Thread: In case y'all are wondering who at the DOJ is in charge of election law matters at the @TheJusticeDept -- there are two places to look. First, the Civil Rights Division of DOJ, which is headed by Eric Dreiband, Don McGahn (former WH Counsel) law partner. DOJ says it sent/
2/ election personnel to 44 jurisdictions to monitor this election. Curiously, many of these are places with massive problems in this election including Detroit, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Maricopa County ... What did they observe exactly ... 🤔justice.gov/opa/pr/justice…
3/ Whatever it was, they aren't doing anything about it 🤷♀️and the @realDonaldTrump campaign is filing suits in several states to ensure that all & only legal ballots are counted. There is another deparatment of DOJ where election problems are addressed -- criminal division ...
4/ and guess who is in charge of the Election Crimes Branch of the DOJ Criminal Division? A career guy named Richard Pilger: and if the name seems vaguely familiar at all, it's because Pilger was deeply involved in the Lois Lerner IRS scandal... linkedin.com/in/richard-pil…
5/ ... Allegedly colluding with her on ways to target and prosecute conservative organizations like Tea Party and others. Here's an article from @ACLJ about his involvement with Lerner's illegal scheme to frame conservatives: aclj.org/free-speech-2/…
6/ Pilger, when subpoenaed to Capitol Hill by House Oversight, Darrell Issa in 2014, refused to answer over three dozen questions under oath on the advice of DOJ attorneys. thehill.com/policy/finance… And despite this history, Pilger is STILL in charge of the same department at DOJ/
7/ HE's supposed to be controlling the prosecution of election fraud in this election? The guy accused of conspiring with Lois Lerner to criminalize conservative speech? Don't hold your breath about Nevada GOP criminal referral that DOJ is "looking into": pjmedia.com/election/tyler…
8/ The government is full of survivors like this -- they burrow in, lurk, and like submarines they surface to survey, then dive & fire torpedos. And you never know what hit you. DOJ civil rights & election integrity have been MIA in this election ... it didn't have to be so.
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When Kamala Harris was SF DA, one of her top deputies regularly rounded the office urging prosecutors to stop by Harris' fundraisers for re-election to donate and/or volunteer. One of them told me she was told it would be good for her career to contribute. Message was clear.
While Harris was the DA in San Francisco, the supervisor in one of the criminal units was a no-show who literally phoned it in from San Diego, filling out fake time sheets from there where his boyfriend was. This went on for years, only ending under George Gascon's tenure.
Another prosecutor in Kamala Harris' DA office told me that the office, as policy, did not allege prior crime "strikes" in indictments as is routinely done in other counties such as the one where the deputy DA had come from. This DDA was criticized for alleging strikes; only supervisors were allowed to authorize this and it was rarely done, yet another way Harris went soft on crime.
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🧵New Op-Ed on @thehill: At every step of her career, @KamalaHarris has proven that the most dangerous place for a constitutional norm to be is standing between Harris and her political ambitions…
Harris received the dishonor of being named the “most progressive DA” in California – in other words, Kamala Harris was the most far-left prosecutor in the most liberal state. Harris’ sanctuary city policies enabled Edwin Ramos, for example, to murder a father and his two sons.
As D.A., Harris was the worst of both worlds: A soft-on-crime progressive prosecutor who failed to keep her city safe, and who looked the other way when it came to ethics and public integrity.
$12M raised tonight! Incredible support for @realDonaldTrump. Not an empty seat in the gorgeous home of @DavidSacks and Jacqueline. Thrilled to see the tech leaders stepping up!
President Trump is relaxed, happy, and cracking jokes about AI. He was introduced by first @JDVance1 and then David Sacks.
@JDVance1 Many crypto leaders in the house, including from Coinbase and other companies.
I find it fascinating that Republican senators are willing to go to bat to impose a nationwide IVF standard or else forfeit federal Medicaid funds, but they won’t take a similar stand on citizen-only voting, tying that to federal funding for voting. Why is that? Both are popular.
I think reason is that Dems are fearmongering on IVF so it’s an election hedge (even though generally Rs should oppose federalizing stuff) but there’s no corresponding money on the right to highlight risks of noncitizen voting so 🤷🏽♀️. But we lose our country if noncitizens vote.
Republicans congressmen apparently also DGAF about state and federal government censorship of private speech through social media proxies because they have done diddly squat to fix judicial expansion of CDA 230 immunity or to fix the censorship itself.
My GOODNESS, look at all the lawyer acts, some might even say predicate acts, committed by election-denying attorney Mark Elias in Iowa in 2021, claiming vote counts were wrong, "finding" extra votes... urging the legislature to flip the outcome... 🫨🤯dailycaller.com/2021/03/22/mar…
What Marc Elias did in Iowa in 2020/2021 is something for which President Trump, his lawyers, and followers, are being indicted. And what top Democrat lawyers including David Boies, did in 2000. Not to mention the Russia collusion hoax. Should Iowa indict Elias for election work?