Justice Department Urges Sanctions for Database Analysis Critical of Its Noncitizen Voting Claims
The department says the group violated a court order after researchers found more than 40% of 20,000 names did not match California voter records.
- The Justice Department on Sunday asked District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg to consider contempt charges against an immigrant rights group after they published an analysis of a list containing more than 20,000 alleged noncitizen voters in California.
- On Friday, Boasberg allowed the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights access to federal government data to argue their legal standing, ordering the group not to disclose names and use the information only for court arguments.
- Attorneys for the Coalition filed papers Saturday revealing their analysis found more than 40% of the people on the list do not appear in California's voter file, while identifying 22 people likely to be naturalized citizens.
- Alberto Lammers, a spokesman for the Voting Rights Project, stated that counsel and experts "fully complied with the Court's orders," while the Justice Department argued the analysis was "political grandstanding" irrelevant to the group's legal standing.
- Separately, the Justice Department appealed a ruling by District Court Judge Trina Thompson that barred the government from demanding election offices separate ballots or threaten legal action, with a hearing scheduled for Monday.
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DOJ calls for sanctions over California voter rolls analysis
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Sunday defended the accuracy of its claim that more than 20,000 “likely noncitizens” are on California’s voter rolls, even after an outside analysis found that more than 40 percent of the names flagged as noncitizens were not on the state’s voter rolls. DOJ officials wrote in a filing that…
Judge denies another Trump administration attempt to meddle with voter data in Common Cause v. DOJ
In a ruling on Nov. 2, Federal District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan denied the DOJ’s motion for a stay pending appeal in Common Cause and individual voters’ ongoing lawsuit challenging the federal agency’s attempts to obtain sensitive voter data and exercise control...
Judge denies another Trump administration attempt to meddle with voter data in Common Cause v. DOJ - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Federal District Court for DC Judge Sooknanan denied the DOJ’s motion for a stay pending appeal in Common Cause and individual voters’ ongoing lawsuit challenging the federal agency’s attempts to obtain sensitive voter data and exercise control over states’ election processes.
MichaelSavage.com – Activist Judge Boasberg’s Order Blows Up on CHIRLA — Immigrant Rights Group Faces Sanctions and Possible Criminal Contempt After Experts Abused Restricted Access to DOJ’s 20,000 Noncitizen Voter List
Obama-appointed U.S. District Chief Judge James E. Boasberg, long criticized as a “Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge,” gave the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) and its UCLA Voting Rights Project allies tightly restricted access to the Trump Department of Justice’s list of more than 20,000 people federal investigators flagged as likely noncitizens who…
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