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Secretaries of state from Arizona, Colorado, and Maine condemned Bondi’s attempt to extort the Minnesota tragedy for voter roll access.
Just hours after federal immigration officers shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi seized upon the incident to demand access to Minnesota’s voter rolls, directly tying the Trump administration’s quest for voters’ unredacted personal data to its aggressive immigration raids across the state.
Democratic lawmakers and pro-democracy advocates are intensifying scrutiny of the coordination between the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and an advocacy group looking to overturn election results, disclosed in a recent Trump administration court filing.
President Trump is threatening the rule of law in by attacking civil servants previously assigned to probes against him, Jack Smith, the former special counsel for the Justice Department, said in a congressional hearing Thursday.
True the Vote mounted a coordinated campaign, pleading with DOGE to use federal databases, including the Social Security Administration, to probe voter rolls.
The Supreme Court appeared reluctant to immediately uphold President Donald Trump’s attempt to arbitrarily dismiss Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook during oral arguments in the case Wednesday.
“It’s a war that should have never started and it wouldn’t have started if the 2020 U.S. presidential election weren’t rigged. It was a rigged election,” he said. “Everybody now knows that. They found out. People will soon be prosecuted for what they did. That’s probably breaking news.”
Lindsey Halligan, the loyalist Trump tapped to prosecute his political enemies, has stepped down as the top federal prosecutor in eastern Virginia more than a month after a judge formally disqualified her from the position.
Federal prosecutors have targeted at least five Minnesota Democrats — including Gov. Tim Walz — with grand jury subpoenas, escalating the Justice Department’s highly political investigation into state officials over their opposition to President Trump’s aggressive immigration raids.
Federal officials acknowledged that Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employees coordinated with a political advocacy group on a “voter data agreement” aimed at analyzing voter rolls in an effort to challenge election outcomes.