{"id":72781,"date":"2026-04-28T20:55:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T01:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/judge-thwarts-trump-administrations-attempt-to-access-arizona-voter-rolls\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T20:55:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T01:55:52","slug":"judge-thwarts-trump-administrations-attempt-to-access-arizona-voter-rolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/judge-thwarts-trump-administrations-attempt-to-access-arizona-voter-rolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge thwarts Trump administration\u2019s attempt to access Arizona voter rolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justice department\u2019s lawsuit dismissed in latest setback for government\u2019s effort to amass information before midterms<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An attempt by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a> to gain access to Arizona\u2019s detailed voter records was thwarted by the courts on Tuesday, when a federal judge dismissed the US justice department\u2019s lawsuit against the state.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling marks the latest legal setback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/15\/justice-department-voter-information\">in an unprecedented nationwide effort by the administration<\/a> before the midterm elections to collect sensitive information about tens of millions of Americans. The DoJ has sued at least 30 states and the District of Columbia seeking to force release of the data, which includes dates of birth, addresses, driver\u2019s license numbers and partial social security numbers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/28\/arizona-voter-rolls-trump-administration\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice department\u2019s lawsuit dismissed in latest setback for government\u2019s effort to amass information before midterms Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox An attempt by the Trump administration to gain access to Arizona\u2019s detailed voter records was thwarted by the courts on Tuesday, when a federal judge &#8230; <a title=\"Judge thwarts Trump administration\u2019s attempt to access Arizona voter rolls\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/judge-thwarts-trump-administrations-attempt-to-access-arizona-voter-rolls\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Judge thwarts Trump administration\u2019s attempt to access Arizona voter rolls\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}