Mustafa T. Kasubhai
A radical Biden-appointed judge in Oregon has moved to block the Trump administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) from accessing critical voter registration data.
On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai, the first Muslim federal judge appointed to the Oregon bench by Joe Biden, issued a “tentative” ruling to dismiss the federal government’s lawsuit against Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read.
The DOJ is seeking unredacted voter rolls to ensure that non-citizens and illegal aliens are not polluting the state’s election system.
The Trump DOJ argued in court that Oregon’s voter registration numbers are statistically impossible. Federal attorneys pointed out that Oregon has reported nearly as many registered voters as its entire citizen-voting-age population, a staggering 95.3% registration rate.
DOJ attorney James Thomas Tucker told the court:
“If you see rabbit tracks, that doesn’t mean you’ve seen a rabbit. But if you follow the tracks, you’re likely to find a rabbit.”
Apparently, Judge Kasubhai isn’t interested in finding the “rabbit.” Despite the obvious red flags, Kasubhai claimed that the federal government lacks the “statutory authority” to demand unredacted data, hiding behind the excuse of “voter privacy.”
Oregon Live reported:
“U.S. District Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai said in court late Wednesday that his “tentative” decision is to entirely dismiss the federal government’s lawsuit seeking highly personal information about every Oregon voter. He acknowledged he could change his mind, but he said “I feel we have done justice” by keeping the most sensitive voter information private.
That would mark a big loss for the feds, who have demanded unredacted voter rolls from 40 states and sued more than 20 of them that have refused to fork over personal details about every voter. The 2025 Trump case against Oregon is the first to reach a federal judge’s deliberation and tentative decision.
After hours of legal arguments Wednesday, Kasubhai appeared to side with lawyers for the state of Oregon and labor union advocacy group Our Oregon that the Federal Privacy Act of 1974 precludes the U.S. government from collecting a massive data dump of information on its own citizens — and Trump officials don’t need the highly personal information about voters to see if Oregon is doing a “reasonable” job of maintaining its voter rolls, as another federal law requires.
The U.S. Department of Justice failed to set out a factual basis for why it suspects Oregon of not doing enough to accurately maintain its voter rolls, the judge said. Federal law requires states to do a “reasonable” job of removing people who have died or moved from its voter rolls, the judge acknowledged. But he agreed with lawyers for the state and its legal allies who asserted that there were other, better avenues for federal officials to detect if Oregon is failing to do that job than getting access to highly private data on voters.”
In related story, Federal District Judge David O. Carter, the same Clinton-appointed judge who previously made headlines by claiming President Trump “likely committed crimes,” issued a scathing order dismissing the DOJ’s lawsuit against California Secretary of State Shirley Weber and the State of California, effectively shielding the state’s voter rolls from federal scrutiny.
Judge Carter granted all of their motions to dismiss, ruling that the DOJ’s request violated the Civil Rights Act of 1960, the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), and the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). He went so far as to accuse the Executive Branch of trying to “usurp the authority over elections.”
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