Trump's DOJ Just Can't Stop Losing

Añadido: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Hi everyone, Harry here to discuss the DOJ's mounting win loss record. I should just say lost record because they to date have won zero times in court and lost now eight in their law defying effort to just get their hands and be able to give to Trump all voter data from all states that it's a 100% clear they want to use for potential mischief.

[00:00:31]It's the exact kind of information that Trump was trying to get after 2020. All I need is 1980 votes. He said to Brad Raffensburgger, who by the way was defeated basically because of Trump's opposition in a primary in the last week. But they have launched as the DOJ a very aggressive effort uh to get all the data from all the states. why all the data and from all the states they're setting up a boiler room operation and they don't know what it's going to look like now come the um election. Maybe things are tight in Maricopa County in Arizona. Maybe they're tight in a down uh stream from from Atlanta County in Georgia. Maybe they're tight somewhere in Wisconsin. They want them all. So, they're sitting with all the cards and they can come in with bogus claims of voter fraud, which is their basis for the entire um initiative. All the demands for getting this stuff and which is maybe here I'll just say 99.5%.

[00:01:43]Nah, I'll go with 100 false because there's just zero instance of what they're claiming is the systemic official fraud in voting in 2020 and thereafter. It's become this article of faith that all Trump nominees, judicial nominees, have to go up in front of the Senate and somehow fumper back and forth and say, "Uh, I don't know who won the 2020 election." That is what Trump demands and his legal followth through here is getting clobbered. So they put out requests for all. Some just they've gotten it from certain Republican officials who probably didn't have authority to give it. They got super lucky in Fulton County when a magistrate greenlighted a search warrant.

[00:02:34]Everywhere else they're suing. I think they've sued something like 31 times.

[00:02:39]states who have responded to their we have the right to this stuff by saying hell no you don't see you in court and now they are zero and eight after two more cases one in Maine and one in Wisconsin federal courts have said the arguments of DOJ that they have a right to this stuff fail now in the past on in specific instances where voter roles might have an individual problem that DOJ could have authority to pursue.

[00:03:14]There have been conversations uh with state and federal officials.

[00:03:19]Could we have just this a little bit, please? States typically say, "Okay, but they are two sovereigns talking it through here." And this is uh very important to the courts. They've just said, "Give it up. We have a right to it." And that theory has now two more times been rebuffed. Okay, let's start with Maine. The judge there, a Trump appointee said that, you know, you do not have an valid investigatory purpose to get like all these records. And in particular, nothing about the um authority, small slice of authority you may have in federal elections gives you a right to um supervise and oversee the states about whether they are doing proper voter list maintenance. The game here seems to be we get everything, we claim there's not proper maintenance, we send it back or do a new one where we slice out everybody, including people who have every right to vote, but maybe uh there have been some um bookkeeping errors and the like and that now then controls. Uh-uh. says first, US District Judge Lance Walker, a Trump appointee, that you have specific investigatory uh purposes or functions in individual cases and where you talk it through doesn't mean you have this right that you are now claiming for everything. Uh it's true that a federal statute says that states need to retain and preserve uh documents in their possession and sometimes hand them over to DOJ, but those sometimes are a written demand with a really clear statement. We think this actual voter voted twice or whatever it might be, not this just uh overall arching theory, give it all uh to us. There are a couple statutes that give the Congress a role to play in national um election. The national uh voter reform act for instance where the um effort to infranchise more people uh includes doing it through the DMV but they do not give this line by audit as Walker says of each state's whole complete uh system. So sorry if the DOJ wants to enforce those statutes, use the presuit investigation enforcement mechanisms that Congress provided. And that doesn't include a demand for states to just give it all up. Hey everyone, Harry here letting you in on a little secret. If you've seen me on TV in a suit and tie, chances are I was wearing comfy sweatpants below the waist.

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[00:07:11]Similar state of affairs in Wisconsin district judge there said uh-uh statewide voter registration list which is really what they want. they want to say even though there's no bo basis for thinking of of it even though it will often be bogus but in a way they hope they can just get away with in the fastm moving aftermath of election they want the whole voter registration list but said the Wisconsin court those are not records subject to the the the statute that the administration is claiming uh these are records created by state election officials including voter registration lists. You don't get to uh get them under any of the statutes that you are uh profering as a basis. And by the way, this is the old Trump story.

[00:08:08]And the judge sees that old story, which is they're using exotic, inapp statutory bases to try to say, "Ah, here's why we can seize it." Or, "Ah, here's why we can demand this of state officials and the courts are just rejecting it." And there's a footnote here that you would never have uh seen uh dropped by the uh Trump appointee uh in the the state of Maine uh saying basically the US's representative at oral argument reassured the court that there these requests are routinely made by the civil rights division and states have complied in the past. Anyone who knows the area knows that is complete horseshit and one of a very growing long list of complete false claims by the DOJ. He gets up and he has to say that though and also says there's not going to be a national database. And right after uh that the executive order uh came down from Trump directing directing the Department of Homeland Security to compile exactly what uh the US attorney in court had to say is not going to happen here. A state citizenship list in order to assist in verifying identity and federal election voter eligibility. So, you know, they so many of the courts are now on to the department. The presumption of regularity they always enjoy doesn't cut it. The really exotic efforts to try to use civil rights legislation uh that is uh in um Maine uh to try to jam this in doesn't fly. And um we have in addition a sort of swipe properly taken at DOJ for making up crap in court or saying stuff in court that the real brain trust the president and the uh pre the the second president Steven Miller are just not going to honor. So the department's been talking tough sending these tough letters that sort of have the flavor of like a collection agency. If you've if you've gotten these, you're in real trouble. We'll see you in court and those threats are looking increasingly empty. Uh as they've now lost all the cases that have been decided and there are more coming. And really they ought to because even apart from the sort of fine uh grain points about individual laws that they're trying their damnest to um leverage or shoehorn into this.

[00:10:55]The whole enterprise is based on a blatant lie that there's a lot of fraud a foot in 2020 elections happening now.

[00:11:04]That is one of the real risks of the way that Trump has is totally loading up the civil rights division, the US attorney's offices, that these complete bogus assertions are somehow going to be made in court in very close um jurisdictions coming up at the midterms. It's, you know, one more uh strategy for a party that has is is the minority fewer than both Democrats and independents and is looking for a legal ways to keep their clause in and and um somehow maintain majority power. But the courts, which have been the strongest bark against all the illegal schemes in the DOJ, are not buying it. You have to imagine there are some 23 suits still out there. And it will be impressive to each of those judges that every single judge who's decided it has completely rejected the DOJ's exotic theory. They will keep banging their head hopefully against the wall because it's so important to Trump and so integral to his schemes to retain power even in a blatant anti- uh majority uh way. But the the saber rattling that have accompanied all these letters is not holding up. Courts are holding up and telling the department again and again and again and without exception, get out of here. You do not have this power.

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