Rob Bonta: “When President Trump tried to impose sweeping voting restrictions, like requiring documentary proof…”

“And that wasn't the first time we stepped up to push back against an unlawful Trump administration trying to undermine the fundamental right to vote, the right from which all of the rights flow. When President Trump tried to impose sweeping voting restrictions, like requiring documentary proof citizenship to register to vote, we sued and we won. When the Trump administration sued California for our voter rolls, a federal judge rejected the government's demand for what the court called an unprecedented amount of personal information it was seeking on nearly 23 million Californians.” (02:07–02:17)

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