Democrats and voting advocates are going on the offensive against the Trump administration’s threats to send armed federal agents to the polls as voters cast their ballots in the 2026 midterm elections.
Federal law bans armed civil or military officers from voting locations, but administration officials have repeatedly suggested they could still be deployed.
With Election Day just over a month away, Democrats and civic groups have filed two lawsuits that aim to bar federal law enforcement at the polls. Meanwhile, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) on Wednesday introduced a bill to restrict them from coming within a quarter-mile of voting sites, and some states have advanced their own protections.
The Baldwin measure, in particular — though unlikely to pass into law — suggests Democrats are looking not just to head off any attempt to deploy law enforcement to voting sites themselves, but also to focus attention on what may be an even bigger threat to voting access: potential efforts to snarl traffic and create broader disruptions in urban, Democratic-leaning areas that could make it harder for voters to get to the polls in the first place.
Taken together, the lawsuits and legislation amount to a growing campaign to resist one of the Trump administration’s most alarming threats to the election.
Agreed. I’m just saying that we don’t have an opposition party.
Hakeem Jeffries is funded by a Peter Thiel and just appointed more dem Thiel agents into some AI regulatory committee.
The Dems want to “compromise”
I won’t ever compromise with fascists. What does that even mean? Are we good with 30000 people in a camp instead of 60000? Will we let pedophiles use “just the tip”?
How do you compromise with pedophilic fascists? You don’t because they CANNOT exist in a normal society