Looks to Be a DOJ v State Voter Roll Showdown Coming

Welp. These states can’t say they weren’t warned, and, like, only a million gazillion times.

The Trump Department of Justice has spent months asking nicely, but that’s all over now.

Four days ago, a federal judge in Rhode Island rejected what she called a DOJ attempt to get ‘sensitive voter information’ in their quest to clean up voter rolls and deny illegals and non-citizens the opportunity to cast a ballot in less than stringent states.

A federal judge on Friday rejected the Justice Department’s effort to force Rhode Island to turn over sensitive voter information, dealing another blow to the Trump administration’s attempts to gain access to state voter registration lists.

U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy, who was appointed by President Trump in his first term, granted a request from Rhode Island officials to dismiss a Justice Department lawsuit that sought the state’s unredacted voter rolls, which contain personal information about residents registered to vote. 

McElroy wrote in a 14-page decision that the Justice Department’s effort was a “fishing expedition” that was not authorized by federal election laws. She also denied a motion from the Trump administration that sought to force Rhode Island Secretary of State Gregg Amore to hand over the voter data.

Amore cheered the decision in a statement and said it affirms the state’s position that the Justice Department has no legal right to the state’s private voter information. 

The state and federal governments had reportedly been close to an agreement to share information until the state learned it would indeed be used to ascertain whether non-citizens were on the rolls.

…The Justice Department first sought Rhode Island’s voter registration list in September. In response to the request, Amore offered to give the government a copy of the state’s publicly available list, but declined to turn over the unredacted information. He argued that the data was private and said federal laws cited by the Justice Department did not authorize the demand for the state’s voter rolls.

The Justice Department had not previously acknowledged that it intends to provide voter information from the states to the Department of Homeland Security for immigration and law enforcement purposes. But CBS News reported last month that the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security were close to an arrangement on how the data would be shared, and a government lawyer then acknowledged to the Rhode Island court plans to share the information so it can be run through a Homeland Security database to see if noncitizens are registered to vote.

Well, there went that. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon announced she was suing 29 states for access to their voter rolls, and rattled off what the DOJ had found during an audit of what they already had access to. 

350,000 dead folks were still being carried on the rolls, and another 25,000 people with no citizenship records were flagged and sent to DHS for deeper investigation

29 states accused of withholding voter roll data from the Trump DOJ as audits uncover major issues.

Officials say 350,000 deceased individuals were found on rolls and 25,000 people with no citizenship records have been referred to DHS for review. pic.twitter.com/2erogFqhSG

— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) April 20, 2026

So, yeah – they want to see what the rest of the country looks like, but since the rest of the holdouts are blue states, well, there’s gonna be a fight about it because the last things they want is any names coming off of their voters rolls.

Working hand in glove with Democrats and blue states are their progressive group foot soldiers who swung into action when they heard about the DOJ lawsuits.

They filed their own today to stop any audits. Protecting the  ‘civil rights’ of non-citizens and the unalived to be on the voting rolls.

But non-citizens mostly.

Civil rights groups filed a federal lawsuit aiming to block the Justice Department from collecting and reviewing state voter lists to weed out ineligible voters, arguing that the federal government has no role under the Constitution to manage state elections.

The advocacy group Common Cause, along with a handful of voters, also wants to prevent the federal government from creating a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of voters’ addresses, driver’s license numbers and Social Security numbers.

The lawsuit is the latest legal battlefield over voter registration amid President Donald Trump’s campaign to prevent undocumented immigrants and other ineligible voters from casting ballots. Justice lawyers have argued in other cases that they have the power to collect and review rolls to prevent fraud.

In the article, they have a couple of citizens who were inconvenienced by being bumped from the roles by mistakes that were then corrected.

Or women who have frequent name changes.

…Ruth Nasrullah of Texas joined the lawsuit because her name has changed three times because of marriage and divorce. She has heightened concerns about her privacy because of her experience as an activist and a journalist.

“Due to her heightened privacy concerns, she intentionally protects her personal information and limits the personal information she shares,” the lawsuit says.

These all ring a tad hollow as no one seems the least concerned about correcting the unlawful voting going on.

Suit notes that DOJ has now sued to get such info from 30 states + DC. 5 district judges have rejected the suits, which are on appeal. 12 to 19 other states have provided info. Suit brought by attys for @CREWcrew @protctdemocracy @ACLU
2/3 pic.twitter.com/r2UqSxwvIp

— Roger Parloff (@rparloff) April 21, 2026

At the beginning of April, a Judicial Watch lawsuit resulted in the removal of 372,000 inactive voters from Colorado’s voter rolls alone.

372,000 Inactive Voters Removed from Colorado Voter Rolls after Lawsuit and Settlement!https://t.co/BegBBoTi9G pic.twitter.com/YPJELicq6b

— Judicial Watch ⚖️ (@JudicialWatch) April 21, 2026

What kind of mess is out there across the country, especially in states that are purposefully obfuscating?

Democrat Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson

– Removed opt-in checkbox for voter registration when getting or renewing a driver’s license
– Everyone is now automatically registered to vote
– She refuses to clean voters rolls

This is a literal recipe for mass voter fraud pic.twitter.com/OBIx12oxfv

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) January 30, 2026

As one of my favs said on X, though, this mad, overheated response to Dhillon and the DOJ, including the ongoing discussion of possible rejiggering of postal regulations to tighten ballot security, is indicative of having struck a nerve. A big blue nerve.

Everyone should understand just what a threat the liberal/progressive/Marxist party sees in this effort to use Postal Service regulations to ensure that only citizens receive and cast ballots.

Not a single regulation has been put forward much less passed.

But there are now no… https://t.co/IofySIUbBt

— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) April 21, 2026

…Not a single regulation has been put forward much less passed. 

But there are now no fewer than 7 lawsuits seeking to stop the rule-making process of PROPOSING regulations before it can even get started.   

The Administration is over the target.

Over the target.

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