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Trump has asked the Supreme Court to allow him to implement his executive order that seeks to exert control over mail ballots submitted in state-run elections. NBC News' Garrett Haake reports.
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Trump has asked the Supreme Court to allow him to implement his executive order that seeks to exert control over mail ballots submitted in state-run elections. NBC News' Garrett Haake reports.
Read at NBC News Politics →President Donald Trump appeared to endorse a theory that Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett – whom he nominated in 2020 – is "clearly terrified of the left," sharing a prominent right-wing figure's post about her voting record on social media Wednesday.Conservative podcaster Tim Pool wrote that "Amy Coney Barrett is clearly terrified of the left" in response to a viral post on X highlighting her voting record and a supposed drop-off in her alignment with the bench's other conservative justices. Trump shared Pool’s post on his social media platform Truth Social without additional commentary.The apparent slight represents the latest example of Trump’s growing hostility toward the Supreme Court, including toward justices he nominated. While the Supreme Court has handed Trump an unprecedented amount of judicial victories, it's also handed down several notable defeats to his agenda, rejecting his bid to appeal a civil defamation case and ruling against most of his so-called reciprocal tariffs.The viral post Pool was responding to was authored by an anonymous right-wing account known as 'Roscoe Smith IV,' which claimed that Barrett’s rate of voting with the “conservative position” in “non-unanimous cases” fell from 81% “into the 50-60% range” following the court’s decision on Dobbs v. Jackson.The claim, however, was found inaccurate by X’s automatic fact-checking service known as “community notes,” which flagged publicly available data suggesting Barrett has voted alongside conservative justices at rates higher than the viral post suggested.
Read at Raw Story →The President has pushed to remake U.S. elections ahead of the November midterms, where Republican control of Congress is at stake.
Read at TIME →President Trump paid E. Jean Carroll more than $5 million from a 2023 lawsuit, but he is now asking the court to overturn a much larger award that a jury ordered him to pay in 2024 for defaming her.
Read at NYT > U.S. > Politics →Trump vowed to seek a rehearing after the Supreme Court handed him a loss in June.
Read at Politics →The Supreme Court's approval rating — long the highest among the three branches of government — has sunk to a record low, joining President Trump and Congress in drawing low public support.Why it matters: Americans aren't just unhappy with individual leaders. They're increasingly convinced the country's biggest institutions aren't working for them.By the numbers: 33% of Americans approve of the Supreme Court's performance, according to a Gallup survey of 1,200 adults conducted from July 1-19 — days after the justices wrapped their latest term.That's down 6 percentage points from 2025, the court's previous low.Trump's approval rating stands at 34%, the lowest of either of his terms in office, a The Economist / YouGov poll found.About 13.5% of Americans approve of Congress' performance, down from 23.2% in July 2025, per YouGov data.Yes, but: When YouGov asked Americans about their own congressional representatives, more (33%) had a favorable opinion than an unfavorable one (30%).Simultaneously, the majority of Americans like their own party's representatives. About 73% of Democrats hold favorable views of congressional Democrats, while 80% of Republicans view congressional Republicans favorably.Data: Gallup; Chart: Noah Bressner/AxiosZoom in: Republicans drove much of the Supreme Court's slide.Just 58% of Republicans approve of the court this year, down from a near-record 79% in 2025.Gallup estimates those changes may reflect frustration that the court has bucked Trump on several major priorities, including birthright citizenship and tariffs.Meanwhile, Democratic support plunged after the court overturned Roe v. Wade, and Gallup suggests Democrats and independents remain unhappy with its conservative tilt.Flashback: When Gallup first asked the question in 2000, 62% of Americans approved of the Supreme Court, and a majority continued to support the court through 2010. Since then, its ratings have mostly fluctuated in the 40s as political polarization increased.Zoom out: The low rankings square with Americans' overall low confidence in 14 of the nation's core institutions.An average of just 27% of Americans say they have "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in 14 major U.S. institutions — only one point above the record low set in 2023.There's a wide partisan split here, too. Thirty-six percent of Republicans express high confidence in institutions, compared with 23% of Democrats.The bottom line: Perceptions typically swing based on who's in the White House.But across the board, America's confidence meter is flashing warning lights.Go deeper: America's trust in institutions keeps tankingEditor's note: This story was updated with an additional finding from the poll.
Read at Axios →In a blow to voters everywhere, a federal appeals court just made it easier for President Donald Trump to suppress mail-in voting. The midterms are three months away.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit affirmed a lower court’s decision Tuesday, arguing that a Democratic lawsuit challenging Trump’s mail-in voting executive order was premature. This result could have disastrous implications for the upcoming midterm elections: Not only does Trump’s executive order direct the Department of Homeland Security to create a national citizenship registry list, but it also orders the U.S. Postal Service to withhold mail-in ballots from states that don’t share voter registration data with the federal government.“Cheating on mail-in voting is legendary. It’s horrible, what’s gone on,” Trump said while signing the order in March. “Democrats want to use it for cheating.… I think this will help a lot with elections.”In reality, mail-in voting is proven to be a secure and reliable method used by hundreds of thousands of voters across the political spectrum. The president himself has voted by mail in recent elections—but it’s OK when he does it, he says, “because I’m president.”This new ruling from the D.C. Circuit comes only one day after Trump’s Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on the issue, calling the Democratic legal challenge “premature” and “hypothetical” because Trump’s executive order hasn’t yet been entirely implemented into DHS or USPS policy.The administration’s language is reflected in Tuesday’s D.C. Circuit court ruling, which argues that the Democratic plaintiffs are concerned with “the lawfulness of proposed actions if implemented on the threshold of the upcoming federal election,” rather than actions that have already happened. In other words, Trump’s executive order might be breaking the law, but the court isn’t comfortable saying so until it’s too late.“If the defendant agencies take steps to implement the Executive Order in a manner that violates federal law or the Constitution, Plaintiffs can promptly seek relief,” the decision says.Trump’s attack on mail-in voting goes hand in hand with the SAVE Act, a massive voter suppression bill Trump is trying to ram through the Senate this week. These increasingly desperate attempts to stop Americans from voting underscore the fact that the midterms aren’t looking so good for Republicans—and Trump likely knows he can’t win without cheating.
Read at The New Republic →President Donald Trump has run out of time, and he doesn't appear to know it yet. The president took to Truth Social earlier this month after his failed ruling at the U.S. Supreme Court over birthright citizenship. "Signs and Billboards are being put up all over our Southern Border, and Mexico, advertising birthright citizenship, with 'deliveries starting at $4,000.' Likewise, similar signs are going up all over our country. Billions of dollars will be illegally made by this scam, with citizenship going to anyone willing to pay," Trump said with his random capitalizations. "It will be by far, the number one way of becoming a citizen, and then the entire family will be allowed to follow. Not sustainable ... In fact, that is a crime, and therefore, the Supreme Court's ruling is wrong. I will be asking for rehearing by the United States Supreme Court, immediately. This miscarriage of justice will destroy America if they don't change their absolutely insane decision. Thank you for your attention to this matter," the message read.As William and Mary law professor Jonathan H. Adler explained, Trump's demand hit a brick wall."The deadline has passed, and the Docket does not indicate any petition was filed," he wrote on X.com. SCOTUS Wire explained, "Rule 44 allows 25 days to seek rehearing. It requires the support of at least one Justice from the majority, and is rarely granted."The Supreme Court decision was handed down on June 30 and Tuesday marks 28 days since the ruling. Trump is officially outside the rule. Trump and his allies continue to make claims about birth tourism, saying that women who are eight months pregnant either fly or walk across the U.S. border to give birth. That claim was cited by Solicitor General John Sauer in oral arguments in April. Chief Justice John Roberts asked Sauer how often this is happening. Sauer responded, "No one knows for sure."Trump alleged that there are hundreds of thousands of people doing this each year."In 2020, the Center for Immigration Studies, an organization that advocates low immigration, estimated the possible number of birth tourism cases at 20,000 to 26,000 per year. For context, there were 3.61 million births in the U.S. that year," explained FactCheck.org.
Read at Alternet.org →Emergency appeal comes after court upheld ruling blocking president’s order ahead of November midtermsThe Trump administration has asked the supreme court to clear the way for an executive order from Donald Trump that could dramatically change mail-in voting.The emergency appeal comes after an appeals court upheld a ruling blocking the president’s order in nearly half the country ahead of November’s midterm elections. Continue reading...
Read at US news | The Guardian →Slate spoke with a number of surviving family members of civil rights martyrs. All of them were devastated by the court’s ruling in Callais.
Read at News and Politics - Slate Magazine →2 publishers
A federal appeals court on Sunday left in place a lower court decision that blocked implementation of key parts of President Trump's executive order.
Read at Politics - CBSNews.com →The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Monday to lift a judge’s block on President Trump’s executive order that seeks to restrict mail-in voting, calling the halt premature. Solicitor General D. John Sauer said the courts have no power to intervene yet because the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and other involved agencies are still…
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A coalition of Republican-led states asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to lift a block on key parts of President Donald Trump’s executive order tightening rules on mail-in voting, days after the Justice Department made a similar request to the high court. Trump signed an executive order in March that aimed to create federal eligibility […]
Read at Washington Examiner →The Court faces tough questions as a result of an overreaching Trump order colliding with an overreaching district judge.
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