🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit to compel Illinois to provide its complete statewide voter registration database. Another big victory for Elias Law Group and its clients.
DOJ is now 0-19 in these cases. ELG remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/illino…
— Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) 1. august 2026 kl. 00.27
This is great news. Once again an attempt to attack democracy by the Trump administration has been defeated.
As Democracy Docket explains in the linked page:
This marks the latest escalation in the DOJ’s efforts to obtain sensitive voter registration data from states across the country. In recent months, the DOJ has intensified its demands for voter information as part of a broader, politically charged push aimed at pressuring states to remove voters from the rolls and advancing the Trump administration’s unfounded claims of widespread illegal voting. The DOJ has now sued 30 states, plus Washington, D.C. — California, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Massachusetts, Georgia, Illinois, Wisconsin, Utah, Oklahoma, Kentucky, West Virginia, New Jersey, Connecticut, Arizona, Virginia, Idaho and Washington — all of which have refused to hand over unredacted voter files containing highly sensitive personal information.
It’s also worth pointing out that 0-19 is an absurd number for the government to have gotten to. It’s not like brought these cases all at once or had to bring them. Normally the government would give up after 1 loss, might go 2 or 3 if the cases were different in some ways. After that there is no reason to bring the cases except stupid determination.
Somebody at the very top said to do this so the DOJ keeps doing it. Nobody has the guts or job security to tell the higher ups that something is a bad idea. It’s very much one of the prime features of bad management. Nobody is giving the people above them honest information because it won’t matter but it might cost them their jobs.
[title typo – ‘loses’ vs ‘looses’]