Aqua RichJo | September 26, 2026 The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily cleared the way for states to use the federal SAVE database to check voter eligibility while a lawsuit continues. The September 25 emergency order pauses a lower court’s restrictions on the revamped system. It does not finally decide whether the system is lawful, and states are not required to use it. The Court’s three liberal justices dissented. The ruling lands as Texas counties are already processing a

Aqua RichJo| September 26, 2026 Texas’ next maternal-mortality report was expected September 1. Now the state says it will come in December—after voters go to the polls on November 3 and after lawmakers can begin filing bills on November 9. Women’s-health advocates and lawmakers rallied outside the Texas Department of State Health Services on Friday, demanding answers about the delay. The report is supposed to examine deaths associated with pregnancy and recommend ways to pre

Those questions come from two separate stories. One is a national lawsuit about alleged voter intimidation. The other is a Texas registration backlog. There is no evidence that the two are connected. Together, they show why voters need clear answers before Election Day. On September 18, the NAACP, National Urban League and seven other organizations filed a federal lawsuit over administration statements and policy changes involving armed federal officers at or near voting sit