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“With this terrible overstep of power, the #DOJ is now weaponizing laws meant to protect #voters for their political #vendetta,” Nabers added.
#law #propaganda #Trump #FultonCounty #Georgia #2020election #BigLie
“This administration’s unending obsession with the #2020election results in #Georgia uses outright #lies to compensate for the fact that they lost,” Kristin Nabers, the state director for All Voting is Local, said in a statement. “President Trump’s bidding, the Department of Justice is attacking the very notion of #FreeElections in this country, demanding to see #ballots from #FultonCounty because their candidate didn’t win there half a decade ago.”
#law #propaganda #Trump #DOJ #BigLie
The act requires #election officials to retain a large swath of documents, including #VoterRegistration & #ballots, for 22 months after any federal election. It also requires ofcls to make the documents available for “inspection, reproduction, & copying” in response to a request by the AG.
#law #propaganda #Trump #DOJ #FultonCounty #Georgia #2020election #BigLie
In Friday’s lawsuit, Dhillon claimed that the Fulton board hadn’t complied with the letter’s demands & alleged that Ché Alexander, the clerk of courts for #FultonCounty, violated record retention requirements in the #CivilRightsAct of 1960 by not producing the documents.
#law #propaganda #Trump #DOJ #Georgia #2020election #BigLie
…While Dhillon’s lawsuit makes the demand for #FultonCounty #ballots official, it wasn’t the DOJ’s first attempt at securing access. In Aug, #EdMartin, head of the DOJ’s vague weaponization task force, reportedly sent a letter to a Fulton County judge demanding to “immediately access” 148k absentee ballots being stored in a ballot warehouse.
In Oct, Dhillon, again on #PamBondi’s behalf, sent the Fulton County Board of Registration & Elections a letter demanding the records.
The suit, filed Friday on US AG #Pam Bondi’s behalf by Assistant AG for “Civil Rights” Harmeet Dhillon, marks the first time the #DOJ has officially demanded actual #ballots from #state or local officials as part of its pursuit of a myriad of election #ConspiracyTheories long & repeatedly debunked.
#law #propaganda #Trump #DOJ #FultonCounty #Georgia #2020election #BigLie
In reality, #Trump lost the race by a significant margin & his repeated allegations of fraud have been widely debunked.
In a new lawsuit, the #DOJ is demanding “all used and void ballots, stubs of all ballots, signature envelopes, and corresponding envelope digital files from the 2020 General Election in Fulton County.”
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#law #propaganda #DOJ #FultonCounty #Georgia #2020election #BigLie
In Major Escalation, #Trump #DOJ [Frivolously] Sues #FultonCounty, #Georgia for 2020 Ballots
The DOJ is suing Fulton County, GA, seeking #ballots & other #election records from the #2020election.
The lawsuit, which a pro-voting group condemned as a “terrible overstep of power,” is a major escalation in the Trump admin’s dangerous effort to revive Trump’s #BigLie that the election was stolen.
#law #propaganda
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In Major Escalation, Trump DOJ Sues Fulton County, Georgia for 2020 Ballots - Democracy Docket
Attorney General Pam Bondi has demanded that officials in Fulton County, Georgia, hand over ballots and other election records from the 2020 presidential vote in an attempt to revive President Trump’s fraudulent claims that the election was stolen.Democracy Docket
#DOJ attorneys haven’t elaborated on how doing so might hamper the portrayal #Trump seeks to present to the public. But overturning policies encompassing #diversity, #equity & #inclusion have become a hallmark of his second admin, starting with his very first week back in the White House.
#law #discrimination #ableism #optics #image #ASL #SignLanguage
Total BS
#Trump admin says #SignLanguage services 'intrude' on Trump's ability to control his #image
The Trump admin is arguing that requiring real-time #ASL interpretation of events like White House press briefings “would severely intrude on the President’s prerogative to control the image he presents to the public,” part of a lawsuit seeking to require the White House to provide the services.
#law #discrimination #ableism
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Carol Quillen, #NationalTrust’s CEO said she did not have a “hard objection” to a #WhiteHouse #ballroom — so long as its size, materials & design were consistent with the White House & did not overshadow the main building. It is the National Trust’s job, she said, to preserve #Americanhistory, particularly at the White House, given the building’s iconic status & central role. She noted that the org has also brought legal challenges to past admins’ construction projects.
…The #WhiteHouse also has defended the project by drawing a distinction between construction on the grounds, which admin officials say is covered by federal review panels, & demolition & site prep, which they maintain is not.
However, the #NationalTrust says that this is a distinction without a difference. Recent photos have shown that heavy construction machinery & teams of people are working regularly on the site, & #Trump has said that pile drivers are operating “all day, all night.”
#law
#WhiteHouse officials have previously dismissed criticism from the #NationalTrust, [in their typical manner] arguing that its leaders are “loser Democrats & liberal donors” who oppose #Trump on political grounds 🙄. However , the National Trust has a decades-long association with Trump: In 1995, he donated easements to the org to make his #MarALago resort in Florida a historic property in exchange for #TaxBreaks.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #EastWing #ballroom #HistoricLandmark #USHistory
…The #NationalTrust …alleges that the #Trump admin violated the #Constitution’s property clause, which authorizes #Congress to oversee property on #FederalLand.
The National Trust’s lawsuit names Trump & other admin officials, including at the National Park Service [#NPS] & the General Services Administration [#GSA], as defendants.
#law #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #HistoricLandmark #USHistory #conservation
#Trump has also maintained that he is not bound by typical building restrictions or the need to seek construction approvals, citing conversations with advisers and experts.
“They said, ‘Sir, this is the White House. You’re the president of the United States, you can do anything you want,’” Trump said at an October dinner to celebrate the ballroom’s donors.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #HistoricLandmark #USHistory #conservation
“No president is legally allowed to tear down portions of the White House without any review whatsoever — not President Trump, not President Joe Biden, & not anyone else,” the complaint says. [yeah, no shit. Too late.]
#Trump #law #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #HistoricLandmark #USHistory #conservation
The lawsuit from the nonprofit #NationalTrust for #HistoricPreservation, which was filed Friday in the US District Court for DC, represents the first major legal challenge to Trump’s planned 90,000-square-foot addition & is poised to test the limits of his #power. The organization argues that the admin failed to undergo legally required reviews or receive congressional authorization for the project, which #Trump has rushed to launch in hopes of completing it before his term ends in 2029.
#law
Historic preservationists begged #Trump in October not to rapidly demolish the White House’s #EastWing annex for his #ballroom project, urging him to wait for federal review panels & allow the public to weigh in [begging & urging don’t work on him]. Now a group charged by #Congress with helping preserve historic buildings is asking a judge to block construction until those reviews occur, arguing the ongoing project is #illegal & #unconstitutional.
Just a bit too freaking late!
Maybe they could have done this BEFORE he demolished the entire #EastWing of the #WhiteHouse?!?!
#NationalTrust sues to stop #Trump #ballroom construction
The organization, which is charged by #Congress with #HistoricPreservation, has retained President Barack Obama’s former lawyer as it seeks to pause the project.
#law #HistoricLandmark #USHistory #conservation
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#House #Democrats release photos from #JeffreyEpstein's estate showing #Trump, #SteveBannon, #BillClinton, #BillGates, #RichardBranson & other high-profile people
Many of the men have been previously linked to Epstein, though the photos may shed new light on the extent of those relationships.
Taken collectively, the 19 images reinforce the #SexOffender was tied in the past to a wide variety of powerful & high-profile people whose ties to him are under scrutiny.
So much for #StatesRights
#Trump signs #ExecutiveOrder to neuter #State #AI laws, a win for #tech companies & #billionaires that have #lobbied against #regulation of the #technology.
The order would create one federal regulatory framework for #ArtificialIntelligence, Trump told reporters.
#law #regulations #safety #labor #DataCenters #energy #climate #PublicHealth
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He Spent Funds Meant for Native Hawaiians on Polo and Porsches. The Federal Government Failed to Stop Him.
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A small business program allowed Christopher Dawson to win big contracts if he promised to uplift Native Hawaiians. Instead, federal prosecutors allege, he used the money to line his own pockets.
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#News #Hawaii #Indigenous #Native #Nonprofit #Government #Law
Excellent
Federal judge throws out #Trump order blocking development of #wind #energy
A federal judge on Monday struck down Trump’s executive order blocking #WindEnergy projects, saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of #WindFarms on federal #lands & #waters was “arbitrary & capricious” & violates US #law.
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #energy
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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
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The administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
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#News #Trump #USPolitics #Law #Florida #Home #Mortgages
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing he called “deceitful and potentially criminal.”shoshana.gordon@propublica.org (ProPublica)