Marshall Cohen

I could imagine people that is going through people's minds.

So a big piece of this, the Justice Department has sued more than a dozen states, many states, for access to their voter rolls.

Private data belonging to American citizens that the state's

are in charge of.

The feds think that they have the power to do it, which is why they've gone to court and filed these lawsuits.

But so far, they've been losing.

There have been at least two cases, one in California, one in Oregon, where federal judges have rejected those attempts by the DOJ to get that data.

And the states, the Democratic officials say, hell no, we are not giving you this data.

It's protected by federal law and state law.

I'm just not going to hand that over to them.

The Republican officials that we've talked to in the states have said, you know, we're doing a very good job already keeping a very clean voter roll.

We've purged all a lot of people like, you know, basically trying to say, no, no, no, don't.

You don't need to do this.

We're doing a good job.

So they're trying to make the case.

Politely to the administration that, you know, we love the idea of what you're doing, but please let us do it.

We don't we're not so excited to give you the social security numbers of our constituents and stuff like that.

DOJ is not just in court.

They have really ratcheted things up.

A few weeks ago, Attorney General Pam Bondi really made waves when she sent a letter to officials in Minnesota, basically offering a quid pro quo