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We’ve also covered a January federal court ruling that found the state’s ban on former felons voting is unlawful. 1.000

👤 Brentin Mock 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Voting Rights , Virginia

Simplified: In January 2026, a federal court ruled that Virginia's ban on voting for people with past felony convictions is unlawful.

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One of the chief culprits: the court ruling only applied to those disenfranchised for committing crimes that were not deemed felonies under a Jim Crow-era law – drug offenses, for example. 1.000

👤 Brentin Mock 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Voting Rights , Virginia

Simplified: A January 2026 federal court ruling on Virginia's felon voting ban only applied to people disenfranchised for crimes not considered felonies under a J...

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Virginia is currently one of only three states that permanently bar felons from voting, and the voting ban disproportionately disenfranchises Black Virginia voters. 1.000

👤 Brentin Mock 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Voting Rights , Virginia

Simplified: As of September 2026, Virginia is one of three U.S. states that permanently bar people with felony convictions from voting.

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Protected by gerrymandered legislative maps, the GOP supermajority passed a law stripping that power and giving it to themselves in 2023. 1.000

👤 Jim Saksa 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law , North Carolina

Simplified: In 2023, the Republican supermajority in North Carolina's General Assembly passed a law stripping the governor of the power to appoint the state elect...

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Stein sued, and again a lower court agreed the GOP scheme was “unconstitutional beyond a reasonable doubt.” 1.000

👤 Jim Saksa 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law , North Carolina

Simplified: In a lawsuit brought by North Carolina Governor-elect Josh Stein, a lower court ruled that a law giving the state auditor power over the elections boa...

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Republicans hold a 5-2 majority on the high court. 1.000

👤 Jim Saksa 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law , North Carolina

Simplified: As of September 2026, Republicans hold a 5-2 majority on the North Carolina Supreme Court.

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On Wednesday, Republican judges on the Court of Appeals blessed the Republican-dominated General Assembly’s power grab that has kept the State Board of Elections in Republican hands. 1.000

👤 Jim Saksa 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law , North Carolina

Simplified: In September 2026, the North Carolina Court of Appeals reversed a lower court's decision in a 2-1 party-line vote, upholding a law that gives the stat...

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That law got blocked in the courts, and another Democrat, Josh Stein, won the 2024 gubernatorial race, so Republican lawmakers enacted a new law giving the state auditor — who just so happened to be a... 1.000

👤 Jim Saksa 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law , North Carolina

Simplified: Following Democrat Josh Stein's victory in the 2024 gubernatorial race, North Carolina's Republican lawmakers passed a new law giving the Republican s...

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The breadth of pushback to Trump's mail ballot restrictions as all kinds of groups filed briefs to the Supreme Court: Democrats, Republicans, current and former election officials, the Postal Service... 1.000

👤 Alexandra Hutzler 📋 News Article 🏷️ US Politics , Law , Elections , Voting Rights

Simplified: Groups including Democrats, Republicans, current and former election officials, the Postal Service union, and domestic violence organizations filed br...

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the Supreme Court shut the door on President Donald Trump's plan to use the U.S. Postal Service to restrict the practice in this fall's elections. 1.000

👤 Alexandra Hutzler 📋 News Article 🏷️ US Politics , Law , Elections

Simplified: The U.S. Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump's plan to use the U.S. Postal Service to restrict mail-in voting for the fall 2026 elections.

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And Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, in their dissent, said their colleagues were wrong and Trump should be able to press go right now. 1.000

👤 Alexandra Hutzler 📋 News Article 🏷️ US Politics , Law , Elections

Simplified: In a dissent to a September 14, 2026 Supreme Court ruling on mail voting, Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas stated that President Trump should...

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At least five justices cast serious doubt on Trump's chances of succeeding with the plan in its current form, but we don't know exactly which ones. 1.000

👤 Alexandra Hutzler 📋 News Article 🏷️ US Politics , Law , Elections

Simplified: In a September 14, 2026 ruling on President Trump's mail voting plan, at least five Supreme Court justices cast doubt on the plan's chances of success...

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Justice Brett Kavanaugh left the door open for the Postal Service to implement the mail ballot changes in the future. 1.000

👤 Alexandra Hutzler 📋 News Article 🏷️ US Politics , Law , Elections

Simplified: In a September 14, 2026 Supreme Court ruling on mail voting, Justice Brett Kavanaugh indicated that the U.S. Postal Service could implement mail ballo...

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Last month he signed an executive order that called for limiting the number of vaccines given to children. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health , Politics , Law , Vaccination

Simplified: In August 2026, President Trump signed an executive order that called for limiting the number of vaccines given to children.

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A judge on Thursday denied her request for an emergency hearing, allowing the center to remain closed for now. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law , Kennedy Center

Simplified: On Thursday, September 17, 2026, a judge denied Representative Joyce Beatty's request for an emergency hearing, allowing the Kennedy Center to remain...

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Such notice must be provided 30 days in advance, the judge ordered. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law , Kennedy Center

Simplified: A judge ordered that the Trump administration must provide 30 days' advance notice of any plans for the demolition of the Kennedy Center.

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The lawsuit was filed by Representative Joyce Beatty, Democrat of Ohio, who is suing the Kennedy Center as a board member. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law , US Congress

Simplified: Representative Joyce Beatty, a Democrat from Ohio, filed a lawsuit against the Kennedy Center in her capacity as a board member.

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The photos have already been incorporated into a previously filed lawsuit over the fate of the Kennedy Center, which closed this week after a disastrous year and a half under Mr. Trump’s stewardship t... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law , Kennedy Center

Simplified: Photos of President Trump reviewing a poster about the Kennedy Center's demolition have been incorporated into a previously filed lawsuit regarding th...

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Professor Gillers said that shifting standards for the conduct of attorneys general would harm the rule of law, especially if Mr. Blanche’s successors followed his example. 1.000

👤 Professor Gillers 📋 News Article 🏷️ US Politics , Justice Department , Law , Ethics

Simplified: Professor Gillers stated that shifting standards for the conduct of attorneys general would harm the rule of law.

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more than a dozen procurement organizations have gone to court to shut down [the 2020 performance rules]. 1.000

👤 Greg Segal 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health , Law , Organ Donation

Simplified: More than a dozen organ procurement organizations have gone to court to shut down the 2020 performance rules.

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