Key Facts

• The judge’s order bars the Justice Department from threatening or coercing election workers to stop processing ballots.
• The order also bars the department from demanding that local officials segregate or reject ballots the federal government considers potentially cast by ineligible voters.
• A federal appeals court rejected the Justice Department’s request for California to sequester 20,000 disputed ballots.
• An Environmental Defense Fund analysis found that 90 of 184 operating coal plants received support from the Trump administration.
• According to the analysis, the administration provided $950 million to 24 coal plants and Clean Air Act exemptions from toxic pollution limits to 70 plants.
• Trump planned tele-rallies from Mar-a-Lago three days before the midterm elections and was also scheduled to appear at rallies in Iowa and Kansas on Sunday.
• More than 49 million Americans had voted early, setting a record for the election cycle, the Associated Press reported.
• Federal prosecutors in Alaska confirmed criminal and civil investigations into an alleged effort to recruit a spoiler candidate in the Senate race between Mary Peltola and Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan.