#electionlaw — Public Fediverse posts
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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
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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
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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
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For a THIRD time a federal Judge blocks #Trump #MailBallot rules
The ruling arrived before #SCOTUS could decide whether to intervene but is certain to set off yet another round of appeals.
#law #USPS #ElectionInterference #VotingRights #Constitution #Congress #states #Federalism #ElectionLaw #midterms #elections #USpol #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/us/politics/judge-blocks-trump-mail-ballots.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-lA.A-R9.sAMVAiZs_Jl1&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
#Trump asked #SCOTUS Thursday to give the #USPS sweeping power to withhold delivery of #MailBallots, setting up an extraordinary showdown over #voting at the high court less than 2 months before the November #midterms.
#law #ActivistCourt #ElectionInterference #VotingRights #Constitution #Congress #states #Federalism #ElectionLaw #elections #USpol #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/03/politics/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-ok-sweeping-changes-for-mail-ballots -
Voter Intimidation at the Polls: What Every American Should Know Before November
Voter intimidation at the polls is a federal crime. Here is what the law says and what to do if ICE or any federal agent tries to interfere on Election Day.https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/current-events/voter-intimidation-at-the-polls/
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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
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A Shocking Betrayal of #Black Americans
by Mara Gay
The dismantling of Black political #power in the South is a great betrayal, & its effects will ripple through our #democracy.
#RepresentationMatters #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #law #ElectionLaw #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #VotingRights #VotingRightsAct #VRA #redistricting #elections #USpol #Trump #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/opinion/voting-rights-act-black-voters-south.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oVA.qSCM.vEpY9cDXlL3Z&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
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.
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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).
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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
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The 1965 #VotingRightsAct, the #centerpiece legislation of the #CivilRights Movement, succeeded in opening the ballot box to #Black Americans & reducing persistent racial #discrimination in voting. Nearly 70 of the 435 congressional districts are protected by #Section2, #ElectionLaw expert Nicholas Stephanopoulos has estimated.
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In her dissenting opinion, which was joined by Justices #KetanjiBrownJackson & Elena #Kagan, Justice Sonia #Sotomayor blasted the court’s conservative majority for using one set of rules to uphold #redistricting maps that benefit #white voters & #Republicans in states like #Texas while using a completely different set of rules to strike down maps that benefit racial “minorities” & #Democrats in places like #NewYork.
#law #SCOTUS #democracy #VRA #ElectionLaw #gerrymandering #authoritarianism
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At the time, the League of United #LatinAmerican Citizens, one of the nation’s oldest #Latino #CivilRights organizations, said that officers conducting the raids took cellphones, computers & documents. An 87-year-old retired educator described heavily armed officers barging into her home & taking personal items.
#LULAC leaders accused the famously *conservative* AG #KenPaxton of trying to #suppress Latino voters & asked the #DOJ to investigate the raids.
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#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
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/30/virginia-noncitizen-voter-purge-supreme-court/