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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 5h
Election spending is projected to reach a record $11.6 billion this cycle, while new court rulings and regulatory decisions are making it easier for wealthy interests to wield influence. @thetrevorpotter.bsky.social explains what's at stake and where reform is possible.
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What to Know About the Election Spending Deluge
American voters are once again the target of millions upon millions of dollars in political spending designed to influence their decisions about who should represent them in government. According to t...
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 7h
Voters have a right to know who is spending money to influence their vote. This ruling is yet another win for transparency and another affirmation that campaign spending disclosure laws are protected by the First Amendment.
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 7h
Prop 211 was passed by 72% of Arizona voters and is the product of years of hard work by Campaign Legal Center Action and our partners. We have successfully defended the law's constitutionality in court numerous times, including earlier this summer in the Arizona Supreme Court.
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 7h
BREAKING: In a victory for voters, a federal appeals court upheld Arizona's Prop 211, the landmark voter-approved law that reveals the original sources of dark money election spending. Campaign Legal Center Action represents Voters’ Right to Know in this case.
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Federal Court Upholds Landmark Campaign Finance Transparency Law in Arizona
SAN FRANCISCO — Yesterday, in a major victory for Arizonans, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld Proposition 211, also known as the Voters’ Right to Know Act. Approved by 7...
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 10h
Democracy doesn't begin and end at the ballot box. Free speech, political dissent and open debates are essential to our electoral process. Quashing that dissent, even little bit, would change the entire formula of our democracy. More on Democracy Decoded: lnk.to/DDS6E3SM
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 30/09/2026
You may have heard that the Department of Justice plans to send as many as 1,000 election monitors to the polls this year. Safeguards already exist to protect voters, but Congress must still strengthen those rules to secure our elections.
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Everything You Need to Know About DOJ Election Monitors
The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) election observation program — once a behind-the-scenes effort with a record of nonpartisan success — has made headlines during the 2026 midterm primaries becaus...
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 30/09/2026
How does mail voting work? Mail-in voting has been around since the Civil War. It is a secure, reliable and accessible method to participate in elections. But how does it actually work? Campaign Legal Center's Jonathan Diaz breaks it down. #AskAnElectionLawyer
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Danielle Lang @danilang-votes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Excited to share this episode of Democracy Decoded from @campaignlegal.org where I get to talk about the First Amendment, dissent, and share the mic with my former law school dean Robert Post: lnk.to/DDS6E3SM
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Democracy Decoded
Let’s face it: This is an unprecedented time for our democracy. Many of our government’s checks and balances are being challenged or outright ignored. We did not arrive here because of one person or o...
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Trevor Potter @thetrevorpotter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Voters are once again the target of millions upon millions of dollars in political spending designed to influence their decisions about who should represent them in government. I analyze the forces powering this wave of spending in my latest newsletter. www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-k...
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What to Know About the Election Spending Deluge
American voters are once again the target of millions upon millions of dollars in political spending designed to influence their decisions about who should represent them in government. According to t...
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 29/09/2026
"Democracy is about holding Trump accountable to us," says Yale law professor and First Amendment expert Robert Post. More on how political dissent is the mechanism that makes our system work on the Democracy Decoded podcast: lnk.to/DDS6E3SM
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 29/09/2026
The Senate should vote NO on both of these anti-democratic bills. For more detailed information on the specific harms of these bills, read our full letter to the Senate: campaignlegal.org/document/cam... 4/4
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Campaign Legal Center Letter to the U.S. Senate Opposing the Stop Insider Trading Act and the Voter ID Act
On September 28, 2026, Campaign Legal Center sent a letter to every member of the U.S. Senate, urging all lawmakers to reject H.R. 7008, a legislative package combining two unrelated bills: the Stop I...
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 29/09/2026
The Voter ID Act is an attempt by lawmakers to pass a problematic part of the deeply unpopular and dangerous SAVE Act. The bill would impose significant new barriers to participation and harm millions of Americans attempting to exercise their right to vote. 3/4
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 29/09/2026
The Stop Insider Trading Act wouldn't actually ban congressional stock trading. It would do nothing to prevent lawmakers’ ability to profit from their positions. And it would not restore public trust in government. 2/4
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 29/09/2026
The Senate is slated to vote this week on the so-called Stop Insider Trading Act and Voter ID Act, two bad bills that would undermine our democracy. Lawmakers should reject both of them. Here's what you need to know.🧵1/4
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 29/09/2026
"Federal law prohibits taxpayer resources from being used for the benefit of a candidate, political party or public official," says Campaign Legal Center's Margaret Dylus-Yukins on recent political ads featuring President Trump.
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CLC's Margaret Dylus-Yukins on Recent Political Ads Featuring the President
In late September 2026, ahead of the midterm elections, a series of advertisements that heavily featured President Donald Trump and the label "Paid for by the US Government" began airing. In response,...
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 29/09/2026
We sued to stop ICE's nationwide policy of violating the First Amendment by targeting individuals who lawfully observe, photograph and record federal immigration agents performing their official duties in public.
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Defending Constitutional Observers Against Federal Retaliation
Campaign Legal Center filed a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of Michael Khalili and nonprofit organization Common Cause challenging the First Amendment violations of several federal agencies and t...
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 28/09/2026
Sen. Oliver and the voters she represents should not be silenced. Campaign Legal Center Action is representing Sen. Oliver alongside @icapgeorgetown.bsky.social to reverse this unconstitutional retaliation. More about our lawsuit here: campaignlegal.org/press-releas... 4/4
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Tennessee State Sen. Charlane Oliver and Constituents Challenge Illegal Retaliation in Response to Gerrymandering Fight
NASHVILLE — Today, Tennessee state Senator Charlane Oliver and four of her constituents filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging that Senator Oliver's First Amendment rights were violated when she wa...
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 28/09/2026
In violation of her constitutional right to free speech, legislative leaders reacted to her denouncement with retaliation; they refused to count her vote against the gerrymander and imposed additional punishments that interfere with her ability to represent her constituents. 3/
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 28/09/2026
In May 2026, Sen. Oliver denounced a new congressional map drawn by Tennessee lawmakers to split the predominantly Black city of Memphis across three separate districts, preventing Black voters in Memphis from electing representatives of their choice. 2/
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 28/09/2026
BREAKING: Campaign Legal Center Action is suing on behalf of Tennessee Senator Charlane Oliver over the state's illegal retaliation against her and her constituents for exercising her First Amendment right to denounce lawmakers' disenfranchisement of Black voters with a gerrymandered map. 1/
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Tennessee Senator sues over illegal retaliation in response to redistricting fight

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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 25/09/2026
This case never should have reached the Supreme Court three times, but we at Campaign Legal Center are glad that the final outcome of these cases is Missourians having the opportunity to vote under a lawful map this fall. Read more: campaignlegal.org/press-releas...
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U.S. Supreme Court, for a Third Time, Declines to Overturn Lawful Missouri Congressional Map
WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Supreme Court has, for a third time, declined to allow an unlawful congressional map to be used in the 2026 midterm elections in Missouri.Less than two months before Elect...
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 25/09/2026
Today is the 3rd time SCOTUS has denied an attempt by partisan politicians to use an unlawful map in Missouri for the midterms. The gerrymandered 2025 map was never law. Yet, self-interested politicians—and now two lower courts—have repeatedly attempted to force it on voters.
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 25/09/2026
"It's so corrosive to democracy and to the public interest when we see the president financially benefitting from his official role," says Campaign Legal Center's Renata O'Donnell in @fortune.com.
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‘It’s so corrosive to democracy': Over 50 federal prosecutors speak out against Trump's $100,000 a month 'insider trading' scheme | Fortune
"We're in an environment where we all want to be looking to the founders, right?"
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 25/09/2026
NEW: President Trump violated federal campaign finance laws based on his repeated, explicit claims indicating that he controls and directs the super PAC MAGA Inc., Campaign Legal Center alleges in a complaint with the Federal Election Commission.
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Campaign Legal Center Alleges President Trump Is Breaking the Law by Directing Spending of $400 Million War Chest During 2026 Midterms
WASHINGTON — Last week, Campaign Legal Center filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that President Donald Trump violated federal campaign finance laws based on his repe...
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 24/09/2026
No one, regardless of how powerful or wealthy they are, should be above the law. Additionally, your political beliefs should not dictate how you are treated under the law and our Constitution. Hear more on what the rule of law means on the Democracy Decoded podcast: campaignlegal.org/democracy-de...
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 24/09/2026
WIN: California Supreme Court orders Riverside County sheriff to return hundreds of thousands of illegally seized ballots from a 2025 special election. As our letter brief said, efforts to disrupt our elections will not go unchecked.
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Win for Democracy: Supreme Court of California Orders Sheriff to Return Unlawfully Seized Ballots
SAN FRANCISCO — Today, the Supreme Court of California ordered the sheriff of Riverside County, California, to return hundreds of thousands of unlawfully seized ballots from a 2025 special election be...
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 24/09/2026
We filed ethics complaints alleging nearly 80 congressional candidates have failed to file legally required personal financial disclosures. Failing to file these reports deprives voters of information needed to make informed decisions at the ballot box.
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Campaign Legal Center Calls for Ethics Investigations of Nearly 80 Congressional Candidates’ Disclosure Violations
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed complaints with both the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate Ethics Committees alleging that 66 House candidates and 11 Senate candidates who will be on the...
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 23/09/2026
Corruption at the highest levels of the DOJ has far reaching consequences. Career prosecutors are less able to do their jobs and keep Americans safe, argues former U.S. Attorney @joycewhitevance.bsky.social. Listen to the full episode of Democracy Decoded: campaignlegal.org/democracy-de...
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 22/09/2026
Campaign Legal Center and @brennancenter.org represent @commoncause.org and Washington Conservation Action Education Fund in this case.
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Victory for Washington State Voters: Federal Court Dismisses DOJ Lawsuit Seeking Private Voter Data
SEATTLE — In a victory for voters, a federal judge dismissed the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) lawsuit seeking Washington state’s complete voter file, which contains voters’ driver’s license numb...
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 22/09/2026
WIN: A federal court dismissed DOJ's lawsuit attempting to seize voters' sensitive data in Washington state. Voters are now 25-0 against the Trump DOJ's lawsuits trying to illegally seize voter data.
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 22/09/2026
And to think that all of this stemmed from an FEC complaint Campaign Legal Center filed in 2020... 👀 We exposed an illegal scheme to launder the true source of a $150,000 donation, and everything spiraled from there: campaignlegal.org/update/clc-c...
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 22/09/2026
Campaign Legal Center and Singleton Schreiber represent the prosecutors and agents in this case and urge the court to block this corrupt scheme.
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 22/09/2026
NEW: 50+ former federal prosecutors and agents argue in legal filing that President Trump's scheme offering early access to his Truth Social posts for $100k per month poses an obvious risk for corruption and is likely criminal.
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Former Federal Prosecutors File Amicus Brief Challenging President Trump’s Truth Social Pay-for-Early-Access Scheme
NEW YORK — Singleton Schreiber, working with Campaign Legal Center, filed an amicus brief on behalf of 53 former federal public integrity prosecutors and federal agents who served in the Justice Depar...
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 22/09/2026
Former FBI agent @michael-feinberg.bsky.social was forced out of the agency after being targeted over his friendship with a colleague who criticized the president. The rule of law depends on facts and fairness, not political loyalty. Full episode: campaignlegal.org/democracy-de...
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 18/09/2026
200k+ Virginia voters with prior felony convictions are now eligible to vote following a monumental court ruling in January. After talks with CLC and our clients, Virginia agreed to notify these reenfranchised voters of this long overdue development.
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ELECT to Notify Over 200,000 Newly Reenfranchised Virginians They Are Now Eligible to Vote
RICHMOND, Va. — The January decision in King v. O’Bannon held Virginia may only deny the right to vote for a subset of felony convictions that were common law felonies in 1870. Previously, Virginia st...
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 18/09/2026
NEW: President Trump has publicly claimed that he controls the super PAC MAGA, Inc. That's a clear violation of campaign finance law. Campaign Legal Center filed a complaint, as covered by the @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/us/polit…
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Trump’s Open Claims That He Directs Super PAC Spending Draw Watchdog Complaint
Federal law bars those holding federal office from directing spending decisions for a political organization with no contribution limits.
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 18/09/2026
"It would not be possible to say today that America is governed by the rule of law rather than by men," says @judgeluttig.bsky.social on the Democracy Decoded podcast. What can citizens do to push back before it's too late? Listen to the full episode: lnk.to/DDS6E1SM
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 17/09/2026
WIN: A federal court dismissed the Department of Justice's lawsuit attempting to seize voters' sensitive data in Vermont. CLC, @brennancenter.org and Willscheck Iarrapino represent @vpirg.bsky.social in this case. Trump's DOJ is now 0-24 in lawsuits trying to illegally seize voter data
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Victory for Vermont Voters: Federal Court Dismisses DOJ Lawsuit Seeking Private Voter Data
RUTLAND, VT — In a victory for voters, a federal judge dismissed the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) lawsuit seeking Vermont’s complete voter file, which contains voters’ driver’s license numbers, ...
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 17/09/2026
We sued to stop ICE's illegal practice of intimidating and retaliating against Americans who exercise their First Amendment right to observe and record federal immigration officers in public.
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Defending Constitutional Observers Against Federal Retaliation
Campaign Legal Center filed a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of Michael Khalili and nonprofit organization Common Cause challenging the First Amendment violations of several federal agencies and t...
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 17/09/2026
In the final days of its term, the Supreme Court expanded the president’s control over agencies that Congress created to be independent, paving the way for abuses of power. More on the Democracy Decoded podcast: lnk.to/DDS6E1SM
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 17/09/2026
The Department of Justice's election observers program is intended to monitor elections for compliance with voting rights laws, but observers can't interfere on their own. We're calling on Congress to pass new guardrails for this program to further protect voters and election workers.
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 16/09/2026
“A gift from such an unusual source puts a red flag on the matter. It completely changed my whole measurement of how outrageous these ethics issues are getting,” says CLC's Kedric Payne in @nytimes.com.
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Russian Businessman With Putin Ties Paid for Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Party
The payments, totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars, represented an extraordinary flouting of ethical norms for an American president’s family member.
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 16/09/2026
With the Supreme Court's ruling, the millions of voters who rely on mail-in voting to cast their ballot, especially military, overseas and student voters, can make their voices heard safely and confidently.
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 15/09/2026
What happens when the balance of power becomes unbalanced? @profmmurray.bsky.social joins the Democracy Decoded podcast to examine how the rule of law is being dismantled by the Trump admin — one court ruling, fired commissioner and unchecked executive action at a time: lnk.to/DDS6E1SM
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 15/09/2026
You may have heard that the Department of Justice plans to send as many as 1,000 election monitors to the polls this year. Safeguards already exist to protect voters, but Congress must still strengthen those rules to secure our elections.
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Everything You Need to Know About DOJ Election Monitors
The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) election observation program — once a behind-the-scenes effort with a record of nonpartisan success — has made headlines during the 2026 midterm primaries becaus...
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 15/09/2026
We filed complaints alleging that 66 House candidates and 11 Senate candidates who will be on the ballot this November have failed to file legally required personal financial disclosure reports.
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Campaign Legal Center Calls for Ethics Investigations of Nearly 80 Congressional Candidates’ Disclosure Violations
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed complaints with both the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate Ethics Committees alleging that 66 House candidates and 11 Senate candidates who will be on the...
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 15/09/2026
With today's U.S. Supreme Court ruling, voters can continue to confidently vote by mail in the 2026 midterm elections, just as they have done for over a century.
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Vote By Mail Remains Secure: SCOTUS Rejects Trump Administration’s Attempt to Enforce New USPS Policy
President Donald Trump has been relentless in trying to rewrite the rules of American elections, but the U.S. Supreme Court has issued a ruling rejecting his effort to use the United States Postal Ser...
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 15/09/2026
Read our full statement: campaignlegal.org/press-releas... 4/4
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In a Victory for Voters, SCOTUS Upholds Block on USPS Rule That Would Have Impeded Mail Voting in the Midterms
WASHINGTON — Today, in a victory for voters across the country, the United States Supreme Court declined to block an order issued by a federal judge in Massachusetts that prevents a new United States ...
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Trevor Potter @thetrevorpotter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING - My statement on SCOTUS blocking the president's vote-by-mail executive order: Tonight's Supreme Court decision prevents the U.S. Postal Service from sowing chaos in our elections... 1/
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 15/09/2026
Today, SCOTUS denied DOJ’s request to pause one of those lower court orders. Following the Court's action, both injunctions remain in place and continue blocking this unlawful USPS rule from taking effect. 3/
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