Sam Levine

New York

Voting Rights Reporter at The Guardian

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Trump ally pushes DoJ unit to shift civil rights focus, new messages show

5 days ago | theguardian.com | Sam Levine

The justice department’s civil rights division is shifting its focus away from its longstanding work protecting the rights of marginalized groups and will instead pivot towards Donald Trump’s priorities including hunting for noncitizen voters and protecting white people from discrimination, according to new internal mission statements seen by the Guardian.
Shocked students return to Florida campus after shooting that killed two

6 days ago | theguardian.com | Sam Levine

Students at Florida State University (FSU) were to return to a campus in shock on Friday to retrieve the belongings they abandoned in their scramble to escape a gunman, including laptops, handbags and even shoes, and a vigil is planned in the evening, after a student killed two people and left six others injured. Many gathered on Thursday night around a makeshift memorial on a sidewalk on campus, bringing candles, flowers, teddy bears and notes for the survivors.
IRS reportedly planning to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Sam Levine

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is reportedly planning to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status in what would be a probably illegal move amid Donald Trump’s concerted attack on the independence of US institutions of higher education. Trump on Tuesday called for Harvard, America’s oldest and wealthiest university and one of the most prestigious in the world, to lose its tax-exempt status, CNN first reported.
North Carolina election loser gains support to overturn results: ‘bad for democracy’

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Rachel Leingang |Sam Levine

More than five months after the 2024 election, a swath of voters in North Carolina are still unsure whether their votes will count in an unprecedented effort to overturn a valid US election. Democrat Allison Riggs defeated Republican Jefferson Griffin in a contest for the state supreme court. But after the election, Griffin challenged the eligibility of tens of thousands of voters.
Marjorie Taylor Greene confronted by rowdy constituents at Georgia town hall

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Sam Levine |Chris Stein

Police used a stun gun on two people, and arrested three attenders overall, at a town hall meeting hosted by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday. Protesters repeatedly interrupted Greene during a town hall in Acworth, which is about 30 minutes outside Atlanta. One man, Andrew Russell Nelms, began booing Greene almost as soon as she began speaking, and was dragged out of the room by police officers, who used a stun gun on him, according to the New York Times.
Attorney general dodges question on Trump proposal to jail US citizens in El Salvador

1 week ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Sam Levine

The US attorney general declined on Tuesday to say whether Donald Trump’s suggestion of removing US citizens to El Salvador was legal, in alarming remarks about what experts think is an obviously illegal idea. Trump proposed the idea on Monday in the Oval Office during a visit with El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, who has been accepting people deported from the US and imprisoning them in a gigantic facility notorious for human rights abuses.
Watchdog group sues White House over removal of government spending tracker

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Sam Levine

A watchdog group on Monday sued the Trump administration over its decision to remove a public tracker of how the government spends funds appropriated by Congress. The director of the office of management and budget (OMB), Russell Vought, has sought to justify taking down the tracker, telling Congress in March that the tool “requires the disclosure of sensitive, predecisional and deliberative information”.
Homeland security told US-born immigration lawyer to leave country

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Sam Levine

A Massachusetts immigration lawyer who is a US-born American citizen is speaking out after she received an email from Trump administration immigration authorities telling her she needed to leave the country. Nicole Micheroni described receiving an email on 11 April – and that its heading was “notice of termination of parole”. “It is time for you to leave the United States,” the email read.
‘An existential threat to democracy’: the US judge facing a challenge to her election victory

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Sam Levine

Allison Riggs, a Democratic justice on the North Carolina supreme court, is battling to keep her seat after a recent court ruling paved the way to overturn her election victory, telling the Guardian in an interview: “This is not just a North Carolina problem. This is an existential threat to democracy.”In November, Riggs won an election for the state supreme court by a razor-thin 734 votes.
Trump Signs Order Targeting Law Firm

1 week ago | portside.org | Sam Levine

Trump Signs Order Targeting Law Firm Published April 12, 2025 “Anyone who knows Susman Godfrey knows we believe in the rule of law, and we take seriously our duty to uphold it. This principle guides us now. There is no question that we will fight this unconstitutional order.” Susman Godfrey statementDonald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday punishing the law firm that helped Dominion Voting Systems obtain a $787.5m settlement from Fox for lies about the 2020 election.