Trump justice department threatens criminal charges against state election officials unless they provide voter rolls – as it happened

Trump justice department threatens criminal charges against state election officials unless they provide list of voters

After a federal judge dismissed a Department of Justice lawsuit seeking to compel Maryland to provide the federal government with an electronic copy of its statewide voter registration list, as the Trump administration attempts to assert control of state-run elections, Maryland’s top election official was threatened this week with criminal prosecution in a letter from Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for the justice department’s civil rights division.

The state’s elections administrator, Jared DeMarinis, described it to Maryland Matters, a nonprofit news site, as “a nice love letter from the Department of Justice threatening my arrest.”

“It is just unconscionable to threaten and try to intimidate election officials, not just in Maryland, but throughout the United States,” DeMarinis added.

“After losing in court,” Maryland senator Chris Van Hollen wrote on social media with a link to the Maryland Matters report, the Trump administration “is now threatening election officials in Maryland and across the country to get access to voter rolls. This is yet another outrageous attempt to sow doubt in our democracy & intimidate states. We must hold the line.”

Dhillon told Real America’s Voice, a far-right network created to host Steve Bannon’s podcast, that she sent similar letters, threatening “potential criminal penalties” for “knowingly retaining noncitizens” on registered voter lists, to election officials in every US state this week.

Speaking to the pro-Trump host John Solomon, Dhillon mocked the “hyperventilating” response to her letter from Utah’s Republican lieutenant governor, Deidre Henderson.

Henderson, who has also pushed back on the administration’s attempt to have the US Post Office refuse to deliver mail ballots in states that do not submit lists of approved voters to the federal government, wrote on social media:

Got another love letter this morning from the DOJ sprinkled throughout with threats of criminal prosecution. I’m sure I’m not the only chief election officer of a state who is being targeted for following state and federal laws by resisting DOJ’s demands for private voter data that have thus far been ruled illegal by at least a dozen courts. This is truly bizarre behavior by the federal agency that is supposed to be protecting civil rights.

Washington’s Democratic secretary of state, Steve Hobbs, accused the Department of Justice of “accelerating down a slippery slope” by issuing criminal threats to him and other state officials who are empowered to administer elections by the US constitution’s elections clause.

“Attempts to revive disproven claims of rigged elections will not deter election professionals from doing their job of overseeing accessible, accurate, auditable elections,” Hobbs said in a statement after receiving his letter from Dhillon.

Although Donald Trump signed an executive order early in his second term attempting to take control of major parts of the nation’s election systems, courts have ruled that the US president has no constitutional authority over federal election administration.

The nonprofit news site Votebeat reported earlier this week that although officials in all 50 states received the letter, “many did not immediately realize it; in several states, the Justice Department sent the letter to the generic email addresses listed on agency websites for use by the public.”

Rick Hasen, an election law professor at UCLA, told Votebeat, the letters are “in line with the Trump administration’s efforts to push the myth of mass noncitizen voting and to threaten and intimidate state and local election officials”.

This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day. Here are the latest developments:

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Graham Platner posted a copy of a letter on social media which said: “I write to formally withdraw my candidacy for United States Senate.” The Maine secretary of state’s office confirmed that it had received the same letter, ending his candidacy for the US Senate.

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The Department of Justice sent letters to election officials in all 50 states threatening them with criminal charges if they do not turn over lists of registered voters, despite a court dismissing the administration’s lawsuit seeking the lists.

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In a letter sent to the homeland security secretary Markwayne Mullin on Friday, House Democrats said that they “are investigating the fatal shooting of Mr. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, as well as the Trump administration’s response to his killing.”

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A federal judge nominated by Donald Trump during his first term reluctantly agreed to dismiss the seditious conspiracy case against leaders of the Proud Boys who were convicted by a jury of serious crimes during the attack on the US Capitol by Trump supporters on January 6 2021.

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The Crush Maga PAC, a Democratic super PAC, diverted resources from its main target in Michigan’s seventh congressional district, the incumbent Republican congressman Tom Barrett, to run an attack ad against one of his progressive challengers, Will Lawrence, a cofounder of the Sunrise Movement.

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The Crush Maga PAC, a Democratic super PAC, diverted resources this week from its main target in Michigan’s seventh congressional district, the incumbent Republican congressman Tom Barrett, to run an attack ad against one of his progressive challengers, Will Lawrence, a cofounder of the Sunrise Movement.

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As the American Prospect editor David Dayen reports, the anti-Lawrence ad, which has been served to YouTube users in the district around Lansing, Michigan, badly distorts the facts by attacking the climate activist for having “invested thousands in Wall Street, big oil and data centers”. As Lawrence himself explained in a video response, this is a wildly misleading way of referring to the fact that he has “a 401(k) invested in a mutual fund” worth just $11,000.

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The ad also accuses Lawrence of hypocrisy for saying he opposes dark money in politics but “spent years running a dark money organization himself”, without explaining that the group was the Sunrise Movement, which battles to stop the climate crisis.

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Finally, the attack ad also hits Lawrence for being part of the Uncommitted movement in Michigan, which urged voters to not support then president Joe Biden in the 2024 Democratic primary there, in response to his support for Israel’s assault on Gaza.

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Lawrence makes no apology for pushing the Democratic president on Palestinian rights, but he said on a podcast just before the 2024 election that he had voted for Kamala Harris, as the “lesser evil” than Donald Trump, even though “it really, really made me sick.”

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Lawrence responded on social media to reporting from Dayen that the Democratic super PAC that ran the ad had previously received $100,000 from United Democracy Project, the biggest super PAC affiliated with American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC.

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“$500,000 on an ad targeting my $11,000 401K,” Lawrence wrote. “The ‘thousands’ they are talking about is a mutual fund and my only retirement savings. More ridiculous smears from AIPAC-linked PACs that are afraid of candidates like me who will stand up to corporate power and the war-lobby.”

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A recent poll of the Democratic primary, commissioned by Lawrence’s campaign, showed him leading two other Democrats with establishment support: the former US ambassador to Ukraine, Bridget Brink, and a retired Navy SEAL, Matt Maasdam.

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A federal judge nominated by Donald Trump during his first term reluctantly agreed on Friday to grant the Department of Justice’s motion to dismiss the seditious conspiracy case against leaders of the Proud Boys who were convicted by a jury of serious crimes during the attack on the US Capitol by Trump supporters on January 6 2021.

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Judge Timothy Kelly noted in a seven-page memorandum that the Proud Boy leaders Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs and Zachary Rehl were all convicted of multiple crimes, including seditious conspiracy, and a fourth member of the group, Dominic Pezzola, was convicted of assaulting an officer and also “breaking a Capitol window, thereby helping to create the first entry point through which hundreds of rioters streamed into the building.”

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Pezzola’s destruction of the window was recorded in a social media video that quickly became one of the iconic images of the day.

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Kelly went on to note that he was granting the motion to dismiss the prosecutions even though the request was clearly based not on facts or the law but on Trump’s desire to excuse the violence of his supporters.

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“[T]here is little mystery about why the Government is moving to dismiss this case, or whether dismissal is in fact what the Executive seeks,” Kelly observed. “President Trump’s views about the prosecution of those who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6—whether those views are based on fact or fiction—are well known, as is his intention to extend clemency to them”.

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Kelly also noted that the case was initiated “while President Trump was still in power” in the days after the attack.

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“As the Court has said many times, the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 was a perilous event,” Kelly wrote. “It was an attack on people, including police officers, many of whom were injured. It was an attack on a coordinate branch of government—Congress—that the Founders saw fit to give a place of primacy in Article I of the Constitution. And it was an attack on the Constitution’s mechanism to facilitate the peaceful transfer of power from one president to the next, what President Reagan called ‘nothing less than a miracle.’”

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“Moving forward, if this Nation’s experiment in self-government is to last another 250 years, the American people—no matter their partisan preferences—will have to act together to preserve, protect and defend that miracle through our constitutional framework,” the Trump-appointed judge concluded.

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In a letter sent to the homeland security secretary Markwayne Mullin on Friday, House Democrats said that they “are investigating the fatal shooting of Mr. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, as well as the Trump administration’s response to his killing.”

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On Tuesday morning, while Salgado, his brother and two men were heading to work in Houston, Texas he was shot and killed during a “targeted enforcement operation” by ICE officials.

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As our colleague José Olivares reported, Hugo Balderas-Ibarra, a Texas attorney representing two of the men in the van, said during a press conference on Friday his clients “reiterated that at no point was there ever an agent standing in front of the vehicle, nor was an agent ever placed in the line of danger”.

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The letter to Mullin, signed by a dozen Democrats, noted that “the Trump administration and DHS have used excessive and deadly force in the recent past, to include the tragic, unlawful shootings of American citizens Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and Marimar Martinez, and issued false and misleading statements in an attempt to justify those shootings.”

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“Indeed, witnesses to the shooting of Mr. Salgado Araujo paint a different picture than DHS’s claims,” the lawmakers continue.

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“ICE has allegedly encouraged these witnesses, Mr. Salgado Araujo’s brother and two of their co-workers, to sign paperwork for self-deportation from the United States.,” the letter adds. “This is incredibly concerning, as these men would be critical to any investigation into the fatal shooting.”

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The letter goes on to demand that the department “immediately turn over” all evidence of what happened.

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“In addition to our demand for immediate records production, this letter serves as notice of an ongoing congressional investigation and that you are to preserve, in accordance with all applicable Federal laws, all records relating to the use of deadly force by DHS law enforcement during any immigration enforcement operation, as well as any future incidents in which deadly force is used,” the Democrats told Mullin.

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One of the lawmakers, Seth Magaziner of Rhode Island, pledged “to find the truth” about the killing.

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“He wasn’t the person they were looking for. ICE statements don’t match witness accounts. Now they’re pressuring witnesses to self-deport,” Magaziner wrote.

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The state’s elections administrator, Jared DeMarinis, described it to Maryland Matters, a nonprofit news site, as “a nice love letter from the Department of Justice threatening my arrest.”

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“It is just unconscionable to threaten and try to intimidate election officials, not just in Maryland, but throughout the United States,” DeMarinis added.

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Speaking to the pro-Trump host John Solomon, Dhillon mocked the “hyperventilating” response to her letter from Utah’s Republican lieutenant governor, Deidre Henderson.

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Got another love letter this morning from the DOJ sprinkled throughout with threats of criminal prosecution. I’m sure I’m not the only chief election officer of a state who is being targeted for following state and federal laws by resisting DOJ’s demands for private voter data that have thus far been ruled illegal by at least a dozen courts. This is truly bizarre behavior by the federal agency that is supposed to be protecting civil rights.

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The Maine secretary of state’s office issued a statement on Friday confirming that “a formal notice has been received from U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner” making his withdrawal from the race official.

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The office was careful to point out that Platner had not formally withdrawn by simply posting his letter on social media earlier, but said that he is now no longer a candidate, setting off a rush to replace him on the November ballot. One of the declared candidates is Maine’s current secretary of state, Shenna Bellows.

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“A public declaration is not an official withdrawal, and a candidate must formally withdraw in writing to the Elections office, including signature,” the office explained.

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The statement continued:

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Because the candidate officially withdrew before 5 p.m. of the 2^nd Monday in July (July 13, 2026), his name will not appear on the ballot, and his political party may replace him. The deadline for the party to name a replacement is the 4^th Monday in July (July 27, 2026). Maine Statute does not address how a replacement candidate may be chosen by a party, only that the candidate filling the vacancy must be a ‘qualified person.’ Announcements about how a replacement candidate will be chosen or when that candidate will be announced will come from the political party.

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Graham Platner just posted a copy of a letter on social media which says: “I write to formally withdraw my candidacy for United States Senate.”

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The rest of the letter which is signed by the candidate who was accused of sexual assault, reads:

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On June 9th, 156,084 Mainers voted for a new kind of politics. One that is representative of people down here in the real world – not billionaires, oligarchs, or the political establishment. Mainers voted for Medicare for All; to ban billionaires from buying elections; and for an end to taxpayer-funded genocide and forever wars. They voted for time and dignity; for strong unions and jobs they can raise families on; for the hope of buying a home; for the chance to retire with grace.

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People are desperate for change. For this broken system to be righted. For the American experiment to be furthered. Over the past eleven months, thousands and thousands of Mainers poured their hearts, time, and talent into a movement to deliver that vision. I will be forever grateful to them.

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And in submitting this letter today, I seek to further the movement we have built together and the future we believe in.

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My name may have been on the ballot, but that ballot line belongs to the people of Maine. As such, please consider this notice as my official withdrawal from consideration for this office.

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F*ck ICE. Free Palestine. Up the Hearts.

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Solidarity forever,

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Graham Platner

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Although Platner’s letter was addressed “To Whom It May Concern”, the Maine secretary of state’s office confirmed to the Associated Press that it had received the letter on Friday, making the withdrawal official.

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Congressional Democrats released an investigative report on Friday that accuses the Trump administration of misusing the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), by diverting staff and resources away from disaster response to support immigration enforcement operations.

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The report found that the administration used Fema staff to support the work of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) operations by carrying out administrative duties, like hiring new immigration officers, and working at detention centers.

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Among the key findings of the investigation, Democrats said, was that Department of Homeland Security leadership “relied on FEMA to serve as the backbone of large-scale immigration enforcement and detention operations and that FEMA’s delayed response to the Texas flooding resulted in demonstrable harm to disaster survivors.”

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“After the Trump administration hollowed out a third of FEMA’s workforce, it put disaster professionals to work as the ‘operational backbone’ of its cruel mass deportation agenda, likely in violation of federal law,” Greg Stanton, an Arizona congressman who directed the investigation, said of the report’s findings.

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“We’re in the middle of a dangerous and destructive hurricane and wildfire season. The stakes couldn’t be higher,” Stanton added. “Every FEMA employee detailed to ICE and CBP should be recalled immediately, and Congress must put real penalties in the law so no future administration can raid this life-saving agency again.”

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“While communities across the country are struggling to prepare for more severe and frequent natural disasters, the Trump administration is using FEMA employees and funding for its large-scale, brutal immigration enforcement operations,” Rick Larsen, a Washington congressman who is the senior Democrat on a House subcommittee on emergency management, added.

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The United States has issued new Iran-related ⁠sanctions following Iran’s resumption of attacks on international shipping in the strait ⁠of Hormuz, the ⁠treasury department said today.

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The latest sanctions target Iranian financial facilitator Ali Ansari, who the treasury department described as a “key financier” who “oversees a sprawling global network of assets benefitting Iran’s leader – Mojtaba Khamenei – and other regime elites.”

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The Treasury’s Office of Foreign ‌Assets Control (OFAC) also targeted key Iranian exchange houses that it said moved billions of dollars annually on behalf of sanctioned Iranian banks, using layers of shell companies to obscure the government’s illicit financial activity.

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Earlier today, Donald Trump once again declared that the US-Iran memorandum of understanding is “over”, before adding that talks with Tehran would continue.

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The White House is making security-focused upgrades to its front door, CNN reports citing an official, in a project that is expected to take several months.

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The changes, which CNN’s sources said have long been advocated by the Secret Service, are aimed at fortifying the White House entrance at the north portico, which has recently been obscured by scaffolding and a tarp as workers repair the exterior columns at Donald Trump’s request.

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The North Portico fortifications are expected to be complete by approximately mid-September, the White House official told CNN.

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It comes amid a heightened focus on boosting presidential security after Trump has been the target of multiple assassination attempts, including April’s shocking shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner and an alleged plot to attack last month’s UFC fight on the White House South Lawn.

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Earlier, we brought you the Washington Post’s report that the Trump administration plans to erect new permanent fences outside the White House, in addition to previously reported plans to build new permanent fencing around Lafayette Square, the public park across from the White House.

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A White House official has told NBC News that Donald Trump will allow the bipartisan housing bill to become law.

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The bill, which Trump has said he will not sign in protest over Congress’s failure to pass his restrictive voting bill, is set to become law at midnight anyway – unless the president vetoes it. His announcement earlier had left it unclear as to whether he planned to use that veto.

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Crews are – again – draining the reflecting pool in Washington DC as Trump’s efforts to revamp the waterway continue, despite missing his initial Fourth of July goal.

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Trump had suggested his renovations would last a century. But, within weeks of the project’s June completion, the water was hit by an algae bloom and pieces of the new coating appeared to be peeling off the bottom.

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Trump has blamed the peeling on vandals. Critics say it’s from shoddy repair work.

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Late on Thursday, Donald Trump ousted members of a bipartisan federal election commission who resisted his efforts to require voters to show proof of US citizenship before registering. Here’s what we know so far:

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The White House on Friday confirmed Trump’s action against members of the Election Assistance Commission to the Associated Press. This commission distributes federal grants to states, oversees the testing of voting systems and maintains the national voter registration form. “The President, and head of the Executive Branch, reserves the right to remove individuals that may not be totally aligned with the important task of securing America’s elections and ensuring every legal vote is counted. The Slaughter decision gives the President precedence to do so,” said a White House statement to AP.

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The move is not expected to have a major effect on the November midterms. But it is just the latest instance of Trump trying to exert influence over US elections. It marks the first test of his expanded executive powers that stem from a recent US supreme court ruling.

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Backlash has been swift, with voting rights advocates and Democratic lawmakers decrying the move. Chuck Schumer, Senate minority leader, called Trump’s move “a brazen attempt to seize control of our elections before a single vote is cast” and said Senate Democrats will fight this move.

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The Bipartisan Policy Center, a think tank that promotes bipartisanship, noted that the Election Assistance Commission often has operated without a quorum, leaving it unable to exercise its full authority, but Trump’s move is still “unprecedented”.

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Democrats who run elections in their states are concerned over how the firings of Election Assistance Commissioners could affect their jobs and in turn, the voters. But, they emphasized, their offices are prepared and ready to administer elections regardless.

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Four ⁠US senators said ⁠they ⁠reached agreement ‌with ‌the Trump administration to move ‌forward with updated legislation ⁠on Russia sanctions, Reuters reported.

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We’ll share more lines on this as we see them.

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Donald Trump has said that he’s “left instructions” for the United States to bomb Iran if it assassinates him.

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The president told the New York Post in a phone interview today:

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I’ve been on their list for a long time. That’s what we’re dealing with … The only thing is, I’ve left instructions — if anything happens, to just literally bomb them at levels that they’ve never seen before.

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Trump made similar comments in early February, telling reporters: “I’ve left instructions. If they do it, they get obliterated. There won’t be anything left.”

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The Post asked Trump about reports, which the Guardian has not verified, that Israel notified the US this week that Iran had devised a new plan to assassinate him.

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“No, no. Israel came up with nothing. No, no,” the president said. “I’ve been No. 1 [on Iran’s kill list] for a long time, and it’s the way life is, you know.”

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“I hope you’ll miss me,” he added.

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Trump has previously been the target of alleged assassination plots by Iran, including during his 2024 presidential campaign.

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A Pakistani man, Asif Merchant, was convicted in May for plotting to kill Trump and other prominent US politicians two years ago at the behest of Iran in retaliation for the killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Suleimani in 2020, during Trump’s first term as president.

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Tensions have been supercharged this week with the week-long funeral proceedings for Iran’s former supreme leader Ali Khamenei, who was assassinated by the US and Israel on 28 February. Huge banners reading “kill Trump” and “hey Trump, we will kill you” could be seen among the crowds of mourners.

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A judge is set to determine whether the case against Tyler James Robinson, the man charged with murdering Charlie Kirk, will advance to trial, as a five-day preliminary hearing comes to a close today.

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The US district judge Tony Graf is expected to sift through the evidence presented by the state and Robinson’s defense team in the coming weeks before issuing a ruling.

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This week’s legal proceedings also marked the first time Kirk’s widow, Erika, and his parents were present in the courtroom with the man prosecutors claim killed Kirk last year.

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Kirk, a prominent far-right political figure, was known for galvanizing young conservatives with his college-targeted advocacy group Turning Point USA. He was on tour and staging one of his marquee events at Utah Valley University on 10 September 2025, where he would spar rhetorically with ideological foes, when he was shot in the neck.

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The court heard critical evidence about forensic testing that linked Robinson’s DNA to the firearm prosecutors say was used to kill Kirk, in addition to video footage allegedly showing him entering the campus and climbing on to a rooftop perch.

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Portions of an investigatory interview with Robinson’s former roommate and romantic partner Lance Twiggs were also played for the court. Twiggs recalled Robinson expressing remorse, saying he wished he “hadn’t done it”, a day after Kirk’s death.

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Robinson’s defense strategy came into clearer view as his attorneys sought to cast doubt on the accuracy of the DNA testing. Questions still swirl over whether he will enter a guilty plea.

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Graf reminded the defense, at times, to steer clear of the minutiae, as attorneys questioned witnesses.

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“We don’t need to go 100 miles down a path where one mile is where probable cause may be. I invite you to refocus … I’m not trying to limit your theories or such but I need to hold to probable cause,” Graf said in court yesterday.

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Earlier this morning, Donald Trump announced that ⁠he would not sign ⁠a major bipartisan housing affordability bill – but the measure can still become law without his signature.

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“I will not sign the Housing Bill, which has been fully approved by Congress and sent to the White House, in ⁠PROTEST over the fact that the United States Senate is not capable of passing THE SAVE AMERICA ACT,” the president wrote on Truth Social.

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The housing bill is set to become law at midnight if Trump doesn’t sign or veto it. It remains unclear if Trump plans to go as far as vetoing the bill.

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House speaker Mike Johnson sent the bill to the White House on 29 June, several days after Trump abruptly canceled its signing ceremony in an bid to pressure lawmakers to pass his restrictive voting bill, which he was aware his party didn’t have the votes for.

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Indeed, Trump has repeatedly diminished the housing bill’s importance, despite the cost-of-living consistently ranking as voters’ top concern – and polls finding many voters blame him for making matters worse – with the midterms a few months away. Last week he called it “a big yawn” compared to his voter ID legislation, on top of previously saying it was “of minor importance” in comparison.

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The housing bill was a rare instance of bipartisan agreement on major legislation in ⁠a deeply divided Congress, and both parties are eager to use it to show voters they are tackling the cost-of-living ahead of November’s crucial midterms.

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Johnson and other GOP leaders had previously expressed confidence that the president would sign it.

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Donald Trump has said the United States had ⁠agreed to ⁠talks with Iran, claiming that Tehran asked to continue negotiations. The US president repeated yesterday’s emphasis that ⁠the June ceasefire was “over”.

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“The Islamic Republic of ⁠Iran has asked us to continue ‘talks.’ We have agreed to ‌do so, ‌but the United States has stated to them, ‌in no uncertain terms, that the Cease Fire is OVER!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

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There had been worries that the ceasefire was breaking down after the US and Iran traded tit-for-tat strikes this week. The US struck Iran’s southern coastal and eastern provinces and Iran retaliated by launching attacks on US military infrastructure in Gulf states. Iran also accused the US of striking near its sole civilian nuclear power plant in Bushehr province.

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Tehran and Washington had signed a memorandum of understanding on 17 June aimed at extending the ceasefire and giving space for negotiations for a permanent truce.

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Negotiations towards reaching a final deal had been intended to start after the conclusion on Thursday of former supreme leader Ali Khamenei’s seven-day funeral.

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The Trump administration plans to erect new fences outside the White House, in the latest bid to boost presidential security, the Washington Post (paywall) reports, citing three people who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the plans.

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According to the people, the White House and Secret Service would be able to close the new fences, planned where Pennsylvania Avenue intersects 15th and 17th streets NW, and prevent pedestrian access in front of the White House if they determine there are security risks.

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The White House has long relied on temporary barriers, staffed by Secret Service personnel, to shut down Pennsylvania Avenue to pedestrians. Per the Post’s sources, previous administration’s have resisted suggestions from the Secret Service of permanent fencing, over the perception of restricting public access to the White House.

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A White House official said told the Post that conversations about improving campus security were ongoing and that any proposed projects would go through a review process.

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The Post previously reported (paywall) that the Trump administration also plans to build new permanent fencing around Lafayette Square, the public park across from the White House.

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It comes as the Trump administration and the Secret Service conduct reviews of security risks after April’s shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner, as well as foiled plots including an alleged murder conspiracy to attack at Trump’s UFC cage-fighting show in June.

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Democrats who run elections in their states are concerned over how the firings of Election Assistance Commissioners could affect their jobs and in turn, the voters. But, they emphasized, their offices are prepared and ready to administer elections regardless.

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Adrian Fontes, the Democratic secretary of state in Arizona, said in a TV interview that the firings may look more long term like a “hair on fire moment,” those tasked with running elections across the country are ready.

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“Right now, we’re going to do well with the folks that we have running elections,” Fontes said.

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Cisco Aguilar, the Democratic secretary of state in Nevada and the chair of the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State, said in a statement that the firings were “incredibly irresponsible”.

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“The EAC plays a critical role in supporting state and local election officials, and it will again fall on Secretaries of State and other election administrators to fill the gap,” Aguilar said. “From cutting funding for cybersecurity to launching baseless investigations, this pattern of behavior from the Trump administration makes it harder for our election officials to do their work and does nothing to make elections more secure.”

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Without commissioners, the Election Assistance Commission can still continue its core functions, with its executive director in charge, Just Security writes in a helpful breakdown of what the firings mean.

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Taking a step back: The commission, created by the Help America Vote Act in 2002, is an independent, bipartisan body tasked with helping election officials improve election administration and helping Americans vote. It does not administer elections – elections in the US are administered by state and local jurisdictions, despite Trump’s frequent push to take control over more aspects of voting.

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Effectively, without a board, the career staff at the agency are “frozen” at the point of whatever the commission last approved, Aaron Blacksberg, the Federal Policy Counsel at the Institute for Responsive Government, wrote for Just Security.

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And crucially, the staff can still disburse grant funds to states for election security and continue certifying voting systems, important pieces of keeping elections secure, he wrote.

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“The President’s summarily firing the bipartisan EAC commissioners is unprecedented, but this action gives the federal government no more authority over elections than it had before,” Blacksberg wrote.

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Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader in the US Senate, called Trump’s firing of the full Election Assistance Commission another step toward the president’s attempt to take over elections.

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“Firing every remaining member of the bipartisan Election Assistance Commission months before the midterms is a brazen attempt to seize control of our elections before a single vote is cast,” Schumer wrote on X. “He is gutting the independent agency that certifies voting systems and helps election officials run secure elections.”

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Schumer said Senate Democrats will fight this move.

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“The American people—not Donald Trump—will decide the 2026 election.”

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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a man killed by federal immigration agents during a traffic stop in Houston this week, was not the intended target of the “enforcement operation”, the Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were reportedly seeking two people from Guatemala when they attempted to stop Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant who had lived in the United States for 35 years, the New York Times reported.

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Salgado Araujo, who was on his way to work early on Tuesday morning, was driving three other people in a white van. After the shooting, the three men were taken into custody. One of the three men has been identified by advocates as Victor Hugo Salgado Araujo, the brother of the victim. The New York Times reported that he was still in an immigration detention center.

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In a statement provided to the Guardian, an unnamed DHS official said officers had received a tip from law enforcement partners about their target’s address and had previously spotted two white vans at that property.

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“On July 7, officers were almost at the target’s address when they observed a white van with an individual who resembled the target,” the official said.

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The statement does not clarify what happened next. Salgado Araujo died in the hospital after being shot in the abdomen, according to accounts from local law enforcement officers. The officers involved were not wearing body cameras, DHS said.

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Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog.

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The Trump administration has been branded “irresponsible and dangerous” after the president terminated the remaining members of the independent, federal commission (EAC) that assists election administration officials nationwide.

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Trump’s “deeply concerning” move comes just a few months before the midterm elections, with remaining three commissioners of the four-member bipartisan commission forced out on Thursday in different ways.

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The one Republican appointee resigned and the other ⁠two, Democratic appointees were notified of their terminations via email from the White House presidential personnel office.

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“On ‌behalf of President ‌Donald J Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position ‌as Commissioner of the Election Assistance Commission is terminated, effective immediately. Thank you for your service,” the email, seen by Reuters, said.

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The terminations follow Trump and top administration officials’ advocacy to change vote-by-mail requirements and investigations into the 2020 election outcome, which Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden.

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“It is ⁠irresponsible and dangerous that this Administration remains dead set on causing chaos for our election officials across this country,” Arizona secretary of state Adrian Fontes said in a statement. “This ‌move undermines the integrity of nonpartisan election administration.”

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Senator Mark Warner of Virginia posted on X that the dismissals “should concern every American regardless of party,” adding “removing every remaining commissioner just months before the 2026 midterm elections is an extraordinary step that demands an immediate explanation from the administration.”

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The Brennan Center for Justice’s CEO Michael Waldman called the firings “deeply concerning in light of president Trump’s relentless efforts to try to interfere in elections.”

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Read the full story here:

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In other developments:

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Victor Marx, a marines veteran, pastor and self-described “high-risk missionary”, whose extraordinary claims about his past have been disputed and mocked, won the Republican primary for Colorado governor. State senator Barbara Kirkmeyer conceded the race, despite losing by just fewer than 2,500 votes.

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Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, said her government will ask state and federal prosecutors in the United States to file criminal charges against the people responsible for the deaths of 17 Mexican citizens targeted ⁠during anti-immigration operations or while in immigration detention centers.

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A Mexican immigrant who was fatally shot by a federal immigration agent during a traffic stop in Houston on Tuesday was not the man federal officers were searching for, the Department of Homeland Security said.

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Morris Katz, Zohran Mamdani’s 27-year-old media strategist, who has been blamed by many Democrats for helping to recruit Graham Platner to run for the US Senate in Maine and made ads for the campaign, distanced himself from the candidate.

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Troy Jackson, a former president of the Maine state senate who hopes to replace Graham Platner as the Democratic nominee for US Senate, if Platner makes good on his promise to formally withdraw by the Monday deadline, said in an interview with MS Now that Platner had lied to him.

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Dan Kleban, a co-founder of the Maine Beer Company, wrote on Substack on Thursday that he would not vote for Chuck Schumer as the party’s Senate leader next year should he win the nomination and be elected.

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Key events

Closing summary

This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day. Here are the latest developments:

Graham Platner posted a copy of a letter on social media which said: “I write to formally withdraw my candidacy for United States Senate.” The Maine secretary of state’s office confirmed that it had received the same letter, ending his candidacy for the US Senate.
The Department of Justice sent letters to election officials in all 50 states threatening them with criminal charges if they do not turn over lists of registered voters, despite a court dismissing the administration’s lawsuit seeking the lists.
In a letter sent to the homeland security secretary Markwayne Mullin on Friday, House Democrats said that they “are investigating the fatal shooting of Mr. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, as well as the Trump administration’s response to his killing.”
A federal judge nominated by Donald Trump during his first term reluctantly agreed to dismiss the seditious conspiracy case against leaders of the Proud Boys who were convicted by a jury of serious crimes during the attack on the US Capitol by Trump supporters on January 6 2021.
The Crush Maga PAC, a Democratic super PAC, diverted resources from its main target in Michigan’s seventh congressional district, the incumbent Republican congressman Tom Barrett, to run an attack ad against one of his progressive challengers, Will Lawrence, a cofounder of the Sunrise Movement.

Democratic super PAC runs ad attacking Sunrise Movement founder Will Lawrence for having a small 401(k)

Trump-appointed judge reluctantly dismisses seditious conspiracy case against Proud Boys

Pezzola’s destruction of the window was recorded in a social media video that quickly became one of the iconic images of the day.

Kelly also noted that the case was initiated “while President Trump was still in power” in the days after the attack.

House Democrats pledge ‘to find the truth about Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s death’, father of 3 shot and killed by ICE

On Tuesday morning, while Salgado, his brother and two men were heading to work in Houston, Texas he was shot and killed during a “targeted enforcement operation” by ICE officials.

“Indeed, witnesses to the shooting of Mr. Salgado Araujo paint a different picture than DHS’s claims,” the lawmakers continue.

The letter goes on to demand that the department “immediately turn over” all evidence of what happened.

One of the lawmakers, Seth Magaziner of Rhode Island, pledged “to find the truth” about the killing.

“He wasn’t the person they were looking for. ICE statements don’t match witness accounts. Now they’re pressuring witnesses to self-deport,” Magaziner wrote.

A spokesperson for the Republican National Committee once again described Graham Platner as a “rapist” in a statement sent to reporters after the Maine Democrat formally ended his US Senate campaign, treating an allegation that he raped a former romantic partner, which he has denied, as a fact.

“Republicans have been sounding the alarm about Graham Platner for months and today he exited the race without taking any accountability,” RNC spokesperson Kristen Cianci said in the statement emailed to the Guardian. “Instead, he declared himself kingmaker and his successor the carrier of his legacy – too bad his legacy is one of a sick Nazi rapist.”

The Republican party spokesperson’s certainty that the allegation Platner calls “false” is true contrasts with the doubt expressed earlier this week by her party’s president, Donald Trump.

“It’s really a question of whether or not you believe the woman,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Wednesday when asked about the allegation against Platner. “A lot of people say big falsehoods,” said the Republican president who was found liable by a jury of sexually abusing the writer E Jean Carroll in the 1990s, and then sued ABC News for reporting that he had been found “liable for rape”.

In a 2023 court order denying Trump’s motion to overturn a $2m jury award of compensatory damages, a federal judge, Lewis Kaplan, wrote that while the jury did not find that Trump had raped her “within the narrow, technical meaning of a particular section of the New York Penal Law”, which “applies only to vaginal penetration by a penis”, it did find that Trump had subjected Carroll to “[f]orcible, unconsented-to penetration of the vagina or of other bodily orifices by fingers, other body parts, or other articles”.

“The finding that Ms. Carroll failed to prove that she was ‘raped’ within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape,’” the judge added. “Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.”

Trump justice department threatens criminal charges against state election officials unless they provide list of voters

The state’s elections administrator, Jared DeMarinis, described it to Maryland Matters, a nonprofit news site, as “a nice love letter from the Department of Justice threatening my arrest.”

“It is just unconscionable to threaten and try to intimidate election officials, not just in Maryland, but throughout the United States,” DeMarinis added.

Speaking to the pro-Trump host John Solomon, Dhillon mocked the “hyperventilating” response to her letter from Utah’s Republican lieutenant governor, Deidre Henderson.

Got another love letter this morning from the DOJ sprinkled throughout with threats of criminal prosecution. I’m sure I’m not the only chief election officer of a state who is being targeted for following state and federal laws by resisting DOJ’s demands for private voter data that have thus far been ruled illegal by at least a dozen courts. This is truly bizarre behavior by the federal agency that is supposed to be protecting civil rights.

Marina Dunbar

The Democratic senator John Fetterman, who has faced mounting political challenges, is joining forces with the Republican senator Dave McCormick to launch a new joint fundraising committee, a move that is likely to fuel additional questions about Fetterman’s increasingly rightward lurch.

Pennsylvania’s two US senators have established a shared fundraising committee that will collect donations benefiting both of their campaigns in an unusual bipartisan arrangement.

Federal Election Commission records filed on Monday show the creation of Common Ground PA. The filing identifies the leadership Pacs and principal campaign committees for both Fetterman and McCormick as participants in the joint committee. Politico first reported the formation of the fundraising committee this week.

The move led to fresh speculation that Fetterman might be planning a party switch. Rick Wilson, the longtime political consultant and anti-Trump activist, predicted “He’s gonna flip” in a social media post in response to the new fundraising committee.

Nick Field, a local politics writer in Pennsylvania, wrote: “Fetterman caucusing with the Republicans in 2027, and even trying to run in 2028 with their support, looks likelier and likelier by the day.”

Maine secretary of state’s office confirms it received Platner’s letter, ending his candidacy for US Senate

“A public declaration is not an official withdrawal, and a candidate must formally withdraw in writing to the Elections office, including signature,” the office explained.

The statement continued:

Because the candidate officially withdrew before 5 p.m. of the 2^nd Monday in July (July 13, 2026), his name will not appear on the ballot, and his political party may replace him. The deadline for the party to name a replacement is the 4^th Monday in July (July 27, 2026). Maine Statute does not address how a replacement candidate may be chosen by a party, only that the candidate filling the vacancy must be a ‘qualified person.’ Announcements about how a replacement candidate will be chosen or when that candidate will be announced will come from the political party.

Graham Platner posts letter formally withdrawing from Maine Senate race

Graham Platner just posted a copy of a letter on social media which says: “I write to formally withdraw my candidacy for United States Senate.”

The rest of the letter which is signed by the candidate who was accused of sexual assault, reads:

On June 9th, 156,084 Mainers voted for a new kind of politics. One that is representative of people down here in the real world – not billionaires, oligarchs, or the political establishment. Mainers voted for Medicare for All; to ban billionaires from buying elections; and for an end to taxpayer-funded genocide and forever wars. They voted for time and dignity; for strong unions and jobs they can raise families on; for the hope of buying a home; for the chance to retire with grace.

People are desperate for change. For this broken system to be righted. For the American experiment to be furthered. Over the past eleven months, thousands and thousands of Mainers poured their hearts, time, and talent into a movement to deliver that vision. I will be forever grateful to them.

And in submitting this letter today, I seek to further the movement we have built together and the future we believe in.

My name may have been on the ballot, but that ballot line belongs to the people of Maine. As such, please consider this notice as my official withdrawal from consideration for this office.

F*ck ICE. Free Palestine. Up the Hearts.

Solidarity forever,

Graham Platner

House Democrats accuse Trump of misusing disaster response agency for immigration crackdown

We also have new pictures coming through of the the giant new helipad that Donald Trump confirmed a few days ago is being built on the White House South Lawn.

The granite helipad will accommodate the presidential helicopter Marine One and is being paid for by a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin.

Workers building the helipad on the South Lawn of the White House on Friday. Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AP

Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday:

We’re building a helipad, a beautiful helipad, and it’s got the seal of the White House on it, in granite, in carved granite. It’s really a beautiful thing.

He added that Sikorsky Aircraft would pay for the project. “It’s about $5 or $6m. They’re paying the full cost,” he said.

Trump administration issues fresh Iran-related sanctions

Earlier today, Donald Trump once again declared that the US-Iran memorandum of understanding is “over”, before adding that talks with Tehran would continue.

White House upgrading front door to fortify entrance – report

The White House is making security-focused upgrades to its front door, CNN reports citing an official, in a project that is expected to take several months.

The North Portico fortifications are expected to be complete by approximately mid-September, the White House official told CNN.

A tarp covers scaffolding on the north portico of the White House on Friday. Photograph: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP

Earlier we reported that Donald Trump has been accused of trying to “rig” November’s midterm elections after he fired the last three members of an independent federal commission.

Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP civil rights organization, said in response to Trump’s move:

Donald Trump knows that in November voters will reject everything he stands for. The economy is devastating, he’s starting endless wars resulting in Americans dying, and his paramilitary ICE police force is terrorizing our communities. Trump is terrified of the sacred power we all hold as voters, and that’s why he wants to rig this election.

Mr President, your plan will fail miserably. If you think the American people will allow fascism, you are gravely mistaken. The NAACP will do everything in our power to send people to the polls and make their voices heard.

Trump to allow housing bill to become law – report

A White House official has told NBC News that Donald Trump will allow the bipartisan housing bill to become law.

Further to our earlier post that four ⁠US senators have said they’ve reached agreement with the Trump administration to move ⁠forward with updated ⁠legislation on Russia sanctions, we now have this statement from Richard Blumenthal, Lindsey Graham, Jeanne Shaheen and Roger ‌Wicker.

We are proud to announce that we have reached an agreement with the Trump administration ⁠to move our updated Russia sanctions legislation forward. We are very pleased with this significant progress and expect ⁠to roll out the legislation very soon.

As Russia intensifies its slaughter of civilians, it is imperative ‌that the legislative and executive branches work together to create tools to exact a heavy price on those who buy Russian oil and natural gas, fueling the Putin war machine.

The White House did not immediately respond to ‌a Reuters request for comment.

Graham, ‌who met with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv today, said the agreement meant the legislation could move forward, ‌giving Trump fresh tools to help end the war, which is now in its fifth year.

“We’ve reached an agreement with the White House on a version of the Russian sanctions bill that they will support. It means it’s going to become law,” he told reporters, wrapping up his tenth visit to Kyiv.

The legislation, which Graham has been working on with fellow Republicans and Democrats for months, would impose sanctions on countries doing business with Russia, including buyers of its energy exports, over Moscow’s failure to negotiate a peace deal to end its war in Ukraine.

On Wednesday, Trump said that he and Zelenskyy had developed a “very good” relationship, and both Moscow and Kyiv wanted to end the war that began with Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.

Trump justice department threatens criminal charges against state election officials unless they provide voter rolls – as it happened

Trump justice department threatens criminal charges against state election officials unless they provide list of voters

Closing summary

Democratic super PAC runs ad attacking Sunrise Movement founder Will Lawrence for having a small 401(k)

Trump-appointed judge reluctantly dismisses seditious conspiracy case against Proud Boys

House Democrats pledge ‘to find the truth about Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s death’, father of 3 shot and killed by ICE

Trump justice department threatens criminal charges against state election officials unless they provide list of voters

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