Last Friday, Republicans suffered two major legal defeats in Pennsylvania. A trial court dismissed a right-wing lawsuit seeking to purge hundreds of thousands of voters, while the Third Circuit rejected a motion to block a lower court’s decision requiring Pennsylvania to count undated or incorrectly dated mail-in ballots.

If Republicans hoped that was a fluke, they were wrong. It was the beginning of a trend that continued this week in courts around the country.

The week began with the Department of Justice announcing it would not appeal a federal court ruling in Washington, D.C., that blocked key parts of President Trump’s executive order on elections. This decision was a significant victory for Democrats who had challenged the order, and a key concession by the administration that Trump’s unconstitutional power grab over federal elections will not succeed.

On Tuesday, a federal judge slammed the door on… 

You’re reading a sample of what's included in our premium membership — on Fridays, Marc revisits the week’s top stories with his personal insights on where these developments might lead. Today, Marc dives into:

• The turning point in Trump’s assault on the rule of law
  
  
• A loss so enormous that Marc brings back “Loser of the Week” 
  
  
• A potential comeback for Voting Rights Act pre-clearance in Alabama
  
  
• What to watch when Supreme Court decisions are issued next week