Escalation: DOJ Appeals Losses Including Minnesota Case

The Justice Department filed new appeals from voter‑roll defeats in Colorado, Illinois, New Jersey and Washington, D.C., bringing its active appeals to 19 across nine federal circuits. The next day it also appealed its losses in Nevada and Minnesota, extending the fight into a tenth circuit. With those filings, the department has now appealed every district court loss except a West Virginia case awaiting final judgment.

In Minnesota, U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez had dismissed the suit seeking unredacted statewide voter rolls with sensitive data such as Social Security numbers and birth dates. She rejected the department’s reliance on the 1960 Civil Rights Act and said DOJ offered no evidence that Minnesota had failed its voter‑list duties under federal law. That ruling marked the department’s 23rd district court loss out of 31 lawsuits it has brought on this issue.

The Minnesota appeal moves that case to the Eighth Circuit after DOJ’s first completed appeal ended in defeat in Michigan. Department leaders are signaling they may ask the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the voter‑roll dispute.

AI-synthesized from multiple reported sources