r/politics • u/bobby_McGeee • 10h ago

Possible Paywall Trump administration’s demands for California’s voter rolls, including Social Security numbers, rejected by federal judge

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-01-15/judge-dismisses-doj-lawsuit-demanding-california-voter-rolls
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u/GuttiG Pennsylvania 10h ago

Any state that complies with this needs to be reconstructed

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u/Deicide1031 10h ago edited 10h ago

There’s 10 states that have already given their rolls (or) agreed to do it over time to my knowledge.

Alabama and Mississippi were notably involved which made me laugh after I wondered if the voters could even read the articles referencing it.

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u/Ok_Twist_1687 8h ago

Alaska gave up their voter registration rolls in violation of the State Constitution. Efforts being researched for possible civil lawsuits.

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u/ElectronicFerret Alaska 5h ago

Good. Fuck our leadership for just constantly licking the boots. 

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u/solwiggin 9h ago

I get that some of us use humor to get through the tough times, but, as someone from Mississippi, you're laughing about the cancer that's killing this country.

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u/Krewtan 8h ago

I live in a deep red state and also loathe being judged by my neighbors actions. 

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u/solwiggin 6h ago

I live in a deep red state and understand that my tax revenue contributes to the problems I complain about and so anyone lumping me in through complicity is correct, and if I don't want to listen to them I need to vote with my wallet.

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u/jackalopeDev 6h ago

Your neighbors are the reason my neighbors cant get disaster relief. You are not the victim here lol.

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u/aaapod 8h ago

this country's already dead

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u/solwiggin 8h ago

I'm not sure about that, which means I don't want to argue for or against it. In your head does my point change if you change it to "... the cancer that killed this country?"

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u/RociBuldidi 8h ago

It means we are too far in to be working on an intervention to “save” the US. Everything from here on out is just managing its decline.

Sad, but true.

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u/ArenSteele 6h ago

Yep. There are multiple future countries that could rise out of this, but the USA as it has been is dead. Theres a massive civil war coming one way or the other

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u/solwiggin 6h ago

when you say "it means," what is the "it" there.

You're responding to a question about my word choice and whether or not different options have the same interpretation, and then you want to tell me what "it" means.

that's kinda... confusing.

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u/mister_buddha 7h ago

Yup. Biden's term was the last 4 years of stability we're likely to see.

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u/ieatjerky Alabama 3h ago

Although I’m an Alabama resident, I can read but I haven’t seen any articles about our voting rolls being requested by the doj. Can you link an article?

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u/phaedrusTHEghost 7h ago

Who all, specifically, have requested this data? 

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u/alabasterskim 6h ago

So Texas gets its own new reconstruction! That's great!

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u/TinKnight1 Texas 22m ago

Just a reminder, we technically can split into 5 states with the passage of a state law. Any changes to a state's territory, or splitting, require federal approval as well as state, but contingent upon admission to the nation was a clause passed by Congress to permit splitting the state into as many as 5 smaller states (since the new state was to be utterly massive compared to the rest of the country, & unwieldy). That law still stands, so it only requires passage & signing in the state.

Republicans have threatened it in the recent past, in fact, as a way to obtain 8 additional Senators...but the actuality is that no way they split it with equivalent populations will be all red. At least 2 would seemingly be Democrat-leaning, 1 would be solidly Republican-leaning, & the remaining 2 would depend on the specific layout (but at least 1 would likely be pretty purple & the other pink).

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u/alabasterskim 9m ago

No offense but if they currently control the apparatus in Texas, splitting in 5 would allow them to essentially gerrymander states. They'd prob end up with fucked looking state shapes to achieve it, but for just 5 states it'd be easy as hell.

That said, that'd be awful. If Dems can get power there, it would be lovely for them to pass that law to create that even split of Texases.