The Justice Department is demanding Vermont’s complete voter files, which include driver’s license numbers, partial Social Security numbers, and other sensitive data. Campaign Legal Center, Brennan Center for Justice, and Wilschek Iarrapino Law Office PLLC represent VPIRG in motion to intervene.
The League of Women Voters of Maine, represented by Campaign Legal Center, Brennan Center for Justice, and Johnson & Webbert LLP, continue their work to protect voters’ personal data, such as driver’s license numbers and the last four digits of Social Security numbers.
The League is represented by Campaign Legal Center and the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law. The ACLU of Oregon is represented by the ACLU.
The decision grants summary judgment to the plaintiffs, finding that the president lacks the authority to unilaterally alter election procedures — powers that rest with Congress and the states.
The data sought by the Department of Justice includes sensitive information like voters’ driver’s license numbers and the last four digits of their Social Security numbers.
Episode of The Briefing now available: “Justice Weaponized” about DOJ in the Trump administration; guests former DOJ officials Vanita Gupta and Peter Keisler.
A coalition of nonpartisan voting organizations are seeking to intervene in the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Maine and New York to obtain full copies of the states’ voter files, including voters’ sensitive data that is not publicly available, such as driver’s license numbers and partial social security numbers.
Today the New York Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a 2023 state law moving many county and town elections outside of New York City from odd to even-numbered years.
The U.S. Department of Justice and the North Carolina State Board of Elections settled a lawsuit that will force nearly 100,000 registered voters to re-prove their eligibility to vote to ensure future ballots will be counted.
Opinion is a victory for the rule of law and the system of checks and balances.