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Wiz Imp

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12. From Democracy Docket:
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 10:21 PM
Monday
Justin Levitt, a law professor at Loyola Marymount University and a former deputy assistant attorney general at the Department of Justice (DOJ), said in a social media post Friday that the proposed rule was a move toward Trump’s order being ruled unconstitutional.

One step closer to standing, which means one step closer to an end to this charade,” Levitt said, referring to U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols’s ruling Thursday.

While Nichols did not necessarily disagree with Democrats and pro-voting groups that Trump’s order could be unlawful, he said they couldn’t show that they had been harmed by it because federal agencies hadn’t acted on the directives.

In fact, though he was rejecting the plaintiffs’ request for a permanent injunction against the order, Nichols specified that his decision was actually a message for the Trump administration to act in order to give the plaintiffs standing to sue.

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