11/5/17  //  Daily Update

Reports indicate that the Crosscheck system promoted by Kris Kobach, vice chair of President Trump’s Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, as a tool to purge voter rolls, has a 99% false positive rate.

11/5/17  //  Daily Update

Oral argument in Ayestas v. Davis indicates that the Supreme Court is likely to reverse the Fifth Circuit’s imposition of a “substantial need” requirement for indigent federal habeas petitioners to be eligible to receive funding for investigative or expert services.

11/5/17  //  Daily Update

Rep Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.) announced that a group of House Democrats plan to file new impeachment charges against President Trump before Thanksgiving and are currently consulting with constitutional scholars

11/5/17  //  Daily Update

Many politically active nonprofit organizations and candidates have failed to pay FEC-imposed fines with few consequences, according to the Center for Public Integrity.

11/5/17  //  Daily Update

Paul Manafort, former chairman of the Trump campaign, and his colleague Rick Gates, were indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy advisor to the Trump campaign, also pleaded guilty on charges of making false statements to the FBI regarding contacts with Russian nationals.

11/5/17  //  Daily Update

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration's ban on transgender military service, and commentators discussed the administration's position in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case.