In a powerful reproach to Trump, the Indiana Senate voted against a mid-decade redistricting that would have gerrymandered the state’s congressional maps.

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In blow to Trump, Indiana rejects GOP gerrymander

- In a powerful reproach to President Donald Trump, the Indiana Senate voted ([link removed] ) against a mid-decade redistricting that would have gerrymandered the state’s congressional maps. At least 11 GOP lawmakers had received death threats ahead of the vote — a sign of the dangerous extremism that Trump’s backers brought to the battle.

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Judge orders Abrego Garcia’s immediate release from immigration custody

- This morning a federal judge ordered ([link removed] ) Kilmar Abrego Garcia — the Maryland man who was wrongly removed from the U.S. and sent to El Salvador without due process by the Trump administration — to be released from an ICE detention center, ruling his detention unlawful. Abrego Garcia was released this evening.

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Second grand jury rebuffs DOJ attempt to re-indict NY AG Leticia James

- A federal grand jury — for the second time in one week — rejected ([link removed] ) the Department of Justice's (DOJ) attempt to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James on alleged mortgage fraud charges. The decision suggests the department does not have sufficient evidence to claim she committed a crime.

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DOJ sues Hawaii and Colorado in latest attempts to seize voter data…

- The DOJ sued ([link removed] ) Colorado and Hawaii today in the administration’s latest lawsuits seeking to force states to hand over their voter rolls.

- The two states became the fifteenth and sixteenth to be sued by the DOJ over access to voter data, amping up a national campaign that election leaders say threatens voter privacy and the constitutional authority of states to run elections.

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…and DOJ to sue Georgia as even red states resist demand for voter rolls

- The DOJ said it’s readying to sue ([link removed] ) GOP-led Georgia after it told the department to “pound sand” for requesting unredacted access to its state voter records. The development underscores growing nationwide alarm over the DOJ’s national effort to access voters’ private data.

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Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s anti-voting shift

- This year, Trump’s DOJ has aggressively pursued ([link removed] ) lawsuits to impose stricter voting regulations — a total 180-degree turn from its founding mission to uphold those rights. We’ve monitored the DOJ’s every move.

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A loss for Tennessee voters

- The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled ([link removed] ) that the 2022 state House and Senate redistricting maps enacted by the legislature following the 2020 census did not violate the state’s constitution, overturning the district court’s 2023 ruling.

- That may seem technical, but the ruling established that voters have no right to challenge misnumbered legislative districts. Misnumbering leads elections in different legislative districts to be unevenly divided between election cycles, which could potentially contribute to decreased turnout in some state legislative elections.

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The greatest threat to democracy

- Republicans want us to focus our attention elsewhere so they can continue planning to subvert ([link removed] ) the 2026 elections. They want voter suppression and election denialism to become routine. For the next 11 months, our job is to prevent this from happening, Marc writes.

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