A judge sets a Friday deadline for DHS's door-to-door voter checks
Nicole Sganga's report for CBS Mornings covers agents in at least nine states, a lawyer's objections and the agency's defense of its citizenship inquiries.
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DHS knocks on doors over citizenship, voting
Agents from Homeland Security Investigations have been knocking on doors in at least nine states to ask people about their citizenship and their voting status. A federal judge has now ordered the Trump administration to stop, and Norah O'Donnell opens the CBS Mornings segment with that ruling.
Nicole Sganga, the network's homeland security correspondent, picks up the story from there. The agents have done more than make the visits: they have posted videos of their operations on social media. An on-screen map lists the states named in the crackdown: Washington, California, Nevada, Missouri, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut and Georgia. The judge's order gave the administration until Friday to halt it.
Hayden Johnson, a lawyer with Protect Democracy, argues that the program breaks with how such cases have long been handled. "It is violating decades of practice and policy," he says, and he adds that the lists used to pick targets are flawed. A graphic then puts the issue in proportion: 156 people charged with voter-fraud-related offenses during the current term, out of roughly 227 million registered voters.
Sganga also asks whether voter intimidation is mixed into these operations. The person she interviews by video call answers with a question of their own, asking how a visit like that could fail to affect someone's psyche.
The agency gets its say at the end. DHS told CBS that it is "laser focused on prosecuting and removing people who voted illegally," Sganga reports, and it has 48 hours to appeal the ruling.
For a segment of a little over two minutes, the reaction has been unusually large. The comment section filled more than fifty times faster than on a typical CBS Mornings Short. Its discussion follows the same split as the report itself: one side treats the checks as a guard against illegal voting, the other as pressure on voters.
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Which constitutional amendment lowered the U.S. voting age to 18?
The 26th Amendment, ratified in 1971, set the minimum voting age at 18 for federal and state elections.