A Jim Crow-era civil rights law is central to the Trump Justice Department’s effort to ‘clean’ voter rolls

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration’s sweeping legal effort to obtain Americans’ sensitive data from states’ voter rolls is now almost entirely reliant upon a Jim Crow-era civil rights law passed to protect Black voters from disenfranchisement – a notable shift in how the administration is pressing its demands. The Justice Department