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President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice appealed yet another round of defeats in its nationwide campaign to obtain states’ unredacted voter rolls, as its district court record now stands at 0 for 23.
Minneapolis must find hundreds of Republican election judges before early voting for the midterms opens in October or possibly close some early polling sites altogether following a state Supreme Court decision.
The Trump administration plans to deploy approximately 1,000 Department of Justice election monitors across the country in November.
Cities and counties across the U.S. sued the Department of Homeland Security Tuesday over its attempt to leverage grants meant to help prevent terrorist attacks to force states to adopt a slate of anti-voting measures.
Peters’ new gig will once again give her dangerous influence over elections, including the critical ballot counting process.
As November rapidly approaches, we’re still waiting for a key question to be answered: Will President Donald Trump get a chance to impose sweeping restrictions on mail voting during the midterms? It will ultimately be up to the Supreme Court.
A federal court in Nevada became the 22nd consecutive district court to reject the Trump administration’s campaign to force states to turn over their unredacted voter rolls, dismissing the Department of Justice’s case and denying its motion to compel.
The full Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Trump administration’s request to reconsider a ruling that denied the Department of Justice’s demand for Michigan’s unredacted statewide voter file — handing DOJ another major setback in its nationwide voter roll crusade.
A federal appeals court overturned a ruling that had blocked key parts of Texas’ sweeping voter suppression law, allowing those provisions to remain in effect despite a lower court’s finding that they violated federal protections for voters with disabilities.
In a supplemental brief Wednesday, the Department of Justice urged the Court to not only shelve the permanent injunction that U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani issued in June — which barred the United States Postal Service (USPS) from implementing the order Trump’s March 2026 decree in the 23 states (and Washington, D.C.) that had sued to block it — but also the preliminary, nationwide injunction Talwani handed down Tuesday in a separate case brought by voting groups led by the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts.
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