Federal judge tosses DOJ suit over unredacted West Virginia voter data

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Source: WCHS-TV Charleston, WV

Mon, July 13, 2026 at 8:28 PM


CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — State officials announced a lawsuit seeking the release of West Virginia voter information has been dismissed. Earlier this year, West Virginia Secretary of State Kris Warner announced the state would not be volunteering person information of registered voters to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Federal officials asked nearly all states to relay election records and data, including voter registration lists with driver’s licenses, dates of birth, addresses and Social Security numbers.

At the time, Warner submitted a letter to the DOJ, stating statues cited by federal officials do not require compliance and state laws protect sensitive information of voters.

On Monday, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia tossed the suit, noting the DOJ’s demand did not indicate anomalies in West Virginia’s registration data or issues with federal maintenance requirements.

Read more: https://wchstv.com/news/local/federal-judge-tosses-doj-suit-over-unredacted-west-virginia-voter-data

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Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://wchstv.com/resources/pdf/d4c9e12b-f247-46da-9c75-bab1ca1a0a08-dismissWarner.pdf

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1. DOJ is 0-15 after GOP-appointed judges toss voter roll lawsuits against Virginia, New Mexico

trump has yet to win one of these silly lawsuits.

NEW: Two federal judges separately rejected the DOJ's bid for access to Virginia and New Mexico's full voter records.

The rulings put the department at 15 losses in its unprecedented legal hunt for states' private voter data, six of which were issued by Trump-appointed judges.

— Democracy Docket (@democracydocket.com) 2026-07-14T20:36:31.718194269Z

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/doj-is-0-15-after-gop-appointed-judges-toss-voter-roll-lawsuits-against-virginia-new-mexico/

President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) lost its 14th and 15th voter roll cases Tuesday, when federal judges dismissed* the government’s lawsuits seeking access to Virginia and New Mexico’s full voter records.

To add insult to injury, the judge in the Virginia case was a Trump appointee. In his decision, U.S. District Judge Roderick Young concluded that federal law does not require Virginia to provide its unredacted voter rolls to the federal government.

That makes Young, whom the president nominated to the bench during his first term, the sixth Trump appointee to rule against the DOJ in its nationwide quest for sensitive voter data.

The same day, U.S. District Judge Judith Herrera, appointed by former President George W. Bush, tossed the DOJ’s case against New Mexico, ruling that the department failed to sufficiently establish “the basis and the purpose” for the demand, as required by federal law.....

Still, the fight is far from over. Last week, the DOJ filed a petition challenging its first appellate defeat in the voter roll crusade, asking the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a ruling that rejected its demand for Michigan’s voter data.

Not all GOP-controlled states have capitulated. Utah, Idaho, Kentucky and West Virginia have fought back against the request. On Monday, a federal judge tossed out the DOJ’s lawsuit against West Virginia.

I am pissed that Greg Abbott gave trump the Texas voter data