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The Justice Department has sent the Nevada Secretary of State’s Office seven different subpoenas concerning voters over the past three months, the office confirmed to Democracy Docket Friday.
As President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) ramps up its campaign to interfere in the midterms, no news outlet is keeping a closer eye on its plans than Democracy Docket.
Nevada’s top election official called the Trump administration’s effort to police state voter rolls “bulls**t” after the Department of Homeland Security walked back claims recently amplified by President Donald Trump that thousands of noncitizens were illegally registered to vote in the battleground state.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals tossed a Republican lawsuit challenging Nevada’s grace period for late mail ballots Friday, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Watson v. Republican National Committee.
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice appealed yet another round of defeats in its nationwide campaign to obtain states’ unredacted voter rolls, as its district court record now stands at 0 for 23.
The attorney general said the Justice Department is “not going to stop” going after state voter rolls despite losing 22 times in court to get them.
As November rapidly approaches, we’re still waiting for a key question to be answered: Will President Donald Trump get a chance to impose sweeping restrictions on mail voting during the midterms? It will ultimately be up to the Supreme Court.
A federal court in Nevada became the 22nd consecutive district court to reject the Trump administration’s campaign to force states to turn over their unredacted voter rolls, dismissing the Department of Justice’s case and denying its motion to compel.
Nevada’s top election official demanded that the Department of Homeland Security substantiate its claim that nearly 16,000 noncitizens are registered to vote in the state — pressing the Trump administration to explain how it produced the figure and warning that flawed data could jeopardize eligible voters.
Trump’s crusade to take over voting continues to falter in the courts. So he’s pulling out a range of dangerous new strategies to exert control.
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