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After losing five straight cases attempting to access state voter rolls, the Department of Justice tried to patch a key legal flaw in its Minnesota lawsuit — only to attach the wrong document and rely on a single, disputed allegation as its new justification.
At a House Administration Committee hearing Thursday, Republicans repeatedly raised hypothetical specters of coordinated voter fraud while state election officials gently reiterated, again and again, that elections and voter registration rolls are already safe, secure, and accurate.
It would be difficult enough for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to simultaneously litigate 30 lawsuits demanding states turn over their unredacted voter registration records, but the government’s attorneys nonetheless seem to insist on making things harder still by repeatedly contradicting themselves. Minnesota filed a notice to supplement the record Tuesday in the lawsuit brought […]
The Trump administration’s sweeping campaign to force states to hand over sensitive voter registration data is colliding with a new revelation that could undermine its cases — and raise serious questions about whether the Department of Justice (DOJ) was fully candid in federal court.
A top U.S. general said Thursday that armed troops shouldn’t be “anywhere near” polling sites during elections while testifying at a Senate Armed Services Committee panel.
The Justice Department would not rule out using voter data for immigration enforcement during a federal hearing in Minnesota, but said such data was not currently being used.
Steve Bannon and Mike Johnson welcomed Trump’s comments about taking control of elections. And a new Republican anti-voting bill could disenfranchise millions.
Federal law enforcement has arrested former CNN anchor Don Lemon over his presence at a protest against the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration raids in Minnesota, during which demonstrators interrupted a church service.
Should the Trump administration try to interfere with the midterm elections, Democratic states will be ready, according to Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon.
Secretaries of state from Arizona, Colorado, and Maine condemned Bondi’s attempt to extort the Minnesota tragedy for voter roll access.
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