We achieved a major milestone in the fight for free and fair elections this week. You wouldn't know it from reading the legacy media, but it may prove as important as anything else in preventing Donald Trump from subverting the midterm elections.
Federal law prohibits states from conducting systematic voter removals during the 90 days prior to an election. The purpose of the law is simple: the closer we get to Election Day, the harder it is for voters to correct mistakes or challenge efforts to kick them off the rolls in time to cast their ballots.
We crossed that 90-day line last Wednesday. As a result, states can no longer conduct voter purges or other mass removals.
In normal election years, this goes largely unnoticed by the public. States typically time their routine list maintenance to fall outside that period. Occasionally, a state violates the prohibition, and litigation follows.
But this year, this cutoff — or "quiet period," as it's known — is central to protecting our elections. That's because Donald Trump has been pulling every possible lever of government to try to build a national voter file, with hopes of then dictating to the states who they must remove before the fall.
Trump's DOJ has sued 30 states to gain access to their unredacted voter files. So far, DOJ has lost 21 of those cases and won zero. Nine remain pending — in Delaware, Washington, Georgia, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah, Minnesota, Idaho and Vermont. My law firm has intervened in these cases to protect voters' data — and we are undefeated.
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