Trump push for state voter rolls rebuffed by courts as midterms near

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Source: Reuters

April 28, 2026 6:08 AM EDT Updated 6 hours ago


April 28 (Reuters) - As the U.S. midterm elections approach, Democrats are winning legal challenges to the Trump administration's push to obtain states' voter rolls, dealing a blow to the president's unprecedented effort to expand the federal government's role in elections. The Democratic-run states' victories come as their party is locked in a fierce battle to take back both houses of Congress from President Donald ​Trump's Republicans in the November 3 midterms.

So far this year, federal judges in California, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oregon and Rhode Island have dismissed Justice Department lawsuits demanding those states' voter rolls, including sensitive information like partial Social Security numbers.

Litigation surrounding U.S. federal elections has become common, with Democrats ‌and aligned voting rights groups generally challenging state laws they believe restrict the right to vote and Republicans and their allies challenging state voting practices they say leave elections vulnerable to fraud. Trump asserts, falsely, that his 2020 election loss was due to fraud. But the Justice Department's efforts to obtain states' voter rolls highlight a new dynamic this election cycle: voting rights groups are increasingly finding themselves in court fighting against the federal government.

"This year, we have the added layer of the Department of Justice being perhaps the main player in voter suppression litigation," said Lis Frost, a lawyer with Elias Law Group, which has intervened in the voter data demand lawsuits on behalf of voting rights groups. "This DOJ has taken on the mantle that was previously ​carried by right-wing organizations to try to argue that there are voters on the rolls that shouldn't be there and to try to remove voters from the rolls." Frost's firm was founded by prominent election lawyer Marc Elias, an outspoken Trump critic. The firm frequently represents the Democratic party and ​its candidates in court.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-push-state-voter-rolls-rebuffed-by-courts-midterms-near-2026-04-28/

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1. DOJ is now fully corrupted

“This DOJ has taken on the mantle that was previously ​carried by right-wing organizations to try to argue that there are voters on the rolls that shouldn't be there and to try to remove voters from the rolls."

The DOJ is no longer an apolitical organization focused on any sort of justice.