Hi John, this is Dan Freeman, the DNC’s Litigation Director.
On Saturday, a federal immigration agent shot and killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. For the past three days, millions of Americans have watched eyewitness footage of the events and seen an American citizen assaulted by federal agents, driven to his knees, and then shot repeatedly. President Trump and his administration are trying to convince the public that Pretti posed a threat to agents’ safety.
Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse for the Veterans Administration. He was a helper and an everyday hero. The administration's repeated lies about his killing are at once horrifying and ludicrous.
In the aftermath of this tragedy, Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, tying the “chaos in Minnesota” to the state’s refusal to provide sensitive personal information about Minnesota voters to the federal government. The Justice Department is demanding driver’s license numbers, Social Security numbers, and voting history, as they collect information on every voter in the country.
John, let me be clear. Neither this request nor the end goal of creating a national voter database is legal, and the Democratic National Committee won’t stand for it.
We have already filed briefs in five states fighting back against unlawful demands for state voter rolls, with more to come this week. We’ve also sent letters warning ten Republican-led states negotiating agreements with the Department of Justice — to provide voter files and purge voters when the DOJ tells them to — that these actions would violate federal law. And earlier today, I appeared in federal court in Oregon, where a judge had ordered the Justice Department to explain the relevance of Attorney General Bondi’s letter to voter file requests around the country.
We had already defeated President Trump’s attempt to get California’s unredacted voter file in federal court, and today the federal court in Oregon handed President Trump another defeat by dismissing the voter file demand.
President Trump, Attorney General Bondi, Customs and Border Protection Commander-at-Large Greg Bovino, and other members of the administration are demanding compliance from American citizens, in the streets and in the polling booth.
Our response is simple: We’re not afraid of you, and we’ll see you in court.
Thank you for taking the time to read this email, and thank you for caring so deeply about our country.
Dan
Dan Freeman
Litigation Director
Democratic National Committee
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