Trump-appointed Michigan judge delivers massive blow to his voter roll power grab

A federal judge in Michigan has rejected President Donald Trump's efforts to seize control of the state's voter rolls.

The Justice Department has been on a crusade to obtain private information about voters in blue states across the U.S., and those states have been fighting it.

On Tuesday morning, Politico legal reporter Kyle Cheney posted on X that Judge Hala Jarbou, one of Trump's own appointees, said that the state isn't obligated to comply with the demand.

The case is one of more than two dozen across the U.S. in which states are refusing to turn over personal information. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson refused to turn over the information, resulting in the lawsuit from the DOJ.

According to the judge, "HAVA, the NVRA, and the CRA do not allow the United States to obtain the records at issue in this case," she said, referring to the Help America Vote Act, the National Voter Registration Act, and the Civil Rights Act of 1960.

The Michigan ruling comes after an Oregon judge said the Justice Department could no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith in the voter rolls cases.

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