This week at Democracy Docket: Judges reject Trump’s anti-voting crusade

President Donald Trump’s anti-voting agenda has already faced major legal obstacles over the last year. But this may have been his worst week in court.

It began Monday when, Jim Saksa reported, a federal judge blocked the administration from using a faulty Department of Homeland Security database to help purge voters. Jim followed up with the sadly predictable news that several Republican congressmen have joined Elon Musk in responding to the ruling by launching xenophobic attacks against the judge, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago.

Two days later, Yunior Rivas added, another federal judge permanently blocked key elements of Trump’s 2025 anti-voting executive order — which had already been suspended since last year — ruling that it exceeded the president’s authority.

That same day, Yunior explained, we obtained the first ruling from an appeals court regarding lawsuits filed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) demanding unredacted voter rolls from 30 states. It was also a loss for Trump, with the 6th Circuit panel of judges rejecting the DOJ’s assertion that federal law entitles him to Michigan registration. This comes as all ten lower courts that have ruled on the lawsuits so far — the latest on Sunday in the Pennsylvania case — also ruled against the administration.

But perhaps the most significant pro-voting decision this week came Thursday, when, as Jacob Knutson reported, a judge blocked the government from implementing Trump’s March executive order aimed at cracking down on mail-in voting.

The decision couldn’t have been more timely: It came just a day after the Postmaster General alarmingly told lawmakers that the United States Postal Service (USPS) would not deliver mail-in ballots in states that do not first submit a list of potential mail-in voters to be checked against government records, as Trump’s order calls for. A USPS advocate told Jacob that the plan, by turning the nonpartisan agency into a political tool of the administration, would “destroy the Postal Service.”

Indeed, Jim explained why, despite Thursday’s pivotal ruling, voting rights advocates — mindful of this administration’s ability to find ways to circumvent, or outright ignore, court orders — are not yet declaring victory.

And of course, we’ve received plenty of other signals this week that Trump is still determined to interfere with this fall’s vote. A Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in California announced this month that he was investigating the state’s recent primary — which Republicans called corrupt because they didn’t like the results. As Jacob reported Tuesday, Trump told a crowd at a rally this week that he had personally called the U.S. attorney to demand an investigation.

Meanwhile, Matt Cohen reported that far-right figures, including Steve Bannon, are warning that if Democrats take control of Congress, they will impeach Trump and Vice President JD Vance, assassinate MAGA supporters and turn America communist. They are invoking this “nightmare” scenario to bolster their current campaign for an electoral takeover, perhaps to include a declaration of martial law.

It reminds us that, even when courts defend voters, we can never let our guard down in the fight to protect fair elections.

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