This collection brings together analysis of the legal and policy issues surrounding the 2026 U.S. midterm elections published on Just Security. Coverage spans election administration, voting rights and redistricting, the military and law enforcement at the polls, political violence, AI and foreign influence, ongoing litigation, and more, organized by topic. For legal challenges to administration actions related to elections, readers may also be interested in our Litigation Tracker.
The Military and Elections
- Dan Herman and Devon Ombres, Boots Off Ballots: Troops and Elections, In Practice (Oct. 9, 2026)
- Joseph Nunn, No Emergency Exception: The Ban on Troops at the Polls Was Built for Crises (Oct. 7, 2026)
- Dan Herman and Devon Ombres, Boots Off Ballots: The Law (Sept. 30, 2026)
- Readers may also be interested in: Mary B. McCord, Reinvention Blueprint No. 4: Building Authorities for Domestic Use of the Military that Work (Sept. 28, 2026)
Mail Ballots and the Postal Service
- Marty Lederman, What’s Conspicuously Missing from the Government’s Supreme Court Reply Brief in the Mail Ballots Case (Sept. 14, 2026)
- Marty Lederman, The Simplest Way for the Supreme Court to Rule in the USPS Mail Ballots Case (Sept. 8, 2026)
- Chris Hardee, The Unconstitutionality of the Trump Administration’s New Executive Order on Elections (April 3, 2026)
Pressure on State or Federal Election Administration
- Michael John-Hopkins and Rebecca Patterson, Foreign Interference and the Democratic Self-Defense Trap: A European Perspective Going into the 2026 Midterms (Oct. 19, 2026)
- Reed Shaw, No, Trump Can’t Withhold Anti-Terrorism Funds to Pressure States to Change Their Election Rules (July 23, 2026)
- Brian O’Neill, An Initial Readout of Trump’s Election-Interference Speech (July 17, 2026)
- Aaron Blacksberg, What is the Election Assistance Commission With No Commissioners? (July 10, 2026)
- Michael McNulty, The Trump Administration’s Strategy for Reshaping Elections (March 27, 2026)
- Readers may also be interested in: Sam Jones and Roudabeh Kishi, After the Minnesota Attacks: How Communities Can Respond to the Climate of Hostility Facing Public Officials (June 18, 2025)
Federal Seizures of Election Records
- John Keller and Chelsea Rice, The Last Check: Magistrate Judges and Federal Seizures of Election Records (June 16, 2026)
- Readers may also be interested in: Dani Schulkin, Ryan Goodman and Huzaifa Khan, “Zero Evidence”: How Judges and Grand Juries Have Rejected Trump Administration Efforts to Investigate and Prosecute (July 20, 2026)
Redistricting and Voting Rights
- Trevor Potter and Paul Smith, The Supreme Court’s Striking Regression on Partisan Gerrymandering (July 28, 2026)
- Pamela S. Karlan, Bang, Bang, Bang: Callais Kills Off the Voting Rights Act (June 4, 2026)
Political Violence
- Sam Jones, To Counter Rising Political Violence, America Needs to Reinforce Its Early Warning Infrastructure (April 28, 2026)
- Readers may also be interested in: Tom Joscelyn, Collection: Counterextremism and Counterterrorism Initiative (Sept. 28, 2026)
Artificial Intelligence and Disinformation
- Lawrence Norden and David Evan Harris, The Second AI Election: Testing the Safeguards Before November (Sept. 18, 2026)
Readers may also be interested in 2024 and Beyond: Just Security’s US Election Protection Coverage for coverage of related issues in the 2024 elections.
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