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Exactly one week before the November 3, 2026, midterm elections, the Potter County Republican Party filed a baseless lawsuit challenging the vote tabulation and certification processes counties across Texas have used without flaw for years. They seek an order mandating a hand count of paper ballots across all Texas counties, the results of which a court must confirm, before certification of the U.S. senate race in Texas can proceed. Representing the NAACP Texas State Conference, the League of Women Voters of Texas, MOVE Texas Civic Fund, and Common Cause, the ACLU, the ACLU of Texas, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the Carter Law group moved to intervene in this lawsuit to defend voters’ interests in the accurate and timely counting of their votes.

Some questions you might ask your local police officials as operations in some departments belie that promise

Section 131 of the newly enacted Enhance Law Enforcement Integrity Act gives Coloradans a cause of action to seek damages or equitable relief when state or local police officers violate the Colorado Constitution. In 2022, Christopher Mosley sued Officer Brendan Daves for conducting a warrantless search of his car, which Daves argued was lawful under the federal protective sweep doctrine. After Mosley prevailed at trial and the court of appeals affirmed, Daves appealed to the Colorado Supreme Court. The ACLU’s State Supreme Court Initiative and the ACLU of Colorado filed an amicus brief agreeing with Mosley’s argument that Daves has misapprehended the federal doctrine whilst focusing on a separate point: the Court’s interpretation of Section 131 is not bound by federal law.

Voters in Virginia have the chance to vote for a ballot amendment that would enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution and further protect reproductive freedom in the South.