From the Department of Justice: Today, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced it has filed federal lawsuits against four states — Colorado, Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Nevada — for failure to produce their statewide voter registration lists upon request. This brings the Justice Department’s nationwide total to 18. The Civil Rights Division is also suing one locality — Fulton County, Georgia — for records related to the 2020 election.
“States have the statutory duty to preserve and protect their constituents from vote dilution,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “At this Department of Justice, we will not permit states to jeopardize the integrity and effectiveness of elections by refusing to abide by our federal elections laws. If states will not fulfill their duty to protect the integrity of the ballot, we will.”
According to the lawsuits, the Attorney General is uniquely charged by Congress with the enforcement of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) and the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), which were designed by Congress to ensure that states have proper and effective voter registration and voter list maintenance programs. The Attorney General also has the Civil Rights Act of 1960 (CRA) at her disposal to demand the production, inspection, and analysis of the statewide voter registration lists.
Dhillon announced in a post on X, “Happy Friday! @TheJusticeDept and @CivilRights Division just sued 4 additional states for not handing over their voter rolls—bringing our total to 18! If states refuse to fulfill their duty to maintain clean voter rolls, we will. Thanks to Texas & other cooperating states!”
🚨Happy Friday! @TheJusticeDept and @CivilRights Division just sued 4 additional states for not handing over their voter rolls—bringing our total to 18! If states refuse to fulfill their duty to maintain clean voter rolls, we will. Thanks to Texas & other cooperating states!…
— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) December 12, 2025
Nevada’s Review Journal posted a report titled, “DOJ sues Nevada for allegedly withholding voter registration information.”
“There’s no “allegedly” about it,” Dhillon retorted.
There’s no “allegedly” about it — DOJ sues Nevada for allegedly withholding voter registration information https://t.co/9kIXZjggS4 via @reviewjournal
— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) December 12, 2025
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