Biden DOJ coordinated legal assault on Georgia election integrity law with liberal groups
By: John Solomon
The evil of the let’s go Brandon regime and it’s so called justice department knows no bounds. Their attacks on a very reasonable state law violated ethical bounds and are a great example of the Orwellian instincts of the present regime. The perfect group for this investigative report expose of wrong doing.
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Biden DOJ coordinated legal assault on Georgia election integrity law with liberal groups
The Biden Justice Department coordinated its legal assault on Georgia's election integrity law last year with several liberal advocacy groups, and is now trying to conceal the content of their communications by claiming they are covered by legal privileges.
Emails and memos obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and reviewed by Just the News show extensive communications between DOJ officials and some of the biggest names in the liberal legal advocacy world, including the NAACP, the ACLU, the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The communications also include the Perkins Coie law firm, which represented the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee and now finds itself enmeshed in Special Counsel John Durham's prosecution of Michael Sussmann, a former partner at the firm who is accused of lying to the FBI when he spread false Russia dirt on Donald Trump back in 2016, the memos show.
"Thanks for reaching out. We are available on Tuesday at 4 p.m. to discuss those topics," DOJ trial attorney Jasmyn Richardson wrote Leah Aden of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund on Aug. 6, 2021 in an email string setting up one of several meetings and conferences about the Georgia law.
The topics for the meeting were redacted by DOJ, claiming they are covered by deliberative privilege and attorney work product secrecy.
The memos show that a month after the Biden administration sued Georgia to overturn its election integrity law the advocacy groups and DOJ constructed an agreement to protect their discussions and emails from public disclosure by calling them "common interest communications."
"Hi all, as confirmed on today's call, each of the entities that participated in today's call ... agree on their own behalf and on behalf of their respective clients in this litigation that they share a common interest in the successful prosecution of this litigation and that they may share (but are not required to share) privileged communications and other litigation material between and among them without waiving the attorney-client privilege, the work product protection or any other privilege or protection," Ezra D. Rosenberg, the codirector of the Voting Rights Project at the Lawyers' Committee, wrote the group on July 28, 2021.
At least three DOJ lawyers were included on that memo.
Nearly all the communications after that time included a disclaimer claiming they were "common interest communications" and were heavily redacted by DOJ to hide the substance of discussions before they were released under FOIA.
Raffensperger said Thursday the redactions and the privilege claims smack of political favoritism, since DOJ should consider the American public and not one-sided political allies as its clients.
"In effect, what they are doing is invoking client-attorney privilege," the Georgia elections chief said in a television interview. "And it clients, apparently, are these liberal activist groups, instead of being the American people. The Department of Justice works for all of us. I believed that this case was politically motivated, and now we have proof."
A senior Justice Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Just the News there is case law, including in the federal circuit that covers Georgia, where the lawsuit is filed, allowing DOJ to work with common partners on litigation and shield the communications with the same privileges that a private lawyer enjoys with a client.
The official declined to address the appropriateness of the alliance between DOJ and liberal advocacy groups on the Georgia lawsuit.
In the aftermath of the 2020 election, in which absentee ballots, drop boxes and other tactics were more widely used because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Georgia's legislature in March 2021 passed a sweeping election integrity reform law .
The law, among other things, restricted the use of drop boxes, banned the mass mailing of absentee voting ballot request forms to those who did not ask for them and required voter ID and citizenship checks. Gov. Brian Kemp signed the bill into law.
Several private groups sued to challenge the law, and the Justice Department joined the fray on June 25, 2021 , claiming the law would disproportionately impact black voters and therefore was discriminatory.
"The Georgia legislature enacted SB 202 with knowledge of the disproportionate effect that these provisions ... would have on Black voters' ability to participate in the political process on an equal basis with white voters," the suit charged.
Georgia has pushed back against the lawsuit, noting black voting has soared in recent years in the state and the provisions such as voter ID are widely supported by Americans black and white.
While that lawsuit awaits trial, the new memos Raffensperger's office turned up via FOIA make clear the Biden DOJ worked closely with one side of the debate via the liberal advocacy groups and in one case even hailed one of the group's members for landing a political appointment in the Biden White House.
The relations were so cozy that DOJ sent out its announcement of the lawsuit to a distribution list, and got accolades back from its liberal partners.
"Thanks for passing this important announcement along," wrote Krystal Ka'ai, a staffer for the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus chaired by U.S. Rep. Judy Chu, (D-Calif.). "We truly appreciate the work DOJ is doing to prevent voter suppression efforts in Georgia that are meant to suppress voter turnout from communities of color, including AAPIs."
Ka'ai noted in her June 25, 2021 email that she was leaving CAPAC for a job in the Biden White House in a few weeks, earning a warm response from DOJ official Rayshon Payton.
"Congratulations on your last accomplishment!!“ Payton wrote back. “Given your professionalism and steadfast drive to better the community around you, its no surprise President Biden selected you for that position.
While DOJ alerted lots of the liberal groups, it apparently slighted one key figure, freshman Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat whose office made no secret of its displeasure at being kept out of the loop, the memos show.
"I saw the news about the DOJ suit against Georgia re: SB 202, and our offices were a little caught off guard," Warnock counsel Annie Wang wrote DOJ. "It would be very helpful to get additional background and context on this and to speak with the relevant folks involved since it centers on our state and is an issue my boss prioritizes."
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What's this nonsense?
#45 called Raffensberger and told him to find the correct # of votes.
Just more deflection from #45's criminal actions and his criminal enterprise of an 'administration'
You keep saying that but so fare EVERY investigation has come up empty handed to include the one in NYC that is wrapping up.
Including those pursued by advocates of the Big Lie ... looks like both sides are batting .000
That's one I was referring to. 2016 right up to Mueller's report shown that was a hoax.
It’s always “but Trump” for some.
But that’s not the topic of the seed, is it? It’s about the actions of the let’s go Brandon regime coordinating with and keeping secret their efforts with several far left interest groups to oppose Georgia’s very balanced and fair election law last year.
Always a deflection from some.
Exactly! The original and actual big lie. Democrats colluded with Russia and other foreign intelligence services to try to frame Trump.
Then they "investigated" it and STILL come up empty. Can you get any more incompetent? Well, I guess they could. They support Biden so there's that.
“Including those pursued by advocates of the Big Lie ...”
The new normal; the tossing out of unfounded and specious accusations, the spewing out of countless and inexplicable defenses, and the wasting of time and money on needless legislation…all to appease the unappeasable.
But but but trump deflection, again.
“But but but trump deflection…”
The day he rides off into the sunset (either in a limo or in shackles) will be the day the ‘deflections’ cease. Until then, he will be a never ending source of division and derision.
Til then, we are all enabling the fix he cannot live without.
A truly pathetic individual.
It’s all some in this country and elsewhere have to say….
We will elect him as #47 and then you can complain about his awesome ideas and politics all you want while we as a nation benefit from him being there…
“We will elect him as #47 and then you can complain about his awesome ideas and politics all you want…”
If it happens, expect complaints…but without the Let’s Go idiocy, the never ending lies about the election, the tacit acceptance of the rhetoric from junior members of Congress, or the inability of their ‘leadership’ to condemn the same.
Expect accountability, at least from the same members of the electorate.
You had better hope the US never sees that day. With all the BS lawsuits that led to jack shit of nothing; falsified data that never should have been used to start the whole Russian collusion investigation; and just general dumb shittery (2 impeachment that followed none of the rules of Congress; and the Jan 6th committee where Pelosi violated all procedures by barring 2 members of the opposition- and appointed two others that she knew were out to get Trump as badly as she was.). Do you really think anyone, outside of the bat shit crazy TDS driven idiots, are going to believe what they pin on Trump is real? And Democrats think they are in trouble now?
But Trruuummmmpppppp!!!!!! Isn't working to damn well now for Democrats is it? Mid terms are coming and the blood bath looks to be getting nothing but bigger. The vast majority of voters don't give a shit about Trump. They care about the price of gas; rising inflation; wide open borders with ever increasing stream of illegal immigrants; rapidly increasing crime throughout the US; Democrat AG's that don't give a shit about enforcing the laws- except against white straight males; US citizens still abandoned in Afghanistan as "Biden has turned the page"; and the DOJ and FBI investigating parents who are upset about public schools being turned into left wing indoctrination centers.
The Democrats had better wake the fuck up after midterms; or they will find out where the bottom really is.
And I am sure a certain group of people will find someone else to focus their ire and hate on. Or maybe a whole group of deplorable people
It is funny, I actually thought lefties, CNN and MSNBC would forget about Trump when he left. I didn't think they would continue with it because when you get right down to it he is the only thing they have.
You are exactly right! It takes a lot of incompetence to be that…
We have a long history as a nation with peaceful transfers of power from one party and or leader to the opposite for a reason. A constitution, an informed electorate, and the fact we don’t lock up former Presidents or congressional leaders of the other party when they leave office. We need it all to stay that way.
There are a number of them, the biggest being in 1925/26. I was referring to the 2020 version.
He is like it or not part of history, one must ask what is it about American history pre 1776 and post 2020 that makes it verboten in certain 'we' partisan circles ... it is as though the 'we' are embarrassed by it and lack the courage to confront it. Denial is the paper shield of hubris.
“We have a long history as a nation with peaceful transfers of power from one party and or leader to the opposite for a reason.”
After uttering that phrase, how in the world can you pardon trump and his apologists for their actions in their attempt to undermine the history you cite?
Unbelievable.
For some the freedom of speech 'Trumps' the freedom of thought and the cart runs away with the horse.
“For some…”
We have all seen it.
The arguments made are always couched in the but what, never in the what could be. Their inevitable downfall.
There is no shame in our overall 1607-1775 history here on the east coast of north America as British colonies despite some mistakes along the way. We were not the United States of America though until July 4, 1776.
It was neither Trump nor the vast majority of those of us who support him that participated in the federal law enforcement instigation and entrapment that day.
Hell will freeze over before we allow people like those on power now, politically nor of social media dictate the terms of such to anyone else…
“It was neither Trump nor the vast majority of those of us who support him that participated in the federal law enforcement instigation and entrapment that day.”
What he does this mean? Take a minute as needs be.
Thank God for Donald Trump and Elon Musk!
You can figure it out for yourself…
Sounds like a life starts at birth and not at conception argument.
That someone bypassed the instructions and ate the Kool-Aid.
Morning xx..just as a matter of interest do they teach history in schools over there that America was the original dumping ground for British convicts??
It is taught here as that is the main reason Australia was settled as the Brits (Poms) as we call them lost the war of Independence..hence lost their dumping ground.
Most Americans seem to be unaware of this and I often wonder if it has been deliberately glossed over and erased from your history.
We are extremely proud of our convict heritage which most foreigners don't get or grasp and think we are nuts..but for us that is where White history began and it and us have evolved from those days in 1788..(I acknowledge the first nations people have been here for 50,000 years walking this land).
I was so disappointed there were no convicts in my family history...
Good point. Like in most other things, both sides are now upside down.
... and Jesus thanked God for his BFF Judas. That worked out well.
(BTW, I am of the opinion that Judas was framed.)
Time to start a new tradition ... : -)
Morning Hally.... that's hilarious...just about choked on my egg and bacon sanga (sandwich)... laughing..
I guess I could always start a new trend..well the cat is unregistered so there is a bit of a convict in me...
More Americans are aware than you think and one of our 13 had that start too
Well there are two. You mean the one where a protest is called an act of terrorism or the one where a former President colluded with a foreign country to win an election (this one is actually from 2016 but still pushed by some of the simple minded even in 2022)?
These are hardcore ideologues running the DOJ and Homeland Security.
Anyone for impeachment?
Yes!
I’m all for it.