Isophoric News · Thursday, October 22, 2026
Democratic groups sue the Trump administration over alleged pressure on state election officials
The Democratic National Committee, its House and Senate campaign arms, several lawmakers and others filed a federal lawsuit late Tuesday in Washington, D.C., asking a judge to block what they allege are Trump administration attempts to force states to remove voters from registration lists, segregate certain ballots and threaten local election officials with prosecution, ABC News reported. The Justice Department has repeatedly defended its actions as part of an effort to ensure the integrity of the election system, and spokesperson Kiersten Pels said in a statement that "California cannot facilitate the violation of federal law" after the state declined to verify the citizenship of people on a list the department provided. In court papers filed Tuesday, two officials in the Los Angeles County registrar's office said a preliminary analysis of 200 people from the Justice Department's list of about 20,000 found that nearly 40% indicated they were born in the United States and 71.2% had no voting history. ABC said it had asked the White House for comment.
