Voting Rights
The move's alarmed states, which have the constitutional authority to run elections and are protected from sharing individual data with the government.
A federal court just made it a whole lot harder for blind people, people with disabilities or people who cannot read, to protect their rights at the ballot box.
The Constitution only entrusts Congress and the states with the authority to regulate federal elections, a judge ruled.
Harmeet Dhillon, an election denier and legal adviser to Trump, will now lead the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The 2021 lawsuit accused Georgia Republicans of denying Black voters equal access to the ballot.
Republicans have dodged questions on what happens to voters who don’t have the right paperwork.
"Voters, especially those in rural areas, will bear the brunt of this restrictive move," one opponent of the law said.
A White House official dubbed it "the farthest reaching executive action" ever taken.
The House speaker said all the weeks and months of Republicans warning about supposed noncitizen voting had prevented it from actually happening.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton originally tried kicking federal monitors out of the Lone Star State, but he and the DOJ struck a new agreement.