In the biggest voting news of the week, the Supreme Court rejected a Republican attempt to restrict mail voting by barring states from accepting ballots that arrive after Election Day.
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.
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.
Behind Republicans’ meltdown over the Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship ruling is a desire to remake the Court to overturn precedent.
Four Republican-led states want their access restored to a federal database for checking their voter registration records for noncitizens.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seems to have acceded to a court order and shut down the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database for use as a voter registration list citizenship checker.
Though the Supreme Court may have struck down President Trump’s executive order attacking birthright citizenship Tuesday, the razor-thin majority that ruled against the president gave legal scholars and immigration advocates little cause for celebration.
Mitchell’s attack on early voting offers a stark reminder of the right’s remarkable zeal to abolish almost any form of voting that expands access.
The Supreme Court Tuesday struck down President Trump’s attempt to unilaterally deny citizenship to children born in the United States to foreign nationals, a plan that would have sharply altered who can vote in American elections.