Amidst the distractions of the blue, now green pool, the little matter of peace negotiations, and planning a bigly (Trump themed, natch) 4th July celebration, Trump hasn't given up on seeking to acquire voter info.
Is there a US equivalent of GDPR?
From Mark Elias yesterday:
Donald Trump desperately wants to build a national database of voters. His plan is to have his administration control who stays on the list and who gets removed. He has issued unconstitutional executive orders to accomplish this goal, and the U.S. Postal Service has proposed a new rule to do his bidding.
This morning, a federal judge in Maryland handed the DOJ its ninth defeat in a series of 31 cases the department has filed to gain access to state voter files. The DOJ has yet to win a single one. The court wrote that it "joins every court to have addressed this issue in concluding that [a state voter file] is not a record or paper that a state must produce to the United States."
Importantly, of the nine cases the DOJ has lost, five were decided by judges nominated by Trump. This is nothing short of a debacle for Attorney General Todd Blanche, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, and the rest of the department's leadership.