The Justice Department suffered its 18th straight loss on Wednesday in its nationwide campaign to obtain unredacted state voter rolls, as a federal judge dismissed the Trump administration‘s lawsuit against New Jersey despite the state’s recent disclosure that thousands of noncitizens were illegally registered to vote. U.S. District Judge Zahid Quraishi, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, granted New Jersey’s motion to dismiss and denied the DOJ’s attempt to compel access to the state’s complete voter registration database, including voters’ driver’s license numbers and the last four digits of their Social Security numbers. Zahid Quraishi, nominated by U.S. President Joe Biden to be a U.S. District Judge for the District of New Jersey, is sworn in during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on pending judicial nominations, Wednesday, April 28, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool via AP)The ruling leaves the DOJ with a losing record in district court cases seeking such data, in addition to an earlier appellate loss. The department said it would appeal immediately following the ruling.