DOJ Suffers 17th Loss on Kentucky Data Bid

A federal judge in Kentucky has again blocked the Justice Department from obtaining state voter rolls and sensitive registration data, ruling that the records do not come into the possession of election officials and that DOJ failed to state a proper basis and purpose under the Civil Rights Act. This marks the seventeenth such loss for the DOJ and continues to shape tensions over federal attempts to access state voter information amid the Trump administration's election integrity efforts.