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President Donald Trump’s effort to restrict the vote ran headlong into a legal brick wall, as judge after judge ruled against his sweeping anti-voting executive orders and the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) effort to seize control over elections from the states.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) filed a new lawsuit seeking to block certain U.S. citizens living abroad from voting in Colorado — the second such lawsuit within a week and the latest escalation in the GOP’s exploding campaign against overseas voters.
While appeals and stays are a normal part of civil litigation, this administration has also shown a propensity for going far beyond the usual — and some would say, ethical and legal — bounds of resisting a courtroom loss.
The Brennan Center for Justice sued the Trump administration seeking records on whether the Department of Justice has created lists of voters for states to remove from the rolls — a new transparency fight over the administration’s nationwide campaign to seize sensitive voter data ahead of the midterms.
A federal judge in Massachusetts Thursday blocked federal agencies from implementing President Trump’s sweeping executive order attacking mail voting before the midterm elections.
A federal judge upheld DeSoto County, Mississippi’s local election map, which Black voters argued was drawn to suppress their political power.
A federal appeals court panel dealt the Trump administration its first appellate defeat in its nationwide crusade to obtain unredacted state voter rolls — after nine straight district court losses and no wins.
A federal judge permanently blocked several key parts of President Donald Trump’s 2025 anti-voting executive order.
The lawsuit sends an ominous signal that the GOP will pull out all the stops to disrupt vote counting and challenge voters’ eligibility this fall.
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.