In
Ohio, US Attorney Rebecca Lutzko, a Biden nominee opposed by
Republicans, announced the appointment of two federal prosecutors to
serve as “election officers”. In Utah, US Attorney Trina A. Higgins, a
Democrat donor and Biden appointee, appointed a “district election
officer” to stop any “interference or discrimination in voting” and
“threats” against election officials.
Events in Ohio and Utah are
part of a larger unprecedented level of Justice Department intervention
in the 2024 presidential election in support of the administration’s
party.
The DOJ recently sued Virginia and Alabama to ensure that
non-citizens would not be removed from voting rolls before Election Day,
but those are only a prelude to a more ambitious plan.
Shortly
after taking power, the Biden-Harris administration created an Elections
Threats Task Force to suppress any scrutiny or criticism of election
officials. According to Attorney General Merrick Garland, the Elections
Threats Task Force was launched in response to a “dangerous increase in
violent threats against the public servants who administer our
elections.”
And yet after 3 years of operating, the Task Force
monitored 2,000 threats, opened 100 investigations and only convicted 18
people. The vast majority of claims behind the supposed “dangerous
increase” proved to be unsubstantiated, impossible to investigate, let
alone charge.
Less than a percent of the basis for the Elections Threats Task Force had any substance at all.
Furthermore
those 18 convictions included the case of a mentally unstable career
criminal and Lyndon LaRouche supporter who allegedly shot at the
residences of New Mexico officials and assorted threats of violence that
included a woman sentenced to 30 days in jail and a man sentenced to 18
months of home detention which did not require a special task force.
The
Election Threats Task Force includes the heads of the FBI, the DOJ’s
Criminal Division and National Security Division and the Department of
Homeland Security. That’s a good deal more resources than are needed to
cope with a few threats in which no one actually got hurt.
The
most striking thing about the Election Threats Task Force was that with
one exception, every conviction targeted perceived MAGA activists and
candidates. The one exception was a BLM activist’s attempt to
assassinate the Democrat mayor of Louisville, Kentucky.
While the
Biden-Harris Election Threats Task Force chased down every threat by a
Republican that it could verify, the DOJ wilfully allowed threats
against Republican officials to continue.
Rep. Jim Banks warned
that the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana refused to
prosecute threats to his family including a message warning, “three
daughters. Hey, hey, hey, three bullets hey, hey, hey one wife yay. Oh
yeah, yeah, we’ll give her two bullets.”
The U.S. Attorney for
the Northern District of Indiana is Clifford Darnell Johnson, a Biden
appointee, who has announced the appointment of an election officer to
stop political threats.
But the supposed threats were never the actual purpose of the Elections Threats Task Force.
All
of this is leading up to the DOJ’s Election Day Program deploying FBI
agents and DOJ officials nationwide and running a command center to
“address events… related to the election in real time.” What sort of
election events have to be addressed in real time?
A hotline will
go live within a week and every field office will have two FBI agents
tasked with responding to reports of local events. First up on the FBI’s
list of ‘election crimes’ is “voter suppression” which the Bureau
defines as “deceiving qualified voters” by providing them with “false
claims about voting qualifications or methods”. The DOJ’s Election
Threats Task Force warns that while AI “is not inherently criminal”,
it’s a potential “disinformation” threat.
This is not about threats of violence, but about federal control of local elections.
The
Department of Justice is directly intervening in local elections to
monitor and respond to everything from memes to ‘qualified voters’ being
prevented from voting. And to quickly suppress any attempts to
scrutinize and demand transparency during and after the election.
Attorney
General Merrick Garland claimed that the “founding purpose” of the
Justice Department was “protecting our democracy and protecting our
elections”. After failing to pass HR1 and the John R. Lewis Voting
Rights Act to federalize elections, the Biden-Harris administration
appears to be using the DOJ to influence local elections as much as
possible.
The Grant administration founded the Justice Department
to stop violence against Republicans by Democrat Party KKK thugs. The
last time voter intimidation of that kind happened was during Obama’s
first presidential campaign when members of a black supremacist hate
group wore uniforms, carried weapons and threatened white voters that
“you’re about to be ruled by the black man, cracker.” While the Justice
Department brought charges under the Voting Rights Act, the Obama
administration decided to give the racist thugs a pass for voter
intimidation.
Tom Perez, Biden’s senior advisor, then serving as
the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, was a key player in the
Philly voter intimidation case and subsequent cover-up.
The
Elections Threats Task Force and Election Day Program are not about
fighting that actual kind of voter intimidation, but providing federal
backup to partisan election officials against state and local officials,
intimidating poll watchers and election integrity activists,
suppressing political speech and working to ensure that the election
outcome is the one sought by the administration.
The DOJ’s
unprecedented election interference is based on inventing an imaginary
threat which the Department, even with the support of the section heads
and the administration, couldn’t even rack up a 1% conviction rate after
years of investigations, and exploiting that crisis to closely insert
federal forces into elections in a systematic way that threatens the
Constitution.
The rapid growth of federal power has eroded the constitutional balance of state power.
The
Justice Department has invented a crisis that does not exist to further
sideline state authority and the integrity of locally controlled
elections. Even while claiming that it is preventing election
interference, it is engaging in it. The Elections Threats Task Force’s
track record of partisan prosecutions does not inspire any confidence
that its election intervention has any purpose other than to serve the
partisan agenda of the administration calling the shots.
The DOJ is not the solution to election integrity, instead it is quickly emerging as the threat.
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