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This week, President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) broke new ground in its dangerous campaign to take control of elections and promote baseless conspiracy theories about voting. And we tracked them every step of the way.
As a GOP activist, Harmeet Dhillon frequently insisted that the federal government has “little to say” about how states run their elections. Now, as head of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), she claims the feds have “sweeping” authority to seize state voter rolls.
It’s the latest example of DOJ hiring a lawyer for its voting section with a record of promoting false conspiracy theories about voting.
Just after Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release from immigration detention, Trump officials again sought to arrest him after an immigration judge retroactively “corrected” a years-old ruling in his immigration case. One legal expert described the move as the equivalent of a judge unilaterally changing a years-old jury verdict from not guilty to guilty.
DOJ has now sued a total of 18 states for access to sensitive voter data.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has demanded that officials in Fulton County, Georgia, hand over ballots and other election records from the 2020 presidential vote in an attempt to revive President Trump’s fraudulent claims that the election was stolen.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Colorado and Hawaii Thursday in the latest lawsuits by the administration seeking to force states to hand over their unredacted voter rolls.
For the second time in a week, a federal grand jury refused the Justice Department’s attempt to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James on alleged mortgage fraud charges.
Even many Republican-led states are resisting the Trump administration’s sweeping demands for unredacted voter records.
Late Update, 5:30PM ET: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from ICE custody and detention according to his attorney. A federal judge has ordered the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man whose arrest in Maryland, illegal removal to El Salvador and return to U.S. immigration detention became a flashpoint in President Donald […]
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