Zoe Tillman
Senior reporter @BuzzFeedNews covering courts, justice, and the intersection of law and politics. [email protected]
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Alabama’s Most Populous County Says It’s Trying To Contact Voters Who Received Instructions That Would Invalidate Their Ballots
Voting rights lawyers were worried that absentee voters who received special instructions risked having their ballots tossed after an appeals court reinstated Alabama’s witness requirement.
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New: Alabama's most populous county is now doing a public outreach campaign and trying to contact absentee voters who received a witness signature waiver with their ballots that a court later invalidated
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The situation in Jefferson Co. underscored the uncertainty local election officials have faced as courts continued to rule on election practices after voting began — a voting rights lawyer prev. said Jefferson Co. had been trying to do the right thing
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Here Is The Last Day Mail-In Ballots Will Be Accepted In Every State
Many states recommend sending in your ballot a week out from the election; that’s today.
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More news you can use from @addysbaird and me: Here Is The Last Day Mail-In Ballots Will Be Accepted In Every State
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The Supreme Court Gave Republicans A Win In Wisconsin, Ruling That Ballots That Arrive After Election Day Won’t Count
The court voted 5-3 to leave in place Wisconsin’s Election Day deadline for absentee ballots to come in. Democrats argued that would disenfranchise potentially tens of thousands of voters.
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There is so much to unpack in tonight's SCOTUS order. Roberts explains why he voted to let Pennsylvania accept ballots after Nov. 3, but not Wisconsin. Kavanaugh cites Bush v. Gore. Kagan warns of mass disenfranchisement.
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Amy Coney Barrett Has Been Confirmed As Trump’s Third Supreme Court Justice
Barrett deepens the court’s conservative wing to 6–3.
Texas Voters Who Contract COVID Before Election Day Will Need A Doctor’s Note To Vote Absentee
A voting rights group had argued that getting a doctor’s sign-off would be too burdensome for many voters, particularly people of color.
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Texas Voters Who Contract COVID Before Election Day Will Need A Doctor’s Note To Vote Absentee buzzfeednews.com/article/katiej… via @katiejmbaker
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The Supreme Court Will Let Pennsylvania Count Ballots Received After Election Day, Rejecting A Republican Challenge
Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. joined with the court's more liberal wing in rejecting a challenge by Republicans to a longer absentee voting timeline.
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Some new twists in the fight over how far past Election Day absentee ballots can be counted in Pennsylvania:
- Recall SCOTUS voted 4-4 not to disturb a PA Supreme Court decision that extended the deadline to Nov. 6
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Voters In Alabama’s Largest County Could Have Their Ballots Thrown Out After A Court Ruled Instructions They Were Sent Are No Longer Valid
Voting rights groups have asked officials in Jefferson County to give voters who received now-defunct information a way to make sure their ballots aren’t rejected.
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Voters In Alabama’s Largest County Could Have Their Ballots Thrown Out After A Court Ruled Instructions They Were Sent Are No Longer Valid
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A voting rights lawyer I spoke with said Jefferson Co. was trying to "do the right thing" after a judge ruled on 9/30 to lift the witness req. for some absentee voters during the pandemic — the 11th Circuit's reversal two weeks later just complicated that
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This election season has been marked by frantic litigation that bounces up and down through the courts. The situation in Jefferson County is an example of what can happen as election officials try to comply with court orders that may change things later
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Voters in Harris County may continue using drive-thru voting, Texas Supreme Court rules
A last-minute challenge by the Republican parties of Texas and Harris County argued the largely Democratic county's new drive-thru polling places were illegal.
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The Texas Supreme Court yesterday rejected a challenge by Republicans to drive-thru voting in Harris County (covers Houston): txcourts.gov/supreme/orders…
As @TexasTribune reports, 73K+ people have already voted at these sites: texastribune.org/2020/10/22/dri… pic.twitter.com/NruJuJXhfl
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The Supreme Court Will Let Alabama Ban Drive-Up Voting For People With Disabilities During The Pandemic
Justice Sonia Sotomayor accused her conservative colleagues of getting in the way of local election officials “ready and willing to help vulnerable voters.”
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SCOTUS voted 5-3 to allow Alabama to ban curbside voting for people with disabilities that put them at higher risk from COVID buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Justice Sotomayor, dissenting, said the court was standing in the way of counties "ready and willing to help vulnerable voters."
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Republicans Moved Amy Coney Barrett One Step Closer To The Supreme Court After Democrats Boycotted The Vote
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to approve Barrett’s nomination. The final vote on her confirmation is expected Monday.
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Republicans say today's Barrett vote was in line with "longstanding precedents" allowing the Judiciary Committee to report nominations as long as a majority of members are present, even if two minority party members aren't there per the written rules
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Today's Senate Judiciary Committee vote to advance Barrett's nomination appeared to violate the committee's own rules, which require at least two members of the minority party present to do business buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil… pic.twitter.com/swt021DwAH
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The Justice Department Won’t Face Questions About Defending Trump In A Defamation Lawsuit From A Woman Who Accused Him Of Rape
DOJ’s lawyer was turned away from the courthouse due to COVID-19 travel restrictions. He was set to argue in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit against Trump, who she has accused of raping her.
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DOJ was supposed to face questions from a judge today about trying to take over Trump's private defense against a defamation lawsuit that's been pending for months. The hearing was scuttled at the very last minute — here's what went down
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A Man Was Arrested For A Letter Threatening To Kill Joe Biden And Kamala Harris
James Dale Reed of Maryland allegedly left the note outside a home with Biden–Harris yard signs and was captured on doorbell security footage.
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A Man Was Arrested For A Letter Threatening To Kill Joe Biden And Kamala Harris buzzfeednews.com/article/davidm… via @davidmackau
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A Judge Ruled North Carolina Can Extend Its Deadline To Count Mail-In Ballots, Despite The Trump Campaign’s Objections
The judge ruled, however, that North Carolina absentee voters must still have a witness sign their ballots for them to be valid.
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New: The en banc 4th Circuit voted 12-3 to leave intact a later deadline for North Carolina to accept absentee ballots after Election Day, rejecting a stay request from the Trump campaign, the RNC, and NC Republicans assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7273…
Prev: buzzfeednews.com/article/kendal… pic.twitter.com/oAJh2aGZHS
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A Federal Judge Accused Other Judges Across The Country Of A “Systematic Effort” To Suppress Votes
“Hiding behind closed courthouse doors does not change the fact that ruling by ruling, many courts are chipping away at votes that ought to be counted,” Judge Karen Nelson Moore wrote.
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In a scathing dissent, a federal appeals judge accused her colleagues and other judges across the country of enabling a "systemic effort" by states to suppress votes this year buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil… pic.twitter.com/uDElKkm5ys
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In a scathing dissent, a federal appeals judge yesterday accused her colleagues and other judges across the country of enabling a "systemic effort" by states to suppress votes this year
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Barrett cites 'Ginsburg rule' that Ginsburg didn't follow
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett invoked Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at her Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday in refusing to discuss her view of gay rights and the...
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...which is a reminder that as much as Barrett referred to RBG in declining to opine about issues that might come before the court, RBG openly discussed being pro-choice as a SCOTUS nominee, as this @AP story explains: apnews.com/article/gay-ri… pic.twitter.com/tUXtnoDCpR
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Republicans Repeatedly Brought Up Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Faith. Democrats Stayed Away From It.
Anticipating attacks on Barrett’s Catholic faith from Democrats that didn’t surface, Republicans made it part of her confirmation hearings.
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Republicans Repeatedly Brought Up Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Faith. Democrats Stayed Away From It.
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In trying to preempt attacks and questions from Democrats about Barrett's Catholic faith and religious practices that ultimately didn't materialize, Republicans ended up being the ones who brought her faith into the first three days of hearings
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In trying to combat attacks and questions from Democrats about Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s faith that never materialized, Republicans ended up repeatedly bringing her religion into her SCOTUS confirmation hearings.
On Days 1-3
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Judge Amy Coney Barrett Won’t Say How She’d Rule On Abortion, Healthcare, Same-Sex Marriage, Or The Election
Barrett cited judicial ethics rules and told senators it wouldn’t be appropriate for her to signal in advance how she might rule on a certain issue.
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What has Judge Amy Coney Barrett said so far today about how she'd rule on abortion rights, the Affordable Care Act, and the 2020 election if confirmed to SCOTUS? Not much, which isn't surprising. On how it's going on Day 2 of her confirmation hearings
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10 12 20 5th Circuit LULAC v Abbott
Source document contributed to DocumentCloud by Zoe Tillman (BuzzFeed).
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New: Late last night, the 5th Circuit sided with Texas in the fight over where voters can hand-deliver absentee ballots – Gov. Abbott's order restricting each county to one drop location will stand documentcloud.org/documents/7228… pic.twitter.com/MZPpQIaBwp
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The First Day Of Judge Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court Hearing Wasn't Really About Her At All
Democrats focused on the fate of the Affordable Care Act while both parties relitigated fights over Merrick Garland and Brett Kavanaugh.
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Day one of Barrett's SCOTUS hearings offered Republicans and Democrats an outlet for a pre-election airing of grievances — about Trump, Biden, COVID, and the Affordable Care Act — and a chance to rehash the fights over Merrick Garland and Brett Kavanaugh
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Judges Aren’t Buying Trump’s Claims That Mail-In Voting Causes Widespread Voter Fraud
Trump has lost lawsuits challenging pandemic-related mail-in voting plans in Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, and, most recently, Pennsylvania.
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New: Trump keeps pushing unfounded claims that mail-in voting leads to widespread fraud. But in court, far from the bluster of his rallies and Twitter rants, judges have examined the evidence he’s presented to back those claims and found it unconvincing.
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In a 138-page opinion yesterday, a federal judge in Pennsylvania looked at Trump's purported evidence that expanding absentee voting will lead to fraud, and wasn't persuaded. It's the latest in a string of rulings against Trump's campaign and the RNC
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