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After Iran attacked three ships near the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Central Command on Tuesday struck more than 80 targets along Iran’s coast and the Trump administration revoked its waiver allowing Iranian oil sales. Iran counterattacked, targeting 85 U.S. military sites in Bahrain and Kuwait. This morning President Trump said he believed the ceasefire was “over” and threatened further strikes. (WSJ.) (NYT.) (CNN.)
Judge T. Kent Wetherell II (N.D. Fla.) on Tuesday ordered the Department of Homeland Security to restore four states’ access to the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system to screen their voter rolls. The order directly contradicts Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan’s (D.D.C.) June order barring the same data use as a likely violation of Social Security disclosure rules. (Opinion.) (NYT.) For background on the D.C. ruling, see a previous Roundup.
Judge William M. Ray II (N.D. Ga.) on Tuesday quashed a Justice Department grand-jury subpoena seeking the personal information of thousands of Fulton County 2020 election workers. Judge Ray described the subpoena as an “arbitrary fishing expedition” and found that the disclosure it demands “threatens to chill participation in future elections.” (Order.) (WaPo.) (Politico.)
The Iranian American Legal Defense Fund on Tuesday sued the State Department and DHS in the District of Columbia. The complaint alleges the government has handed Iran confidential files on detained Iranian asylum seekers and let Tehran “select the Iranians deported to Iran.” (Complaint.) (NYT.) (WaPo.)
The Justice Department on Tuesday sent letters to election officials in all 50 states and the District of Columbia warning that any officer who “knowingly retains noncitizens” on voter rolls or facilitates their voting could face prosecution. The letters gave each state five days to explain how it intends to comply. (NYT.)
Yale Law School Dean Cristina M. Rodríguez and members of the faculty are reportedly pressing the university not to settle the Trump administration’s admissions probe. (NYT.)
Lev Menand argued that the Supreme Court’s carveout in Cook shielding the Fed from the removal rule of Slaughter “fails on its own terms” as the exception rests on a faulty analogy to the First and Second Banks of the United States, which were private entities that constrained no removal power. (Just Security.)