Consolidated lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump’s election-integrity executive order were narrowed Thursday after a federal judge in Boston allowed claims tied to November’s midterm elections to proceed while dismissing challenges involving future elections as premature.

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani wrote in a 17-page ruling that the potential impact of Trump’s order on the midterm elections and earlier primaries meant parts of the plaintiffs’ case could not wait to be heard.

“In light of the EO’s specific deadlines over the next three months, and the reality that elections will be occurring throughout this period with the November 3, 2026, midterm occurring in just five months, postponing judicial review is impracticable and may inflict significant hardship on Plaintiffs,” Talwani wrote.

“With an ever-narrowing window of time in which review is appropriate and practicable, and where that review may well require timely involvement by the Court of Appeals or Supreme Court prior to the November 3, 2026, election in order to ‘maintain public confidence in election outcomes,’ the court finds that the legality of the EO as to the November 3, 2026, election (and earlier elections) is both ripe and fit for review.”

The lawsuits were filed by 23 Democrat-led states, the District of Columbia and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro — a Democrat — as well as voting rights groups including the League of Women Voters.

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