October 9, 2026 6:38 pm
(Legal Newsline) – A Hawaii state election once decided by a selection between two Easter eggs did not deserve that unusual tiebreaker, the state Supreme Court has ruled in sending voters back to the polls. Sheila Medeiros and Kanani Souza each received 842 votes, then had their names placed in two capsules, “the kind that holds candy in a plastic ...
(The Center Square) – Despite a backlog of legislative responsibilities, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has canceled the final two weeks of the September legislative session. That leaves House lawmakers only one more week of business before the midterm elections. The chamber won’t reconvene until mid-November. While Johnson justified the action as an attempt to “balance all those interests ...
(The Center Square) – California Attorney General Rob Bonta co-led a lawsuit Wednesday to block a new federal rule governing mail-in ballots. But a former U.S. Department of Justice lawyer who’s now working at a think tank says the suit is unnecessary. Prompted by President Trump’s Executive Order No. 14399, the U.S. Postal Service rule requires states to enroll eligible ...
(The Center Square) – Honest Elections Project filed an amicus brief on behalf of the petitioner in Public Interest Legal Foundation v. Nago, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to decide the case, with an attorney arguing that voter rolls being available for public view are vital to election integrity. Executive director of Honest Elections Project Jason Snead told The Center ...
