Why 🐵 UnitedStatesNews-NoOpEd picked: Federal judge rules against Trump DoJ’s policy of collecting state voter rolls

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Source: theguardian.com

<p>Judge says justice department policy of checking state voter rolls against a federal immigration database is unlawful</p><p>A federal judge <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.291580/gov.uscourts.dcd.291580.51.0_1.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">ruled</a> on Friday that the US justice department’s policy of collecting states’ unredacted voter rolls to check them against a federal immigration database was unlawful.</p><p>In a 78-page ruling, judge Sparkle Sooknanan said the department’s <a href="https://www.justice.gov/olc/media/1440346/dl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">list maintenance policy, </a>adopted to comply with Donald Trump’s<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/trump-executive-order-voter-registration-immigration" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank"> election integrity </a>executive order, violated privacy laws and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/14/dhs-voter-data-whistleblower" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">risked disenfranchising voters.</a></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/09/federal-judge-rules-against-trump-push-state-voter-rolls" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>

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