1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (152+ words) Democracy Docket With just 52 days until Election Day, some states have already begun to send out mail ballots, but a pending ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court on President Donald Trump’s attempt to restrict mail voting could put those and other…...

3+ day, 19+ hour 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…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (414+ words) Whether President Donald Trump’s attempt to restrict mail voting will be allowed to move forward despite ongoing legal challenges now rests with the U.S. Supreme Court after the parties involved submitted their briefs. The consequences of the court’s ruling are…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (496+ words) A union representing more than 200,000 postal workers alleged Tuesday that a “catastrophic wholesale non-delivery” of hundreds of thousands of mail ballots will likely occur if states are forced to comply with the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) new mail voting…...

5+ day, 18+ 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…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (812+ words) President Donald Trump and the U.S. Postal Service risk unleashing “massive chaos and confusion” by implementing expansive mail voting restrictions weeks before the upcoming midterms, a widely respected elections expert said in a new court filing. Tammy Patrick, a senior official…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (622+ words) Opponents of President Donald Trump’s dangerous executive order restricting mail voting say there’s a simple motivation behind the scheme: Democrats vote by mail more than Republicans. In a new complaint last week, Democratic state attorneys general pointedly highlighted Trump’s own…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (862+ words) A newly disclosed U.S. Postal Service (USPS) whistleblower report is quickly becoming evidence in multiple lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump’s sweeping mail voting restrictions. Voting rights groups are pointing judges to the allegations as fresh support for their warnings that the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (898+ words) A bombshell whistleblower report alleged that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) brazenly violated multiple court orders to secretly advance President Donald Trump’s attempt to restrict mail voting ahead of the upcoming midterms. The report, released by Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s (D-Conn.) office…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (607+ words) The Trump administration’s ongoing effort to create a national voter registry is an illegal attempt to influence who can vote just weeks before the midterms, a privacy advocacy nonprofit alleged in a new lawsuit Tuesday. Filed by the Electronic Privacy…...