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PORTLAND, Ore. — <\/span>A federal judge in Oregon dismissed a Justice Department lawsuit seeking Oregon’s unredacted voter rolls on Monday in another setback to wide-ranging efforts by President Donald Trump’s administration to get detailed voter data from states.<\/p>\n In a hearing, U.S. District Judge Mustafa Kasubhai said he would dismiss the suit and issue a final written opinion in the coming days. The updated docket for the case showed that Oregon’s move to dismiss the case was granted.<\/p>\n Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield welcomed the move. <\/p>\n \u201cThe court dismissed this case because the federal government never met the legal standard to get these records in the first place,\u201d he said in an emailed statement. “Oregonians deserve to know that voting laws can\u2019t be used as a backdoor to grab their personal information.\u201d<\/p>\n The Justice Department declined to comment.<\/p>\n Kasubhai scheduled the hearing after U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz dated Saturday, the same day federal immigration agents fatally shot 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti<\/a> in Minneapolis, which has seen widespread protests over increased immigration enforcement and the previous killing of Renee Good<\/a> by an immigration officer. <\/p>\n In her letter, Bondi asked the Democratic governor to support immigration officers and shared three \u201csimple steps\u201d to \u201chelp bring back law and order” \u2014 including by giving the Justice Department the ability to \u201caccess voter rolls to confirm that Minnesota’s voter registration practices comply with federal law.\u201d<\/p>\n Bondi also asked for the state’s records of its Medicaid and food assistance programs, and for the repeal of sanctuary policies that limit local officials from cooperating with federal immigration authorities. <\/p>\n The Justice Department has been seeking detailed voter data that includes names, dates of birth, residential addresses, driver\u2019s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers. Officials in many states have said turning over such information would violate both state and federal privacy laws.<\/p>\n The Justice Department has filed lawsuits against at least 23 states and the District of Columbia as part of its effort to collect such data. Last week a federal judge in Georgia dismissed such a suit<\/a> after ruling the federal government had sued in the wrong city, and earlier this month a federal judge in California dismissed a suit<\/a> there after finding the government\u2019s request was \u201cunprecedented and illegal.\u201d<\/p>\n