1 outlets · filed 9 October 2026
Judge strikes down DOJ's policy of reviewing state voter rolls
A federal judge has struck down the Trump administration's plan to check state voter rolls against federal immigration databases and press states to remove voters it determines are registered illegally.
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Both outlets center the same court ruling and describe the Justice Department’s voter-roll policy as the target of the decision. The Guardian foregrounds the judge’s legal finding that the policy is unlawful and specifies that the rolls were unredacted and checked against a federal immigration database. CBS News similarly highlights the strike-down but adds only in its extract that the plan also involved pressing states to remove voters it determined were registered illegally.
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