Secretary Raffensperger Calls On Department Of Justice To Release Contacts With Stacey Abrams And Other Liberal Activist Groups

(Atlanta) – Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has filed a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA) with the U.S. Department of Justice to release any records of contact with Stacey Abrams, Fair Fight Action, or 60 other liberal activist organizations. Raffensperger is making this call for transparency in light of the recent lawsuit against Georgia’s election laws filed by the Department of Justice.

“The American people deserve to know who’s really pulling the strings in the hyper partisan Biden Department of Justice,” Raffensperger said. “The many hypocrisies and double-standards in the Department of Justice lawsuit make it clear that Georgia is being singled out for political reasons. This new step will help determine whether the Biden Administration is getting outside help in turning America’s top law enforcement agency into an extension of the extreme left wing or if the DOJ has been taken over by liberal activists altogether.”

Raffensperger has filed a FOIA requesting communications the U.S. Department of Justice has had with liberal activist groups and members of Congress about Georgia’s recent election law. The FOIA request also seeks any internal documents or guidelines used by the U.S. Department of Justice to evaluate how they determine that one state’s election law allegedly violates the law, while the same provision enacted in another state does not violate the law. The FOIA requests any communications since November 3, 2020.

Raffensperger’s FOIA request calls for the release of communications between the U.S. Department of Justice and 62 individuals and organizations, including Stacey Abrams, Fair Fight Action, the ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Perkins Coie, a law firm that represents Democrat political groups in voting cases.

On July 25, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit challenging Georgia’s election laws. Among the challenged provisions, the Department of Justice is suing to stop the addition of ID to absentee ballot voting in Georgia. The Department of Justice is also suing to stop the Secretary of State’s office from implementing provisions relating to absentee ballot drop boxes, a method of returning absentee ballots that was illegal the day before Georgia’s new election law was passed.

The U.S. Department of Justice filed its lawsuit only days after H.R. 1, the federal elections takeover  attempt, failed in the U.S. Senate. Raffensperger noted that H.R. 1 “would make future elections dysfunctional and fuel baseless claims of stolen elections from people like Stacey Abrams.”

 

A copy of the FOIA request can be here .

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