. The lawsuit, filed July 23 in the Eastern District of Wisconsin, calls the ordinance "blatant unconstitutional regulation of the Federal Government." The lawsuit argues that the city's ordinance violates the U.S. Constitution's Supremacy Clause, which says that if local and federal law are in conflict, federal law takes precedence. The mask ordinance stemmed from Milwaukee Common Council members trying to take a stand against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who have operated in the city with masks covering their faces." (References SDRI Research).
"Wisconsin’s Democratic primary for governor has officially gone off script, leading to a crowded field and the fear that a weaker general election candidate will emerge with just a plurality rather than a majority of the vote. Could the use of ranked-choice voting in the parties’ nomination process do a better job elevating candidates with more widespread support?"
"University of Wisconsin Law School State Democracy Research Initiative attorney Bryna Godar discusses the state Elections Commission barring requests for new absentee ballots if a candidate drops out."
"Wisconsin election officials may reignite a legal battle over absentee voting with a July guidance stating that voters cannot void a returned absentee ballot and cast a new one, even if Election Day is weeks away or the candidate they supported has dropped out. It’s the latest development in a legal dispute that began in 2022 and was reopened by an appeals court decision earlier this year."
"During his prime-time address, President Trump used his podium to pressure Congress to pass the SAVE America Act. A day later, the Department of Homeland Security threatened to withhold federal aid from states that don’t comply with the administration’s demands to comb through confidential state voter files." (References SDRI Research).
"The Justice Department’s lawsuits against states that refused to hand over their unredacted voter rolls have been knocked down that many times in the federal trial courts without a single win, and some judges are questioning the federal government’s true intentions."
"Amid U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin pledging to aggressively pursue voter fraud cases, voter and civil rights organizations are celebrating a federal court’s dismissal of a Department of Justice lawsuit seeking the private data of New York voters." (References SDRI Research.)