[content id=”79272″] ANCHORAGE, Alaska – United States Attorney S. Lane Tucker announced today that the Justice Department will monitor compliance with federal voting rights laws in five Alaska jurisdictions for the Nov. 5 general election. The jurisdictions to be monitored are: Bethel Census Area Dillingham Census Area Kusilvak Census Area North Slope Borough Northwest Arctic […]
[content id=”79272″] “This is a win for democracy and the rule of law,” said one ACLU attorney. “The bottom line is that voters deserve to have their voices heard.” After allowing Virginia Republicans’ voter registration purge earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected a GOP effort to block thousands of ballots for the November 5 election […]
[content id=”79272″] “Undermining the legitimacy of an election is how demagogues destroy faith in democracy,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. With Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his allies in key swing states already questioning voting processes and claiming Democrats and election officials are “cheating” days before Election Day, one policy strategist said Thursday that election deniers took […]
[content id=”79272″] (Palmer, AK) – Wednesday, Palmer Superior Court Judge Kristin Stohler sentenced 40-year-old Martin Saccheus to 65 years with 15 years suspended for the 2019 murder of his girlfriend Mingnuna Miller. Saccheus faces 10 years of probation supervision upon release. During sentencing, Assistant District Attorney Kimberly Del Frate said, “This was a domestic violence […]