28+ min ago   (178+ words) Despite U.S. Attorney Todd Blanche's repeated assurances that President Donald Trump's controversial anti-weaponization had been rescinded, the Justice Department on Friday appealed the judge's decision that killed the planned $1.8 billion fund. Posted by lamplighter at 09:30 PM | 1 COMMENT | permalink | Comment on This…...

20+ min ago   (723+ words) This essay is a supplement to the piece I published at Just Security on Tuesday regarding the ongoing litigation over whether the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) can enforce its new Final Rule on the delivery of mail ballots. I’ll assume readers…...

37+ min ago   (1282+ words) Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar said the Trump administration’s scrutiny of the state’s election process is an effort to intimidate officials and suppress voting ahead of the November midterm election. “This is all an effort to really force Nevada…...

59+ min ago   (454+ words) ‘Shake off the aura’: Novelist Amitabha Bagchi on originality and borrowing in literary writing Flu shots prevent serious illness but why don’t many Indians take them? Why do anti-reservation ideologues love the creamy layer so much? Indonesia asks India to…...

8+ hour, 59+ min ago   (456+ words) JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Five Missouri voters have filed a lawsuit against Secretary of State Denny Hoskins, seeking an estimated $80 million in damages for voters over his handling of a referendum challenging the state's 2025 congressional redistricting map. The lawsuit, formally filed…...

14+ hour, 39+ min ago   (173+ words) Tens of thousands demonstrated across Germany against far-right extremism on Saturday, with major rallies held in Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Berlin and Munich, almost a week after the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party's historic election win. Sunday's election win for the AfD…...

48+ min ago   (545+ words) President Donald Trump has directed the U.S. Postal Service to restrict mail-in voting — a move that some argue usurps constitutional, congressional and state authority. Amid a national legal battle over the use of mail-in voting ahead of this year's midterm elections,…...

57+ min ago   (613+ words) American citizenship should never be for sale. Right now, it is. This is birth tourism. And it is a deliberate exploitation of our laws. To be American is more than a piece of paper. It is a bond between an…...

8+ hour, 59+ min ago   (438+ words) President Donald Trump is under fire for accusing former President Barack Obama of buying voters after vowing this week to pay voters $5,000 dividends if his party maintains control of Congress after the November midterms. Trump made the announcement earlier this…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (603+ words) The Texas Supreme Court ruled Galveston County cannot use its newly drawn precinct map in November's election. The court said primary and general elections are one election, so boundaries cannot change between them. Galveston County must use the precinct map…...