Judge issues partial gag order in Trump federal election interference case
United States District Judge Tanya Chutkan has issued a partial gag order forbidding former President Donald Trump from making statements about potential witnesses or disparaging comments about the prosecutors in his federal election interference case. The order does not impose restrictions on Trump's statements about Washington, D.C., and its residents, nor on statements criticizing the government or the Justice Department generally.Visit NBC News to learn moreImage Credit:Michael Vadon (CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED)
Republican states swore off a voting tool. Now they’re scrambling to recreate it
Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen recently launched a new program, the Alabama Voter Integrity Database, which will use federal and state data to monitor when voters move, die or illegally vote in two different states in the same election. However, AVID appears to mimic a bipartisan, cross-state partnership known as the Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, which Alabama chose to leave when Allen took office. He and a number of other Republican secretaries of state abandoned ERIC this year after the far
Republican Jeff Landry will win Louisiana governor’s race, CNN projects
Republican Jeff Landry is projected to win the gubernatorial race in Louisiana. Under Louisiana’s jungle primary system, all candidates had to run on the same ballot and the top two finishers, regardless of party affiliation, would have had a runoff if no one had cleared the 50% threshold Saturday. Landry, a hard-line conservative who has repeatedly clashed with the current Democratic governor John Bel Edwards and joined Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s ultimately unsuccessful lawsuit seeking to overturn the 2020 presidential election, cleared the
New Hampshire Democrats weigh whether to cross over and vote in GOP primary
A new Political Action Committee called Primary Pivot is encouraging Democratic voters to temporarily switch their party affiliations to “undeclared” so they can vote against Donald Trump in New Hampshire’s upcoming presidential primary. New Hampshire is one of 29 states that allow independents to pick either party’s primary in each election. The Tell It Like It Is PAC, a super PAC supporting former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, also began sending mail urging Democrats to make the switch to independent and participate in the
This week in politics: Louisiana redistricting case in court again- and more
The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments last week in a case regarding the redrawing of Louisiana’s congressional map. The case centers around the issue of representation within the state; when Louisiana redrew its six-district map in 2022, it included only one district in which the majority of residents were black, while about a third of the state’s residents as a whole are black. Voting rights advocates hope the case will end by creating a second majority-Black district in Louisiana. Visit