These 30 cases will determine the future of our elections [View all]

Donald Trump spent his week making deranged threats to world peace. Meanwhile, I’ve been focusing on defending voters in Idaho. That’s because last Wednesday, the Department of Justice added Idaho to the list of states it is suing to gain access to unredacted, individualized voter data.

Over the last few months, a familiar pattern has emerged. Trump’s DOJ sues a state to obtain the voting information that states keep on their citizens, and within days, my law firm intervenes on behalf of groups of voters seeking to protect the privacy of that data.

So far, the DOJ has sued 29 states plus the District of Columbia — 30 cases in all. My team has sought to defend voters in each of them. Twenty-one courts have granted our motions to intervene, and only one has been denied. The remaining eight, including Idaho, are pending.

It is grueling work. Unlike other areas of law, fighting for voting rights means battling state by state, in courtrooms across the country.



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