PILF called on the Justice Department
to bring felony charges
against the voters it identified.

Republican political activists drew up plans
to post signs at polling places
warning of voter fraud,
which Adams said should be
“in Spanish”
to be “effective.”

It soon became clear, however, that […]

You take an oath to uphold the laws of the United States,”
Robert Kengle,
the deputy chief of the voting section from 1999 to 2005,
told Mother Jones’ Ari Berman
in his 2015 book,
Give Us the Ballot.

“These guys didn’t believe in the laws of the United States.

They came in to work for an […]

The right-wing campaign to weaponize the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division,
which former Attorney General Eric Holder once called the “crown jewel” of the department,
dates back more than two decades.

After the election of President George W. Bush in 2000,
National Review called for a radical […]

So far, challenges like these have taken place on a much smaller scale:

state by state or even county by county.

The DOJ’s current effort to assemble every state’s voter data
poses an exponentially larger threat to voting rights.

More than a dozen state election officials,
former DOJ staff […]

“The election deniers are now ascendant in the federal government,”
says Bellows,
who spent eight years as the executive director of the Maine ACLU
before assuming her current post.

“These requests are not unlike the requests that the organizations they used to be affiliated with have asked for […]