One of the obstacles to free and fair elections that RedState has covered over and over is some states' mismanagement and/or indifference when it comes to the voter rolls. A state where this glaring problem has surfaced in recent months is South Carolina. As we previously wrote, these practices are on the road to extinction in the wake of President Trump's election in November 2024 through the yeoman's work of Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, Harmeet Dhillon and her colleagues in the Justice Department.
On Thursday, the South Carolina Supreme Court made a ruling that should hearten anyone who's been demanding and working toward election reform. The ruling reverses a judge's previous order that blocked the Trump administration from access to SC's voter rolls. AAG Dhillon celebrated the news on her official X account in a post:
🚨 BIG WIN—SC Supreme Court reverses judge's ruling denying @TheJusticeDept’s @CivilRights access to voter rolls. Clean voter rolls for the win! pic.twitter.com/fdlhJZyaEA
— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) September 11, 2025
"BIG WIN—SC Supreme Court reverses judge's ruling denying @TheJusticeDept’s @CivilRightsaccess to voter rolls," she wrote. "Clean voter rolls for the win!" (You can read the full decision here.)
Here's more on the court's decision:
The S.C. Supreme Court has lifted the restraining order that blocked the state from turning over sensitive voter information of 3.3 million South Carolina voters to the federal government but the legal challenge will continue.
The Sept. 11 ruling said Circuit Court Diane Goodstein erred in her decision last week to temporarily block a request from the Department of Justice for a trove of data including voters’ addresses, drivers license numbers and partial Social Security information while it weighed the merits of a lawsuit challenging the request.
Later in the afternoon, on her personal account, Dhillon reconfirmed a promise to the American people, writing in the post: "NO ONE is going to interfere with @CivilRights @TheJusticeDept efforts to enforce the federal voting laws — we are ON IT! Thank you to South Carolina’s governor for stepping up to help!"
As usual, this isn't the end of the moving parts on the voting rolls case. In its ruling, the court indicated that it expects to issue a decision on one of two options: either it will take the case on an expedited timeline, or it will let the case proceed through the lower courts. We'll know either way in 10 days.
This is a developing story. RedState will provide further details as warranted.
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