Plaintiffs in the suit welcomed what one called “a stinging rebuke” to the Republican-controlled state government, representatives of which questioned the political affiliations of the judges involved and said they would appeal the decision to the US supreme court, because it “ignores legal precedent”. They added: “We can only wonder if the intent is to…
On a day that began with a major ruling against Republican voting laws in North Carolina, a federal judge in Wisconsin issued a sweeping ruling that declared a number of Republican-authored election laws in that state unconstitutional. There was also a ruling against Republican voting laws in Kansas, where a county judge ruled that the…