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Judge blocks Trump executive order targeting law firm for election work

* A D.C. federal judge temporarily blocked ([link removed]) Trump’s executive order targeting the law firm Perkins Coie* for its election work representing his political opponents. The judge called the order “retaliatory in nature.”
* The firm sued ([link removed]) Trump yesterday over the executive order, calling it “an affront to the Constitution and our adversarial system of justice.”

Alternative proposed to defunded national election security program

* In the wake of the downfall of cybersecurity watchdog CISA, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D) plans to launch ([link removed]) an alternative program aimed at safeguarding elections. A memo from Fontes’s office describing the plan was obtained by Democracy Docket.

Judge allows Trump to dismiss head of one of the smallest U.S. agencies

* A D.C. federal judge allowed ([link removed]) Trump to fire the head of the U.S. African Development Foundation, one of the smallest federal agencies. However, the judge ruled that Trump likely lacks authority to install a State Department official to lead the agency.

Trump quietly made 3 chilling moves against reproductive freedom

* Last week, the Trump administration quietly made three moves to restrict reproductive healthcare — all of which were ripped from the pages of Project 2025. Democracy Docket contributor Susan Rinkunas explains ([link removed]) .

Hearing coming up tomorrow

* A federal court in Florida will consider ([link removed]) a lawsuit challenging the state's Senate districts. A group of voters allege that the map is racially gerrymandered to pack Black voters in the Tampa Bay area into one district to diminish their voting power.

*Disclosure: Democracy Docket Founder Marc Elias served as chair of the Political Law Group at Perkins Coie until 2021, and played a role in some of the work that the White House has cited as justification for its executive order.
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