SCOTUS allows Trump to continue mass government layoffs 

• The Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to proceed with slashing the federal workforce through mass firings as part of an effort to transform the executive branch in his image.
  
  
• In another major legal win for Trump from SCOTUS, the court granted the Trump administration’s request to lift a lower court order preventing federal agencies from carrying out large-scale federal layoffs called "reductions in force.”

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• The ACLU is relentlessly challenging the Trump administration’s unconstitutional and dangerous attacks on immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, First Amendment rights, and more.
  
  
• But they still need your help. Join the ACLU to defend everyone’s rights.

DOJ gets involved in another anti-voting lawsuit

• The DOJ filed a statement of interest in a lawsuit alleging Illinois isn’t doing enough to maintain accurate voter rolls under federal law.
  
  
• The DOJ argues Illinois has not made a "reasonable effort" to remove ineligible voters due to death or residency changes and that it cannot delegate this responsibility to local jurisdictions. This comes a week before a scheduled hearing on a motion to dismiss the case.

Victory for Massachusetts voters

• A federal court granted the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth’s motion for summary judgment in a case alleging the state violated federal law by refusing to release a statewide voter registration list and voter registration data the state shared with the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC).
  
  
• This ruling means the case is now closed and the court will not order the secretary’s office to provide the plaintiff with a voter registration list and ERIC data. In a national trend, red states who left ERIC in 2023 have been struggling to build news systems to share voter data. 

DOJ defends voter suppression, Trump targets NYC mayoral candidate

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

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The ACLU has filed 60+ lawsuits against the Trump administration to challenge their unconstitutional and dangerous attacks on immigrants, trans people, free speech, and more. However, the ACLU still needs your help to make sure that the President’s agenda does not go unchecked. Join the ACLU today to hold the Trump administration accountable. 

Coming up tomorrow

• There will be a hearing in a federal lawsuit challenging Kentucky’s process for removing voters from the state’s voter registration rolls. Voters can be removed from Kentucky’s voter rolls within five days of the board receiving notice from another state or local government that the voter has registered to vote in another jurisdiction.
  
  
• A pro-voting group asks the court to ban Kentucky from purging a voter from the state’s voter rolls for a change of residence without receiving the voter’s written confirmation of the move or providing the voter with notice.

Editor’s Note: Yesterday, Democracy Docket incorrectly reported that the DOJ asked a federal court to modify its order blocking the section of Trump’s executive order on voting that calls for changes to the national voter registration form. In fact, the DOJ asked only for a modification of the portion of the court order relating to Section 2d of Trump’s executive order, which concerns checking citizenship at public assistance agencies. We regret the error.