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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.
Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar (D), the state’s top election official and chair of the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State, told Democracy Docket the DOJ’s latest letters are not about election integrity — they are about intimidation.
The White House’s attempts to seize control over elections have suffered a series of courtroom drubbings in recent weeks as judges — including many of his own appointees — have consistently blocked them for violating federal laws or the U.S. Constitution. So the Trump administration is adopting a new strategy, turning to intimidation and coercion after legal bullying has mostly failed.
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice asked the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a ruling that rejected its demand for Michigan’s unredacted voter rolls, seeking to erase the department’s first appellate defeat in its nationwide voter data crusade.
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) plans to target Democratic states and counties with a program of federal election monitoring for the primaries, according to new details released by a top DOJ official.
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it will send federal election monitors to 15 jurisdictions in six states during the 2026 primary season.
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice sent letters to top election officials in multiple states Tuesday warning they could face criminal prosecution over possible noncitizen voting, escalating the administration’s pressure campaign against state election officials after courts repeatedly rejected its effort to seize unredacted voter rolls.
The Department of Justice appealed three more voter roll losses, ensuring that every defeat in President Donald Trump’s nationwide campaign to obtain unredacted state voter data is now in or headed to the federal appeals courts.
A federal appeals court declined to put three Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) voter roll appeals on the emergency timeline the department requested, slowing its push for sensitive voter data from Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island before a key federal deadline.
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.