A federal judge in Maryland blocked the Justice Department's lawsuit demanding access to the state's voter registration files, marking the DOJ's ninth consecutive loss in voter data litigation under the Trump administration. The department has filed 31 such cases across states and has yet to win any of them, dealing a major setback to the administration's efforts to obtain sensitive voter information from state election officials. The ruling protects voters from what state officials characterized as a 'fishing expedition' for personal data made possible by unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud.