The Trump administration wanted an AI dragnet for weeding out illegals trying to vote - however a federal judge says it's catching legal citizens in the process and has put a stop to it.
HSI Kansas City investigating noncitizen voting (HSI Kansas City/X)Late Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín of the Northern District of California, a Biden appointee, issued a preliminary injunction barring the Department of Homeland Security from election-related field operations in nine states when the targets are people agents "know, suspect, or should reasonably know or suspect are U.S. citizens." The ruling lands in a week full of voter-roll news. This morning we reported that the LA County registrar admitted it has no way to check the citizenship of 20,000 voters flagged by DOJ, which came on the heels of the Trump admin's lawsuit against the state.
Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín's core finding on Wednesday, however, was that there was a "high likelihood of error" (California Nurses Association v. Mullin, No. 4:26-cv-10680):
"Even under the best conditions, there is a high likelihood of error in review because there is no federal database containing citizenship status of U.S. residents."
