To the surprise of Supreme Court observers and election lawyers, on Friday the Supreme Court agreed to hear a second political gerrymandering case this term, this time out of Maryland:

A week ago Tuesday, the Department of Justice finally decided to fight against a blatantly racially discriminatory voting law in Guam, as Hans von Spakovsky described:

The Wisconsin Department of Justice completed an investigation and report on the 2016 leak of 1500 pages of documents from the so-called "John Doe" investigations, expansive and intrusive investigations into alleged coordination and prohibited political activity by Republicans in Wisconsin.  The Wisconsin Supreme Court eventually held that the activity under investigation was constitutionally protected First Amendment speech and halted the politically motivated investigations that had terrorized conservative citizens of Wisconsin.

[Below is an opinion piece by Tom Isaacs, an RNLA member and volunteer on RNLA’s Judicial Affairs Committee. His piece highlights how Damien Schiff has been unfairly blocked by Senate Democrats. Mr. Schiff was nominated to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims back in early May and in mid-July his nomination was approved by the Judiciary Committee. Currently, after more than six months of waiting, Mr. Schiff is still awaiting an up or down vote by the full Senate.

Just over seven weeks ago, the Democrat Secretary of the Commonwealth for Pennsylvania, Pedro Cortes, abruptly and shockingly resigned from his post after just over two years. His resignation followed a government finding that non-citizens had registered to vote and many did in fact vote in past elections due to a "glitch" in the commonwealth's motor-voter software.

Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah recently published a post on the Harvard Law Review Blog on the status of religious liberty in America. Senator Hatch writes about how the concept of religious liberty used to be a noncontroversial issue that garnered bipartisan support. However, those days are gone and the result is raising issues that go against the principles espoused by our Founding Fathers:

RNLA Executive Director Michael Thielen wrote today in The Daily Caller about how leaders in the Trump Administration are starting to undo the regulatory power grabs of the Obama Administration and being attacked for it by liberals:

Predictably, CNN has an article promoting the Democrats' point of view on blue slips, including quotes from an outraged Senator Franken.

Since 1981 the Republican National Committee has been under a consent decree regarding election integrity operations. For years the RNC has avoided any and everything to do with such activities.  The Democratic National Committee and its allies have been frothing at the mouth on this issue, despite no evidence of ANYONE on the right engaging in voter suppression.  Today, a federal judge appointed by President Obama, Michael Vazquez, made a statement that should put the argument over voter suppression to rest for good:

There is a lot of criticism of Senate leadership and most of it is highly debatable and arguably undeserved.  What is not debatable is that Senate leadership has done a great job confirming President Trump’s judicial nominees.  We detailed Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley’s efforts to end the abuse of the blue slip process.  As CNBC noted in an important article over the Thanksgiving break entitled "Congress has handed Trump a historic presidential victory":