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  1. She added that the #USPS rule “clashes with #Congress’s statutory scheme, & is #unconstitutional where it intrudes not only on Congress’s #elections clause powers but also that power left to the #states.”

    #law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #ElectionInterference #VotingRights #Constitution #ElectionLaw #midterms #USpol #Trump #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy

  2. The trial court judge, Indira Talwani, wrote that the legal challenge to the #USPS plan by Democratic-led states & voter rights organizations was likely to succeed. The groups had argued the plan violated the #Constitution’s #SeparationOfPowers, which gives #states & #Congress responsibility over #elections, not the executive.

    #law #SCOTUS #ElectionInterference #VotingRights #ElectionLaw #midterms #elections #USpol #Trump #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy

  3. A federal judge in Boston ruled for the third time on Friday that the #Trump admin’s plans to restrict #MailVoting are likely #illegal & it should be prevented from implementing them ahead of the #midterms.

    Judge Indira Talwani had already temporarily blocked the #USPS from moving forward, in a ruling that was set to expire Sept 10. The new order extends that block indefinitely.

    #law #ElectionInterference #Constitution #Congress #states #ElectionLaw #elections #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy

  4. #SCOTUS majority found the Democratic lawsuit was premature, but that was before the #Trump admin issued a rule governing #USPS delivery of #MailBallots. #Election officials warn it will be impossible to implement in the days before the first wave of mail ballots are sent out next week.

    #law #Constitution #states #federalism #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #VotingRights #elections #VoterSuppression #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy #coup #SeditiousConspiracy #USpol

  5. #Trump is going to have a field day with this —

    Roughly 400 #noncitizens voted in #NewJersey after about 6,600 residents were improperly registered to vote between June 2023 & June 2024 because of a software error at the #DMV, Gov #MikieSherrill announced Tuesday.

    ALL of the people affected had disclosed that they were not citizens when registering for either a driver’s license or ID, but were nonetheless placed on the voter rolls in error.

    #law #ElectionLaw #elections
    nytimes.com/2026/07/21/nyregio

  6. #JayClayton, the #Trump admin’s nominee for #DNI, faced questions Wednesday on #election security & his commitment to keep the agency free of political interference, during a confirmation hearing that was rescheduled weeks after being abruptly scuttled by Trump [in order to keep #BillPulte in the position].

    #BigLie #SoreLoser #law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #coup #Jan6 #ConspiracyTheories #SeditiousConspiracy

  7. Since #SCOTUS’ April ruling, largely #white #Republican-led legislatures across the #South have moved to dismantle #Black political #power at stunning speed, breaking apart voting blocs at the urging of a failing president desperate to keep control of #Congress in this fall’s midterm #elections.

    #RepresentationMatters #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #law #ElectionLaw #ActivistCourt #VotingRights #VotingRightsAct #VRA #redistricting #elections #USpol #Trump #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy

  8. Earlier Friday, First Assistant #USAttorney #BillEssayli — a #Trump appointee who leads the #LosAngeles based US Attorney’s office—claimed his office had “multiple election ‘fraud’ investigations underway” in a social media post that bashed California’s #election system.

    The US attorneys office in #LA confirmed that one of its lawyers was sent to observe the ballot counting….

    #law #Trump #ElectionInterference #ElectionLaw #SeditiousConspiracy #TrumpCoup #coup #fascism #Constitution #democracy

  9. #Louisiana Approves Map Eliminating a Majority #Black District

    Louisiana lawmakers gave final approval on Friday to a new congressional map that would eliminate 1 of the state’s 2 majority-Black districts, making it the second Southern state to draw & approve carving out such a district since #SCOTUS weakened the #VotingRightsAct​ last month.

    #law #ElectionLaw #VotingRights #VRA #Trump #BigLie #ActivistCourt #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #redistricting #gerrymandering
    nytimes.com/2026/05/29/us/poli

  10. The political drama in #SouthCarolina is part of a #Republican strategy—propelled by #Trump — to redraw voting districts to the #GOP’s advantage in an attempt to hold on to a slim #House majority in the #midterms. #Republicans have been moving quickly to try to leverage a recent #SCOTUS ruling that weakened minority protections under the federal #VotingRightsAct.

    #VotingRights #VRA #redistricting #law #ElectionLaw #RepresentationMatters #WhiteSupremacy #gerrymandering #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow

  11. Some senators said it was simply too late to make a change.

    #SouthCarolina citizens are going to the polls today. And neither my conscience or common sense is going to let me stop an #election that is already underway,” #Republican state Sen. Richard Cash said.

    #VotingRights #VRA #redistricting #law #ElectionLaw #RepresentationMatters #WhiteSupremacy #gerrymandering #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #SCOTUS #Trump

  12. Great news! #SouthCarolina Senate rejects #Trump call to redraw congressional maps

    As early in-person voting began Tuesday in South Carolina’s primaries, the state Senate rejected a #Republican plan to #cancel those congressional votes & instead schedule a new primary under revised districts designed to help the #GOP oust the powerful #Democrat #JamesClyburn.

    #VotingRights #VRA #redistricting #law #ElectionLaw #WhiteSupremacy #gerrymandering #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow
    apnews.com/article/redistricti

  13. The ruling further confuses the electoral landscape across the #South, as #Republican-led legislatures have raced to implement new district lines after #SCOTUS narrowed the #VotingRightsAct of 1965. It also demonstrates how the ruling from the nation’s highest court has further muddled how lower courts interpret the landmark #CivilRights #law.

    #VotingRights #VRA #redistricting #ElectionLaw #RepresentationMatters #WhiteSupremacy #gerrymandering #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #Trump

  14. Early last summer, McNamara asked officials in the #Commerce Dept to consider the potential designation of #Dominion chips & software as a national security risk, the 2 sources said.

    At the time, McNamara headed an #ODNI task force that worked with officials across the admin to investigate vulnerabilities in the nation’s #VotingMachines. The 2 sources said McNamara spoke about the issue to senior officials at the Commerce Dept, which is run by Secy Howard Lutnick.

    #Trump #law #ElectionLaw

  15. Olsen, who Democratic senators are seeking to remove from his post, aimed to invalidate #Dominion #VotingMachines before the #midterms, the 2 sources said.

    Others involved in the deliberations included Paul McNamara, a senior aide of Trump’s spy chief #TulsiGabbard, & Brian Sikma, a special assistant to #Trump who works on his Domestic Policy Council, acc/to 1 of the 2 sources…. Olsen has worked closely with Gabbard's Office of the Director of National Intelligence (#ODNI).

    #law #ElectionLaw

  16. White House adviser Kurt Olsen, a lawyer #Trump has tasked with proving widely debunked #election-rigging #ConspiracyTheories, pushed the plan to target #Dominion Voting Systems machines. The idea emerged, the sources said, as Olsen & other ‌officials brainstormed about how the #FederalGovernment could take control over #elections from US #states, an idea publicly aired by Trump.

    #law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #BigLie #coup #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy

  17. In several #states, it asked detailed questions about the process to remove #noncitizens & other *ineligible* #voters from the rolls.

    Grantham, the Fremont County clerk, said Small asked him if he would allow a third party to review whether his voting machines complied with #federal law. Grantham declined the request, he said, citing #state laws that restrict access to voting machines.

    #Trump #law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #privacy #dictatorship #autocracy #MafiaState

  18. #SCOTUS allows #Virginia effort to strike #SUSPECTED noncitizen voters
    
VA Gov #GlennYoungkin (R) asked the justices to intervene after lower courts blocked efforts to cancel registrations of #voters who COULD BE #noncitizens.

A divided #SupremeCourt cleared the way Wednesday for VA ofcls to remove ~1,600 voters from the state’s registration rolls LESS THAN ONE week before the presidential #election.

    #law #ActivistCourt #PartisanCourt #ElectionLaw #Vote #HarrisWalz2024
    washingtonpost.com/politics/20

  19. At issue are 3 avowed supporters of #Trump who in May took control of the 5-member state #election board & immediately began passing a flurry of rules that prompted an uproar of criticism from state & local election ofcls & from #GOP & #Democrats.
    …The Secy of State #BradRaffensperger & AG #ChrisCarr, both #Republicans, oppose the rules. Carr’s office issued an opinion stating that the board overstepped its authority by passing rules that go beyond what state #law allows.

    #ElectionLaw #VoteBlue

  20. Over the weekend, ProPublica reported that users of the portal had unsuccessfully attempted to cancel the registrations of 2 #Republican ofcls, Secy of State #BradRaffensperger & Rep #MarjorieTaylorGreene.

    The flaw found by Parker was different from the 2 previously reported ones. This one would allow ANY user of the portal to bypass the screen that requires a driver’s license number & submit the cancellation request w/o it.

    #law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #privacy #Vote #VoteBlue