A Jim Crow-era civil rights law is central to the Trump Justice Department’s effort to ‘clean’ voter rolls
- Posted on January 14, 2026
- By CNN
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A Jim Crow-era civil rights law is central to the Trump Justice Department’s effort to ‘clean’ voter rolls
The Trump administration’s sweeping legal effort to obtain Americans’ sensitive data from states’ voter rolls is now almost entirely reliant upon a Jim Crow-era civil rights law passed to protect Black voters from disenfranchisement – a notable shift in how the administration is pressing its demands.
