DOJ is curbing GOP election nonsense

Attorney General Merrick Garland walks softly, but carries a big stick-

There’s an art to the subtle threat. Not the bold, blustery rages that former President Donald Trump would fly into behind closed doors but the gentle reminder, said with a smile, that your life will be made miserable if you don’t watch your step.

On Wednesday, the Department of Justice released two documents warning states that they have to follow federal law before, during and after elections. Without naming names, the first set of guidelines generally called out states that have moved to change their election laws to restrict voters’ access to the polls after the 2020 election. The second is focused on the never ending “audit” still taking place in Arizona, along with potential copycats.

The Justice Department has already warned the Arizona Senate, which approved the cyber ninja farce, that the probe might risk violating federal law. Wednesday’s guidelines are more explicit about what laws might have been broken — and the consequences for breaking them.

Taken together, the two documents can be considered part of Attorney General Merrick Garland’s “f--- around and find out!” doctrine on voting rights. (Not that he’d ever call it that.)

Garland announced in June that his department will make countering new election restrictions a major priority for the Civil Rights Division. Already this year, 18 states have enacted 30 laws that make voting more difficult, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. Hundreds more bills have been proposed in states across the country. The new guidelines are a sharp promise that any future shenanigans will be met with swift action.

This is encouraging news. The DoJ should never have been politicized; Barr was a disaster for America, nothing but Trump’s personal pitbull. It will take time to undo all the damage Trump did.

@mchill said
Attorney General Merrick Garland walks softly, but carries a big stick-

There’s an art to the subtle threat. Not the bold, blustery rages that former President Donald Trump would fly into behind closed doors but the gentle reminder, said with a smile, that your life will be made miserable if you don’t watch your step.

On Wednesday, the Department of Justice released two ...[text shortened]... y. The new guidelines are a sharp promise that any future shenanigans will be met with swift action.

@mott-the-hoople said
Feds cannot dictate how states run elections. dems are scared of real audits

@mchill said
Attorney General Merrick Garland walks softly, but carries a big stick-

There’s an art to the subtle threat. Not the bold, blustery rages that former President Donald Trump would fly into behind closed doors but the gentle reminder, said with a smile, that your life will be made miserable if you don’t watch your step.

On Wednesday, the Department of Justice released two ...[text shortened]... y. The new guidelines are a sharp promise that any future shenanigans will be met with swift action.

@mott-the-hoople said
Feds cannot dictate how states run elections. dems are scared of real audits

@moonbus said
The fed. can strike down unfair practices and laws which unequally prejudice or restrict voting rights.

There have already been real audits. They all vindicated the result: Biden won, Trump lost, there was no widespread fraud.

@mott-the-hoople said
you need to watch something other than cnn or msnbc…real audits are ongoing now

@mchill said
real audits are ongoing now-

Oh yes, I'm confident your little cyber ninja guy is finding all kinds of ballots printed on rice paper, dropped from the sky by airplanes from China directly into ballot box's while no one was looking.

So are the Jewish engineered space lasers still zapping the western US causing wildfires too?

😏

@mott-the-hoople said
you need to watch something other than cnn or msnbc…real audits are ongoing now

@moonbus said
If you mean the one in AZ, that's not a real audit. It's a political stunt being carried out by and for amateurs.

Real audits are/were carried out by state election commissions.

@Mott-The-Hoople
You mean the THREE official audits that already took place all over the country but now that your fukking god king just SAID there was voter fraud, all of a sudden half the fukking country thinks there is massive voter fraud which is TOTALL BULLSHYTE.
Like mail in ballots, been used since the civil war LITERALLY, with very very little in the way of fraud but now that your traitorous god king just SAYS there is voter fraud, you non-thinking idiots who just take Trumps word for it, NOW all of a sudden the entire election system is supposedly rife with fraud but not even those idiots in Arizona found anything serious.
But funny thing about THAT supposed audit, they magically came up with 'oh so coincidentally' 74,000 votes that are ''suspicious'' which is the EXACT number Trump talked to the sec. of state of Georgia about, he SAID, I need to have you find OMG, 74,000 votes.
But of COURSE you would figure that is just coincidental, nothing to see here.
Which is your response to ANYTHING said negative about your traitor god king.

@mott-the-hoople said
Feds cannot dictate how states run elections. dems are scared of real audits

@mott-the-hoople said
carried out by the same ones that caused it?

Kind of like pelosis 1/6 hearings..,the guilty ones are investigating themselves. gullible arent you?

@mott-the-hoople said
you folks live in a special place dont you?