Trump Action Archive

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• Federal judge voids DOJ policy collecting state voter rolls — US District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan ruled that the Trump administration's Department of Justice policy of collecting unredacted state voter rolls to cross-check against a federal immigration database violated federal privacy laws and exceeded DOJ authority. The policy, adopted under Trump's election integrity executive order, had already removed US citizens from voter rolls and risked further disenfranchisement. Sooknanan found Congress, not the federal government, controls voter roll maintenance. The lawsuit was brought by Common Cause after roughly 18 states complied with DOJ requests in May, providing voters' names, birth dates, addresses, and partial identification numbers.

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• Samuel Alito's Voting Rights Act ruling cited misleading DoJ data on voter turnout — Justice Samuel Alito's majority opinion gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act relied on voter turnout data from a Department of Justice friend-of-the-court brief that used a non-standard, misleading methodology. The DoJ calculated Black and white voter turnout as a proportion of total population over 18, including non-citizens and ineligible voters, rather than the standard citizen voting age population measure. When recalculated using standard methodology, Black voter turnout in Louisiana exceeded white turnout in only one of five recent elections, not two as Alito claimed. Experts identified the approach as deliberately manipulative.