As we watch our country being ripped apart at the seams, with many states basically in a state of insurrection as they refuse to comply and enforce more and more federal laws, here they are refusing to clean voters.
They cite the usual 'privacy issues' and say it is part of Trump's "long history of falsely accusing states of allowing illegal immigrants to vote" and are refusing. Odd isn't it? Just like the court challenges in 2020, they are dismissing it without allowing any investigation. Why? Why not allow the investigation and silence the "false accusations" forever? Wouldn't that be the honest and most simple way to shut Trump up, if he is so wrong?
Nope. They must think we're stupid. They do think we're stupid.
"The Department of Justice is suing six additional states to compel them to share their statewide voter registration lists with the federal government, an unusual request that has drawn pushback from election officials in both parties in the past.
"The DOJ’s lawsuits demand the rolls with that data included. Similar requests have been rebuffed by election officials across the country, both recently and in past years, out of privacy concerns and opposition to federal encroachment in state elections. Some officials have also tied the effort to President Donald Trump’s long history of spreading election misinformation, including falsely accusing states of allowing noncitizen immigrants to vote en masse."
DOJ sues 6 states for private voter data, voting rolls
The above being from the Democrats' taxpayer funded mount piece, Politico, now let's look at what real lawyers and law says (I did not look for the U.S.C. in this instance, but I have read it and it is all legal):
"When news broke that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) under the Trump administration had issued a request for voter registration data from all 50 states, including Maine, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows wasted no time grabbing headlines, calling the move unprecedented and claiming “It’s an abuse of power and it contravenes what the founders set forth in the Constitution.”
Despite Bellows’ theatrical rebuke, including telling the DOJ to “go jump in the Gulf of Maine,” the actual request from the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division is far from a rogue power grab. Federal oversight of voter registration processes is both constitutional and codified under long-standing federal law."
Fact Check: DOJ Election Oversight Has Constitutional Basis, Despite Bellows’ Claims
