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The Justice Department recklessly failed to uphold constitutional rights and liberties by allowing the FBI to seize 2020 election records in Fulton County, Georgia, using a faulty search warrant application, former top department officials alleged.
At Fulton County’s request, a Trump-appointed federal judge has called for a court hearing this week to force a FBI to testify about the extraordinary affidavit he presented to a court to justify the FBI’s extraordinary raid on a Georgia election facility last month.
As MAGA Republicans ramp up their push for the SAVE America Act, the legacy media is doing its best to treat the right’s lies about the bill as serious arguments.
“It is claiming to solve a problem that is, frankly, imaginary,” said Amanda Gonzalez (D), the election clerk for Jefferson County, Colorado. “And what’s going to happen is we are unjustifiably going to make voting harder for millions of eligible voters across the country.”
The bill comes as elections and voting rights are under severe duress in the Peach State.
The search warrant affidavit that initiated the FBI’s unprecedented raid on an election facility in Fulton County, Georgia, last month failed to provide evidence that a crime had been committed and relied on “a smorgasbord of witness speculation” from biased sources, county officials alleged in a new court filing Tuesday.
When the U.S. House passed the SAVE Act last year, historians told us it was Congress’ worst attack on voting rights ever. Well, this week the House approved an even worse one.
For a number of election deniers, Tulsi Gabbard’s involvement in the Fulton County raid was a sign that the Trump administration’s 2020 probe would finally confirm a long-held, outrageous conspiracy.
The FBI seizure of 2020 election records last month was “a serious attempt to overturn and to take control of elections in Fulton County, Georgia,” Robb Pitts, the chair of the county board, said Thursday.
A number of election deniers and conspiracy theorists are referenced as witnesses for evidence to justify the FBI’s warrant.