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A federal judge limited aggressive U.S. Department of Homeland Security field operations targeting alleged noncitizen voting in nine states in a Wednesday ruling.
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice appealed its latest batch of defeats Thursday, expanding its nationwide campaign for private voter data into eight federal appeals courts despite losing all 17 district court rulings to date.
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.
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.
Acting national intelligence director Bill Pulte picked Christina Norton, known for running the GOP’s 2024 poll watcher program, as his chief of staff.
The New York poll worker who was recently confronted by ICE agents says she’s exploring legal options, in defense of the safety of all poll workers.
Local election officials in Upstate New York said they were frustrated and alarmed by two federal immigration agents confronting a poll worker over a social media post at a voting site in Syracuse during the state’s primaries earlier this week.
Two federal immigration agents confronted a poll worker at a voting site in Syracuse, New York, as she was helping carry out the state’s recent elections. The incident again raises the specter of federal agents interfering in active elections.
In the weeks since the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority dismembered the Voting Rights Act through its landmark Louisiana v. Callais ruling, Republicans have raced to pass new gerrymandered congressional maps that eliminate Black political representation across the South.
Empire State Democrats have mapped out their plans to rewrite the state constitution to allow for a new congressional map ahead of the 2028 elections that could net the party four additional U.S. House seats.
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