Trump launches new swing-state meddling — in direct defiance of judge's rebuke

The Trump administration is undeterred by a recent federal judge's ruling that ordered them to back off of efforts to interfere in Georgia elections. According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "The U.S. Department of Justice warned election officials in Georgia and every other state they could face criminal prosecution if noncitizens cast ballots," which is already against the law in every state. "The letter from Harmeet Dhillon , who heads the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, also demands that state officials explain within five days how they are preventing illegal voting," noted the report. Dhillon wrote that "any election officer, including the chief election officer of the state, who knowingly retains noncitizens on the state’s SVRL or facilitates noncitizens in receiving and casting ballots could be subject to criminal liability." The letter was sent despite U.S. District Judge William Ray, himself an appointee of President Donald Trump, quashing a grand jury subpoena seeking the personal information of thousands of election workers in Fulton County, which includes the city of Atlanta. "These records, even if they lead to the DOJ finding individuals who worked for Fulton County in the 2020 Election who support the theory that the 2020 Election was not fair, would not lead to information that could be used to charge anyone with anything," Ray wrote in his order this week. "That is because the statute of limitations for any possible crime arising from the 2020 Election has long expired." Trump has continued to maintain, with no evidence and in the face of dozens of courts dismissing his complaints, that the 2020 presidential election was in some way rigged and stolen from him, even after facing a now-dismissed criminal case in Georgia for trying to pressure state officials to "find" extra ballots for him.