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Trump DOJ 0 for 13 in voter roll grab after court dismisses West Virginia lawsuit (www.democracydocket.com)
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A federal judge tossed out the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) lawsuit to access West Virginia’s unredacted voter rolls, which marks 13 straight court losses for the department’s floundering effort to seize sensitive voter data from every state.

U.S. District Judge Thomas E. Johnston, who was appointed by former president George W. Bush, granted West Virginia’s motion to dismiss DOJ’s lawsuit Monday. In a scathing order, Johnston found the department failed to make a sufficient legal argument for its demand of sensitive voter data.

President Donald Trump’s DOJ is on an impressive losing streak in its voter roll lawsuits. On Friday, a federal judge tossed DOJ’s lawsuit seeking New York’s unredacted voter roll for the same reasons that Johnston dismissed the West Virginia lawsuit. Last month, DOJ scored its first appeals court loss when a three-judge panel for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of the DOJ’s Michigan lawsuit. But Civil Rights Division chief Harmeet Dhillon, seemingly unfazed from losing, asked for a rehearing before the full Sixth Circuit.

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[–] 49 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

WTF, seriously?! I haven't been following that because I just assumed our SoS offered them up ages ago without even being asked.

I graciously accept this rare bit of good news relevant to my shithole state.

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  • [–] 48 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    here's the thing: the vast majority of what Trump does/tries to do gets overturned in court. like 99% of it. but, before it does, the devastating damage gets done. permenantly

    for example: all that billions of dollars of public funding to the Corporation for Pubic Broadcasting that funded PBS, NPR, and thousands of public broadcasting stations nationwide that got shut down? Reversed in court. But the funding gone, as is the CPB, and all of the mechanisms of funding dispersement and the vast majority of the network of public broadcasting channels that took the better part of a century to build. You can't just snap a finger and bring it back. not today, not tomorrow, not in a decade or even two.

    the same goes for the hundreds upon thousands of programs and initiatives, etc. affected by Trump's actions that court decisions have reversed/overturned/etc. The damage is done.

    don't even get me started on USAID

    The best we can do is pick up the pieces and try to rebuild, but... eh...

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Yup. Trump (and Miller who rode in with him) are destroyers, and it is a hundred times harder to build than it is to destroy.

    They light matches and once the barn and every animal in it is burnt down, they leave, letting other people fight about whether it was right or not. While that happens, they are starting new fires, ad infinitum.

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    • [–] 16 points 3 months ago

    Man... The midterms and the 2028 elections are going to be fucking wild. It might very well be most/all of the states vs the feds.

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    [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    DOJ sent letters to every state last summer, demanding state election chiefs hand over their full, unredacted voter rolls under the guise of “voter list maintenance..."

    After most states refused to comply...

    So which states just handed it over? Democratic candidates in those states should be screaming about the election integrity in their states. MAGAs are very sensitive about any talk of election interference, so the Dems should access that anger and steer it. After all, MAGAs are virtuosically stupid, it shouldn't be too difficult to manipulate them. Tap into a deeply held grievance, stir it up, and point it at your target.

    It's all MAGA has been doing all along. No reason that Dems can't take advantage of those same morons.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    MAGA doesn't care about election integrity. They're upset they lost. Have you seen those "I'd rather be Russian than a democrat" shirts? It's not about any kind of integrity, it's about hating dems. They don't think Trump and his admin are bad so they don't see a problem with them having voter rolls. "Daddy's home" in their minds and daddy can have and do whatever he wants. Standing in his way is the issue.

    Affordability is potentially the best winning strategy at the moment.

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    • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Didn’t they just send the DOJ into Atlanta and do this? Or did they have a warrant first?

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