The Department of Justice (DOJ) has indicted non-citizens in Minnesota, accusing them of voter fraud. Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter discussed these charges on ‘Saturday in America’. Federal prosecutors have charged 50 individuals with voting crimes over the past month.
In response to a Florida federal judge’s ruling that declared a federal ban on non-citizen voting unconstitutional, the DOJ is filing an appeal.
Legal actions against the Trump administration have surfaced over its attempts to collect sensitive voter data nationally. A lawsuit filed in Washington, D.C., alleges that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) acquired voter information from at least 47 states, bypassing federal laws and privacy protections. The League of Women Voters, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and the League of United Latin American Citizens have lodged this case, criticizing President Donald Trump’s efforts to tackle non-citizen voting.
The lawsuit argues that DHS’s analysis of voter data, combined with commercial datasets, violates federal safeguards. It claims federal courts have repeatedly blocked administration efforts to obtain voter information from states, highlighting the protection of voter privacy.
Despite these challenges, the Trump administration continues to press states to remove non-citizens from voter rolls, maintaining that their participation threatens election integrity. However, incidents of non-citizens voting are found to be rare. On Thursday, the administration sued California officials, claiming they were slow to verify names flagged as ‘likely’ non-citizens.
The Justice Department sought to prevent California from counting mail-in ballots from these individuals unless their eligibility is confirmed. The California secretary of state’s office critiqued the 48-hour review window for 20,000 names, noting a lack of evidence from the federal government. Meanwhile, the Justice Department defended its position, citing a multiagency review by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to identify likely non-citizens.
The DHS has not provided comments regarding this issue.
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