The Department of Justice appealed three more voter roll losses, ensuring that every defeat in President Donald Trump’s nationwide campaign to obtain unredacted state voter data is now in or headed to the federal appeals courts.
A federal appeals court declined to put three Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) voter roll appeals on the emergency timeline the department requested, slowing its push for sensitive voter data from Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island before a key federal deadline.
The fight over the NVRA’s quiet period goes beyond one state law or lawsuit. It is a fight over whether eligible voters will have meaningful protection from being wrongly removed from the rolls at the moment when the consequences are hardest to undo.
The DOJ filed its appeal in California v. Trump Wednesday, a week after U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani ruled that major parts of Trump’s March 2026 anti-voting executive order were “legally void.” She found that the order exceeded the president’s power and violated the separation of powers by encroaching on states’ authority to administer elections.
Polis went against his own 11-person clemency advisory board, which twice voted unanimously against recommending clemency for Peters.
In the latest setback for President Donald Trump’s anti-voting agenda, a federal court on Wednesday granted the NAACP’s request to halt the U.S. Postal Service’s implementation of his executive order against mail voting.
Four Republican-led states want their access restored to a federal database for checking their voter registration records for noncitizens.
MAGA hardliners in the U.S. House hijacked control of the floor from Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) Tuesday in yet another unsuccessful attempt to force through President Donald Trump’s pet anti-voting legislation.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s announcement Monday that it will hear a case on two Arizona voting laws could spell danger for a key federal protection that prevents voters from being removed from the rolls right before an election.
The move strongly indicates the Supreme Court will take up the case, Eakin v. Adams County Board of Elections.
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