3+ day, 35+ min ago   (256+ words) The Justice Department called a federal judge’s block on key parts of President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order “baseless” as it seeks to put the restrictions in place before Election Day. “Every day that the district court’s injunction remains…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (642+ words) After the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocked Missouri from using a gerrymandered congressional map favoring the GOP during the midterms, far-right figures and election deniers had a full-blown meltdown on social media, raging against the Court’s conservative majority and effectively accusing…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (216+ words) The decision means the gerrymander won’t be used in the 2026 midterms. Local election officials were caught in a bind after the Missouri Supreme Court blocked the gerrymandered map only for a federal district court to quickly issue a separate order…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (367+ words) Opponents of Missouri’s GOP gerrymander asked the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) to temporarily block a district court order that has thrown elections into last-minute chaos, with local officials overdue to finalize ballots for the 2026 midterms. Missouri had a Sept. 8 deadline…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (330+ words) Missouri’s congressional redistricting fight escalated again Tuesday night as opponents of the state’s Trump-backed GOP gerrymander asked a federal judge to immediately pause his order requiring the map to be used in November — while also taking the fight to a…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (613+ words) The U.S. Postal Service’s mail voting restrictions are “modest” and “clearly lawful,” the Department of Justice said in its final filing to a federal appeals court in a bid to implement the standards for the November elections. “The Final Rule merely…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (464+ words) A Minnesota Supreme Court justice raised concerns during oral argument Tuesday that one city’s request to use paper poll books rather than electronic records could disenfranchise thousands of voters. The City of Oak Grove wants to overhaul part of the…...

5+ day, 4+ hour 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…...

5+ day, 5+ hour 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+ week, 4+ 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…...