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.
If Democrats take back control of Congress and the White House, undoing the damage the U.S. Supreme Court has done to voting rights — and preventing them from doing it again — will be a top priority, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D) said during a speech Thursday. His comments, delivered at a National Association […]
In a supplemental brief Wednesday, the Department of Justice urged the Court to not only shelve the permanent injunction that U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani issued in June — which barred the United States Postal Service (USPS) from implementing the order Trump’s March 2026 decree in the 23 states (and Washington, D.C.) that had sued to block it — but also the preliminary, nationwide injunction Talwani handed down Tuesday in a separate case brought by voting groups led by the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts.
A federal judge in Massachusetts Tuesday issued another order blocking the United States Postal Service (USPS) from implementing President Donald Trump’s sweeping attack on mail voting and his attempt to create a national voter registration list before the midterm elections. District Judge Indira Talwani agreed with a coalition of voting-rights groups led by the League […]
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) appears to be calling President Donald Trump’s bluff as the White House doubles down on political threats to get parts of his sweeping anti-voting agenda into law.
Pennsylvania’s top election official, a Republican, rebuffed the Trump administration’s claim that nearly 15,000 noncitizens could be registered to vote in the commonwealth, demanding it explain how that estimate was calculated.
A dozen Republican states led by Missouri asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order attacking mail voting go into effect before the midterm elections in November.
A federal appeals court is letting the Trump administration continue implementing President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order. The ruling Tuesday comes a day after the administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to lift a block on implementing the order in 23 Democratic-led states and Washington, D.C. upheld in a separate case.
The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) record in voter roll cases fell to 0-17 Thursday, when yet another federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump dismissed the administration’s lawsuit against Kentucky.
In her order Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani called the order “unconstitutional” and said that, if allowed to stand, “disenfranchisement as to the upcoming election is plausibly likely and imminent.”
President Donald Trump took a step closer to slaying his white whale Wednesday and enacting the SAVE America Act, a sweeping voter suppression measure that the Senate has repeatedly refused to pass.
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