( May 5, 2026, 3:25 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — A Massachusetts federal judge denied motions filed by federal defendants and a group of states seeking to intervene as defendants to transfer challenges to President Donald J. Trump’s voter data executive order to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and denied the states’ motion to intervene as of right, while granting their request for permissive intervention, in a consolidated case that includes a separate action challenging the executive order and seeking injunctive relief....