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Victory for Election Integrity: Maryland Court Rules Against State Overreach in Landmark Voter Rights Case

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The United States District Court for the District of Maryland struck a blow for election integrity by siding with plaintiffs Katherine Strauch Sullivan and David Morsberger in their legal battle against Maryland State Board of Elections officials.

The court’s ruling dismantles overreaching state-imposed restrictions that had prevented access to critical voter registration data, thereby championing the cause of transparency and accountability in the electoral process.

The plaintiffs, both registered Maryland voters, argued that the state’s regulations unjustly restricted their ability to use the voter registration list to investigate potential inaccuracies and irregularities—a right that they claimed was safeguarded under the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA).

The crux of the controversy centered around a state regulation that explicitly banned the use of these lists for investigations into past elections, which the court found to be preempted by federal law.

The court’s memorandum opinion, penned by Judge Matthew J. Maddox, decisively affirmed that such state-imposed restrictions were incompatible with the NVRA’s objectives. The ruling emphasized that the federal act was designed to enhance voter participation while simultaneously ensuring the accuracy of voter rolls—goals that Maryland’s restrictive measures directly undermined.

Read the press release below:

Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (“RITE”) won a major victory for election integrity and transparency in federal court that ensures the public access to critical tools for holding election administrators accountable to their obligation to maintain clean, up-to-date, and accurate voter rolls.

RITE sued Maryland in January of 2024 on behalf of two citizen activists, challenging a State Board of Elections (“SBE”) regulation that stopped them from conducting investigations into whether the state was removing non-residents, the deceased, and duplicate registrations. RITE’s suit alleged Maryland’s law violated the National Voter Registration Act (“NVRA”), a federal law that requires states to provide the public access with records that reveal whether they are maintaining accurate and current voter registration records.

Plaintiffs’ investigative canvassing had revealed multiple anomalies within the state’s voter records, findings consistent with a recent legislative audit. Rather than direct their efforts to promoting free and accurate elections, SBE responded by enacting a regulation that sought to shut down plaintiffs’ work. SBE restricted plaintiffs’ access to and use of state records, including voter history information, a key record for determining whether a state is removing non-residents from its voter lists as required by federal law. RITE sued on their behalf, and today, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland delivered a resounding and complete victory in RITE’s favor. The court held that the SBE had violated federal law and enjoined its unlawful effort to suppress the plaintiffs’ work. In doing so, the court fully endorsed RITE’s position that the NVRA requires that states make voter history information available to the public, the most direct ruling from any court in the country on that issue to date.

RITE’s win on behalf of plaintiffs will help ensure the public has access to important records that allow them to evaluate whether states are removing dead voters, non-residents, non-citizens, and other ineligible voters.

“RITE’s win today is a significant victory for election transparency and the rule of law. RITE warned Maryland that its regulation limiting public access to key registration records was illegal – and it is,” said RITE’s President & CEO Derek Lyons. “Today’s ruling enables citizens across the country, and in Maryland in particular, to conduct important investigative work that promotes clean voter rolls and safe, secure, and accurate elections.”

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Former AOC Campaign Organizer Arrested Over Terror Threats Against Jewish High School

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A former campaign organizer for Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been charged over alleged terror threats she made against a Jewish high school.

Iman Abdul, who previously worked as a youth organizer for AOC, was arrested on Friday for allegedly urging her 25,000 social media followers to “attack” the Leon M. Goldstein High School for the Sciences in Manhattan Beach.

“If anyone needs a public school in NYC to attack for whatever reason … Lexus driving Israhell (sic) loving Zionisits (sic) all attend here,” she wrote in a social media post, which has since been deleted.

“They’ve all gone on ‘Birthright,’” she added added, referencing a program that provides free 10-day trips to Israel for young Jews.

The post in question showed the location of the school on Google Maps so that her followers could locate it.

According to The New York Post, officers from the New York Police Department (NYPD) took Abdul into custody at her Brooklyn residence on Friday.

She was later charged with making her making terror threats, aggravated harassment, threatening mass harm, and endangering the welfare of children

In the summer of 2018, she was involved in the Democratic primary campaigns of progressive figures Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and state Senator Julia Salazar, even serving as a paid canvasser for Salazar.

Abdul’s post was first flagged by the online campaign group StopAntisemitsm, who said she should be “prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

She later messaged the group directly, where she denied having made physical threats of violence.

“I never called for an attack on the school in the sense of mass organization or not even individual people attacking individuals, that’s literally stupid,” she wrote.

“I called for an attack on the school, the Zionist institution funded by our public dollars … we have every right to verbally attack the school.”

She has since deleted all her social media accounts and is expected in court at a later date.

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Jimmy Kimmel Blames ‘Repulsive’ Liberal Activists For Trump’s Return to Power (VIDEO)

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Late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel has blamed “repulsive” liberal activists for enabling President Donald Trump’s return to power.

During an appearance on the Sarah Silverman Podcast on Thursday, Kimmel said without a shred of irony that “loud voices” had scared people away from the Democratic Party.

“I’s not the party. It’s not the majority,” Kimmel insisted. “ It’s the loud voices that scare people from saying what they believe and make you think twice about a joke or whatever.”

“You know, a lot of their points are valid, but a lot of them are also just repulsive, in that they repel people,” he continued.

“They go like, ‘Oh, you’re no fun. I don’t want to be around you.’ And I think that if you had to boil it down to one thing, that’s kind of what it is.”

It is not the first time that Kimmel, who is himself a committed left-wing activist, has accused humorless liberals of costing the Democrats the 2024 election.

“I think a lot of the outrage is completely manufactured, and it’s like, a lot of these people who are angry aren’t really angry,” Kimmel said back in April.

”I think these liberals who’ve done such a good job of viciously attacking comedians are a big part of the reason why Trump is the president right now.”

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Following Trump’s victory last November, Kimmel choked up on air as he moaned about the “hard-working immigrants” who might be deported under the administration.

Last month, Kimmel had a social media meltdown after his fellow late-night comedian Stephen Colbert was canned by CBS.

“Love you, Stephen. Fuck you and all your Sheldons CBS,” he wrote at the time.

President Trump, meanwhile, warned that Kimmel may well be next on the chopping block.

“I absolutely love that Colbert got fired,” Trump wrote after hearing the news of Colbert’s firing. “His talent was even less than his ratings.”

“I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even less talent than Colbert!” he continued.

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National Security Advisers From Europe and Ukraine Hold Meeting Today in England, Hosted by UK Foreign Secretary Lammy and US Vice President Vance

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UK’s Lammy and US Vice-President Vance will host the European and Ukrainian ‘allies’ for a meeting today.

As we have reported previously, Vice President JD Vance’s holiday in the UK is actually filled with relevant work pushing President Donald J. Trump’s foreign policy.

Today, a meeting of National Security Advisers from the US, UK, as well as European ‘allies’ and Ukrainians, is being held, hosted by Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Vance.

The meeting is taking place at Chevening, Secretary Lammy’s ‘official country residence’ in Kent where Vance is staying during his days in the UK.

Daily Mail reported:

“The aim of the meeting is to bring together advisors from the US, Europe and Ukraine – it is understood to have been requested by the US.

A Downing Street spokesperson said that Keir Starmer and Volodymyr Zelensky agreed the meeting would be a ‘vital forum to discuss progress towards securing a just and lasting peace’.

‘Both leaders welcomed President Trump’s desire to bring this barbaric war to an end and agreed that we must keep up the pressure on Putin to end his illegal war,’ the spokesperson added.”

This meeting follows the news that Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a peace summit in Alaska on August 15.

“’The highly anticipated meeting between myself, as President of the United States of America, and President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, will take place next Friday, August 15, 2025, in the Great State of Alaska,’ Trump wrote. ‘Further details to follow. Thank you for your attention to this matter!’”

This stay by Vance highlights that Foreign Secretary Lammy has somehow managed to become closer to the Trump administration, having previously called the president a ‘Neo-Nazi sympathizing sociopath’.

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