April 21, 2026court rulingvoting rightsfederal privacy lawelection administrationimmigration enforcementvoting rightscivil libertiesfederalism
Common Cause sues the DOJ to block a national voter database built without the required Privacy Act notice
Common Cause and four individual Texas voters filed a federal lawsuit on April 21, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to block the Trump DOJ from building a centralized database of every registered voter in America. The suit charges the DOJ violated the Privacy Act of 1974 by collecting Social Security numbers and voting histories from at least 12 states without issuing the legally required System of Records Notice. DOJ's own Civil Rights Division privacy official, Kilian Kagle, had resigned eighteen days earlier without explanation.
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