Thread by @JoyceWhiteVance

DOJ will sue Georgia over it's new restrictive voting laws. Cases like this are rare & this action signifies resolve on the part of DOJ's new leadership to aggressively exercise its authority in this critical area. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

https://twitter.com/JoyceWhiteVance/status/1408410982389534720

AG Garland says this is the “first of many steps” DOJ will take to guarantee voting rights.

Deputy AG @LisaMonaco says the criminal task force they have created sends a message to every agent & prosecutor in the field to focus on identification, investigation & prosecution of criminal conduct that threatens election officials and workers.

And, still waiting on DOJ's lawsuit itself, but @KristenClarkeJD says they will challenge restrictions on counting out of precinct ballots. That's similar to one of the issues in Brnovich, the big & still undecided SCOTUS voting rights case this term.

Brnovich also involves a challenge to whether Arizona’s ballot-collection law, which limits the people who can turn in absentee ballots violates section 2, an issue it sounds like DOJ will challenge in Georgia as well.

I suspect DOJ is optimistic, despite concerns Brnovich will result in a narrow standard that make it more difficult to prevail on Sec. 2 claims, because of the clear linkage between increased turnout, especially among black voters in Georgia, just ahead of passage of the new law.