With Election Day approaching, warnings about voter challenges and certification disputes deserve careful attention. So does the distinction between an allegation, a lawsuit, and a court ruling.

Less than two weeks before the November 3 midterm elections, courts and election officials are addressing four separate disputes involving different stages of the voting process.

Fair housing rights do not enforce themselves. They depend on someone answering the telephone when a family believes a landlord rejected them because of their race. They depend on trained investigators testing whether disabled applicants receive the same treatment as everyone else. They depend on community organizations that know the neighborhoods, understand the law and can help ordinary people challenge discrimination.

As Election Day approaches, federal searches, constitutional rights, and press freedom are colliding with the question of who restrains government power

Forty civil cases put the security of naturalized citizenship—and the government’s burden of proof—under a national spotlight By Walter Sundiata | On The Corner | October 7, 2026 The United States government has opened its largest concentrated campaign in modern history to take citizenship away from naturalized Americans. On October 5, the Department of Justice announced that it had filed 40 civil denaturalization complaints in federal courts across the country. The cases wer

The dispute is not simply about which programs deserve funding. It is about whether a president can cancel federal spending without obtaining a vote from Congress.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has an essential public mission: helping communities prepare for emergencies, terrorism and other serious threats. Running elections is not part of that mission. FEMA does not register voters. It does not select voting equipment. It does not count or certify ballots. Yet the agency attempted to use money intended to protect communities from terrorism as leverage to make states and local governments change how they administer elections.

The federal government says it has removed approximately 760,000 people from Affordable Care Act Marketplace coverage as part of a sweeping effort to identify fraud, improper subsidies and enrollment records that officials say could not be verified. That is the headline. But it is not the whole story.

On September 19, California enacted a package of laws expanding voting access and strengthening protections against voter suppression, ballot interference and election-system seizures.

A federal watchdog documented dangerous metal enclosures at Florida’s Everglades immigration detention facility. Earlier detainee accounts described something even more severe. The gap between those accounts is not proof of a cover-up—but it is a warning about the limits of oversight behind closed doors.

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration’s request to enforce new Postal Service restrictions on mail-ballot distribution during the 2026 midterm election.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Missouri from using a Republican-drawn congressional map designed to improve the party's chances of gaining another U.S. House seat, bringing at least temporary clarity to an extraordinary legal battle that has moved through state and federal courts just weeks before the November midterm election.

Two fast-moving election cases are raising a consequential question ahead of the November midterms: Will the courts serve as a guardrail when government officials attempt to change voting rules or congressional boundaries for partisan advantage? In his September 4 American Prospect newsletter, “Trump, Election Theft, and the Courts,” Robert Kuttner argues that recent rulings suggest judges may be unwilling to permit the Trump administration and its allies to reshape the elec

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations unit published a new federal acquisition plan on August 31 seeking private data services for its election-fraud investigations.

Two consequential developments emerged September 1, although neither has yet changed the rules voters must follow. On The Corner | September 2, 2026 Two consequential developments emerged September 1, although neither has yet changed the rules voters must follow. USPS whistleblower alleges a dangerously unreliable ballot system A whistleblower disclosure sent to Congress describes the Postal Service’s new Federal Ballot Mail Portal as rushed, inadequately tested and capable o

In a recent article for The American Prospect, Robert Kuttner warns that the Trump administration’s reported effort to use the IRS against liberal nonprofits could reach far beyond a handful of prominent foundations. It could threaten the civic work that nonprofit and faith-based organizations have performed in American communities for generations.

A federal court has stopped the Postal Service from imposing new mail-ballot requirements—but an emergency appeal means the rules for November remain unsettled