All posts tagged "Voter Rolls"

The Trump administration deployed hundreds of Department of Homeland Security agents to hunt down voter fraud despite a lack of evidence, sparking alarm among experts.

On Wednesday, the New York Times reported the nationwide "blitz" to look for noncitizens among registered voters nationwide despite no evidence of widespread fraud. The Times reviewed documents and training videos that revealed that agents are scouring voter rolls managed by states.

DHS whistleblower and expert Miles Taylor has already sounded the alarm on "woefully unequipped" agents being assigned in the weeks ahead of midterms and warned it could lead to "catastrophe." According to The Times, DHS agents are using personally identifiable information about voters, including Social Security numbers and birth dates, to look for noncitizens on voter rolls and, in some cases, effectively posing as individual voters....

The Department of Justice is trying to downplay a "humiliating" loss while its hopes of a Supreme Court intervention dwindle, a legal expert said Sunday.

The DOJ, in its bid to grab voter roll data ahead of the midterms, has filed 30 lawsuits in multiple states seeking driver's license and Social Security numbers — elections lawyer Marc Elias has won 22 straight cases against them.

Elias, during an interview Sunday with progressive political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen, said the DOJ's chances of undoing its string of losses by appealing to the Supreme Court are fleeting....

The Department of Justice accidentally revealed the real motive behind its demand for 40 states' voter rolls, a Nevada judge noted.

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Anne Traum tossed a case by the DOJ that sought to take Nevada's voter rolls in a crusade by President Donald Trump ahead of the midterms. The Trump DOJ is now 0-for-22 in its lawsuits seeking to grab state voter rolls.

In the order dismissing the DOJ's lawsuit against Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar, Traum highlighted a concession buried in the Trump administration's own paperwork. She noted that it tied the voter-roll grab, which the administration called a push for "voter integrity," to Trump's deportation agenda....

A legal expert made a damning prediction for the Department of Justice amid a losing crusade to access state records.

In a recent video posted by Democracy Docket, elections lawyer Marc Elias explained that the DOJ is 0-20 in its effort to sue for access to states' voter rolls. He predicted that the DOJ will be stifled in its attempt to gain sweeping access to voters' private data, including Social Security and driver's license numbers.

"I've seen enough," Elias said. "DOJ is getting humiliated. Ask yourself: when was the last time you ever heard that the Department of Justice lost 20 cases in a row in 20 different courts when 12 of the courts were with judges appointed by Republicans, and eight were appointed by Donald Trump?"...

The Trump administration suffered its 19th straight court loss in its crusade to seize state voter rolls, per a report.

An Illinois-based federal judge tossed a Department of Justice lawsuit that demanded the state's unredacted voter rolls. U.S. District Judge Colleen Lawless wrote in her opinion that amending the complaint would be "futile" and dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning it can't be revived in district court.

Democracy Docket noted in its reporting that the "brutal" loss came two days after another federal judge dismissed the DOJ's lawsuit seeking New Jersey voter rolls. ...

The Department of Justice is demanding that an embattled Georgia judge be taken off its case seeking to grab voter rolls, according to reporting by Reuters.

U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross in Atlanta was in the headlines earlier this week after news outlets identified her as the unnamed judge reprimanded for having sex in her chambers within earshot of clerks.

The DOJ is seeking her removal from the case because she attended a political campaign event for Fani Willis, who prosecuted Trump for alleged crimes related to the 2020 election, Reuters noted. ...