Ninth Circuit Hears DOJ Appeal Over Oregon, California Refusal to Hand Over Voter Records

The U.S. Justice Department has sued several states over the records, which it says it needs to make sure states are complying with federal election law.

The Department of Justice in Washington on March 11, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times

A panel of federal appeals court judges on May 19 grappled with the Trump administration’s efforts to procure unredacted voter registration records from California and Oregon.

The hearing came as the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has been reaching out to states by seeking voter rolls with complete personal information, mainly driver’s license numbers or the last four digits of Social Security numbers. About a dozen states have provided the data voluntarily.