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\n \n \n \n \n \n Wednesday, September 23\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nBy Marc Elias \u00b7 Democracy Docket founder\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n For all the understandable concern about Donald Trump's plans to undermine the 2026 elections, it's worth paying attention to his dismal track record in court. On Tuesday, the Department of Justice lost its 25th straight lawsuit seeking access to state voter files.\n\u00a0\nThe DOJ has failed to persuade a single federal district judge that its legal position is correct. It has lost before judges appointed by every recent president, including at least eight appointed by Trump during his first term. It has also lost before the 6th Circuit, the only federal appeals court to rule on the issue so far.\n\u00a0\nThese defeats come on the heels of the Supreme Court's 7-2 ruling blocking the U.S. Postal Service's new rule restricting mail-in voting. The rule, which stemmed from a presidential executive order, had already been blocked by federal judges in Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. The D.C. judge was also a Trump appointee.\n\u00a0\nThis losing streak didn't begin in 2026. Trump's first executive order restricting voting, issued in March 2025, was blocked by three federal judges in three separate cases.\n\u00a0\nNor have the administration's defeats been limited to executive orders.\n\u00a0\nThe DOJ joined a challenge to California's redrawn congressional map and lost before a three-judge federal panel. When the case reached the Supreme Court's emergency docket, not a single justice publicly sided with the administration.\n\u00a0\nThe administration also backed the Republican National Committee's effort to bar states from counting mail-in ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive afterward. The Supreme Court rejected that position in a 5-4 decision in June.\n\u00a0\nIf this sounds unprecedented, it is.\n\u00a0\nThe DOJ doesn't make losing a habit \u2014 especially in voting cases. After all, the department can be selective about what it litigates, and when its lawyers walk into a courtroom, judges generally view them as experts in protecting the right to vote.\n\u00a0\nThat's not to say the DOJ has lost every voting case it has been involved in, or even every important one. Most notably, it filed an amicus brief supporting the challengers in Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court case that gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.\n\u00a0\nBut while Callais ranks high on the list of damaging anti-voting rulings, it wasn\u2019t the DOJ\u2019s brainchild. The case was fostered by Republicans in Southern states, not in Washington.\n\u00a0\nNor have Trump's defeats come only in court. His top legislative priority this year was the SAVE America Act, a bill that would impose steep new hurdles to registering and voting. Despite Trump\u2019s near-constant haranguing of Congress, the bill has failed repeatedly.\n\u00a0\nHis bid to rig congressional maps in states like Texas and Florida appears likely to backfire, given Trump\u2019s historic unpopularity. Similar efforts in Utah and Missouri were blocked by courts.\n\u00a0\nTo be clear, humiliating defeats are nothing new for Trump and the lawyers trying to help him rig elections. But Trump's superpower is a complete lack of shame and a willingness to escalate his attacks on democracy rather than retreat in the face of failure.\n\u00a0\nThat\u2019s what makes these defeats so dangerous. \n\u00a0\nDespite this string of defeats, Trump is nearly certain to launch an even more aggressive attack on free and fair elections in the weeks ahead.\n\u00a0\nOne likely step: Misusing government data to instigate mass voter purges or challenges. Another is deploying federal law enforcement to disrupt voting and vote counting.\n\u00a0\nBoth tactics would run headlong into federal laws that prohibit them. And once again, lawyers like me would quickly go to court to block them. If history is a guide, we would win.\n\u00a0\nThe final showdown in this fall's fight for democracy will almost certainly come after the ballots have been cast. Trump has repeatedly and falsely claimed that states merely act as agents of the federal government in counting ballots and tabulating results.\n\u00a0\nSkirmishes over certification are a virtual certainty. A full-scale legal war is possible.\n\u00a0\nWin or lose, all of this \u2014 the DOJ's legal defeats, the failed legislation and Trump's efforts to rig the rules to keep Republicans in control of Congress \u2014 is a sad commentary on the state of democracy in America today.\n\u00a0\nLawyers can only protect voting rights for so many elections. At some point, the bad guys will prevail. And once an election has failed because of subversion or mass suppression, the system's ability to bounce back will be severely diminished.\n\u00a0\nAs surely as we must be prepared to defend the 2026 elections, we must be equally prepared to strengthen the system afterward. That will require political and civic courage that seems in short supply right now.\n\u00a0\nFor now, I will keep fighting in court and advocating in the public square. I hope my efforts in the second soon match my success in the first.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n We\u2019re grateful for your support at the highest level. Make the most of your VIP membership and enjoy exclusive perks \u2014 claim your tote, gift two memberships and set your email preferences today.\n \n \n \n \n USE YOUR VIP BENEFITS",
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