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Judge blocks DOJ effort to obtain info on 2020 election workers in Georgia
A Justice Department subpoena seeking the names, addresses and contact information for hundreds of election workers and volunteers in Georgia was quashed.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/07/07/trump-has-baselessly-asserted-he-lost-state-biden-2020-due-fraud
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked a Justice Department demand for the names, addresses and contact information for hundreds of 2020 election workers and volunteers in Georgia’s most populous county.
The Justice Department’s subpoena, served on Fulton County in April, is part of DOJ’s broad investigation of President Donald Trump’s 2020 loss in the state. But U.S. District Judge William M. Ray II called the breadth of the department’s request “staggering” and concluded that it served no valid investigative purpose.
Trump has repeatedly made false assertions that his 2020 loss to Joe Biden in Georgia and other key states that year was a result of fraud. But the judge said the standard five-year statute of limitations on almost any crime the department might wish to charge expired last year.
Ray, a Trump appointee, credited arguments by the county’s lawyers who maintained that the subpoena served no purpose other than to harass election workers ahead of this year’s midterm vote and to fan baseless speculation about the 2020 campaign.
“Everyone, whether you support the President or you do not, or whether you believe the 2020 Election was fair or believe that it was not, should be concerned about the DOJ’s ability to utilize the power of the Grand Jury to appropriate your private information without a legitimate purpose,” Ray wrote.
The Justice Department’s subpoena, served on Fulton County in April, is part of DOJ’s broad investigation of President Donald Trump’s 2020 loss in the state. But U.S. District Judge William M. Ray II called the breadth of the department’s request “staggering” and concluded that it served no valid investigative purpose.
Trump has repeatedly made false assertions that his 2020 loss to Joe Biden in Georgia and other key states that year was a result of fraud. But the judge said the standard five-year statute of limitations on almost any crime the department might wish to charge expired last year.
Ray, a Trump appointee, credited arguments by the county’s lawyers who maintained that the subpoena served no purpose other than to harass election workers ahead of this year’s midterm vote and to fan baseless speculation about the 2020 campaign.
“Everyone, whether you support the President or you do not, or whether you believe the 2020 Election was fair or believe that it was not, should be concerned about the DOJ’s ability to utilize the power of the Grand Jury to appropriate your private information without a legitimate purpose,” Ray wrote.
I also think that the seizure of the 2020 voting records was bogus. trump cannot deal with the fact that he lost the 2020 election