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A federal judge’s ruling may have just thrown President Donald Trump’s scheme to assert control over state voter rolls into turmoil.
In a major ruling, a federal judge struck down the Trump administration’s nationwide voter roll campaign, delivering a damaging blow to the Department of Justice’s effort to obtain states’ unredacted voter rolls, compare them against federal data and pressure states to remove voters it deems ineligible.
Missouri refused to give the Trump administration a copy of its unredacted voter rolls containing sensitive personal information. Instead, according to newly released records obtained by Democracy Forward, the state offered Department of Justice officials something more unusual: the chance to take a look in-person.
The lawsuit comes on the heels of a new report showing how the Department of Homeland Security has been laying the groundwork to exert control over voting.
One ICE official said there’s no requirement that the individual even has “knowledge that he or she has illegally voted, and no conviction is required.”
A Florida lawyer who previously pleaded guilty to illegally accessing election websites monitored the primary election in Maricopa County, Arizona for the Department of Justice (DOJ), according to records viewed by Democracy Docket.
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.
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