His administration violated a judge's order on the 2020 census and could be held in contempt. And in the heat of a presidential campaign, that track record only adds to anxiety about whether Trump will abide by the results of the election. Beyond election law, government watchdog groups have been tracking a raft of other examples where they allege that Trump is flouting laws. Special counsel Henry Kerner, a Trump appointee, recommended that Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway be fired after repeated violations, but the White House ignored that. “If he is taking money from foreign governments without congressional consent, he is violating the Constitution,” said Potter, a former chairman of the Federal Election Commission.

Substantive change to voter access in multiple states all at once is rare, but this year, officials have pushed to make mail voting easier to help protect people from the coronavirus. Democrats say they’re trying to make sure every vote counts, and voting rights advocates are raising the alarm that the expansion of existing absentee and mail voting systems could create widespread disenfranchisement and discrimination unless done correctly. Much of voting rights advocates' litigation is aimed at lowering the absentee ballot rejection rates that have skyrocketed during the primaries. The flaw in each of those amendments is that it delegates administration to the states.”And in that administration, advocates and academics alike see discriminatory effects in mail voting systems. Here’s what’s at the heart of the suits, and what could change about the rules surrounding vote by mail.

The aides include Betsy DeVos, the education secretary who has permanent absentee voting status in her home state of Michigan. Two other senior Trump campaign officials chief operating officer Michael Glassner and deputy campaign manager Bill Stepien have repeatedly voted by mail in New Jersey. Tim Murtaugh, the Trump campaign's communications director, defended the Trump aides who have voted by mail. Yet its unclear if he traveled to San Antonio, where his presence would have disqualified him from voting absentee. Glassner and Stepien have both voted repeatedly by mail in New Jersey, where Glassner has voted absentee four times since 2016.

Fruman and Parnas were charged with conspiring to make illegal straw donations and lying to federal election regulators. And Trump on Thursday sought to distance himself from the Giuliani associates, even as he acknowledged he appeared in photos with them. Prosecutors say Parnas and Fruman committed to raising at least $20,000 for then-Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas, identified in the indictment at "Congressman-1." Prosecutors say Parnas discussed with Sessions his effort to seek Marie Yovanovitch's ouster as the US' top envoy to Ukraine. According to the indictment, Parnas' effort to remove Yovanovitch came at the behest of "one or more Ukrainian government officials."