The Department of Justice (DOJ) intensified its quest for unfettered access to state voter registration rolls Monday, filing an emergency appeal in Michigan after a federal judge rejected the government’s demands.
Both measures would effectively ban, or significantly hinder, voter registration drives run by schools, colleges, unions, and other civic groups that aim to reach unregistered voters and get them on the rolls.
Peter Ticktin, the Florida-based lawyer leading an effort to have President Donald Trump issue an executive order declaring a national emergency to enable a federal takeover of the upcoming midterm elections, shared his reasoning with Democracy Docket Thursday.
It was quickly torn to pieces by a leading expert on the president’s emergency powers.
Speaking with reporters Wednesday, Thune poured cold water on far-right activists’ hopes that he would quickly change the filibuster rules — the only realistic path to getting the bill passed a Democratic blockade.
Among other steps that President Donald Trump will take to undermine a fair election this fall, he’ll likely use the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to bring a flood of litigation aiming to challenge Democratic wins and shape the rules in the GOP’s favor.
Democratic senators sharply questioned President Donald Trump’s pick to run a new Department of Justice (DOJ) division focused on fraud, doubting the real aim of the new unit and its independence from the White House.
Top Democrats are asking Congress’ investigative arm to probe a White House website urging voters to support the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (SAVE) America Act — calling it a blatant violation of federal laws barring officials from using taxpayer dollars for partisan politics.
“It is claiming to solve a problem that is, frankly, imaginary,” said Amanda Gonzalez (D), the election clerk for Jefferson County, Colorado. “And what’s going to happen is we are unjustifiably going to make voting harder for millions of eligible voters across the country.”
President Donald Trump suggested he would issue an executive order attempting to impose a nationwide photo ID requirement for voting, a requirement to show proof of citizenship for registration, and a ban on mail voting ahead of the 2026 midterms, even though courts have already blocked an almost identical executive order.
After meeting with a handful of far right election deniers in Arizona, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem held a short press conference Friday to rally support for a proposal the Brennan Center for Justice is calling “the most restrictive voting bill ever.”