Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) is having a busy Monday, first with the release of the Nathan Wade testimony, and now with his scathing letter to the Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) demanding answers about the DOJ’s apparent last-minute attempts to keep non-citizens on state voter rolls.
As RedState has been reporting, the DOJ recently filed a lawsuit against Virginia and its governor, Glenn Youngkin, for having the nerve to follow a state law, which was approved by the DOJ itself in 2006, that removes self-identified non-citizens from the voter rolls. Glenn Youngkin did nothing but allow the standing law of eighteen years, which has been uneventfully overseen by both Democrat and Republican governors, do its thing and keep the voter rolls clean. Youngkin concluded that the politically-motivated DOJ filed the lawsuit with just a few weeks to go until Election Day because things are “getting tight” in the commonwealth.
In other words, Democrats have yet again weaponized the DOJ against their political opponents.
The DOJ’s effort to similarly intimidate voter roll cleaning efforts in his home state of Ohio clearly irked Jim Jordan, and you don’t want Jim Jordan irked at you. He’s smart, tenacious and he brings the receipts.
In a letter to Kristen Clarke, Assistant Attorney General in the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, Jordan, in his capacity as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, eviscerated Clark for the lawsuit filed by her office against Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose in which it’s alleged that LaRose’s efforts to clean the state’s voter rolls may violate federal law. Such lawsuits, Jordan maintained, were merely threats that are “baseless, contrary to established law, and a clear effort to intimidate and interfere in Ohio’s electoral process.”