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The Trump administration is moving forward with implementing President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order — despite an expert consensus that the order is unconstitutional and ongoing efforts to block it in court.
The first phase of President Donald Trump’s executive order to build a national voter list is expected to be implemented by June 30, according to a recent Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo.
“No one really disagrees” that President Donald Trump’s recent mail ballot executive order calling for the creation of federal voter registration lists “is flagrantly unlawful,” Democrats argued Wednesday in a filing asking a federal appellate court to block it. They noted that the administration has already taken key steps to implement the order, adding urgency […]
A conservative legal group with a long record of promoting voter roll purges sued Oklahoma, demanding access to its voter registration list just months after the state agreed to hand over sensitive voter data to the Trump administration.
A federal judge rejected the Trump Justice Department’s attempt to defend Ohio’s restrictive new voting law, finding its proposed filing redundant, disconnected and too late to help the court ahead of a major hearing next week.
The DOJ is taking aim at the National Voter Registration Act’s (NVRA) 90-day “quiet period” provision, signaling its intention to cancel registrations across the nation in the days leading up to the midterm elections in November.
California’s Democratic leadership has filed suit against a Republican-leaning county that recently approved an eyebrow-raising slate of extreme anti-voting policies.
The suit, filed by the 1789 Foundation, falsely claimed that Wisconsin violated the state’s Driver’s Privacy and Protection Act because it had terminated its membership with the Electronic Registration and Information Center in 2016.
The intervention represents the DOJ’s latest attempt to support Republican voter suppression efforts, a complete reversal of its decades-long defense of voting rights since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal seeking to strike down the state’s Republican gerrymandered congressional map, reviving a major fight for fairer maps that could reshape Wisconsin’s U.S. House delegation for 2028.