Justin again. On Wednesday, Ned linked to two new lawsuits DOJ filed in Oregon ( here’s the complaint ) and Maine ( here’s the complaint ) over DOJ’s demand to get full copies of the voter files. Though it’s never a great feeling to be sued, I’m glad these suits were filed. Because I think the litigation is likely to show exactly why Oregon and Maine have been right to push back against DOJ’s demands. The Privacy Act still seems like a giant red flag to me.

Leave aside, for a second, the flawed factual predicate in both complaints, which includes an insinuation of wrongdoing based on a repeatedly debunked apples-to-oranges methodology, comparing a pinpoint number of registrants on the file to a multi-year census estimate of eligible locals. (A summary of the problems with the

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