This week at Democracy Docket: Trump’s plan to suppress voting this fall starts with California
As the midterms get closer, President Donald Trump and his allies are kicking their efforts to suppress voting into high gear.
DOJ Voter Data Access
ICE agents accessed voter files in Texas and North Carolina
ICE agents were reportedly given access to personal voter files in Forsyth County, North Carolina and Webb County, Texas.
DOJ’s latest answer on why it wants state voter rolls: ‘I’m not going to get into the details’
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.”
Trump DOJ doubles down on claim that states can purge voters right before elections
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.
Trump DOJ argues Georgia can conduct last-minute voter purges, despite federal law
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.
This week at Democracy Docket: The Supreme Court makes it official — states have free rein to discriminate against Black voters
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.
This week at Democracy Docket: The Supreme Court makes it official — states have free rein to discriminate against Black voters
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.
DOJ appeals Maine and Wisconsin voter roll losses, taking every defeat to appellate courts
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.
Trump DOJ voter roll grab echoes ‘poll taxes and literacy tests,’ civil rights group warns
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.
Georgia GOP secretary of state candidate says he’d make voters’ private information public
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.