A Rhode Island judge on April 17 delivered another blow to the Trump Administration’s quest for voter-registration rolls nationwide.
U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy denied what she called “unprecedented demands for unredacted voting rolls” from the state of Rhode Island.
In a ruling that echoed similar decisions from judges in several other states, McElroy said Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers provided neither a legal nor a factual basis for the records.
Two federal laws require each U.S. state to make a “reasonable effort” to ensure that its voter-registration lists are accurate, the judge noted. But those laws do not allow “DOJ to conduct the kind of fishing expedition it seeks here,” McElroy wrote….