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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.
Republicans confirmed Todd Blanche as U.S. attorney general, formally placing one of Trump’s staunchest loyalists at the helm of the Justice Department.
After 21 federal district courts and one federal appeals court panel slapped down the Trump administration’s attempt to grab states’ unredacted voter rolls, the Justice Department’s response has been remarkably consistent: we understand civil rights-era voting law better than all these judges. The department keeps advancing essentially the same legal theory from courthouse to courthouse […]
Democratic senators are warning the Trump administration not to push states into conducting mass voter purges during the “quiet period” — the 90-day window before an election when federal law bars systematic removals.
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.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is zero for 20 in its lawsuits seeking to obtain state voter rolls, after a federal judge dismissed its case against Colorado Monday.
Since the Trump administration started demanding state voter rolls last year, we’ve tracked the effort more closely than any other news outlet.
That’s what allowed us to produce the reporting we published this week.
To overcome Trump’s attempts to cheat the elections, Kamala Harris told the Urban League that voter turnout has to be so large that it’s “too big to rig.”
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice suffered its 19th straight voter roll loss Friday, as a federal judge dismissed its Illinois lawsuit with prejudice and ruled DOJ lacks authority to seize the state’s unredacted voter database.
California’s top election official demanded the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) explain how it concluded that thousands of noncitizens may be registered to vote in the state, bluntly questioning both the department’s results and how it obtained California voter data.