The intrusiveness is pretty obvious: President Donald J. Trump wants the state of South Carolina to surrender your private voter data to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). No, we’re talking about the all-new Trump DOJ — one overseen by the faintly comic but unmistakably menacing menagerie of podcasters and poltroons now at the highest levels of the formerly independent agency. Remember: Kash Patel, author of a 2023 book about using state power to punish Trump’s enemies, is now director of the FBI. But here’s what we do know:We know the DOJ data demand is unprecedented — but not why it’s necessary. We know the Trump administration has demanded data from all 50 states for what amounts to a national voter database — and a hacker’s dream.