All the states where DOJ is demanding voting data

• In recent months, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has been contacting red, blue, and purple states, demanding access to sensitive election and voting data. The effort appears aimed at pressing states to tighten voting rules and at aiding the Trump administration’s hunt for illegal voting. Here’s everything we know about the effort.

Americans held in Venezuela swapped for men Trump sent to Salvadoran megaprison

• Hundreds of Venezuelans removed from the U.S. by the Trump administration and flown to a Salvadoran megaprison earlier this year were swapped today for 10 U.S. citizens and permanent residents.
  
  
• The hundreds of men have been at the center of a legal battle between the Trump administration and civil and human rights organizations since they were abruptly transferred in mid-March after President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act, a rarely used wartime law.

RNC sues New Jersey for access to voter roll and election machine records

• The RNC sued New Jersey, demanding access to voter roll maintenance and voting machine data from the June primary. They accuse the state of being slow to cooperate.

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RNC also defends Indiana’s student ID voting ban

• The RNC is officially backing Indiana’s ban on the use of student IDs to vote — urging a federal court to throw out a lawsuit that says the law discriminates against young voters. Voting rights groups call the law a “surgical attack" on youth voting rights.

Holder: GOP ‘enemies of democracy’ must be defeated 

• Former Attorney General Eric Holder told Democracy Docket he doesn’t recognize the Department of Justice anymore, and called on Democrats to keep up the fight against Republican “enemies of democracy.”

The Epstein Files: ‘MAGA world isn’t falling in line’

• Attorney General Pam Bondi is blocking the release of the Epstein Files to protect Trump. Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) joined Marc to discuss the Epstein Files cover-up, masked ICE agents, and congressional Republicans handing over their power to Trump.