Trump-appointed judge deals blow to DOJ's voter roll grab

A Trump-appointed federal judge dealt a blow to the Department of Justice's efforts to collect sensitive voter roll information, according to reports.

U.S. District Judge Lance Walker, a Trump appointee in Maine, ruled against a DOJ lawsuit demanding the state's voter rolls, according to reporting by All Rise News.

“Comity between coequal sovereigns is the hallmark of a thrumming republic," Walker wrote in his ruling.

Allowing the federal government access to every state's voter rolls on demand "would take a sledgehammer to the balance Congress struck when it required states to create and maintain computerized lists of registered voters in the first place," Walker added.

Walker's decision came the same day U.S. District Judge James Peterson, an Obama appointee, made a similar decision and slapped down the DOJ's reach for Wisconsin voter rolls.

The DOJ Civil Rights Division chief, Harmeet Dhillon, filed thirty lawsuits across the country to get access to state voter rolls, according to All Rise News, which noted that Dhillon is "Donald Trump's former election denialist lawyer."

All Rise News also recorded that the DOJ is on an "0-8 losing streak" in its nationwide litigation effort.