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.
House Republicans are once again attempting to enact a version of President Donald Trump’s long-sought SAVE America Act, a sweeping voter suppression measure that the Senate has repeatedly refused to pass.
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) confirmed it is following a pair of court orders blocking it from implementing President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order.
Congressional Democrats used a pair of budget hearings to implore Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan to support judicial ethics reform and stand up to President Donald Trump.
The ruling could cut off a potential avenue for the Trump administration’s anti-voting interference.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) assured a judge in Washington, D.C., that it was shuttering a controversial citizenship database, but would make the tool available to four Republican-led states on a different judge’s orders. The paradoxical situation emerged after both federal judges issued contradictory rulings on the database, which critics say is ill-suited for voter verification and prone to flagging U.S. citizens as potential noncitizens.
President Donald Trump launched his latest attack on voting last night when he ousted the three remaining commissioners of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC). The defenestration leaves the bipartisan and mostly advisory federal agency, which was created to help states administer elections, without leadership just months before the 2026 midterm elections. But while the […]
Now, new research indicates that state voter registration lists — a common administration target — are actually accurate and up to date. And both blue and red states are largely doing a good job maintaining their lists.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has denied the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) request to pause her order shutting down use of its modified Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system to certify registered voters’ citizenship status. In a blistering 23-page opinion Wednesday, District Court Judge Sparkle Sooknanan berated the federal government’s attorneys for […]
The White House’s attempts to seize control over elections have suffered a series of courtroom drubbings in recent weeks as judges — including many of his own appointees — have consistently blocked them for violating federal laws or the U.S. Constitution. So the Trump administration is adopting a new strategy, turning to intimidation and coercion after legal bullying has mostly failed.
A federal judge in Florida ruled that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must allow four Republican-led states to again use a federal database to search for noncitizens on their voter registration rolls. The decision conflicts with a previous ruling by a federal judge in Washington, D.C. that blocked access to the database. It will likely unspool into a tangle of competing court orders in the coming months.
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