Voting Rights Groups Sue DOJ Over Voter Data Grab

0:00It's April 21st. From your city to your ears, this is Anchorage News Today, powered by AI. Voting rights groups hit the Trump Justice Department with a federal lawsuit Tuesday, challenging their push to grab sensitive voter data from states. The goal? Hunt down non-citizen voters ahead of November. Midterms by building what critics call a centralized national voter list, complete with drivers, licenses, and partial social security numbers. The DOJ sued 30 states in the District of Columbia for unredacted voter roles, while it does in others like Texas, Ohio, and Tennessee, voluntarily. Handed over data on millions of registered folks. Now they're set to share with Homeland Security's SAV program, a tool retooled to scan citizenship on a massive scale. Groups like Common Cause and the ACLU say this is a partisan move to undermine elections and chill voter turnout, especially since save has falsely flagged U.S. citizens before Trump's broader play includes executive orders demanding citizenship proof to vote and

1:03tightening mail ballots, all aimed at federalizing state run. Elections, judges in five states, including a recent SmackDown in Rhode Island by a Trump appointee, have shut down the DOJ's demands, ruling they overstep. Federal voting laws, appeals hit mid-May, marking a string of losses for the department. This fresh legal front demands the DOJ delete with they've got and halt the whole operation, as battles rage on to protect voter privacy before ballots drop.