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On December 18, 2025, DOJ sued Georgia, seeking the release of the state's unredacted voter file, which includes voters' full names, dates of birth, residential addresses, driver's license numbers, and the last four digits of voters' Social Security numbers. DOJ claims—without merit—that this disclosure is compelled by the Civil Rights Act of 1960, a law passed to ensure Black voters in the Jim Crow South were able to register to vote.

DOJ's lawsuit is one of twenty-five such cases that it has brought recently against states, as part of its efforts to create a national voter database without congressional authorization. Less than a week after DOJ filed its suit in Macon, Georgia, we filed a motion to intervene and an accompanying motion to dismiss on behalf of Common Cause, its members, and a registered Georgia voter who is a naturalized citizen. The court dismissed the DOJ's suit because the DOJ had brought it in the wrong federal district court, adopting a position we urged in our intervention papers. On January 23, 2026, the DOJ re-filed its suit in Atlanta, and we moved to intervene and to dismiss again. On January 30, the court granted intervention. The intervenors are represented by the ACLU Voting Rights Project, the ACLU of Georgia, and the Southern Poverty Law Center.