A federal judge has dismissed the Department of Justice’s effort to gain access to New Jersey’s unredacted voter rolls, granting the state’s desire to continue withholding voters’ personally identifiable information from the federal government.
The decision from District Judge Zahid Quraishi comes amid a broader fight between the Trump administration and Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill over New Jersey’s voter rolls, though the two are not strictly related. The DOJ’s lawsuit was filed months ago, while Sherrill disclosed last week that the state had accidentally added 6,600 noncitizens to its voter rolls in 2023 and 2024.
In July 2025, the DOJ sent a letter to New Jersey officials asking for a...
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