DOJ says Trump voter registration lawsuit against Whitmer should be dismissed
Source: Law & Crime
Sep 22nd, 2024, 11:18 am
The Department of Justice on Friday said the lawsuit filed by former President Donald Trump’s campaign against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer over her establishing new voter registration locations should be dismissed because any allegations of potential voter fraud are “highly speculative.”
Trump’s lawsuit filed in July in the U.S. District Court Western District of Michigan accuses Whitmer of illegally allowing voter registration at government agencies such as the Department of Veterans Affairs and Small Business Administration. Whitmer, a Democrat, last year issued an executive directive to designate Saginaw VA Medical Center, the Detroit VA Medical Center and the department’s Detroit regional office as Voter Registration Agencies (VRAs).
Whitmer in her directive invoked the National Voter Registration Act which Congress passed in the early 1990s. One of its requirements is that state’s must designate registration sites at government offices in addition to local clerk’s offices. But Trump, who is joined in the lawsuit by the Republican National Committee, Michigan Republican Party and a local clerk, argues Michigan law states that the state Legislature, not the governor, are the designees of VRAs.
The former president also sued the SBA and VA. The DOJ in the 35-page motion to dismiss wrote that Trump’s lawsuit “lacks standing” because it has “failed to identify any concrete or particularized injury that flows from two Federal agencies providing nonpartisan voter registration services that many Federal, State, and local offices also provide.”
Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/entirely-speculative-doj-says-trump-voter-registration-lawsuit-against-whitmer-should-be-dismissed-because-allegations-of-voter-fraud-are-nonexistent/
Full headline: ‘Entirely speculative’: DOJ says Trump voter registration lawsuit against Whitmer should be dismissed because allegations of voter fraud are nonexistent
Link to DOJ MOTION (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.miwd.112285/gov.uscourts.miwd.112285.32.0.pdf
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It is an act of VIOLENCE against ME and this country 