Illinois election officials late Tuesday told President Donald Trump’s Justice Department the state would not comply with the federal agency’s demand for sensitive data on the state’s roughly 8.3 million registered voters.

David Becker, a former DOJ attorney in the voting section of the Civil Rights Division who now directs the nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation and Research, said during a media briefing Wednesday that the federal agency has only limited authority to enforce the list maintenance requirements of those laws.

When the U.S. Supreme Court goes back to work in October, one of its leading cases will be a challenge to Illinois election law filed by downstate Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Bost. Oral arguments, scheduled for Oct.

Bailey easily won the GOP primary in 2022, but went on to lose to Democratic incumbent Gov. JB Pritzker​ in the general election by 13 percentage points.

The deadline has passed for Illinois to turn over voter registration data to the Department of Justice, and the state Board of Elections has refused the request.

Ted Dabrowski announced his candidacy for governor of Illinois. Dabrowski is the president of a conservative activist organization called Wirepoints. He’s campaigning as the candidate who

Ted Dabrowski, the leader of a conservative research publication, officially announced Friday he will run for Illinois governor in the 2026 Republican primary.