The White House's opening salvo in the war against the midterms is through USPS, where he hasn't managed to get a single governor nominee confirmed to the board. Seems as if this war was about as about as well-planned as the one against Iran was...

Albert Podrasky, Chief Justice Roberts’ grandfather, born in the U.S. to parents who were not citizens, was an American citizen. Why not the U.S.-born child today of a migrant from Africa? Or El Salvador? Or Honduras?

This order will be swiftly challenged and blocked by courts. But it still must be stressed that the president is attempting to personally control who gets a ballot this November.

This is the correct lede for this news. This executive order is a press release cosplaying as an instruction, and I expect it to last maybe a week.

Dozens of people showing up at members’ town halls in 2009 was enough for The Media to declare the Tea Party Movement™️ as a key force in American politics — for years — as the Obama administration was getting going. Consider that when you see how those same papers cover today’s protests.

#NoKings protests are happening all across the world today! Here's some pics from a rally in Hastings on Hudson, NY, from Democracy Docket Managing Editor @zackroth #NoKings

Sandra Wong, the great granddaughter of Wong Kim Ark, is preparing to march at the #NoKings Rally in San Francisco. Today is the 128th Anniversary of the SCOTUS decision affirming birthright citizenship.

I'm working on a story about how the SAVE America Act could make life hard for remote voters in Alaska, and I'd love to talk to some for the story. So if that's you, please reach out (my email is my last name @democracydocket.com; my signal is in my bsky bio)!

1/2 This memo identifies absolutely no source of legal authority for paying TSA. It does not point to an appropriation that is available for this purpose, nor does it point to any legal authority to transfer some other appropriation to TSA. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Early anecdotal evidence suggests that participating in No Kings events is motivating the women organizing them to think more about what they can do to support their country’s democracy. And some of those women have decided to run for office.

1/ It's not just that unilaterally paying TSA agents is illegal. It's that Trump has now repeatedly undermined the core of the congressional power of the purse. He's not spending money that has been appropriated by law (impoundments) and he's spending money that has not been appropriated.

NEW: The DOJ is reportedly working to provide states’ voter registration data to the DHS, potentially for immigration enforcement purposes. In court, the department has repeatedly downplayed that voter data would be used that way.

Case of the Venezuelan sent to CECOT who's suing the USA for $1.3 million in damages under the Federal Tort Claims Act has been assigned to ... Judge James Boasberg.

EXCLUSIVE: After a California sheriff seized 650k+ ballots from last year's redistricting referendum, it raised a big question: Why? But a quick look at his LinkedIn profile reveals that he's been in the business of pushing extreme anti-voting rhetoric online👇 https://bit.ly/4rTuT98

JUST IN: Democrats tonight have flipped a GOP-held state House seat in Florida. And not just any seat: This is the district that contains Mar-a-Lago. (It voted for Trump by 11% in 2024). That's right: Trump will now be represented by a Democrat, Emily Gregory, in Tallahassee.

Past studies have found little to no increase in voter confidence from *existing voter ID laws,* which this writer doesn't engage with. There is no placating conspiracy theorists who will just latch onto the next lie because their entire goal is delegitimizing Democratic victories through any means

Can he hit 70%? Does he have that dawg in him?

Here's another photo of the year candidate from Getty contributor Megan Varner:

that feels like something you say when you're wearing a wire

A sign of the times: The president and attorney general are currently touring Elvis' home.

A GOP sheriff running for CA governor has seized 650k ballots cast in last year’s redistricting election — an alarming signal that the FBI’s recent conspiracy-fueled raid of a Georgia county election hub could be just the first in a new string of attacks. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

sending ICE to airports is meant as an act of intimidation. whether it’s well-planned or not, whether they’re masked or not, whether they’re trained or not—as with ICE anywhere, ICE will do whatever ICE can get away with, until they don’t

NEW: Tomorrow, SCOTUS will consider dramatically limiting mail voting. The question at hand? Whether ballots postmarked by Election Day, but that arrive after, should count. Depending on how the justices rule, millions of voters could be disenfranchised in future elections. https://bit.ly/4bANHnB

“This global campaign has resulted in unauthorized access to thousands of individual CMA accounts. After compromising an account, malicious actors can view the victims' messages and contact lists, send messages, and conduct additional phishing against other CMA accounts,” the FBI said.

FBI confirms Russia conducted a major cyber attack against users of commercial messaging applications, including Signal. The campaign targeted current and former U.S. government officials, military personnel, political figures and journalists.

Is this tiptoeing toward something like stolen valor?

NEW: The DOJ spent weeks pressing Oklahoma for its voter rolls but never heard back. The problem? The state never got the request — because the department was emailing the wrong address.

NEW: Right-wing activists are circulating a draft executive order that purports to give Trump sweeping power over federal elections. @mollyroberts.bsky.social and I got new details on the activists, lawyers, and conspiracy theorists behind the proposed order: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/in-c...

Cyber ninjas are back! a deep dive from me and @jaknutson.bsky.social about the Dumbest 2020 Audit from the Worst People You Know™️ that is now the basis of the FBI's latest election probe.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has a little shrine for Trump in the Main Interior Building.

🧵 Where things stand in the Trump administration's attempt to re-litigate the 2020 election in Arizona. After the FBI's January raid on Fulton County, GA's election hub, the bureau is probing records from an audit of the 2020 race in Maricopa County, AZ.

They're afraid of legitimate voters being unable to vote because they have to go through a bunch of stupid unnecessary hoops for no good reason. Every study that's ever been done shows that there are very few instances of vote fraud. We know what they're doing.

Does the Post have a history of (1) reporting on allegations of serious wrongdoing by a then-federal employee, yet (2) not naming the person accused because the Post has not "independently confirmed" the allegations, while nonetheless (3) allowing the unnamed person to deny the allegations?

@marklemley.bsky.social’s Privacy Act case just got a little more ammunition. Can you have a class of 70 million Americans?

"It's the beginning of building a new country," Trump says.

He thinks this is some architectural masterwork. Begod. It's mid-size midwestern city convention center with crown molding.

I'll always remember Kristi Noem for the "Meth. We're on it." campaign.

People either forget or don't know that after Noem shot Cricket, her 14-month-old dog, her bloodlust apparently wasn't satisfied so she just randomly shot the family's goat as well.

[Exit Murderer.]

If the government gets to decide if you have them, they're not human rights.

The Model Code of Professional Conduct requires attorneys to cooperate with disciplinary investigations. Discouraging compliance with this rule almost certainly violates the Code as well. See Rule 8.1(b). www.americanbar.org/groups/profe...

This “it’s not a war but a special military operation” is very Kremlin March 2022. As is the propaganda that we are not starting a war but ending one. As is the confusion of oligarch media as it tries to be faithful in the confusion…

On the other site, CPAC announced that Todd Blanch, DOJ's No. 2, will speak at this year's event in Grapevine, Texas.

Incredibly stupid

Gives the game away when defenders of Trump's regional war refer to the Constitution as a "moot point."

And then they claim, “Washington is broken.”