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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is quietly pressing California to tighten voter registration verification for military and overseas voters — part of what it calls a “nationwide … enforcement program.”
It’s not the first time a member of the EAC has courted controversy for partisan activities.
Kansans are fighting back in court to block a new state law that invalidated transgender residents’ driver’s licenses and birth certificates, depriving them of their required voter ID just a few months before the state’s 2026 primary election.
If President Donald Trump attempts to declare a national emergency to seize control of federal elections, Senate Democrats say they are ready to force an immediate vote aimed at blocking it.
The most restrictive voting bill ever passed by a chamber of Congress. The Department of Justice’s grab for state voter rolls. And a potential executive order giving President Donald Trump the power to take over elections — the Constitution be damned.
Pro-voting groups sued Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) for refusing to turn over key records related to his office’s sweeping 2025 voter roll purge — a purge that canceled nearly 471,000 registrations, about 6% of the state’s voters.
Lawyers and legal experts explicitly said that such an order is blatantly unconstitutional.
“Donald Trump has repeatedly said he wants to nationalize our elections, because he intends to steal them,” Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Rep. Joe Morelle said.
The Justice Department sued five new states Thursday demanding access to their unredacted voter rolls — escalating a campaign that has been rejected by multiple federal courts and faces resistance from Republican-led states as well.
The Justice Department recklessly failed to uphold constitutional rights and liberties by allowing the FBI to seize 2020 election records in Fulton County, Georgia, using a faulty search warrant application, former top department officials alleged.