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🧵The DOJ’s latest attack on voting rights could make it much easier to purge voters close to an election — and the Supreme Court might have the final say. Here's what you need to know👇

(2/8) BACKGROUND: A safeguard known as the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) bars states from carrying out systematic voter removals within 90 days of a federal election. This “quiet period” is meant to prevent eligible voters from being wrongly kicked off the rolls too close to Election Day.

(4/8) Voting rights advocates are concerned that the DOJ’s theory could let federal officials and anti-voting groups do the list-building work first, then pressure states to carry out the removals individually. The Supreme Court could take up the issue next term.

(5/8) SCOTUS could also take on another lawsuit where Republicans are attempting to litigate a loophole into the law by interpreting the NVRA’s quiet period as allowing noncitizens to be systematically removed during those 90 days.

(6/8) The Supreme Court previously considered a similar question in 2024. In a shadow docket order, the court’s six conservative justices reinstated an executive order that launched a voter roll purge in Virginia just as the quiet period began.