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A federal appeals court temporarily revived the U.S. Postal Service’s ability to move forward with a Trump-backed rule that could severely restrict mail voting ahead of the 2026 midterms.
Earlier this year, President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) celebrated a win after a federal judge simply ordered Connecticut to respond to its voter roll lawsuit. Now, months later, that same Trump-appointed judge denied DOJ’s demand for the state’s unredacted voter rolls.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) — a conservative legal group known for promoting voter roll purges — is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to force Hawaii to hand over its statewide voter file.
A federal judge rejected an attempt by the Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) to rush into a GOP-backed lawsuit seeking more aggressive voter purges in California.
A Kansas court temporarily blocked a state law that would disqualify late-arriving mail ballots in the first ruling since the Supreme Court rejected a GOP challenge to grace periods for mail ballots that arrive after Election Day. Ruling in favor of Kansas voting rights groups* Thursday, a Douglas County judge found that the law likely […]
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) confirmed it is following a pair of court orders blocking it from implementing President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order.
In an era of extraordinary partisan polarization, federal judges appointed by presidents of both parties have found common ground on at least one issue: President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice does not have a right to seize state voter rolls.
Maricopa County officials reached a settlement, ending a yearlong fight over control of elections in Arizona’s most populous county. The agreement gives Recorder Justin Heap broad authority over early voting while leaving Election Day operations and ballot counting with the county Board of Supervisors.
A federal judge struck down several Arkansas laws that made it harder for people in the state to pass ballot initiatives. Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks invalidated laws that require petition signers to have photo ID, require a warning for all prospective signers on petition fraud, make petition signers read the proposed ballot […]
The ruling could cut off a potential avenue for the Trump administration’s anti-voting interference.
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