Election officials and pro-voting advocates heaved a tremendous sigh of relief late Monday after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to keep in place a block on President Donald Trump’s mail voting restrictions for the midterms.
In a major win for voters, the Supreme Court Monday rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to reinstate its mail voting restrictions ahead of November’s pivotal midterm elections. The justices declined to lift a block on the measure that a lower court judge has said is likely unconstitutional. “The Government is unlikely to succeed on the […]
As the Supreme Court considers the fate of President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order, a new analysis breaks down how it would hinder Democrats more than Republicans if put into place for this year’s elections.
Responding to new whistleblower claims, Democrats warned against what they called the latest Trump administration move to “rig the election” by illegally accessing voter data. In a Monday afternoon press conference, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) called on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to immediately stop efforts to […]
Agents of the Homeland Security Department have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower disclosed to Congress.
The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to lift a new lower court order completely blocking the U.S. Postal Service from implementing mail voting restrictions that stem from President Trump’s March executive order attacking voting.
Across the countless legal filings in the many lawsuits challenging Trump’s order and USPS’s subsequent rules, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has repeatedly failed to provide evidence backing the central claim behind them: that noncitizen voting and mail ballot fraud are real, substantial problems that must be addressed by federal government intervention.
Early voting in Minnesota could be more challenging this year — starting with how some voters will check in. One county will use pen and paper to manually check in tens of thousands of voters.
States cannot voluntarily work toward meeting the U.S. Postal Service’s new mail voting requirements after a second judge said the requirements likely overstep the post office’s authority.
The ruling is the final word in the GOP’s lengthy legal battle to ban mail ballots that arrive after, but postmarked by, Election Day.