Trump Wins: Two Courts Just Told the Left That Election Security Isn’t Voter Suppression

While Obama DEI Judge Indiri Talwani in Boston was busy blocking Trump’s mail ballot verification order for the second time, two other courts delivered a pair of election integrity wins that should shape the fight going forward. The 5th Circuit restored nine provisions of Texas’s 2021 election law, and the Minnesota Supreme Court upheld witness signature requirements for absentee ballots. Both decisions reject the left’s core strategy for defeating election security: calling everything discriminatory and hoping a sympathetic judge agrees.

The Texas ruling is the more significant of the two. U.S. District Judge Andrew Oldham, a Trump appointee, writing for a unanimous panel, found that the organizations challenging Texas’s mail-ballot ID requirements lacked standing — they failed to show their members faced a substantial risk of future harm. More importantly, the court noted that ID-related ballot rejection rates had fallen dramatically under the challenged law, from roughly 11 to 12 percent down to 2.7 percent.

Think about that for a moment. The law that the left spent years calling voter suppression actually produced better outcomes for voters — fewer rejected ballots, more successful participation. The argument that requiring identification inevitably suppresses turnout collapsed against the actual data from Texas’s own elections.