Thread by @IsaacDovere

notable wrinkle in fight over printing a 2nd set of ballots in Wisconsin in the hopes of adding more names: the Justice Dept tends to move into such cases to ensure military voters have ballots 45 days prior to the election

The Justice Dept happens to be sitting this one out

Here is a long list on the Justice Department’s website of similar situation where there’s been aggressive intervention in the past: justice.gov/crt/cases-rais… More than one of these cases was In Wisconsin

For an administration that professes to be very concerned about voting issues, the Justice Department under Trump—and particularly heading into this election—has been extremely inactive on a range of voting rights cases and potential action, as compared to past practices

So all together, what’s happening in Wisconsin is that GOP lawyers are working to add Kanye West and Howie Hawkins to the ballots in a crucial, likely narrow margin state, in effort that would increase confusion & invalid rates for mail-in votes—and the Trump DOJ is looking away

AG Bill Barr said 2 weeks ago that he was concerned about the very problem of thousands of false ballots being sent to US voters—what might now happen in WI—but said he thought foreign countries would do it.

"What are you basing that on?" @wolfblitzer asked.

"Logic,” he said.

Not like Barr has taken a laissez-faire approach to other issues where the Justice Department is potentially intersected with the election: he fired the US attorney in Manhattan and has now reportedly been putting pressure on the Durham investigation to move ahead of Nov 3