Tag: Voting rights
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At the Aug. 26 state canvassing board meeting, Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon said the conduct of Justice Department election monitors at the state's Aug. 18 primary was "a bit aggressive" and "irregular," and asked the state...
In an Aug. 18 social media post, President Trump said a Census Bureau analysis of more than 128 million voter records "proves that over 24,000 Noncitizens voted illegally" in 2020. NPR reported the next day that the...
Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general who runs the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, said in remarks to Bloomberg on Monday, Aug. 17, 2026 that the department plans to deploy about 1,000 federal...
U.S. District Judge Adam Abelson on Aug. 3, 2026, temporarily blocked a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services policy that barred the League of Women Voters and other nonpartisan groups from registering new citizens...
U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi dismissed the Justice Department's lawsuit seeking New Jersey's unredacted voter files on July 29, 2026, granting the state's motion to dismiss. Quraishi ruled that the department...
On July 1, 2026, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan barred the U.S. Postal Service nationwide from implementing provisions of President Trump's March 2026 election executive order that directed USPS to accept mail-in...
A federal judge blocked the administration's attempt to require documentary proof of citizenship for voter registration through a presidential directive, ruling that the president lacked authority to rewrite...
Trump directed federal agencies to require documentary proof of citizenship for voter registration, alter the treatment of mail ballots, and use federal funding as leverage over states' election administration...