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DOJ accidentally blurts true motive lurking underneath Trump's voter-roll crusade

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The Department of Justice accidentally revealed the real motive behind its demand for 40 states' voter rolls, a Nevada judge noted. On Friday, U.S. District Judge Anne Traum tossed a case by the DOJ that sought to take Nevada's voter rolls in a crusade by President Donald Trump ahead of the midterms. The Trump DOJ is now 0-for-22 in its lawsuits seeking to grab state voter rolls . In the order dismissing the DOJ's lawsuit against Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar, Traum highlighted a concession buried in the Trump administration's own paperwork. She noted that it tied the voter-roll grab, which the administration called a push for "voter integrity," to Trump's deportation agenda. According to the ruling, a Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel opinion admitted the government was seeking states' "full, unredacted voter rolls to ensure that they 'are complying with Congress's demand to remove those who are ineligible to vote from their rolls - whether due to illegal presen