Trump's DOJ makes its most sweeping demand for election data yet
Jun 16, 2025•6 min
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The U.S. Department of Justice is demanding an unprecedented amount of election data from at least one state, according to documents obtained by NPR, as the DOJ transformed by the Trump administration reviews cases targeting the president's political allies and caters to his desire to exert more power over state voting processes.
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