The Trump administration has suffered a succession of legal defeats over the past week on subjects ranging from blocking diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, withholding funding from "sanctuary" jurisdictions and blocking a proof-of-citizenship requirement for the federal voter registration form.

Donald Trump’s unilateral effort to reshape election processes is an attempt to “short-circuit Congress’s deliberative process by executive order,” a federal judge in Washington, D.C. wrote Thursday afternoon.