DOJ Demands Ballots From Michigan County
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The Department of Justice is seeking over 800,000 ballots and election records from Wayne County in Michigan.
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon asked for “all ballots (including absentee and provisional), ballot receipts, and ballot envelopes.”
She also threatened legal action if Wayne County does not comply.
Michigan is among states doubling down on rejecting Trump administration investigations and oversight into elections, claiming protection of the right to vote, potentially setting up a battle that could escalate to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Justice Department is demanding roughly 865,000 ballots and hundreds of thousands of related election records from the Detroit area’s 2024 election, threatening to seek a court order if the materials are not turned over within 14 days.
In an April 14 letter to Wayne County Clerk Cathy Garrett, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon asked for “all ballots (including absentee and provisional), ballot receipts, and ballot envelopes” from the November 2024 federal election, saying the department was acting under federal records-retention law and investigating whether election laws were followed.
Dhillon wrote that the request was based on a “history of fraud convictions and other allegations” in Wayne County and warned that failure to comply “may result in the United States seeking a court order for production of such records.”
On Sunday, FBI Director Kash Patel said that the DOJ will make arrests related to the 2020 election.
Patel said, “we are going to be making arrests, and it’s coming, and I promise you, it’s coming soon.”
FBI Director Kash Patel promised Sunday that the Justice Department will soon make arrests related to the 2020 election as the DOJ continues escalating its efforts to relitigate past presidential elections.
“We’ve got all the information we need, we’re working with our prosecutors at the Department of Justice under [acting] Attorney General Todd Blanche, and we are going to be making arrests, and it’s coming, and I promise you, it’s coming soon,” Patel told host Maria Bartiromo during an appearance on “Sunday Morning Futures.”
