It's virtually impossible to convey just how deviant and inappropriate it is for the DOJ Civil Rights Division to file a brief such as this, most of which is on a pure question of state statutory law. /1
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To do so now, in order to help stymie a state's efforts to stop the spread of a deadly contagion, is as brazen as anything I've seen since DOJ argued that the 2017 Congress & President Trump enacted a mandate to purchase health insurance. /2
I suppose that in the absence of all that citizenship information, they can't enforce the Voting Rights Act, and therefore they must have been sittin' around looking for something, anything, to do, when finally some visionary piped up: ... /3
"Hey, have you guys heard about how the Illinois Governor is construing section 3305/2(a)(2) of title 20 of the Illinois Compiled Statues? We'd better get right on that, stat!" /4
