After losing 20 consecutive lawsuits seeking states’ unredacted voter rolls, President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice conceded that its case against Washington is materially no different from the others — but still urged another federal court to embrace the same sweeping legal theory rejected by every court to consider it.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is zero for 20 in its lawsuits seeking to obtain state voter rolls, after a federal judge dismissed its case against Colorado Monday.
Since the Trump administration started demanding state voter rolls last year, we’ve tracked the effort more closely than any other news outlet.
That’s what allowed us to produce the reporting we published this week.
To overcome Trump’s attempts to cheat the elections, Kamala Harris told the Urban League that voter turnout has to be so large that it’s “too big to rig.”
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice suffered its 19th straight voter roll loss Friday, as a federal judge dismissed its Illinois lawsuit with prejudice and ruled DOJ lacks authority to seize the state’s unredacted voter database.
California’s top election official demanded the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) explain how it concluded that thousands of noncitizens may be registered to vote in the state, bluntly questioning both the department’s results and how it obtained California voter data.
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) suffered its 18th defeat, with no wins, in its nationwide voter data crusade, when a federal judge dismissed the department’s lawsuit seeking New Jersey’s unredacted voter rolls.
Nevada’s top election official demanded that the Department of Homeland Security substantiate its claim that nearly 16,000 noncitizens are registered to vote in the state — pressing the Trump administration to explain how it produced the figure and warning that flawed data could jeopardize eligible voters.
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) formally rejected the Trump administration’s demand for personal information about thousands of state residents mistakenly registered to vote, telling the Department of Justice that its request has “no legal basis.”
Records reviewed by Democracy Docket reveal no consistent standard used by DOJ for deciding which states have met the department’s demands and which should be sued.