DOJ voter roll grab is now 0-11 as judge dismisses New Hampshire lawsuit
The ruling marks the 11th straight loss for the DOJ, which sued 30 states and D.C., in an unprecedented effort to obtain unredacted statewide voter registration lists.
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This week at Democracy Docket: Judges are rejecting Trump’s anti-voting crusade
President Donald Trump’s anti-voting agenda had already hit some major legal roadblocks over the last year. But this may have been its worst week yet in the courts.
Pennsylvania’s voter rolls are safe from DOJ’s grab, rules federal judge, bringing Justice Dept record to 0-10
The U.S. Justice Department has lost yet another court battle in the Trump administration’s crusade to gain unfettered access to state voter rolls.
Pro-voting group sues Trump DOJ over its alleged voter purge lists
The Brennan Center for Justice sued the Trump administration seeking records on whether the Department of Justice has created lists of voters for states to remove from the rolls — a new transparency fight over the administration’s nationwide campaign to seize sensitive voter data ahead of the midterms.
Trump DOJ suffers first appeals court loss — after nine lower court failures — in floundering voter roll crusade
A federal appeals court panel dealt the Trump administration its first appellate defeat in its nationwide crusade to obtain unredacted state voter rolls — after nine straight district court losses and no wins.
DOJ now 0-9 in voter roll cases after Trump-appointed judge tosses its Maryland demand
A federal judge threw out the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking Maryland’s statewide, unredacted voter registration list, dealing another blow to President Trump and the department’s sweeping campaign to obtain voter data from the states.
This week at Democracy Docket: Trump’s attack on mail voting advances, while Georgia Republicans retreat
The legal battle over President Donald Trump’s effort to crack down on mail voting is heating up. And Democracy Docket is covering it more closely than any other news outlet.
Trump’s DOJ wants to purge voters right before elections. Will the Supreme Court allow it?
The DOJ is taking aim at the National Voter Registration Act’s (NVRA) 90-day “quiet period” provision, signaling its intention to cancel registrations across the nation in the days leading up to the midterm elections in November.
This week at Democracy Docket: Trump’s plan to suppress voting this fall starts with California
As the midterms get closer, President Donald Trump and his allies are kicking their efforts to suppress voting into high gear.
ICE agents accessed voter files in Texas and North Carolina
ICE agents were reportedly given access to personal voter files in Forsyth County, North Carolina and Webb County, Texas.
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