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for May 31st, 2006.

Under the Second Trump administration, the Department of Justice has been a central part of an effort

to investigate the president's claims of election fraud in the 2020 presidential election. This includes the

seizure of ballots from Fulton County, Georgia, an audit of the vote in Maricopa County, Arizona,

and most recently the attempt to collect voter registration data from states to audit voter

roles as part of President

Trump's March 31st executive order on securing federal elections. For today's archive, I chose an

episode from October 9th, 2021, in which Benjamin Wittes sat down with Alan Rosenstein and Quintagueresic

to unpack the Senate Judiciary Committee's interim report, which

detailed the first Trump administration's pressure on the Justice Department to support his

claims of election fraud in 2020.

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