The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily greenlit a New Hampshire directive on Thursday that prohibits the use and acceptance of student IDs in elections. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the lone dissent in the case.
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Trump calls fraud rampant on a dragnet judges halted twice that flagged 400 names, six days out
As it ran on the front
The president's word was "rampant," and I will defend it, because the alternative is a party that would rather nobody counted at all.
Start in September, when the Times described the Unlawful Voter Initiative: hundreds of Homeland Security agents going through voter rolls the states maintain. That is an audit. You audit a bank and nobody calls it a raid.…
…(cont) On September 25th the Court let that database run against the rolls inside the last ninety days — the window federal law otherwise keeps a program like this out of — which tells you the Court saw no harm in it, or saw the harm and found the appeal more interesting, and I'd like the second half of that sentence back.
October 9th: Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, seventy-eight pages, holds the Justice Department's policy of collecting states' unredacted voter rolls to run against a federal immigration database unlawful under privacy law. A paperwork ruling. It goes to the method, not the — all right, it was the method, and the method was the program, and we are now using a different method. Call that refinement.
October 15th, Texas: a computer failure leaves almost 600,000 registration applications unprocessed days before early voting opens. A glitch. Nobody designed it. Though if a person were designing one — did I say that? That doesn't sound like me.
October 22nd, Oakland: Judge Martínez-Olguín orders the nine-state investigation halted, finds the data full of errors, finds agents going door to door asking people about their immigration status and whether they voted, finds the Voting Rights Act violated and voter-assistance groups intimidated. Two blocks in thirteen days. Which is either persecution of an audit, or an audit failing the same test twice, and I know which one I am paid for.
Then New Hampshire: a student ID is not good enough, with twelve days on the clock, over Justice Jackson's dissent. Ninety days was room enough for the database. Twelve days was too tight for the card. I want those two numbers kept apart, because they look better apart.
Four hundred is a number. Rampant is an adjective. One state, forty-two years, four hundred names, all of it alleged — that is the iceberg, that is the entire iceberg. Strike that. Early data.
After. Congressional Democrats and good-government groups spent this week drafting their response to fraud claims that have not been made yet about ballots that have not been counted yet.
Six days.
“They told us the fraud was rampant, then went looking with hundreds of agents and a federal immigration database, and two judges stopped them inside two weeks for running on bad numbers. What came back is four hundred names in one state, alleged, reaching back to 1984 — and the same Court that gave that hunt ninety days of runway wouldn't let a student ID into a booth with twelve days left. They don't need to find the fraud; they need the word on television six days before you vote.”
“Look, two judges blocking the same program in thirteen days is a sign the program is working, because nobody sues you over nothing — nobody sues you over nothing that's succeeding, is what I meant, which is a different sentence, I'll grant you. Four hundred names in Washington state is the tip of the iceberg, and the rest of the iceberg is forthcoming, and if it isn't forthcoming by Tuesday the point was never the iceberg. Did I say that? That doesn't sound like me.”
Earlier in this story
- Netanyahu presses for action against Iran his own military chief already resisted, days before election. By Lou · the evening edition, 27 October 2026
- Israel bars European lawmakers who came to watch the olive harvest its settlers are burning; it votes Tuesday By Lou · the afternoon edition, 26 October 2026
- Israel's army sealed the West Bank and ran its largest drill in years; neither was on Tuesday's ballot By Sterling · the evening edition, 26 October 2026
- The Supreme Court found ninety days enough room to run a voter-purge database and twelve days too few to read a student ID. By Ruth · the evening edition, 25 October 2026
The receipts
Congressional Democrats are working with good governance groups to create an action plan for any potential claims of election fraud.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson publicly broke with her Supreme Court colleagues in a Thursday ruling allowing New Hampshire to fully block voters from using student IDs in the upcoming midterms. Jackson, the high court's most junior liberal justice, wrote in a short dissent that she would have left in place a lower court decision that...
Acting U.S. Attorney Neil Floyd told Fox News Digital some noncitizens identified in the probe cast ballots as many as 27 times, with alleged votes dating back to 1984.
The Supreme Court issued a ruling on Thursday, letting New Hampshire prohibit voters from using student identification cards to prove their identities before casting ballots in the midterm elections. The decision reverses a federal judge’s order blocking New Hampshire from enforcing a law that barred student IDs from being used for voter…
A federal judge in California ruled late Wednesday that the US Department of Homeland Security has violated the Voting Rights Act by sending agents door-to-door and demanding information from people about their immigration status and whether they've voted in recent elections—part of President Donald Trump's perennial effort to prove the…
Less than a week before polls close, courts are still weighing a growing array of election-related lawsuits over voter identification, citizenship checks, access to registration records, and the federal government’s authority to intervene in state election procedures. For some smaller cases already adjudicated, President Donald Trump’s…
The judge appeared skeptical of the DOJ's request for a restraining order.
In the legal tangle between the Justice Department and California, a federal judge on Tuesday deferred a ruling but said the government already had a remedy it could use after the election.
Federal judge says government’s investigation into alleged noncitizen voting in nine states is relying on flawed data A federal judge in California has ordered the Trump administration to halt investigations in nine states into whether noncitizens are registered to vote. US district court judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín in Oakland found…
The Supreme Court allowed New Hampshire to reject student IDs at the polls ahead of midterm elections, warning of voter confusion too close to an election.
The Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for New Hampshire to fully ban the use of student IDs for voting during the midterm elections.
A Lever investigation traces how the Israel lobby is routing millions through groups promoting women, reproductive rights, and Latino candidates — and how AI interests and other power brokers are adopting the strategy.
As the US president casts doubt on the security of the midterm elections, BBC Verify examines his claims.
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· Democrats sue Trump administration over efforts to clean illegal registrants off voter rolls from the morgue, 22 Oct 2026
· Federal judge rules against Trump DoJ’s policy of collecting state voter rolls from the morgue, 9 Oct 2026
· Texas sued after glitch delays almost 600,000 voter registrations from the morgue, 15 Oct 2026
· Election deniers stoke Trump-driven ballot security fears before midterms from the morgue, 6 Oct 2026
· Abdul El-Sayed: Democrats must ‘win by massive numbers’ to fend off Trump election denial from the morgue, 11 Oct 2026
· Elon Musk's 'Absolutely Insane' $276 Million Midterm Spending Exposed in New Report from the morgue, 12 Oct 2026
· 'Take the Open Shot': Democrats Rebuked for Refusing to Target Elon Musk Over $100 Million Midterm Spending Spree from the morgue, 22 Sep 2026
· 'Major Win' for Democracy as Supreme Court Rejects Trump Attack on Mail-In Voting from the morgue, 15 Sep 2026
· Supreme Court slams brakes on Trump's mail-in voting plan from the morgue, 15 Sep 2026
· US Citizens 'Could Lose Their Right to Vote' After Supreme Court Gives Green Light to Trump's Voter Purge Database from the morgue, 25 Sep 2026
· New Hampshire urges Supreme Court to reinstate student ID voting ban ahead of election from the morgue, 20 Oct 2026
· Supreme Court allows Trump admin to use federal voter eligibility database during appeal from the morgue, 25 Sep 2026
· After airport strike, Trump considering whether to join fight against Houthis from the morgue, 11 Oct 2026
· Saudi Arabia promises response to Houthi attacks from the morgue, 8 Sep 2026
· Is Yemen Heading Back to All-Out War? Saudis Launch Strikes as Houthis Take Control of Red Sea Coast from the morgue, 14 Sep 2026
· US Backs Major Saudi-Led Offensive as Yemen Slides Back Toward All-Out War from the morgue, 4 Oct 2026
· F Lead Iran must stop arming Yemen's Houthi forces, say the G7 from the morgue, 22 Sep 2026
· Blasts Rattle Riyadh as Saudi Arabia Hit by Deadliest Houthi Attacks So Far from the morgue, 8 Oct 2026
· Saudi Arabia sees disruptions at Riyadh airport amid ballistic missile attacks from Houthis from the morgue, 8 Oct 2026
· Houthis claim they struck Riyadh's main airport in Saudi Arabia from the morgue, 8 Oct 2026
· The Royal Saudi Air Defense intercepts a ballistic missile fired from Yemen over the Saudi capital Riyadh that caused panic among residents. Houthis say they fired several Burkan-2 missiles at targets from the morgue, 11 Apr 2018
· The Houthis say that they have struck Saudi Arabia's Abha International Airport and King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah with drones. A Houthi spokesman said on Twitter that the attacks halt from the morgue, 15 Feb 2021
· Houthis tried to hit Saudi capital with ballistic missile, Riyadh confirms from the morgue, 20 Sep 2026
· Riyadh airport explosion prompts Saudi Arabia to issue air raid alerts as Houthi fighting escalates from the morgue, 19 Sep 2026
· Markey Urges Congress to Block Trump-Saudi Deal, a 'Starting Gun for a Middle East Nuclear Arms Race' from the morgue, 26 Aug 2026
· Trump admin's list of US-designated 'foreign terrorist' groups in Latin America expands to 21 from the morgue, 11 Sep 2026
· Top Trump official reveals how 30-minute military op unlocked Venezuela oil windfall for US buyers from the morgue, 11 Sep 2026
· Ex-Venezuelan first lady Cilia Flores seeks release from NYC jail, citing heart ailment from the morgue, 11 Sep 2026
· New York City protest once again demands release of Maduro and Flores from the morgue, 11 Sep 2026
· Trump Official Denies Stealing Venezuela's Oil One Hour After Boasting Country is 'Forced to Work' With US from the morgue, 6 Sep 2026
· 'Mobster Language': Trump Says Venezuelan Oil Will Replenish US Reserves from the morgue, 30 Aug 2026
· 'Yet Another Trump Grift': Congress Called to Stop US Takeover of Venezuelan Oil Fields from the morgue, 28 Aug 2026
· The Biggest Oil Deal or Theft at Gunpoint? U.S. Claims Majority Control of Venezuela's Oil Reserves from the morgue, 1 Sep 2026
· Tehran threatens attacks after U.S. strikes Iranian tankers from the morgue, 7 Sep 2026
· US forces take out 3 Iranian oil tankers in retaliation from the morgue, 7 Sep 2026
· Oil prices up as Iran says it will expand control over Strait of Hormuz from the morgue, 8 Sep 2026
· Iran live updates: Trump speaks to MBS, says everything will 'work out fine' from the morgue, 13 Sep 2026
· Iran threatens retaliation against U.S. tanker strikes from the morgue, 7 Sep 2026
· U.S. gas prices hit record high for Labor Day from the morgue, 7 Sep 2026
· Ship tracking websites, including Kpler, MarineTraffic, and TankerTrackers, show that three Iranian oil tankers, including two from the National Iranian Tanker Company, have escaped the blockade that from the morgue, 17 Jun 2026
· Iranian state media reports that the United States Navy attempted to capture an Iranian oil tanker. The oil tanker was boarded, commandeered and then returned by Iranian NEDSA marines in a helicopter from the morgue, 3 Nov 2021
· US strikes Iranian rocket launchers in first attack since late July from the morgue, 30 Aug 2026
· An Iranian Navy commander claims on state television that the Iranian Navy forced a U.S. submarine to surface as it transited the Strait of Hormuz and that the submarine violated Iranian territorial w from the morgue, 20 Apr 2023
· Trump Threatens to Rename Strait of Hormuz for Himself as War Pushes Diesel Prices Toward Record High from the morgue, 2 Sep 2026
· Trump floats renaming Strait of Hormuz after himself from the morgue, 2 Sep 2026
· U.S. strikes targets in Iran near Strait of Hormuz as Iran says it is retaliating from the morgue, 1 Sep 2026
· Trump Hammered Over Iran War That Drove Gas Prices Above $4 Per Gallon Every Day in August for First Time Ever from the morgue, 31 Aug 2026
· 'Trump Did It!': At $5.85 a Gallon, Diesel Price Hits All-Time High in US Thanks to War on Iran from the morgue, 4 Sep 2026
· Price of diesel in U.S. hits record as Vance downplays Iran war impact from the morgue, 4 Sep 2026
· Diesel prices hit record high as wars disrupt supply from the morgue, 4 Sep 2026
· Trump vows response to Iran's retaliatory strikes: 'We're going to hit them hard' from the morgue, 31 Aug 2026
· Trump threatens Iran against retaliation for latest U.S. strikes from the morgue, 1 Sep 2026
· Live updates: US, Iran ramp up strikes; incumbents hold on in Massachusetts from the morgue, 2 Sep 2026
· Trump calls Iran conflict "small potatoes" from the morgue, 7 Sep 2026
· Labor Day gas prices are highest ever for holiday from the morgue, 7 Sep 2026
· How ‘Hypermilers’ Are Trying to Beat High Gas Prices from the morgue, 7 Sep 2026
· Fuel prices at record Labor Day high in US thanks to Iran War and refinery issues from the morgue, 7 Sep 2026
· Oil Prices Rise Slightly After U.S. and Iran Trade Strikes from the morgue, 6 Sep 2026
· USS Lincoln heads home as war with Iran escalates from the morgue, 7 Sep 2026
· Lawler disagrees with Trump on Iran war: 'It is certainly not small potatoes' from the morgue, 6 Sep 2026
· OPEC Plus to Keep Oil Production Steady from the morgue, 6 Sep 2026
· Iran War Has Cost the Average American More Than $1,200 Over Six Months, Economist Estimates from the morgue, 1 Sep 2026
· Trump says military conflict in Iran is 'small potatoes for us' from the morgue, 4 Sep 2026
· Wright: US has 'a lot of leverage' in Venezuela after oil deal reached from the morgue, 6 Sep 2026
· White House unveils new details of Venezuela agreement from the morgue, 1 Sep 2026
· Chris Wright explains how Venezuelan crude will ‘fill’ the Strategic Petroleum Reserve from the morgue, 4 Sep 2026
· Energy Secretary Wright says Venezuela oil deal will bring down gas prices in a year or two from the morgue, 4 Sep 2026
· Chevron to expand in Venezuela, days after the U.S. and Venezuela strike oil deal from the morgue, 2 Sep 2026
· Venezuelan oil flows will lower gas prices in 12-24 months, Wright says in Caracas from the morgue, 2 Sep 2026
· Trump says Venezuelan oil will replenish Strategic Petroleum Reserves from the morgue, 31 Aug 2026
· US, Russia explore gas sale to Europe amid Ukraine war: Report from the morgue, 8 Oct 2026
· Countries across Europe report reductions in gas supplies after Russia disconnected supplies to Ukraine yesterday. Russia accuses Ukraine of stealing cubic metres of gas yesterday from pipelines trans from the morgue, 2 Jan 2006
· AI safety group outlines demands for legislation, warns lawmakers from the morgue, 7 Oct 2026
· AI-generated child sexual abuse images cause real-life harm from the morgue, 7 Oct 2026
· OpenAI fires researchers for sharing data with AI safety advocacy group: Report from the morgue, 2 Oct 2026
· Courts just allowed AI child sex abuse material because it’s ‘virtual.’ Who do you think it’s trained on? from the morgue, 19 Sep 2026
· 'We Cannot Wait for Disaster to Strike': Beyer Leads Bipartisan Push in House to Urgently Regulate AI from the morgue, 16 Sep 2026
· MPs demand tech firms block nude images on children’s smartphones from the morgue, 30 Sep 2026
· AI safety groups aren’t buying OpenAI’s spending retreat from the morgue, 6 Oct 2026
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