Prosecutors Allowed to Take Actions Ahead of Elections

[RandySF]

“The Department of Justice has weakened its long-standing prohibition against interfering in elections,” ProPublica reports.

“Avoiding election interference is the overarching principle of DOJ policy on voting-related crimes. In place since at least 1980, the policy generally bars prosecutors not only from making any announcement about ongoing investigations close to an election but also from taking public steps — such as an arrest or a raid — before a vote is finalized because the publicity could tip the balance of a race.”

“But according to an email sent Friday by an official in the Public Integrity Section in Washington, now if a U.S. attorney’s office suspects election fraud that involves postal workers or military employees, federal investigators will be allowed to take public investigative steps before the polls close, even if those actions risk affecting the outcome of the election.”


https://politicalwire.com/2020/10/07/prosecutors-now-allowed-to-take-actions-ahead-of-elections/

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. here we go

[Miguelito Loveless]

2. Barr is setting up a pretext

to discredit the election before the election.

[2naSalit]

3. Yup.

[Crunchy Frog]

4. They're going to be pulling out all the stops.

They're probably going to do things that we can't even imagine at this point.

I think the narrative that Trump is resigned to losing is incorrect and probably a dangerous one for us to fall into. He's already tried to infect our candidate with covid FFS.

We should expect any and every outrage going forward, up through, and then after, the election.

This is definitely NOT a normal election year.

[Thekaspervote]

6. Exactly... Biden has amassed a team of 600 attorneys to deal with their shenanigans

So....our job...GOTV in such numbers that if they succeed in a state, we will still win

[triron]

7. Yes. They are desperate.

[Fiendish Thingy]

5. Time for governors to put state police in place to block seizure of ballots. Nt