Michigan Judge Dismisses DOJ Voter Roll Lawsuit

A federal judge in United States===Michigan, Hala Y. Jarbou, dismissed a lawsuit filed by the United States===United States Department of Justice that sought to obtain United States===Michigan's detailed voter rolls. This decision marks another judicial rejection of the Donald Trump administration's widespread attempts to access sensitive voter data from various states. The United States===United States Department of Justice argued that the information was necessary for election security and maintaining accurate voter registrations, citing the Civil Rights Act of 1960, the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, and the Help America Vote Act of 2022. However, Judge Jarbou ruled that these laws do not require the disclosure of the records sought and warned that forcing such disclosure could unconstitutionally burden the right to vote. United States===Michigan officials, including Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, had resisted the demand, citing state and federal privacy laws. Similar lawsuits by the United States===United States Department of Justice have also been dismissed in United States===Oregon, United States===California, and United States===Georgia (U.S. state).