In the long-contested terrain between democratic participation and electoral integrity, the Justice Department has announced more than a dozen prosecutions across five states, alleging that noncitizens voted or were fraudulently registered in federal and local elections. The cases — stretching from California's Skid Row to Louisiana's mayoral races — reflect the Trump administration's sustained effort to reframe election fraud not as myth but as documented pattern. Yet even as prosecutors advance individual cases, the Supreme Court this week blocked stricter mail-ballot procedures, reminding t