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The DOJ is taking aim at the National Voter Registration Act’s (NVRA) 90-day “quiet period” provision, signaling its intention to cancel registrations across the nation in the days leading up to the midterm elections in November.
As the midterms get closer, President Donald Trump and his allies are kicking their efforts to suppress voting into high gear.
ICE agents were reportedly given access to personal voter files in Forsyth County, North Carolina and Webb County, Texas.
The Trump administration struggled to explain exactly how it plans to use the sensitive voter data it is demanding from states across the country, with a government lawyer telling a federal judge in Maryland: “I’m not going to get into the details.”
The Trump Justice Department is doubling down on an argument that, if accepted, could open the door for the administration — and anti-voting groups — to create lists of voters and send them to states for removal right before elections.
The Justice Department is arguing that Georgia could remove voters from the rolls during a key federal protection period meant to prevent last-minute disenfranchisement — as long as the removals are done individually and based on information the federal government provides.
If there was any doubt before, there can be none after this week: The Supreme Court is going to give states free rein to discriminate against minority voters — even in some of the most egregious cases.
The Justice Department appealed federal court losses in Maine and Wisconsin Friday, ensuring that every major defeat in its nationwide campaign to obtain state voter registration data is now in or headed to a federal appeals court.
A civil rights coalition is warning a federal court that the Trump Justice Department’s demand for unredacted statewide voter rolls is not just a privacy threat — it is a modern revival of a long racist history of using voter registration data to intimidate Black voters.
Jones was responding to David Shafer, the former Georgia GOP Party chairman who conspired with Trump in 2020 to de-certify the state’s election results.