This morning, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division filed six new lawsuits , against states that have refused to give DOJ copies of the voter file complete with sensitive information like SSN digits (and, not for nothing, data on individuals’ party registration). The litigation was filed against California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania (the complaints are linked in the press release ) — joining suits filed a few days ago against Maine and Oregon.

As with Maine and Oregon, while nobody likes getting sued, I think this litigation is likely to be a good thing — now there will be federal judges carefully examining the claims that DOJ has made about its authority under specific statutes, and truly putting them to the test. I also think the breadth of the litig

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