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JUDICIAL OVERREACH? A FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKS DOJ ELECTION OVERSIGHT On October 9, a federal judge set aside the DOJ’s nationwide voter-list maintenance policy, ruling against its effort to obtain state voter-registration records for federal election-law enforcement and citizenship verification. Here’s what the ruling gets wrong - dangerously wrong: 1. CONGRESS GRANTED DOJ THE AUTHORITY. Under 52 U.S.C. § 20703, Congress expressly authorized the Attorney General to demand covered election records for inspection, reproduction and copying. The law requires a written statement of “basis and purpose” - but does not expressly require probable cause or proof of a specific violation before an investigation can begin. 2. A PROCEDURAL REQUIREMENT BECAME A BARRIER TO ENFORCEMENT. The judge found DOJ’s explanation insufficient. But does a narrowly interpreted paperwork requirement justify blocking an entire federal enforcement policy? Requiring an agency to explain its demand is one thing. Using that requirement to obstruct work Congress authorized is another. 3. INVESTIGATION IS NOT FEDERAL TAKEOVER. Federal agencies cannot enforce election laws without examining records. The dispute should be about how DOJ exercises its authority lawfully - not whether judicial interpretation can effectively neutralize that authority. 4. THE OTHER GROUNDS MUST ALSO BE CHALLENGED. The judge additionally found the policy arbitrary and capricious and ruled that it violated the Privacy Act and Paperwork Reduction Act. Those are independent legal grounds, not footnotes. They deserve scrutiny too: did the court apply those laws faithfully, or use them to reach an unnecessarily sweeping result? Protecting eligible voters from inaccurate database matches is essential. But safeguards against errors should accompany lawful investigations - not automatically become grounds to block them. Congress writes the law. Agencies enforce it. Courts review legality. But judicial review must not become judicial policymaking. The central question: did this ruling faithfully enforce statutory limits - or stretch them so far that a federal judge can obstruct multiple offices carrying out authority Congress granted? Election security and validity requires accurate voter rolls, protection for eligible citizens, AND enforcement of federal law. We should not have to sacrifice one to achieve the others. Unite4Freedom will discuss these Federal Laws this evening in ‘Part 2’ of a spaces event ‘ FULLY ARMED w/ Unite4Freedom: Election Law 101 Part 2 ‘ hosted by @_TheYoungBlood at 6:45 PM EST. Join us as we dig deeper into this subject nitter.gq/i/spaces/1vJpPNopbYmJE… #Unite4Freedom #ElectionValidity #ElectionSecurity #FullyArmed #DOJ