On her May 11, 2026 broadcast, Rachel Maddow said "the Justice Department has not secured a single court victory in the 30 lawsuits it has filed to try to force states to turn over sensitive personal data on voters." Court records and litigation trackers maintained by the Brennan Center for Justice and the University of Wisconsin Law School bear this out. As of the broadcast date, every court that had ruled on the substance of these cases had dismissed the Justice Department's suit: federal district courts threw out the cases against California, Oregon, Michigan, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Arizona [2][6][9]. The one case that ended differently, Oklahoma, was a negotiated settlement: the state agreed to provide its voter data and the Justice Department dropped its own lawsuit, with no court ordering the state to comply [5][7]. No court had ruled in the department's favor in any of these cases [1][2]. As for the number, the trackers count suits against 30 states plus Washington, D.C. [1][2], and a federal court order issued two weeks before the broadcast put the count at 30 [9], so the figure Maddow quoted matches the records available on the air date. Verdict: TRUE.