Republicans on the Georgia State Election Board adopted Monday seeking the Trump administration to intervene in a vague crusade against the state’s voting system just weeks before the midterm elections.
Nashville et al v. DHS et al
A pro-voting lawsuit challenging DHS withholding national security grant funding unless states comply with new election procedure requirements.
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.
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.
In an effort to protect the GOP’s gerrymander, Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins (R) argued that changing congressional maps after the primary would plunge the state into electoral chaos. The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a blunt response.
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.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s three liberal justices argued the Court’s conservative majority ignored real harms to voters by reviving the Trump administration’s flawed centralized citizenship database Friday.
In a dangerous decision for voters, the Supreme Court authorized the Trump administration to overhaul a federal immigration database into a vast, centralized and deeply flawed database of Americans’ personal information to initiate registration purges.
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