Posted on 04/20/2026 3:43:20 PM PDT by Libloather
Michigan is among states doubling down on rejecting Trump administration investigations and oversight into elections, claiming protection of the right to vote, potentially setting up a battle that could escalate to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Justice Department is demanding roughly 865,000 ballots and hundreds of thousands of related election records from the Detroit area’s 2024 election, threatening to seek a court order if the materials are not turned over within 14 days.
In an April 14 letter to Wayne County Clerk Cathy Garrett, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon asked for "all ballots (including absentee and provisional), ballot receipts, and ballot envelopes" from the November 2024 federal election, saying the department was acting under federal records-retention law and investigating whether election laws were followed.
Dhillon wrote that the request was based on a "history of fraud convictions and other allegations" in Wayne County and warned that failure to comply "may result in the United States seeking a court order for production of such records."
"Here @theJusticeDept, ensuring election integrity is a paramount duty," Dhillon wrote Sunday on X, sharing the video of her appearance on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo. "Many states fail to clean noncitizen & deceased people from their voter rolls, and under my leadership, @CivilRights will continue working to ensure that ONLY eligible American citizens vote in our elections!"
Dhillon added her investigations seek to "ensure accountability for the outrageous weaponization of the deep state against President Trump and his team."
"It must never be repeated!" she concluded.
The demand marks the latest step in a broader push by the Trump administration to scrutinize election procedures in key swing states after earlier moves involving 2020 ballots in Georgia and election records in Arizona.
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Ocams Razor: The simplest explanation is probably the right explanation.
If they were not cheating they would not object to releasing the records.
Harmeet Dhillon is not anybody’s pushover.
Well, yes. The DOJ is requesting 850,000 ballots.
But there are actually less than 300,00 eligible voters.
You know:
The ones without a felony conviction.
Registered only one time at only one address.
Older than 18.
US citizens.
Registered and actually living in Detroit.
Pretend they stood on the sidewalk near an abortion clinic. Or maybe Roger Stone. Send FBI Stormtroopers to raid the place at 0600.
The DOJ and it’s minor subordinate bureau, the FBI have zero patience for normal citizens, but are -very- slow, measured and gentle when it comes to government corruption.
The Justice Department is demanding roughly 865,000 ballots and hundreds of thousands of related election records from the Detroit area’s 2024 election, threatening to seek a court order if the materials are not turned over within 14 days.
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I am not sure what the “Detroit area” encompasses in this case.
But there are only like 600,000+ residents in the city of Detroit.
What a dream arrest that would be. Would wipe the smile of Gretchen Whitmer’s face.
Sadly, the rich and the powerful leftist elites do not go to prison. Only the lowly, common people do.
Uh, that’s within the legal system.
Is there any punishment if they say something like “we were going to send them but the temp we hired to do it misplaced them”?
YES. Gretchen Whitmer - D evil
this is the hill they will die on, they have to, without fraud they will never win anything
Why wouldn’t they turn them over to show everything is on the up and up.. unless?
Robert A Cook PE insightfully wrote: “Well, yes. The DOJ is requesting 850,000 ballots. But there are actually less than 300,00 eligible voters. The ones without a felony conviction. Registered only once at only one address. Older than 18. US citizens. Registered and actually living in Detroit.”
The Voter Fraud Trilogy............and more...........much more.
They will turn over 100 hand picked ballots,..heh, heh, sorry, the other ballots were destroyed in a very mysterious fire last night. We saved as many as we could, oh yeah, one more thing, we had all the registration lists lost in the fire too. Heh, heh, so sorry.
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