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Judge Boasberg in DC just ordered the Trump admin to provide @CHIRLA with its list of 20,000 suspected noncitizen voters in CA so that CHIRLA can see if any of its members are on the list, as part of determining whether the group has standing to sue to block its use.

BUT... 1/

Boasberg ordered as much after repeatedly asking the DOJ attorney if the 20,000 list constituted the government's full and final list. (The idea, I think, being that if there are other forthcoming lists, standing could hinge on those as much as the present list.)

AND... 2/

The DOJ attorney said that to his "understanding," the 20,000 list was the substantive list that the Trump administration is working off of. That seemed to satisfy Boasberg, and thus the order to produce that list to CHIRLA to determine standing...

BUT... 3/

As @latimes has reported, the Trump admin in sworn affidavits in the separate California case has said other lists could and may well be forthcoming. A DHS official specifically teased a “separate batch” of some 17,000 potential noncitizen voters.

 

4/

@latimes That teased list didn't come up in Boasberg's court, though @CHIRLA's atty did argue the specter of new and ever-evolving lists is part of the harm to its members and part of their standing. TBD if the teased list arises before Boasberg moving forward. 5/5