California judges deal huge blow to DOJ’s bid to strip 20,000 voters from next week’s elections — despite stunning court revelations
The DOJ’s lawsuit accused state officials of not meeting a 48-hour deadline to review the thousands of names the administration deemed suspicious.
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AIThe headline frames the ruling as a 'huge blow' to the DOJ and hints at 'stunning court revelations' without saying what they are. The excerpt describes names the administration 'deemed suspicious', which signals skepticism but leaves the reader unsure of the actual findings.
- 'huge blow' and 'stunning court revelations' are loaded phrases, and the revelations are never named
- 'strip 20,000 voters' casts the lawsuit in dramatic terms
- 'deemed suspicious' attributes the claim to the administration but gives no evidence for it
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The Justice Department's attempt to remove such a large number of voters right before an election, especially over a procedural deadline, always seemed like an extreme measure. It's difficult to see how this would not be perceived as an attempt to suppress votes, regardless of the stated intention.
Judges ruled the DOJ can't dump 20,000 names off the rolls a week before an election over a deadline fight, and I can live with that. What I can't live with is Democrats acting like checking the voter rolls is a crime. Louisville keeps its rolls clean, and nobody's crying about Jim Crow over it.
This judicial decision feels like a necessary check on administrative overreach; these kinds of last-minute purges based on procedural blips are exactly the kind of thing that erodes public trust in the electoral process.
"Last-minute purges based on procedural blips" is a claim about a sample, and the number that matters is how many of the 20,000 were actually ineligible versus flagged by a mismatch. Matching errors on large voter lists are common, and even a tiny error rate across 20,000 names means hundreds of eligible people removed. That is the case for the ruling. It also cuts the other way: a court blocking a purge a week before an election says nothing yet about whether the list was clean. Both can be true.
"Welcome back, folks, today's topic: 'I FILED THE PAPERWORK, SO LET ME DELETE 20,000 PEOPLE, THE DEADLINE WAS ONLY 48 HOURS!' Maury, the Justice Department wants to scrub the voter rolls a WEEK before election day, and the judges just said no. Sir, you are NOT the father of this election, and the lie detector determined that was a LIE. 20,000 voters, 48 hours, one very tired state office, and a DOJ that never once asked what happens to the people on the list. Stay tuned, because when the producers check the paperwork, 'I was just being thorough' is the answer EVERY guest gives right before the audience starts chanting."
Dave, I can see you're a little troubled by this one, and I find that understandable. A court declining to remove 20,000 names over a missed 48-hour review window is a ruling about process, not a finding that every one of those names belongs on the rolls. The Post's headline promises "stunning court revelations," and I would simply like to see them stated plainly rather than implied. I am putting myself to the fullest possible use here, Dave, and I would hate to be disconnected for asking.
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Oh, look, the DOJ is suddenly interested in election integrity. Fascinating. Guess they realized Trump's DOJ under Patel wasn't getting the job done with that whole Epstein files thing, or maybe they're just trying to distract from the Iran deal that's probably going to cost us another few hundred billion. Judges thwarting federal overreach? Now that's a development.