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🚨BREAKING: A judge ruled the DOJ's policy of collecting states' unredacted voter rolls and urging them to remove voters flagged as ineligible is illegal. "This policy...has left untold numbers of disenfranchised voters in its wake and inflicted injuries to the Plaintiffs' privacy," the court wrote.

Democracy Docket
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The judge ruled the department cannot legally share such data with DHS to run through a federal database to check registrants' citizenship status — even in states that voluntarily handed over their voter rolls. However, the 18 states that complied can still use the database at their own discretion.

democracydocket.comFederal judge shuts down Trump DOJ’s nationwide voter roll crusade, even in states that cooperatedThe ruling also reaches voter rolls that states voluntarily turned over. By vacating the policy itself, the court barred DOJ from continuing to use those already-obtained files as part of the nationwi...

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