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Fetterman Turns to Controversial Clinton Lawyer Marc Elias’ Firm to Strike Down Pennsylvania Election Provisions

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Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman and other Democrats have filed a federal lawsuit to strike down parts of Pennsylvania’s election law after the state Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots with incorrect dates or no dates should not be counted.Fetterman is challenging the state law on constitutional and federal statutes.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

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From legendary lawyers to lesser-known activists, journalists, and plaintiffs, the following individuals who died in 2022 all shaped the court and the law in their own ways. 18, 1983, a 31-year-old lawyer with a ponytail stood at the Supreme Court lectern. It was there that she met the civil-rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall.

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“[You] are not Included on the List”: Florida Warns the Justice Department on Positioning Federal Monitors Inside Florida Polling Places

JonathanTurley

We previously discussed Fetterman’s recent effort to enlist the firm of controversial Clinton lawyer Marc Elias to get a federal court to strike down a Pennsylvania election provision. There are already dozens of lawsuits from both parties filed across the country. Now Florida Gov.

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We read all the amicus briefs in Dobbs so you don’t have to

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The Christian Legal Society and Robertson Center for Constitutional Law , Concerned Women for America , and Judicial Watch, Inc. The brief was filed by Jonathan Mitchell, the anti-abortion lawyer who designed Texas’ six-week abortion ban and argued before the court on Nov. 1 in support of that law.