Appeals panel declines to block Trump’s mail voting order on procedural grounds one day after he asked the Supreme Court to revive it in a separate blocked case.
Trump asks the Supreme Court to revive his blocked mail-voting restrictions two days after an appeals court warned of mass disenfranchisement.
Acting intelligence director Pulte announces a fourth round of ODNI layoffs in five weeks while releasing declassified documents questioning 2020 voting technology.
Brazil denies visas to State Department officials who planned to cast doubt on its election system ahead of Lula’s October race against Jair Bolsonaro’s son.
Appeals court blocks Trump’s order directing the Postal Service to refuse mail ballots to voters missing from federal citizenship lists, keeping it out of November’s elections.
California rejected nearly 150,000 primary mail ballots, most for lateness voting experts link to Postal Service processing changes that shift where and when postmarks apply.
Alaska deactivates up to 3,500 voters as possible noncitizens off old DMV data, sweeping in naturalized citizens, a 700% jump from last year’s flagged total.
25 states sue DHS for withholding 20% of terrorism-preparedness grants until states adopt Trump’s preferred election rules, calling the $148 million condition unconstitutional.
Federal judges let Tennessee’s map splitting majority-Black Memphis into three districts stand for August, ruling partisan motive explains the dilution without proof of racial intent.
House passes a ban on lawmakers buying stocks that lets them keep existing shares, the second bill today carrying Trump’s voter ID demand.
House passes a $1.15 trillion defense bill over Democratic objections to the Iran war, tying it to Trump’s stalled voter ID legislation.
New Jersey Gov. Sherrill discloses a software glitch registered 6,600 noncitizens to vote, with about 400 casting ballots, as she disputes Trump’s larger claims.
Trump-endorsed Minnesota governor candidate Mike Lindell holds an active Texas voter registration and none in the state he wants to lead.
Trump endorses Darline Graham for a full Senate term three days after she was sworn in to her late brother Lindsey Graham’s seat.
DHS Secretary Mullin threatens state election officials with prison unless they screen voter rolls through a database a federal judge has blocked.
Good Trouble Lives On rallies open three days of voter registration and civil rights events at hundreds of locations honoring John Lewis.
Trump demands ABC and NBC lose their broadcast licenses for declining to air his election address live, while merger-seeking CBS carried it.
Trump orders voter roll purges and criminal probes of intelligence officials in a primetime address airing debunked election claims four months before midterms.
Federal judge dismisses DOJ’s demand for New Mexico voter rolls with Social Security numbers, one of 14 such lawsuits yet to yield any data.
Trump says his primetime address Thursday will reveal election security findings, with sources expecting voting machine claims four months before the midterms.
Wisconsin’s bipartisan elections commission refers Musk to prosecutors after finding probable cause his $1 million voter payments broke the state’s election bribery law.
Arizona organizers train 250 election observers to respond if National Guard troops or ICE agents show up at polling places during the midterms.
Trump refuses to sign the decades-biggest housing affordability bill, which becomes law at midnight anyway, protesting the Senate’s failure to pass his voting restrictions.
Trump fires every remaining Election Assistance Commission member, freezing the federal agency that certifies voting machines four months before the midterms.
Florida prosecutors charge two sitting St. Johns County commissioners and three others with mailing fake voter guides bearing forged Republican Party endorsements before the 2024 election.
FEMA will withhold 20% of states’ antiterrorism grants unless they adopt hand-marked paper ballots, citizenship verification, and manual audits Trump’s executive orders failed to impose.
Wisconsin Supreme Court blocks an election-denial group from learning which residents under guardianship have lost their voting rights, ruling 5-2 the records stay sealed.
Judge quashes DOJ subpoena for personal data on thousands of 2020 Fulton County election workers, calling it an arbitrary fishing expedition of staggering breadth.
Storms force a two-hour evacuation of the National Mall before Trump delivers a partisan 250th anniversary speech stumping for his elections bill.
FBI assigns 260 additional intelligence analysts to its Georgia 2020 election investigation, an internal memo priority revived by a White House election denier’s referral.
Federal judge blocks USPS rule refusing to deliver mail ballots in states that withhold voter lists, ruling it violates a 2021 NAACP settlement.
Colorado Governor Polis fires two clemency board members who revealed the board unanimously rejected Tina Peters’ release twice before he freed her.
A federal judge dismisses the Justice Department’s suit demanding New Hampshire’s full voter registration database, another court rejection of the administration’s roll-collection campaign.
The Supreme Court strikes down federal limits on coordinated spending between parties and their candidates in a 6-3 ruling, months before the midterms, in a case Vance launched as a 2022 Senate candidate.
House Republicans cancel votes and leave early for July Fourth recess after roughly a dozen hardliners sink the floor schedule over Trump’s stalled SAVE Act voting restrictions.
House Speaker Johnson says the bipartisan housing affordability bill becomes law with or without Trump’s signature, after Trump dismissed it as “a yawn.”
The Supreme Court rules 5-4 that states may count absentee ballots arriving after election day if postmarked on time, upholding Mississippi’s grace period.
ICE agents enter a Syracuse polling place to confront a poll worker over an Instagram post naming the agent who killed protester Renee Good, demanding she delete it, but she refused.
An Alaska judge restores retired teacher Dan J. Sullivan to the U.S. Senate ballot against Senator Dan S. Sullivan, finding no evidence the challenger meant to confuse voters.
A federal judge blocks the Postal Service from refusing to mail ballots in states that won’t hand the federal government their voter rolls, one day after the postmaster general defended the plan to senators.
The Postmaster General tells the Senate that under a proposed rule, USPS would refuse to deliver mail ballots in states that won’t hand the federal government their absentee-voter lists.
A federal judge permanently blocks key parts of Trump’s election order, including a proof-of-citizenship requirement to vote, ruling the president has no constitutional power over elections.
A divided Sixth Circuit rules the Justice Department cannot force Michigan to hand over unredacted voter files, the latest court to reject the administration’s nationwide voter-data demand.
Trump cancels the signing of a bipartisan housing bill that cleared both chambers with veto-proof margins, holding it hostage until the Senate passes his stalled voter-restriction act.
A federal judge throws out the DOJ’s lawsuit demanding Maryland’s confidential voter database, the ninth court to reject the administration’s bid for state voter rolls.
A one-year Republican ban on Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood expires July 5 with no extension, after the Senate parliamentarian capped it at one year and the GOP concedes it lacks the votes.
Federal judge rules Trump’s national voter database illegal and orders it dismantled, finding agencies knew it violated privacy law but built it anyway.
A conservative nonprofit secretly funded super PACs named Lead Left and Real Change to boost weaker Democratic primary candidates and engineer easier Republican matchups.
A federal judge recuses herself from the Justice Department’s lawsuit over Georgia’s voter rolls after it questioned her ties to Trump’s former prosecutor there.
DHS Secretary Mullin refuses to rule out deploying ICE agents to polling places during the midterms, citing possible threats.
