Sam Levine

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Voting rights reporter @guardianus. Formerly @huffpost. [email protected]. @samrlevine.bsky.social

New York, NY

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Sam Levine
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Nov 7, 2017
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LaVaughn Williams is a former felon who voted for the first time in Virginia today. Listen to her talk about the power of the ballot
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After running 18m voters through DHS database, TXidentified roughly 2700 people who could be non-citizens Officials investigated those 2700 and wound up referring just 117 of them to the AG. Nearly 600 people flagged as non-citizens were actually citizens (staggering 21% error)
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Sam Levine
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Sep 2
US prosecutors refuse to say if they secretly obtained Don Lemon’s phone records
US prosecutors refuse to say if they secretly obtained Don Lemon’s phone records
From theguardian.com
Sam Levine
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Sep 2
New: The government served an administrative customs summons on Verizon to try and get Don Lemon's phone records, but won't say if it obtained them
US prosecutors refuse to say if they secretly obtained Don Lemon’s phone records
From theguardian.com
Sam Levine
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Sep 1
Senator Ron Wyden and Rep. Pramila Jayapal today asked a government watchdog to investigate the use of these administrative summonses. Story: theguardian.com/us-news/2026/s…
Sam Levine
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Aug 29
Breaking news: The Trump administration secretly obtained 6 months of phone records for a journalist without a search warrant or any judicial oversight, raising alarm over an obscure legal tool it is deploying theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a…