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The Department of Justice keeps filing lawsuits to undermine our elections. The pro-democracy movement keeps fighting back. So far, we are winning, and the DOJ is losing. But make no mistake: this is unsustainable.

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DOJ’s Alaska election theory could give Trump sweeping power over state elections, voting advocates warn

Voting rights groups warned a federal judge that the Trump administration’s effort to intervene in Alaska’s U.S. Senate election rests on a fringe legal theory that could give the president extraordinary power over state-run elections, if…

Federal judge questions DOJ voter ‘purge’ targeting minorities right before election

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan heard arguments on a request from pro-voting groups to immediately block the DOJ from transmitting its lists of alleged noncitizen voters to state officials.

Pro-voting groups blast DOJ overreach in Alaska Senate race lawsuit

The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) demand that Alaska set aside ballots cast for an alleged spoiler candidate in the U.S. Senate race far outstrips the power Congress has given the executive branch, pro-voting groups told a…