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A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to “immediately” notify her if it plans to release federal voter eligibility lists or a related internet portal — part of implementing President Donald Trump’s anti-voting executive order — before the midterms. But there are worrying signs that the Justice Department could defy the judge’s order.
The Trump administration cannot leverage grants meant to help prevent terrorist attacks to force states and local governments to adopt a slate of new anti-voting measures, a federal judge ruled Monday in a major win for voters.
President Donald Trump is annoyed with the U.S. Supreme Court again, this time for deciding to block a gerrymandered map in Missouri.
Rep. Mike Collins (R), the GOP candidate for Georgia’s U.S. Senate seat, said he was “fine” with sending federal troops to the polls, though this is illegal.
The U.S. Supreme Court Friday greenlit a flawed Trump administration database for purging voters from the rolls. And plenty of major news outlets were eager to downplay the decision’s importance.
“People, not politicians, will be the final deciders on this DC power grab,” says group opposing Missouri Republican gerrymander.
The Court clarified one of its most controversial legal doctrines while inadvertently proving one of the primary criticisms of its “shadow docket” practices.
In a key court hearing, a Justice Department attorney refused to tell a federal judge that the Trump administration would not move forward with plans to use vast troves of Americans’ personal data to identify all eligible voters ahead of the upcoming midterms.
The Supreme Court’s decision to revive the Trump administration’s expanded SAVE database for the midterms also suggests the justices may be eager to weaken one of federal law’s most important safeguards against last-minute voter purges.
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens.