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More than 51 million mail ballots will be sent to voters in the coming weeks just from the District of Columbia and the two dozen states that are challenging the Trump administration’s 11th-hour attack on mail voting.
It may still feel like mid summer — but we’re into the final stretch before a set of contests that could help determine the fate of our democracy.
After losing 20 consecutive lawsuits seeking states’ unredacted voter rolls, President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice conceded that its case against Washington is materially no different from the others — but still urged another federal court to embrace the same sweeping legal theory rejected by every court to consider it.
Washington state’s chief election official urged the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to withdraw its proposed mail ballot rule, warning that the Trump-backed proposal could worsen existing mail delays, impose new costs on local election officials and disenfranchise eligible voters.
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.
We’ve been paying even closer attention than usual this week to Harmeet Dhillon, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights division chief who, reports suggest, could soon be in line for a promotion.
As President Donald Trump and his administration escalate threats to interfere in this year’s midterms, at least 11 states led by Democrats are taking steps to harden their elections against White House meddling.
The anti-democracy onslaught continues apace. And we’re keeping you up to date on all of it.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has once again tripped over the basics of litigation in its relentless quest for state voter registration records, blowing a deadline to properly serve Washington’s secretary of state with its lawsuit.
This was the week when MAGA Republicans finally got what they’d been demanding for so long: A full Senate debate on the SAVE America Act, President Donald Trump’s monster voter suppression bill.
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