Judge shreds Trump's 'voluminous and unreliable' plot to curb voting in California

A federal judge in San Francisco has blocked parts of a Department of Homeland Security campaign to question suspected noncitizen voters, finding it likely violates the Voting Rights Act by intimidating people who help others vote.U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín granted a preliminary injunction Wednesday to the California Nurses Association and National Nurses United. It covers California, Connecticut, Georgia, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Wisconsin.The court’s description of DHS’s “Unlawful Voter Initiative” is blunt. Agents work from target lists built from tens of millions of voter and commercial records, and the judge called the data “voluminous and unreliable.” DHS also runs the data through “unknown artificial intelligence tools.” During a “Surge,” agents had to complete at least 40 reviews and take “no more than twelve minutes” to clear each person. The judge found “a high likelihood of error,” and noted DHS’s own admission that errors will occur.She also...