{"id":1711142,"date":"2022-10-26T06:09:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T10:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1711142"},"modified":"2022-10-26T07:05:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T11:05:22","slug":"doj-blocking-requests-for-information-on-enforcement-of-federal-election-scheme-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-blocking-requests-for-information-on-enforcement-of-federal-election-scheme-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Blocking Requests for Information on Enforcement of \u201cFederal Election Scheme\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdoj-blocking-requests-for-information-on-enforcement-of-federal-election-scheme-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1711142&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A watchdog group is alleging that the Department of Justice (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-doj\">DOJ<\/a>) is refusing to divulge key details on how the agency is enforcing President Joe Biden\u2019s executive order signed last year that directed federal agencies to increase voter turnout.<\/p>\n<p>The Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) filed a lawsuit against the DOJ earlier this year about how it is implementing the executive order, signed in March 2021 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/presidential-actions\/2021\/03\/07\/executive-order-on-promoting-access-to-voting\/\">titled<\/a>, \u201cPromoting Access to Voting.\u201d Text of the order, according to a White House statement, is laced with claims that black Americans and other minority groups have faced \u201cfaced discriminatory policies\u201d and as such, federal agencies should partner with local, state, and other election officials to \u201cprotect and promote the exercise of the right to vote, eliminate discrimination and other barriers to voting, and expand access to voter registration and accurate election information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, according to FGA, the DOJ has only given the group a series of heavily redacted documents. The organization told Fox News on Tuesday that it will take more legal action against the DOJ, accusing it of hiding alleged details about how the federal government is working on behalf of Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden is deeply unpopular. It\u2019s clear his administration has weaponized DOJ to hide records and is using the legal process to run out the clock before the midterm elections,\u201d Tarren Bragdon, the head of FGA, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/doj-stonewalling-requests-details-implementation-bidens-federal-election-scheme\">told<\/a> Fox News. \u201cDOJ offered flimsy excuses to justify concealing key information regarding their participation in government-funded \u2018get out the vote\u2019 efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following a September court order that ruled in favor of the FGA, the DOJ handed over 135 pages of redacted documents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmong the missing documents was the DOJ\u2019s 15-page strategic plan that detailed how the agency will help increase voter registration and participation,\u201d FGA also said Tuesday. \u201cThis document is a finished product, completed as part of Biden\u2019s executive order. In July, a federal district court ruled the DOJ must turn over the documents to the FGA, and this post-decisional document clearly is required to be disclosed.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Order<\/h2>\n<p>The 2021 executive order said that Attorney General <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-merrick-garland\">Merrick Garland<\/a> shall \u201cestablish procedures, consistent with applicable law, to ensure the United States Marshals Service includes language in intergovernmental agreements and jail contracts to require the jails to provide educational materials related to voter registration and voting, and to facilitate voting by mail, to the extent practicable and appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And it directed the attorney general to \u201ctake appropriate steps, consistent with applicable law, to support formerly incarcerated individuals in obtaining a means of identification that satisfies State voter identification laws,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart Whitson, legal director for the FGA, told Fox on Tuesday that the group will file a new legal complaint to \u201ccounter [the] DOJ\u2019s stonewalling,\u201d saying,\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019ll ask the judge to compel DOJ to finally reveal documents they\u2019ve been hiding, including their strategic plan to carry out President Biden\u2019s federal election scheme.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ has not responded to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-jack-phillips\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2019\/06\/13\/Jack-Phillips.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Phillips\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"names\">\n<p>Breaking News Reporter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter at The Epoch Times based in New York.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A watchdog group is alleging that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is refusing to divulge key details on how the agency is enforcing President Joe Biden\u2019s executive order signed last<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1894927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1711142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}