The Justice Department’s efforts to obtain voting information of Wisconsin and Maine residents using a civil rights law meant to crack-down on anti-Black voting practices was shut down by separate federal district courts Thursday.
Like federal tribunals in hotly-contested political battlegrounds Michigan and Arizona, the US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin and US District Court for the District of Maine denied the federal government’s requests for voter information, continuing President Donald Trump’s losing streak in these cases ahead of the congressional midterms.
Under the Help America Vote Act and National Voter Registration Act states are required to ...
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