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| The DOJ Is Hiding Information About Biden's Attempts To Interfere In U.S. Elections |
| 2022-10-24 |
| [Federalist] The DOJ is hiding records about Biden’s order telling federal agencies to develop plans to interfere in state election administration. The Department of Justice (DOJ) is slow-walking its response to a federal court order mandating that the agency forfeit records pertaining to President Joe Biden’s March 2021 executive order that directed federal agencies to develop plans for federal interference in state election administration. On Thursday evening, the agency filed a motion for summary judgment with the Fort Myers Division of the U.S. Middle District Court of Florida in an attempt to conceal communication records related to Executive Order 14019, which required all federal departments to “consider ways to expand citizens’ opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process.” In law, “summary judgment” is a decision issued by a court based on statements and evidence for one party against another without going to a full trial. The move to shield the records in question from the public comes after a federal judge mandated in July that the agency must turn over documents related to Biden’s order to the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA), which sued the DOJ back in April after its officials failed to respond to FGA’s July 2021 open records requests. While the DOJ ultimately turned over a few of the records to FGA last month, the documents were heavily redacted and did not include the DOJ’s 15-page “strategic plan” on how the agency intends to comply with Biden’s executive order. In their Thursday legal filing arguing for a summary judgment, the DOJ claimed that its Civil Rights Division (CRT) “has submitted a reasonably specific declaration” describing the search that CRT “conducted for records responsive to FGA’s [Freedom of Information Act] request” and that documents withheld or redacted by the DOJ are protected under the “presidential communications privilege.” “The presidential communications privilege applies to the Strategic Plan because it was ‘solicited and received by the President[’s] . . . immediate White House advisers with broad and significant responsibility for investigating and formulating the advice to be given the President’ regarding voting rights issues,” the DOJ filing reads. “The Strategic Plan therefore falls squarely within the scope of the presidential communications privilege.” Most notable in the agency’s arguments, however, is the contention that the release of the information requested by FGA would cause “public confusion” and that “such public confusion would result from disclosure of the Strategic Plan because it contains many proposed actions that the public might construe as ‘future commitments, past actions, or provisions already in place.'” “DOJ therefore properly withheld the Strategic Plan in its entirety,” the agency claimed. In response to the DOJ’s continued coverup, FGA President and CEO Tarren Bragdon issued a statement blasting the agency’s behavior, saying that it’s “clear” that Biden’s administration “has weaponized DOJ to hide records and is using the legal process to run out the clock before the midterm elections.” “DOJ offered flimsy excuses to justify concealing key information regarding their participation in government-funded ‘get out the vote’ efforts,” Bragdon said. “FGA will not stop fighting to uncover these records and expose the full scope of the Biden administration’s mass voter registration scheme. The law and the American people are on our side.” As reported by Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway, Biden’s executive order isn’t just unethical and unconstitutional, but “a recipe for chaos, confusion, and fraud at a time when election security concerns are particularly fraught.” “Executive Order 14019 ignores that the Constitution does not give the executive branch authority over elections. That power is reserved for the states, with a smaller role for Congress,” Hemingway explained. Considering that “H.R. 1 and other Democrat Party efforts to grab more control over elections have thus far failed,” she added, “Congress hasn’t authorized such an expansion.” With the 2022 midterms rapidly approaching, the Biden DOJ has since been ramping up its efforts to intervene in elections under the guise of targeting voter “intimidation” in various states across the country. Most recently, the DOJ’s district attorney in New Hampshire, Jane Young, appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney Seth R. Aframe to “lead the efforts of her office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program” for the November elections. “The Department of Justice has an important role in deterring and combatting discrimination and intimidation at the polls, threats of violence directed at election officials and poll workers, and election fraud,” an agency press release read. “The Department will address these violations wherever they occur.” Related: Executive Order 14019: 2022-09-13 DOJ Refuses to Release Biden Administration Plan to Intervene in 2022 Election Executive Order 14019: 2022-05-09 What is Biden hiding in his executive order on elections? Related: Foundation for Government Accountability: 2022-09-13 DOJ Refuses to Release Biden Administration Plan to Intervene in 2022 Election Foundation for Government Accountability: 2022-07-08 Call issued for state leaders to halt Biden's election takeover scheme Foundation for Government Accountability: 2022-05-09 What is Biden hiding in his executive order on elections? |
| Posted by:DarthVader |
| #8 What the Trunks need to learn is history. At the start of WW2 Americans thought it was horrible the Japanese bombing China or the Germans bombing England. By the end of the war we were bombing the f* out of both Germany and Japan. Notice today both countries are among the least militaristic societies vs their prior histories. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-10-24 19:30 |
| #7 That... that would be a series of ruthless purges. Can a republican really be that ruthless? Let's hope they can rise above their goody-two-shoesness. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-10-24 19:03 |
| #6 Well, yeah, Dron. Trump's first go at it was a learning experience. I'm pretty sure now that even he had no idea just how deep that swamp really is. I think a good place to start would be a ruthless and extensive purge at DOJ and the FBI accompanied by some serious defunding. After that, the State Department and the CIA, then a purge at the Pentagon...ruthless, extensive purge. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2022-10-24 18:23 |
| #5 Tell me how the election of a Republican can ever turn this mess around. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-10-24 17:46 |
| #4 Further weaponization of feral agencies against the American people. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2022-10-24 11:57 |
| #3 Most Americans could not distinguish the deficit from the National Debt if given a quiz rigged to make them win. Essentially no journalist can make the distinction. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-10-24 11:44 |
| #1 Biden says he backs 'gender-affirming' healthcare and slams Republicans trying to ban sex changes for children in interview with transgender TikTok activist |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-10-24 11:36 |