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.
Ultimately, the Supreme Court will likely have the final say on whether the administration can change how Americans cast ballots so close to the election.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals tossed a Republican lawsuit challenging Nevada’s grace period for late mail ballots Friday, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Watson v. Republican National Committee.
A campaign to bolster direct democracy in Arkansas suffered a setback this week, when the state supreme court dismissed a lawsuit to put a pro-direct democracy ballot measure before voters this November.
President Trump and the White House are pushing a statistically dodgy U.S. Census Bureau report that claims thousands of noncitizens voted in the 2020 election as part of Trump’s latest attempt to revive false claims that he won the long-settled race and argue for new federal voting restrictions.
A South Carolina law that lets anyone 65 years old and above vote by mail but requires younger people to provide an excuse to cast absentee ballots violates the Constitution’s prohibition on abridging voting rights based on age, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.
Like 22 of her peers before her, a federal judge in Minnesota rejected the Trump administration’s crusade for unredacted state voter rolls. In a decision Monday, U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez dismissed the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) lawsuit to compel production of the sensitive voter data, like Social Security numbers and dates of birth. That […]
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.