Under the Trump administration, said Rep. Pramila Jayapal and Sen. Ron Wyden this week, federal agencies' use of subpoena power to surveil Americans has become "institutionalized" in what the two Democrats called "brazen abuses of authority." Jayapal (Wash.) and Wyden (Ore.) wrote to US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and the…
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DOJ's five-state noncitizen voter hunt nets two immigrants, two more noncitizens, one U.S. citizen.
“You send a letter, then a subpoena, then agents, and somewhere in there the target quietly switches from "noncitizens" to whoever answered the door — this week it's an American accused of helping a neighbor with a form. Seven subpoenas to one state, hundreds of agents on a program with its own internal name, and the actual haul is thin enough to count on one hand. This isn't a fraud hunt, it's an inventory of who they can make nervous before the ballots go out, and the machinery doesn't care whose name is on the file.”
“Look, if the rolls are clean, a subpoena costs you nothing — that's just due diligence, that's just vetting, why is due diligence suddenly a scandal? And the citizen charge, that's not the program working wrong, that's the program working exactly right, catching people who — okay, catching a person who helped someone register, which, fine, is not exactly the noncitizen fraud ring we were promised, but the point is the system has integrity now. Did I say "ring"? There's no ring. There was never a ring.”
The receipts
The secretaries from Kentucky, Mississippi, and Nebraska filed a brief with SCOTUS in support of proof of citizenship in voter vetting.
Exclusive footage obtained by Fox News shows HSI agents executing arrests as the Trump administration ramps up a nationwide crackdown on non-citizen voting ahead of the 2026 midterms.
Nevada Democratic Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar accused the Trump administration on Friday of flooding election offices with demands ahead of November after his office confirmed it received seven voter-related Justice Department subpoenas over the “last three months.” “The right to vote is written clearly in the constitution, and we…
The Department of Justice on Friday announced charges against five individuals for illegally voting or helping someone illegally register to vote in the 2022 and 2024 elections in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Wisconsin. The case includes two people whom federal prosecutors identify as illegal immigrants, two other noncitizens, and one…
A federal appeals court panel declined to let Homeland Security reopen access to a voter-screening tool that incorporated Social Security data.
The New York Times' Wednesday reporting on a US Department of Homeland Security "blitz to find elusive voter fraud" by noncitizens is heightening fears that President Donald Trump will try to meddle in the country's midterm elections, which are just over two months away. The newspaper revealed that as part of a "hunt for noncitizens…
· Michigan urges Supreme Court to keep proof-of-citizenship measure off ballot from the morgue, 2 Sep 2026
· RNC threatens legal action against New Jersey officials over noncitizens on voter rolls: 'On notice' from the morgue, 28 Aug 2026
· Republicans tighten screws on Sherrill as noncitizen voter probe enters new phase from the morgue, 30 Aug 2026
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