Oregon Escapes Justice Department’s Voter Roll Access Lawsuit

Oregon defeated a lawsuit from the US Department of Justice asking the state to hand over full, unredacted voter registration lists.

Judge Mustafa Kasubhai at a hearing Monday in the US District Court for the District of Oregon said he will grant the state’s motion to dismiss the complaint and provide a fully written opinion later, according to the court’s docket.

The ruling is the latest setback in the Trump administration’s recent legal campaign to force at least a dozen states to hand over detailed voter lists, including data on addresses, driver’s license numbers, and partial Social Security numbers.

The dismissal also comes over a week after California successfully fended off a similar DOJ lawsuit that sought the state’s full voter rolls. The judge in that case decried the department’s efforts to use civil rights law to obtain the data, finding the requests will likely have a chilling effect on “political minority groups and working-class immigrants” who might avoid the polls.

The Trump administration’s lawsuits against the states, which include New York, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Maryland, Washington and others, argue the voter data is needed to enforce the National Voter Registration Act and the Help America Vote Act. The federal government has at times linked its request for voter files to immigration enforcement efforts.

The case is United States of America v. Oregon, D. Or., No. 6:25-cv-01666, 1/26/26.