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President Donald Trump’s primetime speech Thursday was billed in advance as the moment when he was finally going to provide support for his claims of election theft, and perhaps move to take control of voting once and for all.
Earlier this year, President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) celebrated a win after a federal judge simply ordered Connecticut to respond to its voter roll lawsuit. Now, months later, that same Trump-appointed judge denied DOJ’s demand for the state’s unredacted voter rolls.
A federal judge rejected an attempt by the Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) to rush into a GOP-backed lawsuit seeking more aggressive voter purges in California.
The Department of Justice wants to intervene in a lawsuit to force a massive voter roll purge in California. Tom Fitton, the president of the far-right legal group Judicial Watch, boasted on social media Wednesday that the DOJ seeks to “clean nearly 1 million dirty voter names from California’s voter rolls” after the department filed […]
In an era of extraordinary partisan polarization, federal judges appointed by presidents of both parties have found common ground on at least one issue: President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice does not have a right to seize state voter rolls.
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) lost its 14th and 15th voter roll cases Tuesday, when federal judges dismissed the government’s lawsuits seeking access to Virginia and New Mexico’s full voter records.
A federal judge also raised concerns about DOJ obfuscating why it actually wants access to every state’s voter rolls.
Idaho’s Republican attorney general’s office accused President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice of potentially violating state ethics rules by threatening the state’s top election official with a criminal prosecution while suing him for the state’s voter rolls.
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.
A federal judge threw out the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking New York’s unredacted statewide voter registration list, delivering another blow to President Trump’s effort to seize sensitive voter registration data.
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