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.
The postal agency rejected Leon County’s envelope because the words “return service requested” and the election office’s return address were only 0.236 inches apart — when there should have been a full quarter-inch between them.
If the Supreme Court lifts the preliminary injunction U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani issued in State of California v. USPS, it may rely on Purcell to rationalize the chaos that decision would unleash. And, in doing so, the justices would prove their critics right by stretching the precedent’s already-overextended precepts far beyond the limits of logic.
The Missouri Supreme Court gave the state’s top election official until 1pm EST Wednesday to explain why he shouldn’t be held in contempt for violating the court’s Sept. 3 order preventing him from using a gerrymandered congressional map that will give Republicans an advantage in November’s midterms.
“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.
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