Trump DOJ 0 for 13 in voter roll grab after court dismisses West Virginia lawsuit
A federal judge also raised concerns about DOJ obfuscating why it actually wants access to every state’s voter rolls.
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‘Stop threatening your friends’: Idaho fires back against Trump DOJ’s threats over noncitizen voting
Idaho’s Republican attorney general’s office accused President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice of potentially violating state ethics rules by threatening the state’s top election official with a criminal prosecution while suing him for the state’s voter rolls.
Trump again avoids Lindsey Graham questions to push SAVE America Act
President Donald Trump dominated a Fox interview Monday with a lengthy monologue pushing the SAVE America Act. The anti-voting measure does not have enough votes to pass in the U.S. Senate. But that didn’t stop the president from rehashing it today when Fox and Friends host Lawrence Jones pressed Trump on the late Sen. Lindsey […]
Judge slams Trump’s IRS lawsuit as ‘improper,’ refers acting AG Blanche to bar
President Trump and his two eldest sons’ $10-billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service was brought for “an improper purpose,” a Florida-based federal judge ruled. The judge also recommended attorney sanctions for the Trumps’ lawyers.
DHS relaunches voter purge database in 4 red states
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.
‘This is a big blow to the SAVE America Act’: Trump uses Lindsey Graham’s death to push stalled anti-voter bill
The president said he talked to Graham about the bill hours before his death.
This week at Democracy Docket: Trump is doing everything he can think of to control voting. But states aren’t backing down
Trump’s crusade to take over voting continues to falter in the courts. So he’s pulling out a range of dangerous new strategies to exert control.
Trump DOJ hit with 12th straight loss in voter roll crusade after court dismisses its New York demand
A federal judge threw out the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking New York’s unredacted statewide voter registration list, delivering another blow to President Trump’s effort to seize sensitive voter registration data.
Trump fired the entire Election Assistance Commission. Now what?
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 […]
Utah Republicans concede defeat in multiple partisan redistricting efforts
Republicans are conceding some defeats: This week, the GOP agreed to dismiss its federal lawsuit challenging the state court ruling that struck down the gerrymandered map.