A federal judge tossed out the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) lawsuit to access West Virginia’s unredacted voter rolls, which marks 13 straight court losses for the department’s floundering effort to seize sensitive voter data from every state.
U.S. District Judge Thomas E. Johnston, who was appointed by former president George W. Bush, granted West Virginia’s motion to dismiss DOJ’s lawsuit Monday. In a scathing order, Johnston found the department failed to make a sufficient legal argument for its demand of sensitive voter data.
President Donald Trump’s DOJ is on an impressive losing streak in its voter roll lawsuits. On Friday, a federal judge tossed DOJ’s lawsuit seeking New York’s unredacted voter roll for the same reasons that Johnston dismissed the West Virginia lawsuit. Last month, DOJ scored its first appeals court loss when a three-judge panel for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of the DOJ’s Michigan lawsuit. But Civil Rights Division chief Harmeet Dhillon, seemingly unfazed from losing, asked for a rehearing before the full Sixth Circuit.
Man… The midterms and the 2028 elections are going to be fucking wild. It might very well be most/all of the states vs the feds.
DOJ sent letters to every state last summer, demanding state election chiefs hand over their full, unredacted voter rolls under the guise of “voter list maintenance…"
After most states refused to comply…
So which states just handed it over? Democratic candidates in those states should be screaming about the election integrity in their states. MAGAs are very sensitive about any talk of election interference, so the Dems should access that anger and steer it. After all, MAGAs are virtuosically stupid, it shouldn’t be too difficult to manipulate them. Tap into a deeply held grievance, stir it up, and point it at your target.
It’s all MAGA has been doing all along. No reason that Dems can’t take advantage of those same morons.
MAGA doesn’t care about election integrity. They’re upset they lost. Have you seen those “I’d rather be Russian than a democrat” shirts? It’s not about any kind of integrity, it’s about hating dems. They don’t think Trump and his admin are bad so they don’t see a problem with them having voter rolls. “Daddy’s home” in their minds and daddy can have and do whatever he wants. Standing in his way is the issue.
Affordability is potentially the best winning strategy at the moment.
Didn’t they just send the DOJ into Atlanta and do this? Or did they have a warrant first?
they got a warrant based on the judge being either compromised or completely stupid