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US District Judge Tanya Chutkan has reinstated the gag order she placed on former President Donald Trump earlier this month in his federal election subversion case. Judge Chutkan first issued the order after prosecutors raised concerns that Trump could intimidate witnesses or encourage harm against prosecutors through his public comments. Trump criticized the order harshly over social media claiming it infringed on his freedom of speech. Visit CNN to learn moreImage Credit:Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED)

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

Atlanta-area prosecutors are now in possession of text messages and emails directly connecting members of Donald Trump’s legal team to the January 2021 voting system breach in Coffee County, Georgia. The newly obtained evidence further substantiates the prosecutors claim that allies of the former president attempted to access voting systems after the 2020 election as part of their broader push to produce evidence that could back up Trump’s unproven claims of widespread voter fraud.Visit CNN to learn moreImage Credit:National Archives and Records Administration (CC0

Maricopa County Arizona Recorder Stephen Richer is suing defeated gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake for defamation, claiming Lake’s repeated false claims regarding the 2022 election have caused him significant personal hardship. In his lawsuit, Richer alleges that Lake, her campaign, and her affiliated fundraising committee have spread “malicious falsehoods” that have resulted in Richer and his family receiving targeted threats of violence and even death.Visit CNN to learn moreImage Credit:Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Republican officials in North Carolina, Texas, Georgia, and Wisconsin have enacted various new rules and regulations to increase their control over elections ahead of the 2024 presidential race. Critics say these changes in who oversees elections and in what way they oversee them could shift the balance of power to the Republicans or lead to partisan stalemates when high-stakes Senate and presidential contests are on the ballot. According to Megan Bellamy at the Voting Rights Lab, “These state legislators are seeking new powers over