The Biden-Harris Justice Department is suing Alabama for removing more than 3,000 noncitizens from voter rolls just weeks after a coalition of left-leaning groups—including the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center—filed a similar lawsuit.

Alabama is far from a battleground state, but the Justice Department’s move could have national consequences by setting a legal precedent for whether and how other states may remove those who aren’t U.S. citizens from voter registration lists.

Neither the organizations in the private lawsuit against Alabama nor the Justice Department replied to inquiries Monday from The Daily Signal on whether the two separate lawsuits were coordinated or whether communication occurred between the agency and the private organizations about them.

In March 2021, President Joe Biden signed an executive order directing every federal agency, including the Justice Department, to cooperate with private nonprofit organizations to increase voter participation and registration. The Justice Department has invoked presidential privilege to prevent the public from seeing its strategic plan for implementing Biden’s order.

Three of the top plaintiffs in the private lawsuit against Alabama—the SPLC, the Campaign Legal Center, and the Fair Elections Center—participated in a White House Zoom conference in July 2021 about how to implement Biden’s Executive Order 14019. The other two plaintiffs are the Alabama chapters of the NAACP and the League of Women Voters, whose national organizations were represented at the White House conference.

In August, Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen, a........

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