Jim covers election-related matters at the federal level. He previously reported for CQ Roll Call, WHYY and Philadelphia City Paper. Before journalism, Jim misspent some of his youth as a corporate attorney.
“Unauthorized by the Elections Clause, the Final Rule clashes with Congress’s statutory scheme, and is unconstitutional where it intrudes not only on Congress’s Elections Clause powers but also that power left to the States,” Talwani wrote Friday.
Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin has asked for a federal probe of the Center for Election Innovation & Research (CEIR), a nonpartisan, pro-voting organization of election administration experts, over a years-old research project on states’ efforts to register more voters.
With Election Day just two months away, the lawyer defending the Postal Service’s recently issued rule carrying out President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order could not tell a federal judge how — or even if — the new rule would work.
Perhaps the most pivotal scene yet in the months-long legal drama over President Donald Trump’s attempt to kneecap mail voting ahead of the 2026 midterms will unfold in a Boston courtroom Thursday morning.
Pro-voting organizations and a group of blue states defended their entreaties for a judicial order preventing the Trump administration from carrying out the president’s sweeping attack on mail voting Tuesday in the final briefs ahead of a pivotal hearing Thursday.
A whistleblower claims in a new report that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has embarked on a “secretive, rushed” effort to implement President Donald Trump’s mail voting order ahead of the midterms, even though the order is currently blocked.
A federal judge in Massachusetts refused to lift a temporary order preventing the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from further implementing President Donald Trump’s executive order attacking mail voting.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) asked an appellate court to revoke the temporary restraining order (TRO) issued by a federal judge in Massachusetts preventing the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from implementing President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order.
Now, a handful of court battles that will decide the fate of mail voting are entering their most decisive stages. No matter the initial outcomes, there will be appeals, and in the end the issue may once again fall into the Supreme Court’s hands.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has claimed the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) implementation of President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order is a “modest” set of delivery improvements — not an attempt to usurp states’ power to regulate elections.
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