Voters fill out their ballots at an early voting site in New York.
\n\nA federal judge on Friday issued an emergency order blocking several measures taken by the Trump administration to pressure election officials over alleged illegal voting ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
\n\nUS District Judge Trina Thompson said the administration's actions were likely to interfere with election administration and disenfranchise eligible voters.
\n\n"Although Defendants claim that their actions are designed to halt unlawful voting by noncitizens, their actions are likely to have the effect of interfering with election administration and disenfranchising lawful voters," she wrote in her opinion granting a temporary restraining order on Friday evening.
\n\nThe order prevents the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security from demanding that election officials in any state segregate ballots, remove voters from registration lists or stop processing ballots.
\n\nIt also bars the agencies from threatening election officials with criminal prosecution or taking other action to "threaten, intimidate or coerce" them into changing ballot-processing procedures on the grounds that voters are ineligible.
\n\nThompson, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden, rejected the administration's claims that election officials could face federal prosecution for failing to prevent illegal voting.
\n\n"When state…
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