Miles Parks

This is something where the states for many, many, many, many years have maintained their own elections lists.

States are in charge of running their own elections.

The federal government has had very little role in that department since Trump came into office for a second time.

His government has really wanted more oversight.

This kind of stems from Trump saying during the campaign a lot that non-citizens were all over voting lists.

And so he wanted to have a bigger role.

His Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security both said they want a bigger role in oversight here.

And so they have been suing a bunch of states, all at this point Democrats and states Trump lost in 2020, trying to acquire this voting data for the first time.

And so last night we got our first ruling in one of these cases where a judge in California said no.

This is not how this is going to go and dismiss the lawsuit completely.

This is the first ruling out of more than 20 lawsuits that are floating around across the country.

But it is really interesting just to see a judge actually weigh in and say, no, this is a place where the federal government does not have a role.

That is one of the outstanding questions.

And a judge in Oregon also on Wednesday in court said, I'm thinking about doing the same thing and dismissing the lawsuit.

And so it's a little bit unclear.

I will say the judge in California also said he expects it to get appealed potentially all the way up to the Supreme Court.

So this could definitely be something we're talking about for the next couple of years.

I'm hoping you guys have more fun things to talk about potentially, Danielle.

Do you have fun?

And I feel like every time you stream the song now, you know that you're supporting a good cause basically, right?