2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (757+ words) A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. News that the Trump DOJ is escalating its attack on state election officials first emerged, I believe, in Salt Lake City yesterday, where Utah’s…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (299+ words) Louisiana was met with a chilly reception Wednesday, as it pushed to make the abortion pill mifepristone less accessible nationwide. “I’m looking at six different steps…and we’re gonna attribute that to the federal government?” asked Fifth Circuit Court of…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (265+ words) It also narrows the list of immigrants the Census Bureau would classify as U.S. residents, as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to wield the decennial population count to benefit Republican states. The administration is using the rule to remake how the…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1007+ words) A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. President Trump’s concerted assault on free and fair elections is happening on so many fronts that it’s hard for a casual observer to keep…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (240+ words) The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied Missouri Republicans’ attempt to jam through a new gerrymander that would leave Democrats with only one House seat to their seven. Minutes later, U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark — a Trump appointee — handed down a…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (547+ words) Election experts are examining the new U.S. Postal Service rules for mailed ballots, and finding that under them, getting ballots in the mail could take weeks — or even years — rendering the program unworkable for an actual election. “If it took one…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (527+ words) President Trump has made it impossible for Republicans to seize on a relatively easy, bipartisan issue that could help them win over voters in the midterms if they spoke about it in the right way. As he espouses bombastic rhetoric…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (796+ words) The Trump administration used a tool created in the early days of the War on Terror to obtain financial information without a search warrant as part of its broad crackdown on opposition groups, new documents show. In newly released emails,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (369+ words) This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. Earlier this year, President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing the Postal Service to overhaul mail voting…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (631+ words) President Trump is leading his administration full steam ahead in supporting his friends in the tech industry as he bulldozes his way through an issue that could’ve been a relatively easy bipartisan win for him and Republicans ahead of the…...