This week brought a stunning revelation about the Trump administration co-ordinating with election deniers to put voters’ personal data at risk. And Democracy Docket played a key role in pushing the story forward.
Just hours after federal immigration officers shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi seized upon the incident to demand access to Minnesota’s voter rolls, directly tying the Trump administration’s quest for voters’ unredacted personal data to its aggressive immigration raids across the state.
It’s not the first time the DOJ filed a voter roll lawsuit in the wrong district.
Democratic lawmakers and pro-democracy advocates are intensifying scrutiny of the coordination between the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and an advocacy group looking to overturn election results, disclosed in a recent Trump administration court filing.
A federal court ruled that Virginia’s lifetime voting ban for people with certain felony convictions violates federal law.
The Supreme Court appeared reluctant to immediately uphold President Donald Trump’s attempt to arbitrarily dismiss Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook during oral arguments in the case Wednesday.
Federal officials acknowledged that Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employees coordinated with a political advocacy group on a “voter data agreement” aimed at analyzing voter rolls in an effort to challenge election outcomes.
A federal judge’s comprehensive rebuke of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) aggressive campaign for California’s voter rolls last week could hurt DOJ’s cases against other states, experts say.
Federal judges have toppled embattled Trump appointee Lindsey Halligan in a ruling accusing her of ignoring court orders and a separate move aimed at stripping her of her self-proclaimed U.S. attorney title.
From California to Virginia, this was a good week for voting rights and fair elections. And we kept you up to date on all of it.