跟进：司法部请求暂缓执行选民名册裁定：称被撤销的「政策」并不存在 裁定已束缚选举执法
华盛顿——据News Beep对法庭文件的报道，美国司法部10月16日（周五）晚向联邦法院递交动议，请求在上诉期间暂缓执行一项裁定——该裁定一周前撤销了司法部向各州索取完整选民名册并与联邦数据库比对的做法。
10月9日，哥伦比亚特区联邦地区法官斯帕克尔·L·苏克纳南在「共同事业诉司法部案」（Common Cause v. U.S. Department of Justice，案号26-cv-1352）中作出长达78页的裁决，撤销司法部被法院称为「选民名册维护政策」的做法。裁决认定，司法部援引的《1960年民权法》《1993年全国选民登记法》和《2002年帮助美国投票法》均未授权此类计划，该做法同时违反《隐私法》和《文书削减法》；法院还指出，司法部用于核查公民身份的国土安全部SAVE数据库中的公民身份数据可能已经过时，归化公民可能被错误标记。苏克纳南写道：「司法部不能践踏那些为保护美国人民权利而精心制定的悠久法律。」
据裁决书，自2025年5月起，司法部民权司向49个州和哥伦比亚特区发出信函，要求提供未经删节的完整选民名册，包括选民姓名、出生日期、住址以及驾驶执照号码或社会安全号码后四位；至少18个州交出了数据。司法部将名册与其他联邦机构共享、用SAVE数据库比对，并敦促各州移除被标记的选民。对拒绝提供数据的30个州及哥伦比亚特区，司法部提起诉讼，目前已输掉其中26起、无一胜诉。
在周五的动议中，司法部写道：「司法部与司法部长布兰奇恭敬地请求暂缓执行本院撤销所谓『选民名册维护政策』的命令。该政策并不存在。本院的裁决已束缚司法部执行国会授权其执行的选举法律的能力。」动议还主张，司法部的信函并非可受司法审查的「最终机构行为」，因为各州在法律上并无必须遵从的义务：「各州可以选择是否提供所要求的信息；许多州提供了，许多州没有……（信函）是请求各州『请』提供信息，并没有『要求任何人做任何事』。」地区法院此前则认定，由于信函带有法律后果的威胁，这些要求具有强制性。
本案原告为选举权利组织「共同事业」与四名选民。该裁定为可上诉的终局命令；11月3日中期选举临近。（GSM 据法庭文件报道）
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DOJ Asks Court to Stay Voter-Roll Ruling Pending Appeal, Saying the Vacated "Policy" Does Not Exist
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday night asked a federal court to stay, pending appeal, a ruling that last week vacated its practice of collecting complete state voter rolls and comparing them against federal databases to identify alleged noncitizen registrants, according to News Beep's report on the court filing.
On October 9, U.S. District Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan of the District of Columbia issued a 78-page opinion in Common Cause v. U.S. Department of Justice, No. 26-cv-1352, vacating what the court record calls the DOJ "Voter List Maintenance Policy." The court held that none of the statutes the department cited — the Civil Rights Act of 1960, the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and the Help America Vote Act of 2002 — authorizes such a program, and that the department also violated the Privacy Act and the Paperwork Reduction Act. The court found that citizenship data in the Department of Homeland Security's SAVE database, which DOJ used to screen the rolls, can be outdated, so naturalized citizens may be wrongly flagged. "DOJ cannot run roughshod over longstanding laws that were carefully crafted to protect the rights of the American people," Sooknanan wrote.
According to the opinion, the department's Civil Rights Division began in May 2025 sending letters to 49 states and the District of Columbia demanding complete, unredacted voter files, including full names, dates of birth, home addresses and driver's license numbers or the last four digits of Social Security numbers. At least 18 states handed over their files. The department shared the lists with other federal agencies, ran them against SAVE and pressed states to remove flagged voters. It sued the 30 states and the District of Columbia that refused to provide the data, and has so far lost 26 of those cases and won none.
"The Department of Justice and Attorney General Blanche respectfully move for a stay pending appeal of this Court's order vacating the alleged 'DOJ Voter List Maintenance Policy,'" Friday's filing reads. "There is no such policy. By concluding otherwise, the Court's decision has hamstrung DOJ's ability to enforce the election laws that Congress has empowered it to enforce." The department also argued that its requests were not reviewable "final agency actions" because states were not legally mandated to comply: "States had the option to provide the requested information; many did, many did not," and the letters, framed as requests for states to "please" provide information, did not "require anyone to do anything." The district court had found the requests mandatory because of the threats of legal consequences in the letters.
The plaintiffs are the voting-rights group Common Cause and four individual voters. The ruling is an appealable final order, issued weeks before the November 3 midterm elections. (GSM, from court filings)
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来源：GSM·美国（原文链接）
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