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The criminal statute that the DOJ is relying on to go after California officials “cannot be read as an implied grant of authority to impose an emergency ballot withholding regime,” attorneys for the state said.
Thousands of eligible voters could be disenfranchised if a federal court grants the Trump administration’s request to bar California from counting the votes of 20,000 people it accuses of being noncitizens, the state says. “At best, this litigation is a reckless political stunt. At worst, it threatens to disenfranchise thousands of Californians this election,” lawyers […]
The DOJ’s argument comes in response to a claim from Common Cause, which previously sued to stop the administration’s broad effort to build a national voter database.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is asking a federal court to immediately prevent California from counting the ballots of 20,000 people the Trump administration has accused of being noncitizens who illegally registered to vote. The request for a temporary restraining order is the latest escalation between California and the Trump administration over the midterms. California […]
The Department of Justice (DOJ) official leading the Trump administration’s assault on California’s mail ballots manages the department’s criminal investigations.
The program is part of a DOJ campaign to obtain state voter roll data, as President Donald Trump aims to take control of elections.
Since returning to office last year, President Trump and the election deniers he’s placed in critical positions across the federal government have attacked voting on multiple fronts. Now, they’re targeting the most fundamental step toward casting a ballot in U.S. elections: voter registration.
U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan previously vacated what the DOJ internally deemed its “list maintenance project” as unlawful and a violation of privacy laws.
The Department of Justice’s alarming lawsuit to stop California from counting roughly 20,000 ballots from people suspected of being noncitizens could lay the groundwork for challenges to Election Day results, experts warned.
California immediately rejected the Department of Justice’s demand that California withhold ballots from 20,000 alleged noncitizens, calling it illegal and a violation of voters’ rights. California Secretary of State Shirley Weber dismissed the request in a letter to Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter. The DOJ on Thursday sued California for refusing to comply. “I […]