Every time Lead and I talk about DOJ over-reach, we always get this "guffaw" from the left. So in my normal morning news I found this tidbit of DOJ in bed and having just one of its orgies with the left. DOJ of course, wanted to bury the facts in the case, but the judge ruled against them and ordered the opening of the files.
This also is about the lies the left. What pedojoe plugged as "Jim Crow 2.0" claiming it was racist (which doesn't even mean anything anymore) and sets the law back decades. The lie was so bad, MLB moved the all-star game from Atlanta to denver to protest the law, a huge hit to Atlanta in particular, and Georgia in general. Now we have the written documents to show this was nothing more than a BS wokester straw man. It's also a great example of the DOJ being politicized for wokester causes. Putin and Xi would be proud of using the government to run such a propaganda tool here.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger scored a victory over the Biden Justice Department when a federal judge ruled Tuesday that the law enforcement agency has to turn over secret communications with liberal interest groups targeting Georgia’s new election reform law.
In 2021, the Georgia Legislature passed and Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, signed into law SB 202, known as the Election Integrity Act, which expanded voter ID requirements to absentee ballots, established guidelines for ballot drop boxes, required that wait times at polling places be no longer than one hour per person, and gave the State Election Board more oversight over election administration in the counties.
In June 2021, the U.S. Justice Department announced a lawsuit to overturn parts of Georgia’s law, claiming it violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
President Joe Biden and other Democrats falsely labeled the law “Jim Crow 2.0,” a reference to the era of racist laws and segregation in southern states that suggested an official effort to prevent blacks from voting.
In response to the Justice Department’s lawsuit against Georgia, Raffensperger requested any communications that may have influenced its decision to challenge his state’s law. After the department refused to comply with a request under the Freedom of Information Act, Raffensperger’s office sued.
“These documents should show the coordinated effort between liberal activists and the United States Department of Justice to use Georgia’s election reforms as a scapegoat for political losses,” Raffensperger said in a written statement Tuesday after the ruling.
“Considering how blatantly political the Biden lawsuit against Georgia’s commonsense election law was from the beginning, it’s no surprise they would stonewall our request for basic transparency,” Raffensperger said. “I’m gratified that the court agreed that there should be no secrecy between the Biden Justice Department and liberal activists, and I will continue to fight for truth and integrity in Georgia’s elections.”
Voter turnout increased in Georgia during the 2022 midterm elections, the first major test of the 2021 law.
In a 32-page opinion, Judge Trevor N. McFadden of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denied the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss the case.
