It’s the third lawsuit filed in response to the campaign-style ads, seemingly created to boost GOP candidates as the party registers historically low ratings.

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"The Commerce secretary doesn't have more power than the president. The president has zero power over elections in the United States.”

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He will be executed on December 3 at 1 pm.

Among the newest examples is an ICE detention that took place in the same area California voters had to pass through to reach a ballot drop box.

The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.

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It's one of the clearest pictures yet of how deeply Trump's immigration enforcement apparatus has become involved in elections.

The Trump administration’s decision not to invite the leading international election observation body to monitor crucial US midterm polls fuels fears of serious human rights concerns around the upcomi...

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The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.

It’s unclear how a federal proof of citizenship law would pass constitutional muster if a federal ban on noncitizen voting could not.

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Utah has already combed its voter rolls for any noncitizens registered to vote and found it to be a non-issue, but that’s not what the Trump administration and congressional Republicans want to hear, ...

The involvement of the two lawyers in a state where President Donald Trump challenged the 2020 election results adds to concerns that the administration’s monitoring program for the fall — which it ha...

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DOJ's planned effort represents an extraordinary expansion of federal election monitoring. It has already sparked confrontations with state officials and concerns about voter intimidation.

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Given the intense scrutiny of Maine's U.S. Senate race, voters are particularly on edge about the possibility of election interference from President Donald Trump.

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Roy Moore’s push to restore an $8.2 million defamation verdict awarded to him over a 2017 Senate ad.

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We’re waiting for a federal court to rule on a third prong of Trump’s voter suppression scheme — one you might not have heard much about.