Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel recently joined 22 other attorneys general across the country to call on U.S. Attorney General William Barr to reverse his abrupt change to a 40-year-old U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) policy that had kept the department from interfering with election results.
In their letter to Barr, Nessel and her colleagues voiced their “strong objection” to this policy reversal, which they said “will erode the public’s confidence in the election,” and called on him to “reverse your decision promptly.”
Barr issued a new directive on Nov. 9 that U.S. attorneys may now pursue allegations of voter fraud without adhering to long-established, important guardrails.
Until now, the DOJ has recognized that the principal responsibility for overseeing elections lies with states and has “taken care to avoid affecting the outcome of elections or even the perception of political intrusion in the electoral process,” the coalition wrote.
“It is the states’ principal responsibility for overseeing the election process and my office is committed to bringing perpetrators of fraud to justice,” Nessel said.
“As I’ve stated previously, there has not been an unusual number of credible allegations of voting misconduct. It’s clear that this new policy only serves to undermine confidence in the electoral process while legitimizing the president’s unsupported claims that he won his reelection.”
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