A federal judge in Boston has again blocked key provisions of President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at expanding the federal government’s role in election administration, marking another significant judicial check on the administration’s effort to reshape voting rules ahead of the 2026 midterms.

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, ruled against provisions that would have helped create a federal voter list and more directly inserted federal authority into functions traditionally handled by states.

Analog Devices, Inc. has filed a motion to dismiss in 1:25-cv-12314 in the District of Massachusetts, signaling an early effort to narrow or end the case before discovery begins in earnest. A Rule 12 motion like this typically argues that, even accepting the complaint’s factual allegations as true, the plaintiff has not stated a legally viable claim. For defendants, that makes dismissal practice one of the most important pressure points in federal litigation.

Although the docket entry itself does not spell out the specific grounds asserted, motions to dismiss in this posture often focus on several familiar themes: failure to plead sufficient facts under the Twombly/Iqbal plausibility standard, lack of a cognizable legal theory, preemption, timeliness, or defects tied to standing or jurisdiction.