🎉 WIN: The Supreme Court ruled that Trump’s executive order attempting to deny citizenship to children born in the U.S. to foreign nationals violated the 14th Amendment. Trump's order would have had grave implications for voting, allowing him to shape the future electorate. https://bit.ly/4vHcCPp

NEW: The DHS appears to have shut down key features of a federal database that had been used to check the citizenship status of over 67 million registered voters. The move comes after Trump directed the DHS to upgrade the system to allow for bulk searches using partial social security numbers.

NEW: House Republicans hijacked the floor in yet another attempt to pass the SAVE America Act by trying to attach it to a key annual defense bill. The effort derailed GOP leadership's plans for House votes today, but the push to ram through Trump's pet legislation will likely trek on.

NEW: SCOTUS’ narrow decision to uphold birthright citizenship should worry anyone concerned about voting rights. Why? A successful bid to restrict birthright citizenship would supercharge efforts to restrict ballot access. And for Republicans, this is just the beginning.

NEW: Anti-voting lawyer Cleta Mitchell believes SCOTUS' ruling upholding mail ballot grace periods opened the door to challenge early voting. Despite the legal longshot, Mitchell’s attack on early voting offers a reminder of the right’s zeal to abolish almost any form of voting that expands access.

🎥 NEW: SCOTUS ended the last day of its term by ruling to uphold birthright citizenship. From a victory for mail voters to a loss in his own campaign finance case, Marc Elias breaks down key decisions, and reminds us that while the wins are worth celebrating, none of these fights are over👇

Our Founding Fathers were also long dead when the 14th Amendment was adopted in 1868, Congresswoman.

🧵In a win for democracy, the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship. In his majority opinion, Chief Justice Roberts wrote: “We keep that promise today.” Justices Alito and Thomas disagreed. And they took over 91 pages to spell it out. Below are some of their most scathing remarks👇

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rules 6-3 to strike down Trump’s bid to eliminate birthright citizenship as part of his attack on immigration in all forms. The ruling affirms unanimous lower court decisions that blocked the effort for violating the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause.

‼️ The GOP wants to require election officials to throw out ballots that were cast on time but have missing or mistaken dates on the envelope. Now, the Supreme Court has signaled that it will hear a Republican bid on the issue that risks disenfranchising large numbers of voters.

States could soon have the ability to carry out last-minute voter purges and strip eligible Americans of their right to vote weeks or days before an election, Mi Familia Vota President and CEO Hector Sanchez Barba said. It all depends on the Supreme Court. https://bit.ly/4eGhnkE

⚠️ The GOP’s crusade to disenfranchise eligible voters will now head to the Supreme Court. SCOTUS will hear an Arizona case that could significantly weaken a crucial federal law protecting voters from being removed from the rolls right before an election.

🏛️ Today is yet another SCOTUS opinion day. We’re on the lookout for a ruling in the birthright citizenship case, which could also impact voting. Follow us for the latest updates on this case:

For the GOP, the battle against mail voting is purely a matter of partisan advantage — the pool of so-called "late-received" ballots skews young, minority and Democratic. Today, the Supreme Court rejected Republicans’ scheme to disenfranchise voters. Today, democracy won. https://bit.ly/4v65laF

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor denounced SCOTUS for allowing Trump to shape the federal government through arbitrary dismissals. “Put simply, today the majority reshapes our Government,” Sotomayor wrote. https://bit.ly/3SrtZF8

🗳️ Trump and some of his top allies want to challenge early voting. But SCOTUS’ recent ruling protecting the millions of Americans who vote by mail also protects millions of others who cast their ballots at early voting sites. Here’s how:

The Supreme Court had a lot to say about democracy today. We covered it all: ✅ Mail ballots can count if received after Election Day ⚖️ The Court signals it'll take up Pennsylvania's mail ballot fight

SCOTUS upheld Trump’s dismissal of the last Democrat on the FTC while rejecting his attempt to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. The rulings represent a dramatic restructuring of executive power and will likely supercharge Trump’s effort to assert absolute control over multiple agencies.

🎉 HUGE WIN FOR VOTERS: The Supreme Court said states can count ballots postmarked by Election Day. Justice Samuel Alito argued that the decision risks undermining public confidence in elections. Justice Amy Coney Barrett addressed those arguments in the majority’s opinion. https://bit.ly/4eO75PL

NEW: "Democracy is stronger when more people, not less, can participate." Millions of voters will be protected from disenfranchisement after SCOTUS ruled to uphold mail ballot grace periods. Now, voting rights advocates are celebrating the monumental win. Here's what they had to say👇

NEW: For nearly a decade, Republicans and @marcelias.bsky.social have battled over whether mail ballots postmarked by Election Day but received after should count. But today, SCOTUS rejected the GOP's scheme to disenfranchise mail voters. And today, we should all celebrate because democracy won.

NEW: Trump jumped on the opportunity to push the SAVE America Act after SCOTUS delivered a ruling upholding mail ballot grace periods. But even as the president escalated his pressure campaign, he appeared to admit the passage of the bill "probably is not going to happen."

NEW: Upon his return to the White House, Trump declared war on mail voting. But his attack suffered a major defeat after SCOTUS upheld states' mail ballot grace periods. Nevertheless, threats to mail voting remain as Republicans vow to redouble their efforts to impose restrictions on voting.

🧵 📬 The Supreme Court just blessed grace periods for ballots mailed by Election Day, rejecting a GOP bid to restrict mail voting in 14 states. The ruling constitutes a welcome reprieve from the high bench's recent assault on democracy. Here's a breakdown of the opinion below👇

BREAKING: The DSCC and Jon Ossoff's campaign asked to join lawsuits to defend Gwinnett and Fulton Counties ballot drop-off policies, which allow voters to return absentee ballots at advance voting or alternate locations. The cases are part of a GOP push to enforce a 2021 anti-voting Georgia law.

NEW: Millions of Americans who rely on mail voting were delivered a key win today after SCOTUS upheld grace periods for ballots cast on — but received after — Election Day. But the Court’s decision also comes as a victory for millions more who cast their ballots in person at early voting sites.

NEW: The Colorado Supreme Court squashed a Democratic redistricting effort aimed at countering GOP gerrymanders ahead of the 2028 elections. The effort sought to ask voters to let the state temporarily sidestep the state's independent redistricting commission to draw a more blue-leaning map.

NEW: The RNC sued to block Nevada from accepting voter registrations, issuing ballots or counting ballots from certain Americans living abroad. The lawsuit marks the latest escalation in the GOP's fast-moving national campaign to restrict voting access for U.S. citizens abroad.

NEW: The fight against last-minute voter disenfranchisement is now before SCOTUS after it agreed to hear a case that could weaken a key federal voting protection. And the Court's decision could "strip eligible Americans of their fundamental right to vote just weeks or even days before an election."

BREAKING: A federal court hands the DOJ yet another loss, dismissing its lawsuit seeking access to New Hampshire's unredacted voter data. The department now stands at 0-11 in its sweeping legal hunt for states' private voter information.

NEW: The Supreme Court will not take up a challenge to a Texas law prohibiting voters from receiving help with their ballots from a person who is compensated for that service. The decision represents a loss for voters with disabilities in the Lone Star State who may rely on paid assistance to vote.

🎥 NEW: Marc Elias spent years litigating Watson v. RNC all the way to SCOTUS. Today, he explains the Court's 5-4 ruling rejecting the RNC's effort to throw out mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day but received afterward and argues why every state should adopt this rule NOW👇

NEW: Justice Sonia Sotomayor denounced SCOTUS for granting Trump power “over broad swaths of American life” by upholding his arbitrary dismissal of the last Democrat on the Federal Trade Commission. “The result is a President who emerges with far greater power than ever before,” she wrote.

NEW: Republicans and right-wing figures are melting down over SCOTUS' ruling today allowing grace periods for ballots mailed by Election Day. Now, they're seizing the opportunity to push more fears about voter fraud and bolster Trump's effort to pass the SAVE America Act.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court upholds Trump’s firing of FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter without cause. The decision overturns a 90-year-old precedent that protected the heads or board members of independent agencies from arbitrary presidential dismissals. Full story to come.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects Trump’s bid to arbitrarily remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook — a move that hasn’t occurred in the bank’s 111-year history. The decision allows Cook to remain on the Fed’s Board of Governors, which oversees the stability of the banking system.

BREAKING: SCOTUS will hear an anti-voting lawsuit challenging two Arizona laws that create a new restrictive proof of citizenship requirement for voters, and make it easier to purge the rolls. If it upholds the laws, it could risk disenfranchising eligible voters and make it harder to register.

BREAKING: In a huge win for voters across the country, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to uphold grace periods for mail ballots. States CAN count ballots postmarked by Election Day but received after Election Day.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court will not hear a pro-voting lawsuit challenging a Texas law prohibiting voters from getting help with their ballot from someone that is compensated. As a result, a 5th Circuit ruling upholding the anti-voting law remains in place.

BREAKING: SCOTUS allowed the DOJ to file a brief in a lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania's "Date Instruction" requirement that prevents counties from counting undated or wrongly dated mail-in ballots. While the Court hasn't decided whether it will take the case, the move suggests it likely will.

Nobody in the Trump administration is doing what is right for the American people, Marc Elias says. And Trump wants it to stay that way. “Trump doesn’t want that corruption to be exposed. He doesn’t want that oversight. He doesn’t want the threat that is posed by Democrats controlling Congress.”

Trump said he directed the DOJ to probe California’s elections – an abuse of power to achieve a partisan political objective. “Here, we have a president who, by his own account, personally called a federal prosecutor to intervene in an ongoing election,” Marc Elias writes. https://bit.ly/4ePaa20

🏛️ Today is yet another SCOTUS opinion day. We are on the lookout for rulings in multiple cases, including Watson v. RNC, which could bar states from counting mail ballots that arrive after Election Day. Follow us for the latest updates:

Every defeat the DOJ suffers in its effort to gain access to state voter files brings us closer to protecting the midterm elections. “The road ahead for democracy is narrow and filled with obstacles,” Marc Elias writes, “but we have already shown that we can clear them.” https://bit.ly/4xKu5Yl

Why does Trump want to create a national voter registration list? “This effort to create a national voter file that Donald Trump controls is an effort to mass disenfranchise people through paperwork.” Don’t let him get away with it. Join our fight for fair elections: https://bit.ly/4qskS3m

⚠️There are 132 election deniers across 35 states running for statewide or federal office this year, according to the pro-democracy group States United Action. Do you know who’s running in your state? Find out who’s on your ballot:

NEW: Paigelynne Gonyea, the New York poll worker who ICE agents recently confronted, tells Democracy Docket that she’s exploring her legal options. "This is me standing on business and defending our constitutional right of free speech," said Gonyea.

NEW: Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) said on Meet the Press that it’s “very possible” that there’s not enough time or resources to implement the anti-voter SAVE America Act before this year’s midterms. He also said, "I don’t think that fraud will ever end our democracy,” despite supporting the bill.

NEW: This week courts: blocked usage of a flawed DHS database to purge voters, cancelled parts of one Trump anti-voting exec order, stopped implementation of his other one on mail voting, and rejected DOJ access to several states' voter rolls. It was a bad week for Trump, but good for democracy.

NEW: In a win for Pennsylvania voters, a federal judge dismissed the DOJ’s lawsuit for access to the state’s unredacted voter rolls. The department is now 0-10 in its sweeping legal effort seeking private voter data. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...