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“We’re glad that the Supreme Court did what was right, but there was also a period where real damage was done in the space of voter confusion, with people losing faith in the process,” said Ben Hovland, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and former commissioner of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, at a press briefing Tuesday.
The U.S. Postal Service resumes the fight from a weakened position after two federal judges and a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court cast doubt on its legality.
In a major win for voters, the Supreme Court Monday rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to reinstate its mail voting restrictions ahead of November’s pivotal midterm elections. The justices declined to lift a block on the measure that a lower court judge has said is likely unconstitutional. “The Government is unlikely to succeed on the […]
Agents of the Homeland Security Department have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower disclosed to Congress.
The prosecution would be concerning during any administration, but it’s particularly alarming at a moment when Trump is engaged in an unprecedented nationwide assault on voting.
The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to lift a new lower court order completely blocking the U.S. Postal Service from implementing mail voting restrictions that stem from President Trump’s March executive order attacking voting.
Across the countless legal filings in the many lawsuits challenging Trump’s order and USPS’s subsequent rules, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has repeatedly failed to provide evidence backing the central claim behind them: that noncitizen voting and mail ballot fraud are real, substantial problems that must be addressed by federal government intervention.
Early voting in Minnesota could be more challenging this year — starting with how some voters will check in. One county will use pen and paper to manually check in tens of thousands of voters.
States cannot voluntarily work toward meeting the U.S. Postal Service’s new mail voting requirements after a second judge said the requirements likely overstep the post office’s authority.
The fate of access to the ballot in the 2026 midterm elections now sits in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court.