{"id":229360,"date":"2026-10-31T21:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T21:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/election-2026-live-updates-judge-orders-trump-administration-to-stop-intimidating-election-officials-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T21:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T21:14:11","slug":"election-2026-live-updates-judge-orders-trump-administration-to-stop-intimidating-election-officials-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/election-2026-live-updates-judge-orders-trump-administration-to-stop-intimidating-election-officials-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2026 live updates: Judge orders Trump administration to stop intimidating election officials – NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A federal judge said the Trump administration has engaged in a \u201ccampaign to intimidate, threaten, and coerce\u201d election officials ahead of the midterms.
A federal judge in Florida today dismissed with prejudice a defamation case Trump brought against the Wall Street Journal after they published in 2025 a birthday letter <\/a>the president sent to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003.
The judge in this case, Darrin P. Gayles, wrote in his order<\/a>, “As President Trump has not plausibly alleged that each Defendant made defamatory statements with actual malice, the Amended Complaint must be dismissed. And because this is President Trump\u2019s second attempt to allege his claims, the Court finds that dismissal with prejudice is appropriate.”
Gayles referenced an earlier defamation case against the Wall Street Journal about the same article, which was dismissed<\/a> in April.
Virginia and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit in federal court Saturday in a last-ditch effort to stop the construction of the triumphal arch planned for Memorial Circle in Washington.
The Trump administration has said it plans to begin construction of the arch next week, on Nov. 5.
\u201cThe construction of the Arch will inflict immediate and irreparable harm on the District and Virginia,\u201d Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones and D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb wrote in the lawsuit. \u201cThe Arch is slated to be built on a busy traffic circle that abuts the border between the jurisdictions, at the center of a historic viewshed, in a river whose environment the District has a statutory responsibility to protect.\u201d
\u201cBoth the construction of the Arch and the completed monument will disrupt the operations of both jurisdictions, impair their ability to carry out their responsibilities under federal and local law, and require the expenditure of substantial resources to mitigate and address those impacts,\u201d they added.
Read the full story here. <\/strong><\/em><\/a>
E. Jean Carroll is urging the Supreme Court to reject President Donald Trump\u2019s bid to overturn the $83.3 million judgment a unanimous jury awarded her nearly three years ago<\/a>, arguing that he repeatedly waived his right to claim presidential immunity by choosing to litigate the case for years without raising the defense.
In a 64-page brief opposing Trump\u2019s petition, Carroll\u2019s attorney Roberta Kaplan argues that his defamatory statements about her stemmed from an alleged sexual assault that occurred when he was a private citizen and therefore are not protected by presidential immunity.
Kaplan also argues that Trump should not be allowed to reverse course after initially telling the court that Carroll was free to pursue her lawsuit once he left office and insisting he was not seeking to \u201cescape accountability.\u201d
The brief recounts how Carroll endured thousands of online attacks and threats of death and sexual violence from Trump supporters, which her attorneys say damaged her career and left her fearing for her safety.
\u201cWhile this President may want this Court\u2019s help, the Presidency does not need it,\u201d Kaplan wrote, arguing there is no reason for the justices to intervene simply to shield Trump from the consequences of his own litigation decisions.
Jason Turkish, Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens\u2019 fianc\u00e9, this morning said he\u2019s not sure whether the congresswoman would appear alongside Michigan\u2019s Democratic Senate nominee at a scheduled campaign event Sunday.
\u201cI\u2019m not sure. I don\u2019t know where that stands as of Saturday morning,\u201d Turkish told \u201cFox & Friends.\u201d
Stevens, who lost the Democratic primary to El-Sayed earlier this year, was supposed to appear alongside him tonight for the first time since the August primary.
But divisions between the two former foes over Israel and the war in Gaza erupted earlier this week <\/a>after Turkish told local news that he planned to vote for the Republican Senate nominee, Mike Rogers. Stevens has said she plans to vote for El-Sayed, but urged his campaign this week to denounce an ad funded by an outside group that Stevens said blamed high costs in the U.S. on Israel.
\u201cHaley has made it clear to anyone who will listen that she remains on Team Dem. That her only ask, small ask, was to say that we not blame all of society\u2019s high costs on one group of people,\u201d Turkish said this morning.
Democratic candidates in 2026 battleground races<\/a> are directly criticizing Joe Biden\u2019s handling of border security when he was president, seeking to neutralize a political vulnerability and signaling a new path for the party on the thorny issue.
Candidates are throwing the ex-president under the bus on border policy in key states that will decide control of the Senate and some battleground House races across the country.
\u201cI called out Joe Biden for failing us on the border,\u201d Texas\u2019 Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico says in a recent ad<\/a>airing in the closing stretch of his neck-and-neck race against Republican Ken Paxton. He also criticized Biden<\/a> in July for having \u201cfailed us on our southern border\u201d as he rolled out his own border security plan<\/a>.
He\u2019s not alone.
Read the full story here. <\/strong><\/em><\/a>
NBC News<\/p>\n

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