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The Justice Department has no right to Georgia’s unredacted statewide voter registration list, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, delivering the department’s 26th straight loss in its effort to obtain sensitive voting records.
CREW said the administration’s violating an open records law by failing to hand over its methodology on Trump’s claim that 278,000 noncitizens were registered to vote in federal elections.
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice suffered its 25th straight district court loss in its nationwide campaign to force states to hand over unredacted voter registration data, after a federal judge in Washington rejected the department’s legal theory and dismissed the case with prejudice.
So far, the DOJ has lost every one of its case to have been decided — and it also lost and appeal to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals.
The DOJ heading to court potentially sets the department up for the next loss in its wildly unsuccessful attempt to gain access to states’ voter rolls.
“Your failure to preserve relevant data may subject you to civil and criminal sanctions,” the Justice Department’s demand letter reads.
New Hampshire is asking the 1st Circuit to quickly trash DOJ’s voter roll grab appeal, saying the department isn’t just wrong about the law, but is also doing a bad job making its case.
The League of Women Voters of Colorado says the initiative is “a form of voter suppression” and is urging people to oppose it.
The Justice Dept. filed its opposition late Friday night to requests for a preliminary inunction on a new federal rule that would restrict mail-in voting.
A Democratic member of Congress is demanding answers from the Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) about how it’s vetting the roughly 1,000 election monitors it plans to deploy this fall, citing Democracy Docket’s exclusive reporting.
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