Trump vs. federal judges

Alternet - President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is getting an earful from federal judges across the nation, with one accusing the administration of concealing its “true motives” as it tries to get its hand on voter data.

A ProPublica investigation published Friday documented showing how judges have rejected the department’s legal arguments in 26 lawsuits seeking states’ unredacted voter rolls, delivering an embarrassing series of defeats to Trump’s effort to obtain election records.

The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division has sued 30 states, including Washington, D.C., in an effort to get confidential information about millions of American voters in unredacted voter rolls since September last year.

A judge, appointed by President Bill Clinton, accused the Trump administration of trampling on Americans’ right to vote, writing:

“The foundation upon which American democracy has been built is the right to vote. … Now it seems the Executive Branch of the United States government wants to abridge the right of many Americans to cast their ballots. … The Court does not take lightly DOJ’s obfuscation of its true motives.”