The ruling is the ninth rejection by courts of the DOJ’s nationwide campaign to obtain states’ voter registration databases, including voters’ dates of birth, residential addresses, driver’s license numbers, and partial Social Security numbers.

On Wednesday, June 10, at 10 a.m., a federal court will hold the first hearing in United States of America v. Demarinis, a case centered on the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ)’s demand for the personal data of all registered Maryland voters.

In the letters sent by the ACLU, Kimberlee Williams also lays out the reforms needed to help ensure this never happens to someone else