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The Trump administration urged a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to let the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) impose sweeping new mail ballot restrictions for the midterms.
A federal appeals court rejected the Trump administration’s effort to immediately revive the use of a sweeping immigration database to check voter rolls, leaving in place a ruling that shut down a major piece of President Donald Trump’s anti-voting agenda ahead of the midterms.
Democratic officials, voting rights advocates and state election leaders celebrated a ruling that blocked the Trump administration from enforcing sweeping new mail ballot restrictions for the 2026 midterms — casting the ruling as a victory for voting access and state control of elections.
The Department of Justice filed an appeal to the First Circuit as it tries to put President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order into effect before Election Day.
“Unauthorized by the Elections Clause, the Final Rule clashes with Congress’s statutory scheme, and is unconstitutional where it intrudes not only on Congress’s Elections Clause powers but also that power left to the States,” Talwani wrote Friday.
U.S. Postal Service’s inspector general has opened an investigation into new whistleblower claims that the agency’s haphazard implementation of President Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order could unleash chaos and disenfranchise millions of voters this November, Democratic lawmakers said Friday.
In a win for voters, a federal appeals court kept in place a lower court ruling that blocked key provisions of New Hampshire’s 2024 anti-voting law.
Democrats said the U.S. Postal Service rule to implement Trump’s executive order “presents an immediate, existential threat to mail voting throughout the country.”
Hours before sending out absentee ballots to voters, North Carolina pushed through its latest restrictions that could make it harder for those votes to count.
The Justice Department has sent the Nevada Secretary of State’s Office seven different subpoenas concerning voters over the past three months, the office confirmed to Democracy Docket Friday.
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