In September 2025, the DOJ Civil Rights Division filed its first lawsuits to acquire voter registration lists. This was against Oregon and Maine. About a week later, they filed against 6 more states.
So far, they have filed 31 lawsuits, including against DC.
The DOJ wants these voter rolls primarily to ensure only citizens are voting. They need more details than the typical VotReg lists that can be purchased from a state. The DOJ also needs DOB, Driver's License #, and the last 4 of the SS#.
Oklahoma settled its lawsuit and provided its list. Three other lawsuits in District Courts are still pending. The other 27 cases were dismissed by District Court Judges, leaving the DOJ with a record of 0 wins and 27 losses (0-27).
Then there's this…
Almost every state refusing is a member of ERIC, the Electronic Voter Registration Center (see column 2 below). ERIC regularly receives the same information the DOJ has been requesting, and much more. TGP has discussed ERIC often over the years.
ERIC member states signed contracts or passed laws committing to the 3-employee non-profit. Each state then provides ERIC with its voter registration lists AND its DMV/MVD database every two months. In the chart, the overwhelming number of officials resisting the DOJ are Democrats.
It's extremely hypocritical, if not corrupt, to hand this data to a tiny nonprofit regularly, then refuse it to the DOJ, which simply wants clean elections. In fact, only 2 of the 28 ERIC members complied. These were Alaska and South Carolina, which handed over their data without a lawsuit.
Of the 27 cases dismissed by federal District Courts, the DOJ has appealed 23 to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Only the Michigan appellate case has been decided. On June 24, 2026, the 6th Circuit upheld the district court's dismissal of the DOJ lawsuit. No cases have made it to the U.S. Supreme Court.
WHY CASES ARE DISMISSED:
Overall, these federal judges say the 1960 Civil Rights Act doesn't establish legal authority for the DOJ to force states into turning over unredacted voter registration data. Each judge has sided with the State, for various reasons.
Some judges say privacy laws restrict access to the personal information the DOJ needs. Other judges said the request is too broad – that the DOJ is seeking millions of records without a clear need.
Others said the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) and Help America Vote Act (HAVA) don't authorize disclosure of confidential voter records. They think the DOJ's demands exceed the powers Congress provided. Blah blah blah!
It's no secret the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ was a blatant Democrat operation for decades. Harmeet Dhillon is the senior DOJ official overseeing these nationwide lawsuits and has also been cleaning out the division's bias and corruption.
In the first two cases the DOJ filed (Maine and Oregon), they explained the data is already provided to ERIC, "a private organization without enforcement authority." They explain the state "supplies ERIC with the same information the U.S. Attorney General requested but refuses to provide it to the DOJ.
As far as we can tell, this comparison hasn't been brought up in DOJ lawsuits since September 2025. Not a single judge has been pushed to address the bizarre hypocrisy of states that supply data to ERIC, then refuse the DOJ.
The courts aren't saying the DOJ can't investigate voter fraud or voter registration irregularities. They're just making it impossible to check for bloated voter rolls, non-citizen voters, and other list manipulation. This is really appalling at every level.
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