DOJ sues Virginia for not providing voter data

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

01/16/26 10:22 PM ET


The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday sued Virginia for not handing over state voter data, the latest among several states the department has targeted in an effort to retrieve registration information from individuals across the country since last year. Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general to the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, shared screenshots of the lawsuit in a post on the social platform X.

“Virginia becomes the next state sued for ignoring federal law!” she wrote. “@TheJusticeDept means business — and @CivilRights will keep fighting to clean up voter rolls. Happy Friday!”

The DOJ has sued 14 other states for not complying with its request to produce documents that tabulate their respective statewide voter registration lists. In September, the department filed lawsuits against California, New York, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Maine and Oregon. The DOJ then sued Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington in December.

Earlier this month, a federal judge dismissed the lawsuit against California. U.S. District Judge David O. Carter said the attempt to gather the personal information of voters would have a chilling effect on voter registration and impact future elections.

Read more: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5693787-doj-sues-virginia-voter-data/

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As a note, a judge in Oregon is about to throw out THAT suit too - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143600099

GOP - Waste. Fraud. Abuse. of the courts.

[Javaman]

1. Virginia is not texas

Thank goodness.

I hate asshole Abbott for bending over willingly to the orange asshole.

[ancianita]

2. Brennan Center for Justice: Since Sept the DOJ has sued 24 jurisdictions for refusing to hand over their voter data.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/trump-administration-has-sued-more-20-states-refusing-turn-over-voter

-- Since May 2025, the Justice Department has demanded full, unredacted voter rolls — which would include driver’s license and partial Social Security numbers — from at least 44 states and the District of Columbia.
Most states have provided a publicly available version (which does not include Social Security numbers and driver’s license numbers) or have not provided the voter registration lists at all.

-- The DOJ has sued Washington, DC, and 23 states for refusing to do so:
Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawai’i, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin, and Washington.

Brennan Center for Justice tracks the DOJ's voter data war on states here.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/tracker-justice-department-requests-voter-information

I can't believe this will be in the federal courts the rest of the year. Then probably the SCOTUS. I hope enough are dismissed with prejudice that the SCOTUS will see reason not to accept any fast-tracked appeal.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

3. VA

Reminds DOJ that states run elections. So go pound sand, fucking fascists.