Media Must Cover Trump's Voting Overreach as Extreme

Trump has issued two executive orders attempting to seize control of election administration from states and Congress — directing the Postal Service to refuse mail ballots from voters not on a federally approved list, and ordering DHS to build a national citizenship database to screen voters. Courts have blocked these efforts repeatedly. And just today, the Supreme Court dealt Trump a direct rebuke: a 5-4 ruling — written by Trump's own appointee Amy Coney Barrett and joined by the court's three liberals — affirmed that states can count absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day but received afterward. Trump called it a "tremendous loss" on Truth Social.

When a president's voting power grab is so extreme that his own Supreme Court picks are ruling against him, that is not a routine legal story. It is a flashing red light. Courts across the ideological spectrum have now found that Trump's election orders unconstitutionally violate the separation of powers and threaten the voting rights of seniors, veterans, people with disabilities, and millions of others who rely on mail-in ballots.

We call on the media to cover Trump's assault on voting rights not as a policy dispute, but as an unprecedented and repeatedly rejected power grab — one so extreme that even the Republican-appointed justices he put on the Supreme Court won't go along with it. The public deserves reporting that makes the stakes clear before November, not after.