Trump nominates Todd Blanche, loyalist targeting his political foes, for attorney general
President Trump nominated Todd Blanche, a staunch loyalist who has aggressively targeted the president’s enemies for prosecution, to be attorney general.
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Dem senators ‘raise the alarm’ over DOJ pullback on voter protections
More than 20 senators sent a letter to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche that “continues to raise the alarm about DOJ’s involvement in the upcoming midterm elections for partisan political purposes.”
Top DOJ prosecutor is latest to spread lies about California vote counting
Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor spread false conspiracy theories Monday about California’s still-ongoing primary vote count, suggesting that delayed results may be evidence of fraud.
L.A. mayoral race voter fraud claim gets debunked – by Trump’s Justice Department
Even Trump’s own handpicked U.S. Attorney is disputing this one claim of voter fraud in L.A.’s mayoral primary.
The Trump Meet the Press interview that spun out of control after he was probed about his ‘rigged elections’ conspiracies
President Donald Trump went ballistic on Meet the Press after he was questioned about spreading claims of rigged elections without evidence.
This week at Democracy Docket: The Supreme Court makes it official — states have free rein to discriminate against Black voters
If there was any doubt before, there can be none after this week: The Supreme Court is going to give states free rein to discriminate against minority voters — even in some of the most egregious cases.
Postal workers lash out against new USPS rule that helps Trump’s attack on mail-in voting
The American Postal Workers Union says it is “deeply alarmed” about the U.S. Postal Service’s compliance with Trump’s anti-mail voting order.
Xavier Becerra could become California’s next governor. Will he follow Gavin Newsom’s lead in the fight to protect democracy from Trump?
Will Becerra — a former longtime congressman and former state attorney general who served as Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary under former President Joe Biden — follow in Newsom’s footsteps to ensure that the Golden State leads the resistance to Trump’s authoritarianism?
DOJ appeals Maine and Wisconsin voter roll losses, taking every defeat to appellate courts
The Justice Department appealed federal court losses in Maine and Wisconsin Friday, ensuring that every major defeat in its nationwide campaign to obtain state voter registration data is now in or headed to a federal appeals court.
Trump admin approves plan to check voters’ citizenship using federal databases
The Trump administration has approved a plan to create a federal voter citizenship verification system for state voter rolls.