Thread by @realjusthuman

🧵"[DOJ] has demanded [via a federal grand jury subpoena] the identities of every worker who staffed the 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., according to court records...

The demand targets employees of Fulton County elections as well as volunteer poll workers..."
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"...workers, who likely numbered in the thousands during the 2020 election."

"It is not known what the Justice Department intends to do with the names of election workers."

I mean, my first guess would be interview them.
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"The county received the grand jury subpoena for workers’ names on April 20, according to court records. The existence of the subpoena became public on Monday evening, when lawyers for Fulton County filed a motion attempting to block it."
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"The county board argued that the subpoena 'cannot yield any evidence that could result in a criminal prosecution' because, among other things, the statutes of limitations have expired 'for any purported 2020 election crimes.'"

Funny you bring that up.

4/njustice.gov/archives/jm/cr…

The subpoenas are from the US Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina Dan Bishop, who at the end of March of this year was appointed by AG Bondi as a Special Attorney to the AG and authorized to pursue election-related probes across the country-- just like the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri Thomas Albus last September. Albus alter sought and obtained search warrants from a Georgia magistrate for the FBI raid on the Fulton County storage facility that took place earlier this year.
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Here's what this new subpoena is seeking

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The motion to quash the subpoena argues it's an improper use of that power. The filing notes that,

"....the Subpoena does not require that the FBRE provide the records to the grand jury; instead, it directs that the records be routed out of this district to a U.S. Attorney appointed to “pursue election-related probes across the country” on behalf of DOJ."
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They infer from this that,

"So by its terms, the Subpoena does not suggest that the grand jury is conducting an investigation of its own (for which it intends to receive the records), but rather, that DOJ is simply conducting its own investigation."
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"There is no indication from the face of the Subpoena that the grand jury is even aware of this investigation, that the records will be returned to the grand jury, or that the grand jury would knowingly participate..."
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The subpoena, it appears to me, in fact does direct the FBRE to deliver the materials to a grand jury.
GJ# 1-26 at the United States Courthouse in Atlanta, GA.
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Let us hope so.
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Article
archive.is/mKFDs

Here are the relevant court docs

Motion
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Subpoena
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…