{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/durbin-statement-on-supreme-courts-temporary-order-on-president-trumps-attempted-mail-in-voting-restrictions", "Durbin Statement On Supreme Court\u2019s Temporary Order On President Trump\u2019s Attempted Mail-In Voting Restrictions", "2026-08-25", "2026", "2026-08", "Democrat", "Senate", "IL", "Richard J. Durbin", "D000563", "www.durbin.senate.gov", "durbin", "https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "CHICAGO \u2013 U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the following statement after the Supreme Court temporarily permitted President Trump to move forward with portions of an executive order that seek to restrict mail-in voting while litigation on the merits of the case continues. The Supreme Court stayed a lower court injunction that had blocked provisions of the executive order in 23 states and the District of Columbia, though an injunction in a related case brought by voter protection organizations currently remains in place.\n\n\u201cThe President is dead set on attacking Americans\u2019 right to vote and undermining our democracy by making baseless claims about \u2018rigged\u2019 elections, demanding unreasonable voter registration requirements, restricting mail-in voting, and threatening to unconstitutionally nationalize our elections.\n\n\u201cYesterday\u2019s Supreme Court order is a temporary procedural win for President Trump as he attempts to pursue these lawless goals\u2014but it doesn\u2019t change the reality that the Constitution empowers states to run our elections, and the rule of law must prevail as this litigation continues. The right to vote is fundamental to our nation\u2019s democracy, and President Trump\u2019s efforts to chip away at that fundamental right must ultimately be rejected.\u201d\n\nAs Justice Sotomayor noted in her dissent to the order, \u201c[Yesterday\u2019s] decision does not address whether the President\u2019s attempts to interfere with States\u2019 administration of the November 2026 elections are lawful. Nor does it suggest that the Executive Branch has any constitutional or statutory authority to implement the President\u2019s directives. Instead, [it] merely postpones adjudication of those challenges.\u201d\n\nEarlier this year, Durbin joined U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-CA) and Gary Peters (D-MI) to introduce the Absentee and Mail Voter Protection Act (Absentee MVP Act), which would block President Trump\u2019s illegal and unconstitutional executive order attacking mail and absentee ballots and protect the right to vote by mail.\n\n-30-", 1, "2026-08-26T05:33:32Z", "2026-08-26T05:34:56Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/durbin-statement-on-supreme-courts-temporary-order-on-president-trumps-attempted-mail-in-voting-restrictions"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.9927611574530602, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}