1+ hour, 6+ min ago   (343+ words) By Jacob Knutson, Yunior Rivas The U.S. Postal Service’s internal watchdog confirmed Tuesday it is investigating allegations from a whistleblower who warned that the agency’s rushed implementation of President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting order could disrupt the midterms and prevent voters…...

1+ hour, 39+ min ago   (131+ words) Democracy Docket The Department of Justice (DOJ) asked the Supreme Court Tuesday to lift a lower court order and allow it to use a flawed federal immigration database to initiate voter registration purges. The petition marks the department’s latest rushed…...

2+ hour, 48+ min ago   (532+ words) By Brentin Mock, Alexandra Hutzler The U.S. Postal Service’s new mail voting rules overstep the authority granted to it by Congress, pro-voting groups argued in a brief asking a federal appeals court to keep the rule frozen before the upcoming elections....

1+ day, 56+ min ago   (297+ words) Gerrymandering opponents urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday not to restore a Republican-backed congressional map in Missouri for the midterms, arguing that the “adequate and independent state ground doctrine” renders the case unreviewable by federal courts. Under that doctrine, the…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (294+ words) More than 51 million mail ballots will be sent to voters in the coming weeks just from the District of Columbia and the two dozen states that are challenging the Trump administration’s 11th-hour attack on mail voting. U.S. District Court Judge…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (445+ words) The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) asked the U.S. Supreme Court to lift a lower court’s block on the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) new rules restricting mail voting. The DOJ’s request comes less than a day after it filed a similar ask with…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (606+ words) With less than 60 days until Election Day, the fight against President Donald Trump’s crusade to restrict voting is reaching a defining moment. This week, we’ve focused intensely on the single most important issue that will determine access to the ballot…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (295+ words) The Trump administration pushed back on a federal judge’s finding that states cannot realistically comply with sweeping new U.S. Postal Service (USPS) mail voting restrictions before the midterms, telling an appeals court that election officials’ concerns are overstated. In an…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (513+ words) Missouri Republicans asked the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Friday night to deny voters a voice and restore the GOP’s congressional gerrymander for the midterms. The request comes after the Missouri Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the gerrymander from going into effect,…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (646+ words) A federal appeals court Friday rejected the Trump administration’s effort to immediately revive the use of a sweeping immigration database to check voter rolls, leaving in place a ruling that shut down a major piece of President Donald Trump’s anti-voting…...