Democratic officials, voting rights advocates and state election leaders celebrated a ruling that blocked the Trump administration from enforcing sweeping new mail ballot restrictions for the 2026 midterms — casting the ruling as a victory for voting access and state control of elections.
The Department of Justice filed an appeal to the First Circuit as it tries to put President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order into effect before Election Day.
U.S. Postal Service’s inspector general has opened an investigation into new whistleblower claims that the agency’s haphazard implementation of President Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order could unleash chaos and disenfranchise millions of voters this November, Democratic lawmakers said Friday.
“Unauthorized by the Elections Clause, the Final Rule clashes with Congress’s statutory scheme, and is unconstitutional where it intrudes not only on Congress’s Elections Clause powers but also that power left to the States,” Talwani wrote Friday.
Democrats said the U.S. Postal Service rule to implement Trump’s executive order “presents an immediate, existential threat to mail voting throughout the country.”
There’s no reason for the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene to lift a judge’s bar on President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting order with a federal appeals court poised to act, Democratic states argued.
Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin has asked for a federal probe of the Center for Election Innovation & Research (CEIR), a nonpartisan, pro-voting organization of election administration experts, over a years-old research project on states’ efforts to register more voters.
Hours before sending out absentee ballots to voters, North Carolina pushed through its latest restrictions that could make it harder for those votes to count.
The Justice Department has sent the Nevada Secretary of State’s Office seven different subpoenas concerning voters over the past three months, the office confirmed to Democracy Docket Friday.
In a win for voters, the U.S. Supreme Court has denied a right-wing group’s request to force Michigan to place a proposed constitutional amendment requiring proof of citizenship to vote on the November 2026 ballot.