The Justice Department is investigating 2020 presidential election conspiracies.
Attorney General Pam Bondi sued Officials in Fulton County, Georgia, picked up the ballots cast in the election on Friday. The lawsuit demands that Fulton County turn over “all used and invalid ballots, all ballot stubs, signature envelopes, and corresponding digital files of the envelopes.”
The lawsuit comes after the Department of Justice announced the four more states— Colorado, Hawaii, Massachusetts and Nevada — in a nationwide effort to obtain sensitive voter data. So far this year, the Trump administration has targeted 18 statesmost of which are led by Democrats.
This is the first time the Justice Department has requested a physical ballot. A pro-ballot group describes the initiative democracy case file Considered a “terrible overreach”.
Since Trump first sowed the seeds of doubt about the 2020 election results, a litany of his allies have continued to focus on and water the theory — so much so that in just a few years, refusing to acknowledge that Trump ever lost to Joe Biden has become a test of MAGA members’ loyalty.
But there is no doubt that Trump lost overwhelmingly, missing 38 electoral votes. Further evidence that Trump did not win includes the fact that he did not take office in 2021 and did not serve as president for a day until 2024.
But for anyone who still has doubts, know that this theory has been thoroughly debunked by the president’s own appointees. Trump’s last attorney general, Bill Barr Announce In 2022, despite an intensive multi-agency investigation, no evidence of widespread fraud was found to support the president’s wild claims.
But the theory — and Trump’s countless cadre of yes-men — persist.
“At the Department of Justice, we will not allow states to jeopardize the integrity and validity of elections by refusing to comply with our federal election laws,” Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon said in a statement. “If states don’t live up to their responsibility to protect the integrity of their ballots, that’s what we’ll do.”
