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In this new publication for Election Week 2024, we track the most important breaking election cases across the country. This tracker complements our weekly top 10 major case list from the pre-election period with real-time analysis of developments in those cases and in new ones filed on or after election day while the count continues. The cases below are organized by state; in the interests of time we do not attempt to rank them.

About 18 hours after Fulton County District Attorney (DA) Fani Willis revealed the indictment of former president Donald Trump, his ex-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and 17 others, Meadows attempted to remove his prosecution from Georgia state to federal court.

Part of Just Security’s work on accountability and election law. Originally published on March 29, 2023; updated version published on May 24, 2023. On April 4, 2023, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced the first criminal indictment of a former U.S. president in history. The historic indictment and statement of facts foregrounded the alleged effort to suppress information from reaching voters during the 2016 presidential election.