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The Indiana Supreme Court is set to decide whether a Republican state senator who bucked President Donald Trump’s demand for a gerrymandered map will keep his seat in a race that’s come down to a narrow three-vote margin.
If the Supreme Court lifts the preliminary injunction U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani issued in State of California v. USPS, it may rely on Purcell to rationalize the chaos that decision would unleash. And, in doing so, the justices would prove their critics right by stretching the precedent’s already-overextended precepts far beyond the limits of logic.
The Trump administration has quietly removed a key option from the federal form used by overseas voters to register and request mail ballots, eliminating a checkbox for U.S. citizens who were born and are living abroad.
Ohio asked the 6th Circuit to pause a lower court ruling that blocked a state law requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
“Whatever else may be said of USPS’ new rule, it would wreak havoc on States and their voters if it takes effect at this late point,” Democratic attorneys general said.
President Trump’s Justice Department wants a lower court order against the U.S. Postal Service’s new mail voting rule lifted — even if it means voters would be disenfranchised as a result.
Parts of the U.S. Postal Service’s mail voting rule still don’t exist while the Trump administration aggressively presses for it to be implemented. Meanwhile, mail voting is underway in several states.
The fate of the USPS rule currently hangs in the balance before the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court.
In a win for voters, a federal judge Wednesday refused to let Ohio election officials enforce the state’s proof-of-citizenship voter registration law while the state appeals an earlier ruling blocking the restriction. The decision keeps the law unenforceable as a key registration deadline approaches. U.S. District Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. denied Ohio officials’ request to […]
The Justice Department is racing the clock to get President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting order enacted before the November midterms