"Derek Clinger, senior staff attorney with the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School, pointed to Carter’s comprehensive discussion of the 1960 Civil Rights Act (CRA), and the DOJ rarely-invoked demands under it for access to voter registration records. “That’ll be the most read part by the other courts,” Clinger said, noting that the agency failed to provide a written basis for the record demands — a reason for believing the states were acting unlawfully — as required by the CRA."