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Federal Judge Finds Disenfranchisement is ‘Plausibly Likely and Imminent’ Due to Executive Order Restricting Mail Voting
U.S. District Court in Massachusetts rules that voting rights groups have standing and valid constitutional claims to move forward with a challenge to the executive order
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Breaking: Voting rights file request for preliminary injunction to block Trump executive order restricting mail ballots. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
Voting Rights Groups File Renewed Request for Preliminary Injunction to Block Executive Order Restricting Mail-in Ballots
Motion seeks to stop U.S. Postal Service from imposing rules that will disenfranchise American citizens and throw elections into chaos
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Pay attention to what Mullin did not provide: any evidence to back up his wild numbers or even an explanation as to where those numbers came from. They are almost certainly false or wildly overstated. This administration has a poor track record with false allegations of election improprieties.
Mullin is threatening to withhold funds from states or to prosecute public officials who do not participate in a program that has been ruled illegal by a federal judge.
Important context: No matter what Mullin says, the president and his administration do not have any legal authority to withhold any funding from states that don't adhere to their preferred election policies. None.
Numbers identified through the SAVE program as run by the Trump administration do, in fact, lie. Read more here: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Watch Out for False Voter Fraud Claims Fueled by SAVE Program
The federal government’s SAVE tool is prone to error, and its misuse risks disenfranchising Americans and eroding trust in elections.
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Trump's speech was shockingly thin. It was well know that he would try to manufacture a false case that the 2020 election was stolen and that our elections are compromised, but he made up an extremely weak case that, even if true, wouldn't support those claims. And of course, none of it is true.
Trump's speech was shockingly thin. It was well know that he would try to manufacture a false case that the 2020 election was stolen and that our elections are compromised, but he made up an extremely weak case that, even if true, wouldn't support those claims. And of course, none of it is true.
False allegations of voter fraud were entirely predictable, and factually noncredible. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Watch Out for False Voter Fraud Claims Fueled by SAVE Program
The federal government’s SAVE tool is prone to error, and its misuse risks disenfranchising Americans and eroding trust in elections.
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The Trump Administration continues its losing streak in cases considering its efforts to interfere in elections. With 2 more losses today, it is now 0-15 in its cases seeking to gain access to sensitive state voter file data. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Tracker of Justice Department Requests for Voter Information
The Trump administration is pressing state officials to provide sensitive information about voters.
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The Trump Administration continues its losing streak in cases considering its efforts to interfere in elections. With 2 more losses today, it is now 0-15 in its cases seeking to gain access to sensitive state voter file data. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Tracker of Justice Department Requests for Voter Information
The Trump administration is pressing state officials to provide sensitive information about voters.
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Brennan Center Reacts to the Terminations of Election Assistance Commissioners by President Trump
President Trump today terminated two members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, and the agency’s remaining Republican commissioner resigned. This leaves the Election Assistance Commission — a...
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“The administration is doing as much as possible to inject chaos into the election cycle… A top priority for this administration is to try to interfere in this election.” — @wendyweiser.bsky.social said to @washingtonpost.com #[wapo.st/4xTW0oZ
Trump is holding the housing bill hostage to his election interference agenda, pushing a deeply unpopular bill that could block millions of Americans from voting. Trump Administration Live Updates: President Cancels Plans to Sign Housing Bill www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Cancels Plans to Sign Housing Bill
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“The president’s attacks on mail voting have nothing to do with any real problems with the practice. American elections have featured mail voting in some form or another dating back to the Civil War." - @wendyweiser.bsky.social in Q&A with @joycewhitevance.bsky.social
The Executive Order To Restrict Vote By Mail
Trump is still trying to suppress your vote
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We’ve learned that federal law enforcement raided offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, as well as homes of employees, board members, and activists. This appears to be an outrageous fishing expedition, an attempt to intimidate people working for democracy in our communities and country. 1/3
Rank hypocrisy and doublespeak in the SCOTUS Alabama decision, to give impunity to those who engage in race discrimination and disrupt elections. /1
Most commentators puzzled by the unprincipled Roberts Court ruling in the AL redistricting case conclude that the only possible explanation is rank partisanship. There is another possibility. Maybe the majority is condoning and promoting race discrimination. The evidence supports either explanation.
I never want to hear about a Purcell “principle” again. A rule that applies only to lower federal courts and concerns itself only with the state’s equities is not a “principle.” Call it the “Purcell power grab” if you like the alliteration.
The Court said it did not strike down the Voting Rights Act. It just made it that no one could ever use it. But the Voting Rights Act still exists in theory, just not in reality. The American people do not have to just swallow all of this. We can demand more from our courts. /5
States are free to racially discriminate in redistricting so long as they say they are doing so for partisan advantage. Courts are not allowed to find that race discrimination was the motive when discrimination also gives a partisan advantage. It almost always does (and has). Impunity. /4
Intentional race discrimination is illegal, but courts aren’t really allowed to find it. When a legislature intentionally discriminates, courts must presume they acted with good faith. See, the discrimination disappears when you presume it away! Impunity. /3
States are free to make last-minute changes that disrupt elections. Federal courts are not allowed to step in close to elections, even to stop last-minute illegal abuses. That would be too disruptive. Impunity. /2
Justice Sotomayor succinctly explains what the Roberts Court did last night. Its series of decisions gutting the Voting Rights Act and blessing discrimination and gamesmanship will live on in infamy.
Rank hypocrisy and doublespeak in the SCOTUS Alabama decision, to give impunity to those who engage in race discrimination and disrupt elections. /1
This evening, the Supreme Court allowed Alabama to move forward with a new map eliminating one of only two Black districts in the state--without really addressing the lower court's ruling that the map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters. 1/ www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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As legislatures across the South devastate the political power of Black and other minority communities, it's important to remember that there is still a lot Congress can and must do to set things right. Here are some clear steps it can take: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Congress Must Respond to Callais
A ban on partisan gerrymandering, codified voting rights protections, and Supreme Court reform can mitigate the fallout.
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Reminding everyone that neither DHS nor ODNI has authority over election administration.
@wendyweiser.bsky.social · 6mo ago1. In an unusual press briefing today in AZ, Sec. Kristi Noem made the extraordinary (but vaguely delivered) claim that as head of DHS, she has authorities over elections, including to make sure that “the right people are voting and electing the right leaders to lead this country.” That is false.
