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President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it will send federal election monitors to 15 jurisdictions in six states during the 2026 primary season.
The Trump administration is threatening to hold back terrorism-prevention funding from states unless they comply with a sweeping set of election demands — escalating President Donald Trump’s ongoing attempt to seize power over elections that the Constitution gives to states and Congress.
It’s not unusual for DOJ to send election monitors during federal elections, but targeting Democratic cities in a key battleground state escalates fears about the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to interfere in this fall’s midterms.
A federal judge in Florida ruled that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must allow four Republican-led states to again use a federal database to search for noncitizens on their voter registration rolls. The decision conflicts with a previous ruling by a federal judge in Washington, D.C. that blocked access to the database. It will likely unspool into a tangle of competing court orders in the coming months.
A group of pro-voting and privacy organizations that are suing the Department of Homeland Security have pushed back on the government’s latest bid to retrofit a federal database to purge voters from registration rolls.
In a filing Monday, the federal government argued that unless the court grants a stay, the “sweeping injunction” will “severely disrupt USPS’s efforts to potentially promulgate a final rule” fulfilling Trump’s March 2026 order ahead of November’s midterms elections.
The Department of Justice appealed three more voter roll losses, ensuring that every defeat in President Donald Trump’s nationwide campaign to obtain unredacted state voter data is now in or headed to the federal appeals courts.
A federal appeals court declined to put three Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) voter roll appeals on the emergency timeline the department requested, slowing its push for sensitive voter data from Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island before a key federal deadline.
The DOJ filed its appeal in California v. Trump Wednesday, a week after U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani ruled that major parts of Trump’s March 2026 anti-voting executive order were “legally void.” She found that the order exceeded the president’s power and violated the separation of powers by encroaching on states’ authority to administer elections.
Polis went against his own 11-person clemency advisory board, which twice voted unanimously against recommending clemency for Peters.
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