Trump defends his mail voting hypocrisy: 'I'm president of the United States'

• "I don’t appreciate the question,” President Donald Trump said after being pressed on casting a ballot by mail in recent Florida elections, despite relentlessly attacking the voting method as a vehicle for election fraud.
  
  
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Top Trump official endorses sending ICE agents to voting sites

• During a conservative political conference, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said he couldn’t understand why anyone would oppose the president deploying ICE agents to the polls.
  
  

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Trump: ‘TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER’

• After repeated failures to bypass the filibuster, Trump and his Senate MAGA loyalists are now calling to completely eliminate it to pass the SAVE America Act, which would disenfranchise millions of voters right before midterms.
  
  
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DOJ said it had no plans to share voter data with DHS. Guess what it's now planning to do

• DOJ is reportedly working to provide states’ voter registration data to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), potentially for immigration enforcement purposes.
  
  
• In court, DOJ has repeatedly downplayed — and in some instances denied — that voter data would be used that way, saying doing so would be inconsistent with the department’s key reason for wanting the data.
  
  
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Utah ballot measure to legalize partisan gerrymanders fails after signature removal campaign

• Utah Republicans gathered more than 160,000 signatures to put a measure, which would repeal the state’s gerrymandering ban on the 2026 ballot. But the Republican canvassing firm hired to gather signatures faced accusations of tricking Utahns into signing the petition.
  
  
• In response, a group opposing the repeal measure launched a campaign to help Utahns remove their signatures — and eventually succeeded in pushing the ballot measure back under the required threshold to be sent to voters.
  
  
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Judge rules FBI agent doesn’t need to testify about Fulton County, Georgia election raid

• County officials accused the agent of deliberately presenting false fraud claims to secure a search warrant for the raid of 2020 election records.
  
  
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California voters demand GOP sheriff return 650k seized ballots

• Four voters filed a lawsuit with the California Supreme Court demanding a GOP sheriff running for governor return hundreds of thousands of ballots cast in last year’s redistricting referendum.
  
  
• The California Attorney General’s office filed a separate lawsuit arguing the sheriff obtained warrants lacking probable cause and began conducting an “amateur and dubious” recount of the votes.
  
  
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Trump admin revives push to prosecute New York AG Letitia James — now with a new criminal referral

• The latest move comes after repeated failures in court and before multiple grand juries by the Trump DOJ.
  
  
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Coming up tomorrow

• A hearing is scheduled in a pro-voting lawsuit seeking the return of those election records seized by the FBI in Fulton County. Democracy Docket will be reporting live from the courthouse.
  
  

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