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VP #JDVance on Wednesday evening is expected to host a group of top administration officials at his residence for a strategy session as the administration considers whether to release the transcript from the #DepartmentofJustice interview with #GhislaineMaxwell abcnews.go.com/Politics/van...

Vance expected to host Epstein...

ABC News · Vance expected to host Epstein strategy dinner with Bondi, Blanche, PatelBy Katherine Faulders

@meidastouch.com host @meiselasb.bsky.social reports on how most career prosecutors at the #DepartmentofJustice 's have now QUIT as Donald Trump and DOJ "leadership" try to consistently force to them to break the law and breach their ethical obligation as licensed attorneys. youtu.be/-QUXtxLBQ5E?...

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The #DepartmentOfJustice is requesting a meeting with convicted #SexTrafficker #GhislaineMaxwell, who's serving 20 years in prison for her role in Epstein's #HumanTrafficking network, as President #DonaldTrump has been unable to turn the page on the #JeffreyEpstein scandal — and it's left some conservatives shocked.

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Raw Story · 'Not the plot twist I saw coming': CNN conservative baffled by latest in Epstein sagaBy Travis Gettys

Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice recommended that a former police detective convicted of excessive force in the case of Breonna Taylor should serve a single day in prison. The judge in the case disagreed, and today sentenced former Louisville Metro Police Department detective Brett Hankison to 33 months in jail. Here's more from NBC.

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NBC News · Ex-cop convicted of excessive force in Breonna Taylor case gets 33 monthsBy Patrick Smith

This summer we're seeing reboots of "Superman" and "Fantastic Four," so why not "but her emails?" Newsweek reports that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has released documents tied to the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server during her time as Secretary of State. "The release includes materials related to former FBI Director James Comey's handling of the investigation, which critics say did not thoroughly examine key evidence," Amanda Castro writes. Castro notes the timing of the release as the Department of Justice tries to deal with backlash over its handling of the Epstein files.

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Newsweek · Pam Bondi Grants Request for Clinton Email Probe Amid Epstein Files FalloutBy Amanda Castro

Texas Plays Cynical Racial Gerrymandering Game to Save House Majority for Trump

Trump’s Justice Department gave political cover for Gov. Greg Abbott to mingle gerrymandering with disaster relief.

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Alright, so we now know Trump's Justice Department is threatening election officials across the country with federal prosecution, based on fascist conspiracy theories about voting systems integrity; a redux of "The Big Lie" that fueled Trump's political rebirth after losing the 2020 US Presidential election and the failed coup (autogolpe specifically) on January 6th, 2021. Whether the Trump regime fascists ever charge anyone with this nonsense or not, we know they're actively trying to take over election boards and the election process more broadly, all over the country. All that's left is to watch them put that control into practice, and I think this Common Dreams story is a good enough place to start on that front.

As recently reported in the Washington Post, Trump's Justice Department lead by Attorney General Pam Bondi, "has taken the unusual step of asking at least nine states for copies of their voter rolls, and at least two have turned them over." These efforts appear to be particularly focused on Colorado, a former battleground state that has been increasingly shifting towards Democrats, where a local Republican operative is pushing to allow the federal government to physically inspect their voting equipment.

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'The 2020 Playbook on Steroids': Trump DOJ Requests for State Voter Data Spark Alarm

"Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat, called the Trump administration's efforts "the 2020 playbook on steroids."

"This all is part of a bigger ploy to further undermine our voting in this country," warned Griswold. "They are actively in a power grab."

Even some Republican election officials responded with alarm to the Trump administration's requests for voter data and access to voting equipment.

"To me, it felt like they were wanting to intervene before 2026," Justin Grantham, the Republican clerk in Colorado's Fremont County, told the Post, referring to the upcoming midterms.

Carly Koppes, a Republican clerk in Weld County, Colorado, said she rejected requests for a federal inspection of election equipment.

"That's a hard stop for me," said Koppes. "Nobody gets access to my voting equipment, for security reasons."

So, if you were wondering why Pam Bondi and the Trumpenreich Justice Department were looking for ways to prosecute election officials who don't go along with Trump's fascist conspiracy bullshit, even though the fascist right has already been quite successful at stacking election boards, including in many deeply blue counties, with Trump-humping Republicans, folks like Justin Grantham and Carly Koppes are the answer.

I think however the larger point to remember here is that absolutely none of this is actually about maintaining election integrity, and therefore none of the regime's actions have to be moored to the truth in any tangible way. For example, they're not asking to look at Colorado's voting equipment because they think they'll find something fishy. Rather, they intend to point to the investigation itself and any possible charges against Colorado election officials brought by Pam Bondi, which the Trump regime itself is creating whole cloth, as evidence that there is something fishy about a Colorado that doesn't go full fascist in the next cycle of elections. The ultimate results of those investigations and potential trials are largely irrelevant to the Trump regime's current goals of interfering with, and ultimately rigging the US electoral process.

This then brings us to the regime's ongoing obsession with obtaining access to voter rolls; attempts the Trump administration has made through a wide variety of methods, including the Department of Government Efficiency, formerly run by Elon Musk. Obviously, analysis isn't prophecy, but both the Trump regime and the larger Republican Party have aggressively been pushing conspiracy theories about undocumented migrants or deceased Democrats voting, so it doesn't really take a genius to figure out they want to use those voter rolls to generate trumped up accusations of widespread voter fraud, and then use that as a justification to purge or otherwise disqualify huge numbers of people likely to vote against them in upcoming elections. The fact that they can also feed all that data into the digital panopticon Palantir is building so Trump can find all his political enemies, is pure gravy for the Trumpenreich and Downmarket Mussolini.

For much of the past month and a half, we've all partaken of an American political discourse openly asking "why doesn't the Republican Party care about harming their own voters" in the face of an upcoming election cycle? I fear the answer to that question may well be that the Trump regime feels pretty confident about its ability to ensure they can't lose political power in rigged elections.

Common Dreams · 'The 2020 Playbook on Steroids': Trump DOJ Requests for State Voter Data Spark Alarm | Common Dreams"This all is part of a bigger ploy to further undermine our voting in this country," said Colorado's Democratic secretary of state. "They are actively in a power grab."