Trump admin defying court by stonewalling on anti-voting order

• The Trump administration is defying a court order by refusing to say how federal agencies may be implementing President Donald Trump’s sweeping anti-voting executive order, pro-voting groups and Democrats alleged.

After nationwide injunctions ban, judge weakens order against part of Trump’s anti-voting decree

• In a separate challenge to Trump’s anti-voting order, a judge narrowed a block on a part of the order, now applying it only to the 19 Democratic states involved in the lawsuit. It’s one of the first examples of how SCOTUS’ ruling limiting nationwide injunctions could affect voting rights cases.

NC GOPers want to bar election officials from encouraging turnout

• North Carolina Republicans proposed a sweeping elections bill that, among other steps, bans officials from encouraging voter turnout. Even the bill’s sponsor admitted: “We may not have gotten it just at the sweet spot.”
  
  
• If passed, it could inspire other states to follow suit. Rep. Allison Dahle (D) warned North Carolina is becoming a testing ground for anti-voting laws: “I get the feeling that people don’t want democracy.”

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ICYMI: All the states where DOJ is demanding voting data

• The Trump-led Justice Department is quietly pressuring states for access to voter rolls and election records, including swing states like Arizona, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. We’re carefully tracking this latest push to justify anti-voting policies and updating our breakdown. 

Inside the GOP meltdown: Trump, Epstein and legal chaos

• Marc gives his weekly update on what’s happening to our democracy and the court cases you need to watch.

Coming up tomorrow

• There's a hearing in a RNC lawsuit challenging a North Carolina policy allowing students and employees of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to use a digital ID for voting.
  
  
• At SCOTUS, Judicial Watch's petitioner brief is due in their appeal seeking to revive a challenge to Illinois' ballot receipt deadline.
  
  
• Also at SCOTUS, North Dakota's response is due in a request to pause an 8th Circuit ruling finding no Private Right of Action under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. If SCOTUS hears the case and upholds the ruling, it could do yet more profound damage to the landmark civil rights law.