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On Thursday, the Justice Department (DOJ) took significant actions by overruling career prosecutors to charge former FBI Director James Comey and initiating lawsuits against six states—California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania—for not providing full voter registration lists. This escalation is viewed as part of the Trump administration’s broader voter suppression strategy, following earlier lawsuits against Maine and Oregon.
The DOJ’s demands for voter registration data, which contain sensitive personal information, are raising privacy concerns and potential for misuse, especially as the department seeks to create a national voter database. Critics assert that such efforts could lead to the fabrication of voter fraud claims, further promoting Trump’s baseless allegations of widespread voting irregularities.
Resistance from both red and blue states has limited data submissions to the DOJ, with only a handful providing public versions of voter files. Officials from Pennsylvania and California have condemned the DOJ’s efforts as unlawful overreach.
Additionally, the DOJ’s involvement extends to a Louisiana redistricting case, where it urged the Supreme Court to weaken the Voting Rights Act (VRA) by making it harder to create equitable districts for voters of color. This aspect of their legal strategy is viewed as a further attempt to leverage civil rights laws for partisan gain, complicating the landscape of voting rights in the U.S.
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