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President Donald Trump suggested he would issue an executive order attempting to impose a nationwide photo ID requirement for voting, a requirement to show proof of citizenship for registration, and a ban on mail voting ahead of the 2026 midterms, even though courts have already blocked an almost identical executive order.
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to allow Venezuelan men who were previously expelled to a notorious megaprison in El Salvador to return to the United States and challenge their removal from the country.
Todd Lyons, the acting chief of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, admitted to senators Thursday that federal immigration officers would have “no reason” to be at voting locations this November.
Federal judges selected Donald Kinsella, a veteran litigator, as the top federal prosecutor in Upstate New York to replace a Trump appointee who was disqualified from the role. But just hours later, the White House fired him.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated Sen. Mark Kelly’s (D-Ariz.) First Amendment rights by moving to strip him of his retired military rank for reminding troops in a video last year that they are obligated to refuse illegal orders, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
Attorney General Pam Bondi stonewalled and personally attacked lawmakers during a lengthy House Judiciary Committee hearing intended to give Congress the opportunity to exercise oversight over the Justice Department.
Federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., sought to bring charges against six Democrats for reminding U.S. military and intelligence service members via a video that they are obligated to refuse illegal orders. Prosecutors from the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington — led by staunch Trump loyalist and former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro — tried Tuesday […]
The unsealing of the FBI’s search warrant affidavit for its raid of a Fulton County, Georgia, election facility prompted swift condemnation from voting rights advocates, election experts and former federal officials, who say the document relies on debunked conspiracy theories and fails to establish probable cause.
Fulton County in Georgia filed a motion Wednesday demanding that the federal government return all of the 2020 election files seized by the FBI during an extraordinary raid on the county’s main election operations center last week.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) echoed electoral conspiracy theories espoused by President Donald Trump, saying election results in “blue states” like California “just look[] on its face to be fraudulent,” even though there’s no proof.
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