Zach Schonfeld

A Pennsylvania appeals court on Wednesday ruled that the state constitution prohibits the disqualification of timely mail ballots because of a missing or improper date. Though the 3-2 majority stressed their decision only concerns 69 rejected votes in a special election last month — which will have no impact on the outcome — it ushers in...

The Supreme Court is increasingly being pulled into the upcoming presidential contest. With a week to go until Election Day, the justices now have four election-related applications on their emergency docket. Former independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made two requests to take him off the ballot in the swing states of Michigan and Wisconsin. ...

A federal appeals court ruled that Mississippi’s law allowing mail ballots to be received after Election Day is illegal, a decision that escalates a consequential legal battle even as it may not affect the upcoming election. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' opinion sends the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) challenge back to a lower court to determine whether...

A federal judge ordered Virginia to restore more than 1,500 people to the state’s voter rolls Friday after the Biden administration sued, claiming the removals took place too close to the upcoming election.  The Justice Department claimed Virginia ran afoul of the “quiet period,” a federal provision that prevents states from systematically removing voters from...

Overseas voting has become the latest battlefront in Republicans’ legal challenges leading up to the election. Judges in two crucial battleground states, Michigan and Pennsylvania, this week heard Republicans’ claims that officials are improperly accepting thousands of overseas ballots and could be opening the door to fraud. And in North Carolina, a judge is scheduled...

Former President Trump’s attorneys on Monday made their latest bid at moving his hush money criminal case to federal court, telling an appeals panel that a lower judge’s refusal to do so was “rushed” and “profoundly flawed.”  Trump previously hoped to move courts to derail his sentencing, but the gambit has so far proved unsuccessful. A...

Two Georgia election workers are plowing to collect their $146 million defamation judgment against Rudy Giuliani, but the former New York City mayor is digging in amid an array of financial troubles. Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, who became a centerpiece of Giuliani’s baseless mass voter fraud accusations following the 2020 election, have asked a...

The Supreme Court will return to the bench Monday to start its new term, where battles over transgender rights, guns and adult website use are already brewing. So far, the court has agreed to review 43 appeals, with decisions expected by summer. Although court watchers have called the upcoming term sleepier than others in recent...

As the presidential race between former President Trump and Vice President Harris tumbles toward its November finish line, legal battles surrounding the 2024 elections are beginning to heat up. Republicans have filed challenges in major swing states nationwide that revolve around proof-of-citizenship requirements and mail ballot deadlines, while Democrats have challenged state election officials who...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked the Supreme Court for an emergency intervention to restore his name on New York’s presidential ballot.  Lower courts excluded the former independent candidate from the ballot after finding he falsely claimed residency in the state because his Katonah, N.Y., address was not his fixed and permanent residency. Kennedy indicated in...