Nice catch here by Friend of TPM Rick Hasen. In that bundle of emails from Trump’s defunct ‘election integrity’ commission released to Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap, we find this email from Commissioner Christy McCormick. In the email to then Pence Counsel Mark Paoletta, McCormick recommends DOJ lawyer Benjamin Overholt because their “numerous discussions” made her “pretty confident that he is a conservative (and Christian, too).” Read More

Two document dumps on the voting rights front this week. One gives us a window into what was going on at Trump’s voter fraud commission. The other further underscores that the addition of a question about citizenship to the Census didn’t initially have anything to do with DOJ efforts to enforce the Voting Rights Act, despite administration claims to the contrary.

Read about those, and more, in our weekly primer on voting rights and democracy (Prime access) →