NewsPronto

 
Men's Weekly

.

USA Conversation

The Conversation USA

The Conversation USA

The Department of Justice is suing states for sensitive voter data − an election law scholar explains why federal efforts are facing resistance

  • Written by John J. Martin, Assistant Professor of Law, Quinnipiac University
imageThe Trump administration wants a lot of voter information from states.smartboy10/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images

In May 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice began sending letters to state governments demanding copies of statewide voter registration lists. The request was unprecedented: It demanded not only publicly available voter data, such...

Read more: The Department of Justice is suing states for sensitive voter data − an election law scholar...

More Articles ...

  1. Why Michael Jackson’s daughter, Paris, won’t stop ‘til she gets enough from his estate
  2. You’re not going to be alone in national parks this summer – enjoy the company
  3. Winter’s alarmingly low snowpack offers a glimpse of the changing rhythm of water in the western US
  4. Federal election observers once played a key role in securing voting rights for all − but times have changed
  5. The NFL draft brings economic gains – and hidden public safety costs
  6. What Detroit can learn from participatory budgeting processes in NYC, Boston and Brazil
  7. Students were skipping my astrophysics class to play video games – so I turned the class itself into a video game
  8. How long young cancer patients survive often depends on the insurance they have
  9. Astronaut Victor Glover is the latest in a long line of Black American explorers − including York, the enslaved man who played a key role in the Lewis and Clark expedition
  10. ‘Project Hail Mary’ demonstrates how intellectual humility can be a guiding force for scientists and astronauts
  11. Holocaust survivors in France came home to stolen apartments, looted furniture and bureaucratic hurdles
  12. How California’s war on smog and its ambitious car pollution rules made everyone’s air cleaner
  13. How polling failures, gambling legalization and political gridlock paved the way for the explosive rise of prediction markets
  14. From youth bulges to graying societies: The demographic dynamics that are upending the world
  15. Trump Fed pick Kevin Warsh could shake up the central bank with his ‘family fight’ model
  16. Ticks are the backyard threat southwestern Pennsylvania homeowners keep ignoring
  17. Benefits of mindfulness meditation go far beyond relaxation – here’s what it is and how to practice it
  18. Artemis II’s long countdown – a space historian explains why it has taken over 50 years to return to the Moon
  19. How sea mines threaten global trade, and how navies detect them
  20. Decades of hostility between Iran and the US were preceded by a little-remembered century-long friendship
  21. NASA wants to build a base on the Moon by the 2030s – how and why it plans to build up to a long-term lunar presence
  22. Basic income’s appeal today is similar to its roots in 18th-century England – it’s a way to compensate people for a common good taken for private gain
  23. Are multiverses real? An astrophysicist explains why it depends on how you define ‘real’
  24. Panicking scientists, canceled experiments – federal funding cuts turned my work as a research dean into crisis management
  25. Sex test used in IOC’s new transgender ban more likely to exclude from Olympics intersex women who were assigned female at birth
  26. Shiite grief over attacks on Iran’s sacred cities has deep historical roots
  27. We analyzed Philly street scenes and identified signs of gentrification using machine learning trained on longtime residents’ observations
  28. Trump’s ‘God Squad’ pits energy vs. endangered species, but it’s a false choice – protecting wildlife can be good for business
  29. COVID-19 variant BA.3.2 is spreading quickly across US – a doctor explains what you need to know
  30. Ultralightweight sonar plus AI lets tiny drones navigate like bats
  31. What Americans can learn from other civil activism movements against authoritarian regimes
  32. War on Iran during nuclear negotiations undermines the US’s ability to talk peace around the world − and the effects won’t end when Trump leaves office
  33. From ‘Project Hail Mary’ to Artemis II, spaceflight captures audiences when it centers on people because human space travel is hazardous
  34. New study measures titanium in Apollo rock to uncover Moon’s early chemistry
  35. How a diplomatic snub evokes the complicated US-Brazil relationship in the second Trump era
  36. American politicians talk about persecuted Christians abroad – but here’s what happens when those Christians migrate to the US
  37. Why do some people treat the Magic Kingdom and Disney adults like cultural abominations?
  38. Birutė Galdikas: The last of the ‘angels’ in primatology’s most extraordinary chapter
  39. Birutė Galdikas: The last of ‘Leakey’s Angels’ in primatology’s most extraordinary chapter
  40. War in the Middle East made the case for renewables – what’s happening in each country tells a harder story
  41. Cameras have quietly appeared in thousands of US cities – now, their integration with AI is sounding alarms
  42. Two verdicts in two days: How American courts are rewriting the rules for Big Tech and children
  43. I went to CPAC and found Trump supporters unhappy about Iran, Epstein files and the economy, even while the fans at the MAGA conference celebrate his immigration policies
  44. Mosquitoes carrying malaria are evolving more quickly than insecticides can kill them – researchers pinpoint how
  45. Millions are protesting – but boycotts might be key to changing government policies
  46. The long shadow of Paul Ehrlich’s ‘Population Bomb’ is evident in anti-immigration efforts today
  47. Why do basketball players miss shots they’ve made a thousand times before? Neuroscience has an answer
  48. NASA’s Artemis II mission will take an astronaut crew around the Moon – a space policy expert describes the long road to launch
  49. Vagus nerve stimulation shows promise as a way to counter Alzheimer’s disease- and age-related memory loss
  50. College students are writing with AI – but a pilot study finds they’re not simply letting it write for them