Stephen Miller loses big in racially-charged lawsuit to restrict voting in Arizona

Former President Donald Trump associate Stephen Miller just lost big in a case where he sought to restrict voting in Arizona.

In Strong Communities of Arizona v. Maricopa County, filed earlier this month, Miller argued that the largest county in Arizona, home to Phoenix, illegally placed too many voting centers around Black and Hispanic neighborhoods, thereby putting white and indigenous voters in other parts of the county at a disadvantage for voting access. According to Democracy Docket, the voting rights group headed by liberal attorney Marc Elias, Miller also claimed Maricopa County officials "violated numerous state laws and regulations concerning chain of custody procedures, ballot reconciliation, signature verification, ballot curing, voter registration cancellations and drop boxes."

On Thursday, Elias reported that "sixteen days after it filed the case and after we intervened to defend the law, Stephen Miller’s right-wing legal group dismisses its lawsuit challenging Maricopa County, AZ voting rules."

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"Case over," wrote democracy reporter Yvonne Wingett Sanchez Thursday.

Miller was the brainchild behind many of Trump's harshest policies targeting immigrants when he was in office.

Since the end of the Trump administration, his group, America First Legal, has been responsible for a number of cases that seek to dismantle equity programs around the country. Some legal experts have called the group's litigation frivolous and meritless, and urged courts to sanction them.

In one of their most prominent cases, America First Legal managed to block a program to provide aid to historically disadvantaged Black farmers, claiming that it was discriminatory against white people.

Miller, who is Trump's former immigration policy designer, was recently being hammered online for having a cow over the supposed crimes he believes DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and "everyone" in the Biden administration committed.