A federal judge in Washington State ruled Friday that Trump cannot enforce parts of an executive order he issued last year about how elections are run.

In an interview with The New York Times last week, Trump revealed that he regretted not ordering the National Guard to seize ballot boxes after the 2020 election.

During his first term, he publicly suggested delaying the 2020 election, despite lacking the authority to do so. More recently, in a meeting in August with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump appeared to voice approval of Ukraine’s ban on elections under martial law, prompting laughter in the room but alarm among his critics.

A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing most of his executive order on elections against the vote-by-mail states Washington and Oregon, in the latest b

President Donald Trump spoke to House Republicans as the party braces for impact in the 2026 midterms. He teased he can't cancel the election.

The ruling is the latest legal setback to President Trump’s sweeping effort to compel changes to state election standards.

In an interview, the president said he should have ordered the National Guard to take the machines to find evidence of fraud, but added that the Guard might not have had the sophistication to do so.

President Donald Trump is meeting with House Republicans to align on their policy and political agenda at the start of a critical midterm election year.

Republican State Treasurer Stacy Garrity, who hopes to derail Gov. Josh Shapiro’s re-election bid this year, has previously suggested President Donald Trump won the 2020 election. But she revised those remarks this week.