WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 11: Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche listens to a reporter's question during a press conference at the Department of Justice June 11, 2026 in Washingon, DC. The press conference centered on government efforts to locate and secure unaccompanied immigrant children. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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Donald Trump desperately wants to build a national database of voters. His plan is to have his administration control who stays on the list and who gets removed. He has issued unconstitutional executive orders to accomplish this goal, and the U.S. Postal Service has proposed a new rule to do his bidding.
The problem for Trump is that his Department of Justice keeps losing cases that it needs to access this critical data. This humiliating string of defeats threatens to derail Trump’s signature plan to subvert the 2026 midterm elections.
This morning, a federal judge in Maryland handed the DOJ its ninth defeat in a series of 31 cases the department has filed to gain access to state voter files. The DOJ has yet to win a single one. The court wrote that it “joins every court to have addressed this issue in concluding that [a state voter file] is not a record or paper that a state must produce to the United States.”
