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Federal judge rules against Trump DoJ’s policy of collecting state voter rolls

Judge says justice department policy of checking state voter rolls against a federal immigration database is unlawful A federal judge ruled on Friday that the US justice department’s policy of collecting states’ unredacted voter rolls to check them against a federal immigration database is unlawful. The ruling, by the US district judge Sparkle Sooknanan,…

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