Trump admin pressures Ohio to ban late-arriving ballots

• The Department of Justice (DOJ) threatened Ohio with “costly litigation” unless it changes its acts to ban the counting of ballots that arrive after Election Day, the state’s top election official revealed in comments exclusively reported by Democracy Docket. It’s part of a broader campaign on the part of President Donald Trump and the GOP to eliminate mail ballot grace periods.
  
  
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DOJ charges congressional candidate over ICE protests

• The DOJ indicted Illinois Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh in connection with protests against ICE operations in Chicago. “This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights,” Abughazaleh said. “I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.”

Appeals court upholds Texas county’s GOP gerrymander

• A federal appeals court upheld Tarrant County, Texas’ GOP gerrymander — keeping in place a commissioner map that dilutes Black and Latino voting power. The judges admitted the map would hit minority voters hardest but brushed it off as driven by partisanship, not racism.
  
  
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Judge rejects GOP’s emergency bid to halt Virginia redistricting

• A Virginia judge denied the GOP’s emergency bid to stop Democrats from advancing their redistricting plan. The case will continue, but for now, Virginia Democrats can keep pushing for a new map. Today the Virginia House on party lines passed a proposed constitutional amendment.
  
  
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DOJ puts prosecutors on leave for accurately describing Jan. 6 attack

• Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave — just hours after filing a sentencing memo accurately describing Jan. 6 as “a mob of rioters attacking the U.S. Capitol.” It’s another extreme example of interference with DOJ independence by the Trump White House — and it underscores how Trump and his allies have tried to rewrite, or bury, the history of the Jan. 6 attack.
  
  
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Lawsuit challenging Trump’s massive voter purge database hits snag

• A federal judge criticized pro-voting groups over what she called their “muddled” filing in a lawsuit to block the Trump administration from using a citizenship verification system to purge state voter rolls. The judge gave them until Wednesday to bolster their argument.
  
  
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Maryland Democrats refuse to join redistricting fight

• Maryland appears unlikely to help Democrats counter the GOP’s nationwide gerrymander, after top lawmakers said the Senate would not be moving forward with a plan to eliminate the state’s one Republican congressional seat.
  
  
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Another Trump-appointed attorney found to be serving unlawfully

• A federal judge ruled that Trump-appointed, anti-voting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli served unlawfully in the nation’s largest federal district. Essayli is the third Trump-installed prosecutor found to have unlawfully held office in recent months.
  
  
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Ninth Circuit restores block on Trump’s Portland National Guard deployment

• The Ninth Circuit last night restored the block on Trump’s National Guard deployment in Portland. The appeals court voted to rehear the case and vacate an earlier extreme ruling that let him seize Oregon’s troops. The district court’s trial on the merits started today.
  
  
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Breaking down Trump’s shocking DOJ election move

• A shocking new move by the Trump administration: sending DOJ “poll monitors” — handpicked by Attorney General Pam Bondi — to California and New Jersey just days before the November elections. Marc joined MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow to explain why this poses a grave threat to free and fair elections, how Trump is laying the groundwork for election denial in 2026, and what Americans can do to fight back.
  
  
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