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A sign posted on Aug. 18, 2024, outside of the Alaska Division of Elections office in Midtown Anchorage directs voters to the polling place inside. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)
In May 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice began sending letters to state governments demanding copies of statewide voter registration lists. The request was unprecedented: It demanded not only publicly available voter data, such as names and addresses, but also sensitive information, including driver’s license and Social Security numbers.
That data is considered highly sensitive because it can be used to commit identity theft, access financial or government records, and facilitate targeted harassment or intimidation, particularly if the data were mishandled or leaked.
Underlying these requests is the Trump administration’s stated goal of rooting out fraudulent and illegal voting. With voter data in its hands, the DOJ seeks to identify ineligible voters and mandate state election officials to remove those voters from the rolls.
States have responded in a variety of ways. Some have fully complied with the requests, some partially complied, and many outright refused to provide any voter information. For the latter states, the Trump administration has taken the fight to court and sued to get the information, claiming that federal law requires the states to hand it over.
The majority of cases are still going through the courts.
I’m an election law scholar who focuses on election administration. This battle over voter data has raised numerous questions about the Trump administration’s motives, the legality of its actions and, more generally, the role of the federal government in election administration.
The DOJ has a tough road ahead in convincing election officials and judges across the country that all of its demands in these cases are constitutionally legitimate.
Federal power grab
States have exclusive authority to govern and administer state and local elections. The federal government, on the other hand, historically has played a much more limited role in election regulation and administration. By constitutional design, Congress may regulate only the “time, place, and manner” of federal elections – in other words, the procedural elements of elections for federal offices.
And even then, states hold concurrent authority to regulate federal elections.
Nevertheless, in his second administration President Donald Trump has sought to expand the federal government’s control over elections. In February 2026 he called on Congress to “nationalize” elections. He has also made an administration priority the passage of the SAVE America Act, a bill that would mandate states to turn away any voter without documentary proof of U.S. citizenship.
Trump’s initiatives apparently stem from conspiratorial allegations that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against him, resulting in fraudulent and illegal voting that gave Joe Biden the presidency. And they are ultimately what animates the DOJ’s crusade for voter information from the states, with Attorney General Pam Bondi having recently stated that “accurate, well-maintained voter rolls are a requisite for the election integrity that the American people deserve.”
So far, the DOJ has sent requests to at least 48 states and the District of Columbia demanding their complete voter registration lists – information on every individual registered to vote in the given state.
In doing so, the DOJ has asked the states to sign onto an agreement under which they agree to remove within 45 days any voters that the DOJ flags as ineligible. But by signing this agreement, a state is effectively handing over the administration of its voter rolls to the federal government.
DOJ’s legal arguments
Only 12 states – Alaska, Arkansas, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and Wyoming – have fully complied with the requests, handing over to the DOJ private information such as the driver’s license and Social Security numbers of their registered voters.
Five states, meanwhile, have provided publicly available voter information – name, address and party affiliation – to the DOJ while withholding more sensitive information. The remaining 31 states of the 48 to receive requests, along with the District of Columbia, have refused to give any voter list to the federal agency.
The DOJ has sued 29 states for refusing to hand over voter lists and has also sued the District of Columbia, sparing only Iowa, Alabama and South Carolina. Only one sued state – Oklahoma – has thus far capitulated to the DOJ.
In these lawsuits, the DOJ cites three legal sources that supposedly give the agency the right to request voter information from state officials.
First, the DOJ points to a provision of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 that requires states to “make available for public inspection” all records necessary to ensure the accuracy of their voter registration lists. As critics note, though, this provision does not require states to reveal sensitive voter information. All 50 states are, in fact, currently in compliance with the act’s mandate.
Second, the DOJ invokes the Help America Vote Act of 2002 and its requirement that all states must maintain a computerized, statewide voter registration list. Nevertheless, no provision in that law provides explicit authority to the federal government to request these registration lists from state officials.
Finally, the DOJ has argued that the states have an obligation under the Civil Rights Act of 1960 to comply with the agency’s demands. Specifically, Title III of the act permits the U.S. attorney general to request for inspection “all records and papers” kept by state election officials relating to “any application, registration, payment of poll tax, or other act requisite to voting.”
While perhaps the strongest of the three arguments, that title of the Civil Rights Act goes on to require the attorney general to offer a “statement of the basis and the purpose” of their request.
In the DOJ’s requests to states, Bondi has apparently provided zero justification as to why the states must hand over sensitive voter information to the DOJ. Indeed, any stated purposes appear unrelated to the Civil Rights Act’s aims of combating racial discrimination.
What’s possible
There are further legal questions regarding whether the states could even comply with the DOJ’s proposed 45-day deadline for removing declared ineligible voters.
For example, the National Voter Registration Act forbids states from removing people from the voter rolls in certain instances without first providing notice and waiting two federal election cycles – a timeline well beyond 45 days.
In the 29 targeted states, federal courts have thus far dismissed four lawsuits in California, Georgia, Michigan and Oregon. Oklahoma, as noted above, has settled its case with the DOJ. While the remaining lawsuits have yet to fully play out, the DOJ likely faces less-than-sympathetic judges in these cases.
Even if the DOJ loses in court, though, the federal government may continue attempting to receive states’ voter information through other means.
The SAVE America Act, for instance, currently under consideration in the U.S. Senate, contains a provision that incentivizes states to submit their voter registration lists to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on a quarterly basis or otherwise subject their residents to stringent voter ID laws. Should Congress pass the act, the executive branch would have much clearer federal authority to force voter data from state election officials.
John J. Martin, Assistant Professor of Law, Quinnipiac University
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Would this be a good time to remind everyone that Toronto started last season 16-20 and still came two outs away from winning the World Series? Among the many early surprises this season? The Blue Jays just got swept by the White Sox, the Red Sox have the worst record in MLB, the Marlins are in first place, the Cubs are in last place, the Mariners are under .500 and the Yankees are the only team .500 or better in the AL East. Surely, this is mostly just the result of early-season small samples. But for this week’s edition of power rankings, we’ll look at more of the surprises around the league. We’re more than a week into the season, and the Rockies’ have the second-best run differential in the NL West…at minus-four. We knew the pitching would be bad, and, boy, has it been. The real surprise in Washington is the offense, which ranks third in MLB in scoring while getting a big boost from Joey Wiemer (10-for-21, 2 HR), who was acquired off waivers this offseason. Miguel Vargas was always expected to hit at the highest level when he was a Dodgers prospect, and it might finally be coming together for him. He ranks in the top 30 among qualified MLB hitters in OPS, and the White Sox are 3-0 at home for the first time since 2004. The Twins don’t have a single player hitting above .225. As a team, they have the worst batting average in baseball at .192. On the positive side, Taj Bradley has a 0.87 ERA through two starts. It’s not surprising that the A’s have the third-worst ERA in MLB; it is surprising that their high-powered offense ranks 17th in OPS…especially while Shea Langeliers is tied for the MLB lead in home runs with five. Jo Adell, who was tied with Nick Castellanos and Juan Soto for last among all qualified outfield defenders in outs above average last season, is saving games with his glove. What a display Adell put on Saturday to save a win against the Mariners. He assisted a pitching staff that ranks seventh in MLB in ERA. The Giants are one of only eight teams who have already played 10 games, and they’re still tied for the fewest runs scored in MLB with the lowest OPS in MLB (.561). They’re averaging 2.6 runs per game; their fewest in a full season since moving to San Francisco is 3.4 runs per game. They’re a top-10 team in runs scored, slugging and OPS, but their relievers have the worst ERA in MLB (7.96). Cardinals pitchers have a strikeout rate of 14.9%, which would be the lowest of any team in a full season since the 2009 Nationals (14.3%) and Orioles (14.7%). The could, however, be the Jordan Walker breakout year. The Diamondbacks have the third-worst on-base percentage in MLB. Among qualified hitters on the team, Corbin Carroll is the only one hitting above league average. The Red Sox offense has scored the fewest runs (30) in the American League, Caleb Durbin and Trevor Story each rank in the bottom three among all qualified MLB hitters in wRC+, and after trading for Sonny Gray and signing Ranger Suarez for $130 million, Boston starters currently have the fourth-highest ERA in MLB (5.19). Combine it all, and the Red Sox have lost seven of their last eight games. Xavier Edwards is tied for the MLB lead in hits (16), Liam Hicks is tied for the MLB lead in RBI (12), and the Marlins’ offense ranks fourth in MLB in OPS (.793) and fifth in runs per game (5.44). Last year, Bobby Witt Jr. never went more than six games without an extra-base hit. The Royals are nine games into their season and still haven’t gotten one from their superstar shortstop yet. Meanwhile, Vinnie Pasquantino only has one. The best pitcher in the rotation has been Randy Vásquez, who has allowed just one run in 12 innings over his first two starts. The Orioles have hit the third-fewest home runs in MLB and dropped five of six games to the Rangers and Pirates. Joc Pederson is 1-for-17 to start the year and has the same OPS as Wyatt Langford (.425). The two worst ERAs in the rotation belong to Nathan Eovaldi (11.42) and Jacob deGrom (5.79), but Jack Leiter and MacKenzie Gore each rank in the top 10 in MLB in strikeouts. The Cubs have the fewest hits in the National League and rank 25th in slugging percentage, despite four home runs already from Ian Happ. While the offense is trying to get going, last year’s Rookie of the Year runner-up Cade Horton just left his last start with forearm discomfort. It’s not a surprise to see the top pitching duo of Tarik Skubal and Framber Valdez thriving; it is a surprise that the team’s two OPS leaders are Colt Keith and Dillon Dingler. The Reds are on the upswing after sweeping the Rangers despite an offense that ranks last in MLB in OPS with runners in scoring position and is tied for last in runs scored. It says a lot about what young starters Chase Burns (0.82 ERA) and Rhett Lowder (1.64) have done. The Pirates have won five straight games despite Paul Skenes sporting a 9.53 ERA. Their offense, which ranked last in OPS last season, ranks seventh this year and now has top prospect Konnor Griffin lifting the vibes. Top prospect Chase DeLauter is tied for the MLB lead in home runs — and has more than half of the team’s homers. His product has been vital with Kyle Manzardo starting the year 2-for-30, José Ramírez hitting .154 and Steven Kwan hitting .216 to start the year. The Blue Jays’ offense ranks 23rd in runs scored, most of their rotation is sidelined and their relievers are 1-for-6 in save opportunities. Add all that up, and they stunningly just lost five out of six games to the Rockies and White Sox before getting ready to host the Dodgers in a World Series rematch. Julio Rodriguez is 6-for-39 with 13 strikeouts and no extra-base hits. It has been just as bad for Cal Raleigh, who’s 5-for-38 with 20 strikeouts. As a team, the Mariners have the second-most strikeouts in MLB and are one of three teams hitting under .200. The Phillies rank 16th in starters’ ERA and 20th in relievers’ ERA, and offensively they’re outside the top 10 in OPS. But Zack Wheeler’s return is on the horizon later this month, and Adolis García seems to be doing better with the change of scenery. His .835 OPS is the second-highest mark on the team. MLB’s OPS leaders? That would be the Houston Astros, who also rank first in hits and runs scored by a wide margin. What a difference a healthy Yordan Alvarez makes. Spencer Schwellenbach, Spencer Strider and Hurston Waldrep are all on the injured list, and yet the Braves have the lowest ERA in MLB (1.82). They’re first in relievers’ ERA (1.08) and second in starters’ ERA (2.26). Bryce Elder still hasn’t allowed a run after two starts. The team leader in OPS? That would be Mark Vientos, who slashed .233/.289/.413 last year. Most of the fresh faces on the offensive side have yet to get going — Bo Bichette (.473 OPS) did, however, show positive signs in San Francisco — but new relievers Devin Williams and Luke Weaver have yet to allow a run, and Tobias Myers has looked like a multi-inning weapon. Here we go again. The Brewers traded away Freddy Peralta, Caleb Durbin and Isaac Collins, and yet their offense ranks third in MLB in OPS and their pitching staff ranks eighth in ERA. Former Giants prospect Kyle Harrison appears to be the latest pitcher to find his optimized form in Milwaukee. With Gerrit Cole and Carlos Rodón still on the shelf, the Yankees’ rotation is 5-0 with an MLB-best 1.81 ERA. Cam Schlittler has 15 strikeouts and no walks through two scoreless starts and already looks like one of the most dominant arms in the game, building off last year’s rookie success. The Dodgers added Kyle Tucker to a lineup that included Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts and Will Smith. But the best hitter on the team so far? That would be Andy Pages, who has bounced back from a forgettable postseason by starting 16-for-34 with three home runs.Latest Sports News from FOX Sports
Rockingham Speedway (Rockingham, N.C.) — Cleetus McFarland had finished his O’Reilly Series debut and had something to say. “All this internet talk got me thinking, maybe I shouldn’t come back,” McFarland told me and other reporters as he stood outside his car with a big smile. “Psyche. See you guys in two weeks. Talladega.” There was a reason for the YouTube content creator to smile. He had done what was asked of him, as he completed 244 of the 250 laps. But most importantly, he didn’t ruin anyone’s day Saturday at Rockingham. He did have four spins — a couple of true spins and a couple of others where he just got sideways. He also avoided a spinning car. The 31-year-old McFarland likely did what he needed to do to be approved for Talladega, although NASCAR could require him to go from the 0.94-mile Rockingham to the 1.5-mile oval at Kansas before doing the high-banked 2.66-mile O’Reilly race at Talladega. He does have experience at Talladega, though, in an ARCA car. It has been an eventful couple of months for McFarland, who bought a racetrack (DeSoto Speedway) six years ago in Florida to produce content for his YouTube channel. He does some drag races and also produces content with a fleet of Crown Vics that he owns. With now 4.67 million subscribers, he reaches an audience that NASCAR desperately wants. McFarland has caught the NASCAR bug and ran a few ARCA events last year. He was able to race a truck in February at Daytona, which lasted a handful of laps before he crashed on his own. Embarrassed and frustrated, he didn’t know where his NASCAR journey would take him. But Richard Childress Racing reached out, with Ty Dillon — a grandson of Childress who races Cup for Kaulig Racing — being the one who felt RCR could give McFarland the support he needs. So they worked up a plan to get him to race Talladega, and the first step was Rockingham, a shorter but fast track just short of a mile in length. McFarland was able to test there a few weeks ago because all rookies get one test. “When I got this opportunity from RCR, I knew I was going in over my head — just like all these people who are scrutinizing me think,” McFarland told me and other reporters on a virtual news conference four days before the race. “But I’m not going to shy away from a great opportunity such as racing for Richard Childress Racing.” [NASCAR POWER RANKINGS: Chase Elliott Makes Move After Big Win] McFarland finished 32nd in his debut, one spot better than where he started. And he admitted he was over his head. “Oh yeah,” he said afterward. “I had a ton of confidence. Then I spun out. Then about 50 laps into the race, … I got my confidence back and I’m feeling good. “And then that carried on for a while. When I spun out on my own and killed my tires, and then had to go back on my first set of tires, I went out, and I’m thinking to myself, ‘All right, I cannot do anything stupid again.’ … I am way in over my head, but I knew we just had to get to the end, and that’s what we did.” For McFarland, it was all about learning. So being at the rear of the field after a spin or after he sped on pit road, it was all a learning experience. He just didn’t want to ruin anyone’s day, and he did not. “I did avoid one crash, and that’s probably because my sleeves were cut off,” he quipped in referring to his signature fashion style. McFarland’s profession is social media, so he had heard all that was said about how he shouldn’t have been approved to race in O’Reilly (formerly Xfinity) until he had more truck events. “Closer to Daytona, when I had the big screwup in the truck, I was feeling a little down on myself,” McFarland said. “At this point, the record is so broken of people still talking about it, I don’t care as much. “At the end of the day, all these guys can say whatever they want about me. But if Richard Childress called them and said, ‘Hey, you want to come drive our car?’ All of them would have taken that opportunity, too.” The veterans in the series recognize that. “I don’t envy that position at all,” said Justin Allgaier, the 2024 O’Reilly Series champion who leads the 2026 standings. “I know that today had to be really tough on him, and especially with kind of some of the social media stuff that he’s had going against him in the last few weeks. “So I was proud of him putting the effort in and trying to make sure that he was where he needed to be out to go and have a solid day.” Would Allgaier draft with him at Talladega later this month? “I can’t answer that, because I think there’s a couple that we race with weekly that I don’t know that I want to draft with at Talladega,” Allgaier said. Allgaier noted that McFarland did a good job in the earlier race Saturday when he finished fourth in the ARCA East event. At that level (think of it like rookie-league baseball and O’Reilly as AAA), he can be competitive. And he’s learning how much work it takes to be competitive at the higher levels. NASCAR keeps its approval process somewhat subjective because drivers have a variety of experiences. Or in McFarland’s case, not much traditional racing experience. Some will view his presence as awesome because of the notoriety – few drivers get the cheers he does when they get out of the car. And some view his presence with disdain because he hasn’t followed the traditional path of learning in either the sprint-car or late model ranks. “If NASCAR is letting me do it, I’m in,” McFarland said. “I’m here. And no one can save me but myself at this point. … It’s up to me. “They can complain as much as they’d like, but it’s happening, and so they better buckle up.” To Waive Or Not NASCAR has a decision to make this week on whether to grant Kaulig Racing driver Corey LaJoie a waiver to make him eligible for the playoffs. LaJoie replaced the suspended-then-reinstated-then-resigned Daniel Dye in the Kaulig No. 10 truck. LaJoie, who had attempted to make the Daytona 500, had been registered as a Cup driver. A driver can change his primary series once during a year, but then his points get reset to zero in both his previous and new series. With only 11 races left in the regular season, it would be hard for LaJoie to make it into the top-10 in points to make the Chase. He is 84 points out of 10th. It would take at least a few wins, and the Kaulig equipment with the new Ram entries likely isn’t up to that level. But it still will set a precedent on whether NASCAR will grant a waiver — the rules remain that a driver must attempt to start every race to be Chase eligible — in a situation where a team and driver part ways. NASCAR granted one to Matt Kenseth after Kyle Larson’s suspension in 2020, but Larson was still under suspension when Kenseth was named the driver. In this situation, Dye has been reinstated after completing the sensitivity training that was required after his comments mocking gay men on a livestream. One area where NASCAR won’t grant a waiver is clear. Corey Heim, the defending truck series champion, leads the standings despite missing two races. NASCAR will not grant a waiver for a driver who doesn’t have sponsorship or a ride. It doesn’t want to encourage teams or drivers to take weekends off to focus on certain events. While that is much less likely in this new points system, where a win no longer gets a driver an automatic bid into the postseason, it’s still a possibility. In The News — Casey Mears will try to get to 500 career Cup starts by attempting to qualify for five races with Beard Motorsports: Both Talladega races, Indianapolis, Daytona and Homestead. — Carson Ferguson, who finished second in the RAM “Race for the Seat” driver tryout show/competition, will be in the Kaulig No. 25 truck this weekend at Bristol. He also will still do Martinsville later this year as planned. Under The Radar Rajah Caruth picked up his best finish in the O’Reilly Series as he placed fourth at Rockingham this weekend. Stat Of Note This is the first season in which Richard Childress Racing does not have a top-10 finish in the first seven Cup races. They Said It “It means everything.” — William Sawalich after his first career O’Reilly Series win. In Inside The Garage, Bob Pockrass takes us behind the scenes of the motorsports world the way only he can.Latest Sports News from FOX Sports
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It’s been a rough few weeks for Kendra Duggar.
First, her husband, Joseph Duggar, got arrested on child molestation charges.
Then, Kendra got arrested on child endangerment charges after cops searched her home and determined that she and Joseph had been locking their kids inside their bedrooms.
And now, her long-simmering feud against her own parents has exploded in epic fashion.
The first sign of trouble came during one of Joe’s phone calls to Kendra during the period of time when he was still behind bars, but she had been released on bail.
(These days, they’re both out on bail — after Jim Bob Duggar shelled out $600,000 to spring Joe.)
All of the calls were recorded, and in one of them, Joe and Kendra laughed about the necessity of evicting her parents.
Turns out they weren’t joking. Kendra’s folks, Paul and Christina Caldwell, are living in a house owned by their daughter and son-in-law. But not for much longer.
As The Ashley’s Reality Roundup first reported, Paul and Christina set up a GoFundMe page last week, explaining that they were “facing a difficult and urgent situation.”
“My family is facing a difficult and urgent situation,” he wrote on the page (which has since been deleted).
“We are in need of support to cover legal fees and secure safe housing. This has been an incredibly stressful time, and we are doing everything we can to protect ourselves and move forward,” he continued, adding:
“The funds raised will go directly toward legal representation to help us navigate the challenges ahead, as well as finding a safe place to live,” he continued. “Both are essential for our well-being and peace of mind.”
The situation has taken many fans by surprise, as Kendra used to be quite close with her parents.
Paul was even the Duggars’ pastor for a while, and you know how seriously the Duggars take their religion.
But about a year ago the Duggars and the Caldwells began to feud for reasons that are not entirely clear.
Paul didn’t get into all of that in his GoFundMe, but he noted that he and Kendra are raising money because they are “in need of support to cover legal fees and [to] secure safe housing.”
“Thank you all so much for your care, concern, and prayers during this difficult time,” he wrote, adding:
“We have set up this GoFundMe to help cover the unknown expenses of legal fees and housing. Anything you can do is a help—even if it’s just prayer. Your support means the world to us as we work to rebuild and find safety.”
Needless to say, there’s a lot of drama in the Duggar family these days. And things will only get more tense as Joe and Kendra prepare for their respective trials.
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North Carolina is hiring a coach with an NBA background to be its next men’s basketball head coach. However, it isn’t the NBA coach that many had speculated could become the next head man of the Tar Heels. Former Denver Nuggets head coach Michael Malone is expected to be hired as UNC’s next head coach, ESPN reported Monday. Malone, who helped coach the Nuggets to an NBA title in 2023, has never been a head coach at the college level, and hasn’t coached in the college game since 2001. Malone’s reported hire is a bit of a surprise. He wasn’t even speculated by most insiders as a potential candidate for the job, and there hadn’t been any credible reports indicating that UNC was interested in hiring him. Chicago Bulls head coach Billy Donovan had been rumored as the top candidate for the job after Michigan’s Dusty May and Arizona’s Tommy Lloyd reportedly withdrew their names from consideration. Malone does have a connection to UNC’s athletic department, though. His daughter, Bridget, plays for the university’s women’s volleyball team. The reported hiring of Malone came nearly two weeks after UNC opted to fire head coach Hubert Davis after five seasons. Davis, who also played college basketball at UNC, went 125-54 over his tenure with the program, helping the Tar Heels play in the national championship game in his first season at the helm. But UNC opted to fire Davis after it blew a large lead to VCU in its upset loss in the first round of this year’s NCAA Tournament. It marked the second straight year that UNC failed to advance past the first round. Malone, 54, was widely regarded as one of the top head coaches in the NBA over his 10-year stint with the Nuggets. He’s gone 510-394 in his NBA head coaching career, helping Denver become a playoff mainstay by the end of his tenure before he was abruptly fired just days before the start of the 2025 NBA Playoffs. Malone was also previously the head coach of the Sacramento Kings, but was fired not long into his second season with the team in 2014. Prior to becoming an NBA assistant head coach in 2001, Malone was an assistant coach at Oakland, Providence and Manhattan.Latest Sports News from FOX Sports