{"id":230404,"date":"2026-06-28T16:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T16:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/230404\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T16:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T16:37:08","slug":"pennsylvania-sheds-dojs-demand-for-unredacted-state-voter-rolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/230404\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Sheds DOJ\u2019s Demand for Unredacted State Voter Rolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Justice Department isn\u2019t entitled to Pennsylvania\u2019s unredacted voter rolls, a federal judge ruled Saturday in the latest defeat for the Trump administration on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnredacted voter files are not \u2018records,\u2019 as the term is defined under\u201d the Civil Rights Act of 1960, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/product\/blaw\/document\/XLG8PF1CO95UPTIDTMF8FR7FO\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> Chief Judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fjc.gov\/history\/judges\/bissoon-cathy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cathy Bissoon<\/a> of the US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania as she dismissed the suit with prejudice. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the administration\u2019s tenth loss in federal district court in its quest to obtain all 50 states\u2019 unredacted voter rolls. While some Republican-led states handed over their records, the administration sued 30 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US Justice Department isn\u2019t entitled to Pennsylvania\u2019s unredacted voter rolls, a federal judge ruled Saturday in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23080,28,30,29,99700],"class_list":["post-230404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-immigration-enforcement","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-statutory-interpretation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}