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.
The court also held that local prosecutors who enforce election crimes are not themselves providers of voting services — meaning they can’t be sued for disability discrimination under the ADA on that theory. This closes off one of the left’s favorite litigation strategies: treating any enforcement of election law as a form of discrimination against disabled voters.
The Minnesota Supreme Court’s ruling is equally important in practice. Third-party ballot harvesters — people who collect and deliver other voters’ absentee ballots — must still comply with witness signature requirements. Election officials can still verify those requirements are met. Minnesota had rejected roughly 6,000 ballots at issue in the litigation for failing to meet these standards. The state court upheld the rejections.
This is how election integrity is supposed to work. If you’re going to allow third parties to collect and deliver other people’s ballots — which itself creates enormous opportunities for coercion and fraud — the minimum you can do is verify that the witness signatures attached to those ballots are legitimate. The left calls this suppression. Courts are increasingly calling it law.
The broader pattern the left has been running deserves to be named explicitly. Federal disability law. The ADA. The Rehabilitation Act. Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. These are legal tools that were designed to protect genuine civil rights — and they have been systematically weaponized to block any election security measure the left doesn’t like, regardless of whether the measure has anything to do with disability or race.
Texas’s mail-ballot rejection rate dropped under the law the left called discriminatory. The law worked better, not worse. Courts noticed. The American people should too.
Dolly Parton’s Cause Of Death Revealed
New details are emerging about Dolly Parton’s health in the days before her death at the age of 80, including a hospitalization just four days before the country music legend passed away.
Parton’s family and representatives have not disclosed an official cause of death, leaving questions about the medical circumstances surrounding her sudden passing.
Parton died peacefully Tuesday in Nashville, Tennessee, according to her publicist, bringing an end to an extraordinary entertainment career that stretched across seven decades and made her one of the most beloved figures in American music.
Just four days earlier, on Friday, August 21, Parton was admitted to a Nashville hospital, PEOPLE reported.
The specific reason for that hospitalization was not initially disclosed.
TMZ subsequently reported, citing sources familiar with the situation, that Parton had been admitted to Vanderbilt University Medical Center while dealing with kidney and autoimmune issues.
Neither condition has been officially identified as contributing to her death, and Parton’s family and representatives have not confirmed a specific cause.
The hospitalization occurred on the same day Parton publicly discussed the health problems she had been dealing with over the previous year.
“As I’ve shared in video messages throughout the past year, I am dealing with some health issues that I just didn’t pay attention to when I was watching over Carl,” Parton told PEOPLE, referring to her late husband, Carl Dean.
Dean, Parton’s husband of nearly 60 years, died in March 2025 at the age of 82.
Parton had experienced several health setbacks following her husband’s death and previously revealed that doctors wanted her to undergo multiple procedures.
Those medical issues forced the legendary performer to postpone some scheduled appearances while she focused on her recovery.
Earlier this month, Parton was also unable to attend the opening of a new attraction at Dollywood after experiencing dizziness and dehydration.
She addressed disappointed attendees through a prerecorded message, explaining that her doctor had advised her against traveling while she recovered.
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Parton had also previously dealt with kidney stones, though there has been no official indication that her history with the condition was connected to her death.
Despite her recent medical problems, Parton remained optimistic and indicated only days before her passing that she had every intention of continuing to work.
“Even though I’m still healin’, I’m still workin’!” Parton said in what became one of her final public health updates.
She added that she still had numerous projects she hoped to complete, giving little public indication that her death was imminent.
News of Parton’s passing triggered an enormous outpouring of grief and tributes from fellow entertainers, political figures, celebrities and generations of fans around the world.
Born in Tennessee in 1946 as one of 12 children, Parton rose from poverty in the Great Smoky Mountains to become one of the most successful and recognizable entertainers in history.
Her legendary catalog included enduring classics such as “Jolene,” “Coat of Many Colors,” “9 to 5” and “I Will Always Love You.”
Her success extended well beyond music, with Parton becoming an accomplished actress, businesswoman and philanthropist while maintaining an unusually broad appeal across generations and political divides.
Her philanthropic legacy includes the Imagination Library, the literacy program she founded in 1995 that has distributed hundreds of millions of free books to children around the world.
Parton’s family has announced that a small private service will be held for immediate relatives.
For now, however, questions surrounding her final days remain unanswered, Trending Politics reported.
Parton was hospitalized just four days before her death and had publicly acknowledged ongoing health problems, but neither her family nor her representatives has identified a specific illness or medical condition as her official cause of death.
Breaking: Norway's King Harald passes away
The King of Norway King Harald has passed away
News has just come in, that the King of Norway, King Harald V has passed away and is survived by his son, Crown Prince Haakon and his wife Queen Sonja.
According to the BBC the 89-year-old monarch had been in treatment for 10 days at this point and was receiving treatment for a rare blood condition called haemolytic anaemia, its being said.
For those unversed with the disorder it is where red blood cells end up getting destroyed in the body way faster than the bone marrow can make new ones. It leads to dizziness, shortness of breath and a myriad of other conditions.
On Thursday an official update was also shared, whereby the Palace had revealed how serious his condition was. What is also pertinent to mention is that the royal has been on the throne since 1991, and is considered Europe’s oldest head of state, according to the outlet.
His son, the Crown Prince is also 53-years’ old and has already been serving as regent while his father was on medical leave.
The outlet’s report also says, “King Harald has been treated in recent weeks with cortisone for haemolytic anaemia, a condition that causes the number of red blood cells in the body to be reduced, and leads to fatigue and shortness of breath.”
The official website has also gone down since then, with the simple message, "It is with deep grief that we announce that His Majesty King Harald has passed away. King Harald died peacefully at Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet Friday 28 August at 6:35 AM."
