1. SCOTUS is going to have a hard time ruling for Trump on birthright. He did himself no favors today.

2. Our birthright citizenship rule is a universal one, designed to prevent Trump from doing what he's trying to do now -- deciding who's American and who isn't.

3. SCOTUS? Still a major problem.🧵

Breaking: The president has signed an executive order on mail voting. He has no lawful authority to write the rules that govern our elections. He tried a year ago; we sued him; we won. A year later, he has tried again. He can expect the same result. 1/2

ICE agents have been deployed to airports. Are the polls next? | CNN Politics The high-profile deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to airports has renewed support on the right and fear on the left about the possibility of ICE going to the polls in November.

Sending ICE or any federal agents to interfere in elections or intimidate voters would be unlawful, and I am confident that courts would step in," @wendyweiser.bsky.social to @cnn.com on threats to free and fair elections ahead of the 2026 midterms:

On Jan 28, news broke of a dramatic FBI raid at a warehouse storing ballots and other election materials from the 2020 election in Fulton County, GA. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Claiming "foreign interference," "widespread fraud," an "imminent threat" or a "national emergency" does not magically change the fact that the president has no authority to interfere in elections. No law gives the president any authority over elections under any of those circumstances.

Status of Trump’s Anti-Voting Executive Order A year after its issuance, many provisions are blocked and others are still being challenged in federal courts.

Recall: the president has absolutely no authority to take over or meddle in election administration. States run elections, under laws passed by states & Congress. Here's a rundown of how Trump's last executive order on voting is going. All 3 courts to have ruled on it said it's unconstitutional.

Trump’s emergency elections order is ‘being prepared,’ key ally believes "I think Plan A has always been an executive order from President Trump based on the fact that the Chinese penetrated and influenced the 2020 election," conspiracist Jerome Corsi said.

Keep your eye on this: As Trump's allies in the Senate press their egregious (and hopefully doomed) SAVE Act, his allies in the election denier community claim he is preparing a new election takeover executive order, presumably as an end run around Congress www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Somehow, the SAVE Act might get worse. It already requires a passport or birth certificate to register to vote, which would block millions of American citizens from voting. The new substitute amendment (#4420) would end vote-by-mail as we know it (& more)!

STOP the SAVE Act: the anti-voter law would require voters to show a passport or birth certificate to register to vote, but 21 million American citizens don’t have those documents readily available. Call your senators: bit.ly/4srDVLB

Establishing the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

Note that this new White House task force has “election integrity measures” explicitly in its sights. Remember that this administration is relentlessly trying to interfere in elections. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Establishing the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

Note that this new White House task force has “election integrity measures” explicitly in its sights. Remember that this administration is relentlessly trying to interfere in elections. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Here is what DOJ really should have investigated relating to the 2020 election in Maricopa County, AZ--the improper access a private firm was given to ballots and election materials and the failure to preserve the security of those materials: www.brennancenter.org/sites/defaul...

What to Know About Clerking on a State Supreme Court Judges from high courts across the country share insights for law students and recent graduates.

Calling law students and new lawyers--join our virtual event to learn about clerking on state supreme courts. March 19 at 3 pm. www.brennancenter.org/events/what-...

Status of Trump’s Anti-Voting Executive Order A year after its issuance, many provisions are blocked and others are still being challenged in federal courts.

Last year, Trump issued a sweeping executive order purporting to rewrite many election rules and practices nationwide. A year in, most of it has been blocked or thwarted, but the administration keeps pressing on. Read @brennancenter’s detailed rundown here: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

The #SCOTUS hypocrisy in election-related cases is breathtaking. They are not even trying anymore.

How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account Our national project of elite impunity

After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Trump moves to rewrite election rules unilaterally The president has directed his White House counsel to explore a voter ID executive order, even as his own lawyers warn it would likely be stricken down — the latest test of his executive authority ove...

Note that even Trump's lawyers reportedly don't believe they can persuade courts he has legal authority to issue executive orders on voting. That's because he clearly does not. www.ms.now/news/trump-m...

But that doesn't mean you should sit back and wait for the courts to save our elections. It is important to call out every abuse and incursion as soon as it happens. No one should tolerate or cooperate with unlawful efforts by this administration to meddle in elections.

Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency Activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a draft executive order that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.

Do not fall for this bunk that Trump can use emergency powers to issue an executive order to control elections. The law is clear: The president has no legal authority over elections. He has no emergency powers relating to elections. If he tries this, it will be blocked in court like his other EO.

Opinion: I support voter ID but oppose the SAVE America Act Protecting election integrity should not come at the cost of access, especially in rural and tribal communities.

Important oped by Sen. Lisa Murkowski on why she opposes the SAVE Act: www.adn.com/opinions/202...

The Justice Department’s Security Measures for Collecting Voter Rolls Are Inadequate Federal and state law requires that sensitive voter registration information be kept secure.

There is so much wrong with DOJ's campaign to collect state voter rolls from across the country. Here's yet another thing: it likely violates a key federal law--FISMA--governing the information security measures required for sensitive data. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

“The cheating is rampant in our elections. It’s rampant. … They want to cheat. They have cheated. And their policy is so bad that the only way they can get elected is to cheat and we’re going to stop ...

FALSE: “The cheating is rampant in our elections. It’s rampant. … They want to cheat. They have cheated. And their policy is so bad that the only way they can get elected is to cheat and we’re going to stop it.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

Louisiana’s Chief Election Official Confirms Lack of Widespread Noncitizen Voting An investigation of decades of state voting records found that voting by non-U.S. citizens is extremely rare.

Contrary to what POTUS says, the evidence is clear that only citizens vote in our elections, with vanishingly rare exceptions. There are multiple layers of safeguards to protect against fraudulent voting—and they work. This has been proved again and again.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

And it would make married women who have changed their names go through extra hurdles just to register to vote.

It would functionally eliminate voter registration by mail and online registration. It would make everyone go in person to register to vote.

Here are other bad things the SAVE Act would do: It would require states to turn over their sensitive voter information to DHS.

Americans do not support the show-me-your-papers requirements at the core of the SAVE Act. Last year, so many Americans nationwide spoke out against the SAVE Act that they stopped the bill in its tracks.

You cannot use a driver’s license to register to vote under the SAVE Act in most cases. Nor can you use any photo ID issued by the federal, state or a tribal government. #SOTU

Millions of Americans Don’t Have Documents Proving Their Citizenship Readily Available Requiring Americans to prove their citizenship to register to vote would exclude millions of citizens from the political process.

Half of Americans don’t have a passport. More than 21 million Americans do not have any citizenship papers readily available. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

New SAVE Act Bills Would Still Block Millions of Americans From Voting The “show your papers” requirement is an attack on the freedom to vote.

At the core of the SAVE Act is a requirement that Americans show a passport or birth certificate in person every time they register to vote. #SOTU www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...