This Week: As Prosecutors Continue to Move Against Former President Trump, Pro-MAGA Politicians Try to Restrict the Right to Vote
This week, federal prosecutors continued their investigation into whether former President Donald Trump obstructed justice and willfully retained national security secrets at Mar-a-Lago. The grand jury involved in the case issued subpoenas, while the aide who “is effectively running” Trump’s 2024 campaign met with investigators.
The investigation into Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election continued “barreling forward on multiple tracks.” The special counsel subpoenaed the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office, interviewed Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, and interviewed former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Investigators also asked witnesses about Trump’s calls with governors, including Arizona Governor Doug Ducey. It was reported that Trump pressured Ducey “to overturn the state’s presidential election results.”
Meanwhile, in Georgia, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis appears to be getting “set to file charges” for crimes related to alleged “interference in Georgia’s 2020 election.”
In the disbarment trial of John Eastman, the MAGA lawyer who devised a strategy to keep Trump in the Oval Office despite losing the 2020 election, Arizona election officials have testified on the security of the election, while Eastman’s lawyers have requested that “a pair of the state’s most ardent election conspiracy theorists” rebut statements from officials.
In Michigan, MAGA supporters in the state legislature blasted legislation to make it easier to vote, while in North Carolina, MAGA supporters in the state House are pushing legislation to enact voting restrictions that curtail absentee voting and discourage same-day voter registration.
In Florida, a federal judge blocked the state from enforcing a new law that limits who can collect voter registration forms and blocked a change in the law that would make it more difficult for third-party voter registration groups to register voters in marginalized communities. The judge said these provisions are part of “Florida’s latest assault on the right to vote.”
In Wisconsin, election-denying “conspiracy theorists” accused the nonpartisan administrator of the Wisconsin Elections Commission of “helping to steal” the 2020 presidential election and tried to remove her from her position.
