CREW just won our lawsuit against the Department of Justice
e just won our lawsuit against the Department of Justice
- Mon, Oct 12 at 12:52 PM
Great news, Mark: We just won our lawsuit against the Department of Justice.
The court ruled that the DOJ’s campaign to consolidate sensitive voter data violates voter privacy and illegally intrudes on states’ authority over elections.
The court’s decision protects millions of eligible voters’ freedom to cast a ballot without fear that their personal information will be misused, shared without authorization, or weaponized to challenge their eligibility.
The Constitution and federal law are clear: states are responsible for maintaining their voter rolls—not the federal government.
We know that DHS already spent $12 million airing the ads, and that Congress actually allocated that money for border security upgrades, combatting drug trafficking and memorials for officers killed on duty.Over the past year, the DOJ has demanded full, unredacted voter rolls from 49 states and Washington, D.C. These records vary by state but include sensitive personal data like home addresses, Social Security numbers and voting history.
The agency intended to compare state voter list data with the Department of Homeland Security’s notoriously inaccurate Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system in an effort to identify suspected noncitizens on state voter rolls and demand that states revoke their voter registration.
The SAVE system has repeatedly and mistakenly flagged lawful U.S. citizens as ineligible to vote.
The DOJ’s actions are unconstitutional, illegal and a key component of the Trump administration’s attempts to take over elections from states and subvert the 2026 midterms.
That’s why CREW, representing Common Cause and four voters, sued to stop the DOJ from illegally stockpiling millions of Americans’ confidential voter data and building a national voter database to surveil and purge voters.
And the court just sided with us.
This ruling comes after federal judges in 26 states plus the 6th Circuit dismissed the DOJ’s demands, ruling the agency’s attempts to consolidate voter data unlawful.
With the 2026 midterms rapidly approaching, the DOJ’s actions are part of a coordinated attempt by the Trump administration to deceive the public with false election claims, disrupt how states run their elections and deny results they don’t like.
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