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Since Donald Trump took office this year, the DOJ has filed 25 lawsuits that would ultimately lead to valid voters being removed from registration rolls, putting their right to cast a ballot at risk. According to Democracy Docket’s litigation counts, there have been 43 anti-voting lawsuits filed this election cycle. The DOJ also dropped a number of cases launched during Joe Biden’s administration to protect the right to vote.
The federal government has now filed lawsuits against 21 states, plus D.C., demanding registrants’ unredacted private information — including driver license numbers, social security numbers and dates of birth — in a campaign decried by local officials and legal experts as an unconstitutional attack on states’ authority to run elections and an illegal attempt to create an unprecedented national voter database.
When Republicans in Missouri claimed last week that a gerrymandered congressional map was already in effect, they dealt a major blow to voters who want the final word in the state’s redistricting battle. But pro-voter organizers say there’s still a path forward for voters to block the map — and they’re ready to keep fighting.
Republicans and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) argued in federal court this week that California’s new redistricting plan constitutes an illegal racial gerrymander — and not a legal partisan one, like Democrats claim.
An appeals panel Wednesday unanimously cleared the way for President Trump to keep troops in the nation’s capital by staying a lower court ruling that found the deployment was likely unlawful and inflicted serious harm on D.C.’s right to govern itself.
This week, President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) broke new ground in its dangerous campaign to take control of elections and promote baseless conspiracy theories about voting. And we tracked them every step of the way.
As a GOP activist, Harmeet Dhillon frequently insisted that the federal government has “little to say” about how states run their elections. Now, as head of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), she claims the feds have “sweeping” authority to seize state voter rolls.
It’s the latest example of DOJ hiring a lawyer for its voting section with a record of promoting false conspiracy theories about voting.
Just after Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release from immigration detention, Trump officials again sought to arrest him after an immigration judge retroactively “corrected” a years-old ruling in his immigration case. One legal expert described the move as the equivalent of a judge unilaterally changing a years-old jury verdict from not guilty to guilty.
DOJ has now sued a total of 18 states for access to sensitive voter data.