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This week at Democracy Docket: Judges are rejecting Trump’s anti-voting crusade

President Donald Trump’s anti-voting agenda had already hit some major legal roadblocks over the last year. But this may have been its worst week yet in the courts.

By Zachary Roth

June 28, 2026

Pennsylvania’s voter rolls are safe from DOJ’s grab, rules federal judge, bringing Justice Dept record to 0-10

The U.S. Justice Department has lost yet another court battle in the Trump administration’s crusade to gain unfettered access to state voter rolls.

By Brentin Mock

June 28, 2026

‘Imported judges’: GOP lawmakers, Musk launch racist attack on judge who blocked Trump’s voter purge scheme

Republican elected officials and the richest man in the world have embraced rank nativism in the wake of a federal district judge’s decision to block the central pillar of the Trump Administration’s scheme to prosecute the vanishingly few examples of noncitizen voting.

By Jim Saksa

June 23, 2026

This week at Democracy Docket: Trump’s attack on mail voting advances, while Georgia Republicans retreat

The legal battle over President Donald Trump’s effort to crack down on mail voting is heating up. And Democracy Docket is covering it more closely than any other news outlet.

By Zachary Roth

June 21, 2026

This week at Democracy Docket: Trump’s plan to suppress voting this fall starts with California

As the midterms get closer, President Donald Trump and his allies are kicking their efforts to suppress voting into high gear.

By Zachary Roth

June 14, 2026

This week at Democracy Docket: The Supreme Court makes it official — states have free rein to discriminate against Black voters

If there was any doubt before, there can be none after this week: The Supreme Court is going to give states free rein to discriminate against minority voters — even in some of the most egregious cases.

By Zachary Roth

June 7, 2026