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A federal appeals court just dealt a major blow to the Justice Department’s bid to seize sensitive Michigan voter data, ruling 2-1 that the state’s voter rolls — created and maintained by Michigan — can’t be forced handed over under a Civil Rights Act provision. The Trump-era push to verify citizenship through voter rolls has sparked nationwide legal battles, with this ruling potentially setting the stage for a Supreme Court showdown. Judges warned that forcing election officials to share birth dates and Social Security numbers could violate other federal laws, while dissenters argued the data falls under Justice Department access rights. With no court yet siding with the DOJ on these lawsuits — and its own citizenship verification program already facing privacy-related legal setbacks — the fight over election data control is far from over.

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