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A federal judge ruled against the Justice Department's use of voter data to cross-reference an immigration database.
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Judge says justice department policy of checking state voter rolls against a federal immigration database is unlawful
The ruling also reaches voter rolls that states voluntarily turned over. By vacating the policy itself, the court barred DOJ from continuing to use those already-obtained files as part of the nationwide program.
A US judge ruled on Friday that the Justice Department’s push to obtain state voter rolls and check them against a federal immigration database in order to demand that states remove voters it deemed ineligible was unlawful.