Justin Levitt, law professor at LMU Loyola Law School and voting rights expert, was featured in an article by The Guardian to discuss a recent request from the Department of Justice to election officials in Fulton County, Georgia, to turn over records related to the 2020 election. Levitt said that the federal statute that allows the Department of Justice to request election records requires the department to provide a “basis” for requesting them, which was absent in this letter.
“In DoJ’s letter, I see a purpose: we want to check up on what you did,” he said. “But the letter just cites a general swath of federal statutes without saying anything about why there’s a basis to believe that the records they’re seeking will shed light on a federal statutory violation. [The] DoJ doesn’t just get to go fishing because it’s curious.”
Source: The Guardian
