The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act (VRA) earlier this year continues to have cascading consequences across the country. Now, the upheaval has struck a group of Native American voters fighting a years-long battle for better representation in North Dakota’s state government.
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice asked the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a ruling that rejected its demand for Michigan’s unredacted voter rolls, seeking to erase the department’s first appellate defeat in its nationwide voter data crusade.
The Arizona Supreme Court has given Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap, an election skeptic who has pushed conspiracy theories about voting in the state, increased authority to shape elections in the county.
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice sent letters to top election officials in multiple states Tuesday warning they could face criminal prosecution over possible noncitizen voting, escalating the administration’s pressure campaign against state election officials after courts repeatedly rejected its effort to seize unredacted voter rolls.
A federal judge declined to pause a ruling that blocked the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from implementing President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order targeting mail voting. The decision means Trump’s dangerous attack on mail voting remains blocked in 23 states and the District of Columbia. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani rejected a Trump administration motion asking her […]
A federal judge in Florida ruled that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must allow four Republican-led states to again use a federal database to search for noncitizens on their voter registration rolls. The decision conflicts with a previous ruling by a federal judge in Washington, D.C. that blocked access to the database. It will likely unspool into a tangle of competing court orders in the coming months.
A federal judge blocked the Justice Department’s demands for the identities and personal information of thousands of people who helped run the 2020 election in Georgia’s Fulton County, calling the request “unreasonable.”
A group of pro-voting and privacy organizations that are suing the Department of Homeland Security have pushed back on the government’s latest bid to retrofit a federal database to purge voters from registration rolls.
In a filing Monday, the federal government argued that unless the court grants a stay, the “sweeping injunction” will “severely disrupt USPS’s efforts to potentially promulgate a final rule” fulfilling Trump’s March 2026 order ahead of November’s midterms elections.
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.