DOJ sues every federal district judge in Maryland, challenging due process 

• President Donald Trump's Department of Justice (DOJ) sued every federal district judge in Maryland to challenge a court order temporarily barring the government from carrying out some deportations. The move marks the administration’s latest attempt to undermine federal courts.

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia to remain in jail as attorneys debate

• Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was wrongly removed from the U.S. earlier this year, is set to remain in jail for at least a few more days as his attorneys and federal prosecutors determine whether he’ll be deported if released.

DOJ files new anti-voting lawsuit in California

• The DOJ filed a lawsuit against Robert Page, Orange County’s registrar of voters, seeking unredacted voter list maintenance records related to alleged non-citizens on the rolls. The action follows a complaint that a non-citizen received an unsolicited mail-in ballot.
  
  
• The DOJ claimed Page improperly redacted information like Social Security and driver’s license numbers and is asking the court to make Page provide that information.

As if the above isn’t enough, the DOJ also…

• …filed a response in opposition to the DNC and North Carolina pro-voting groups' motions to intervene in an anti-voting lawsuit from the Trump administration challenging incomplete voter registrations in North Carolina. The DOJ is asking the court to deny the motions to intervene from the pro-voting groups. 

SCOTUS keeps punting human rights to a broken democratic process

• In upholding Tennessee’s anti-trans law, the Supreme Court said the same thing it said about reproductive rights when it overturned Roe: that the issue should be left to the democratic process. But in too many places now, lawmakers are entrenched in power, allowing them to defy the popular will with impunity, Democracy Docket contributor Susan Rinkanus writes.

Supreme Court opinion day tomorrow

• Right now, Thursday is the only opinion day this week. SCOTUS has 10 cases left to rule on. The Democracy Docket team is watching out for decisions in a Louisiana redistricting case that puts the future of the Voting Rights Act at risk, and a case on nationwide injunctions against Trump’s birthright citizenship order.