Trump administration loses voter roll lawsuits

The Trump administration has suffered 21 courtroom defeats this year in its effort to obtain state voter rolls, with the latest ruling on August 7 by U.S. District Judge Marc Randolph dismissing a Justice Department bid to obtain unredacted voter rolls from United States — Washington (state) Judges have consistently held that the U.S. Constitution gives states primary responsibility for running federal elections and that federal voting laws do not require them to share the records. The Justice Department has sued more than two dozen states and has appealed 16 losses, losing one appeal so far. The administration has also threatened to withhold disaster relief funds from states that do not use the federal SAVE database, and sent letters warning election officials of potential criminal charges. Voting rights groups and Democrats describe these actions as coercive, while the administration argues it is preventing noncitizen voting. The Supreme Court has yet to rule on related executive order enforcement.