Biden DOJ Weaponized for 2022 Midterms

 What could possibly go wrong in giving the perfectly apolitical Department of Justice more power over elections? A few too many one-offs, anomalies, and more than a couple of bad apples are enough to prompt even the most apt to provide the benefit-of-the-doubt to suspect the department has been politicized

2022

• Thus far in 2022, an FBI SWAT team arrested a pro-life speaker at his home, raided the home of a former president, and expanded its net for extremism to include concerned parents at school board meetings
• Such anomalies and one-offs shouldn't raise concerns about the department's expanding role in American democracy
• Justice Department officials held a virtual briefing with 300 election officials and workers across the country

Biden signed an executive order pushing an all-of-government approach to expanding voter turnout

• based on recommendations from Demos, a liberal think tank
• He also appointed top Justice Department officials with a long record of opposing any voter ID laws and state laws that promoted accurate voting lists
• Vanita Gupta, the associate attorney general, and Kristen Clarke, the assistant attorney general
• They will lead the Civil Rights Division and the Voting Section, respectively

In June 2021, the Justice Department sued Georgia over its voting law regarding the use of voter ID for absentee ballots

• The DOJ's complaint in federal court contends that provisions of the law were adopted to deny or abridge the right to vote based on race.
• The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Texas over what it claimed were "restrictive voting procedures."

In Texas, turnout was 17.7% in 2022, about 3 million votes compared to 17.2% in the 2018 primary.

• Arizona had a record primary turnout in 2022 of 35.12%, or 1.4 million ballots cast, compared to the 33.3% turnout in 2018.

In response to Biden's executive order, the Justice Department announced in May 2022 that it would provide "educational materials related to voter registration and voting" and "facilitate voter registration, for all eligible individuals in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons."

• Convicted felons have generally been a reliable Democrat voting bloc.

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