Federal judge rules against Trump DoJ’s policy of collecting state voter rolls

Judge says justice department policy of checking state voter rolls against a federal immigration database is unlawful A federal judge ruled on Friday that the US justice department’s policy of collecting states’ unredacted voter rolls to check them against a federal immigration database is unlawful. The ruling, by the US district judge Sparkle Sooknanan, was a setback for Donald Trump , who has pushed his administration to ramp up investigations into non-citizen voting ahead of the November midterm elections , with control of Congress at stake. Continue reading...

Originally reported by The Guardian US by Ariana Baio. Read the full story at the source.