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reUnited States Attorney General Bill Bar has given his subordinate law enforcement officers the fundamental right to investigate possible wrongdoing in the presidential elections. At the same time, Barr emphasized Monday (local time) that this authorization does not mean that his house currently has evidence of possible voter fraud.
The US media had proclaimed opposition candidate Joe Biden the winner of the election against incumbent Donald Trump on Saturday. However, Trump denounces an alleged massive electoral fraud without presenting any evidence and does not acknowledge his defeat. His electoral team has opposed the recount in several states, but some of the lawsuits have since been dismissed.
Barr now wrote to federal prosecutors that they should investigate possible “substantive allegations of voting and counting irregularities.” Such investigations and reviews are likely to be conducted when there are “clear and openly credible allegations” that, if proven, “could potentially affect” the results of elections in individual states.
The investigation of possible electoral discrepancies is usually in the hands of state authorities. Barr now pointed out, however, that it was never a “set rule.” The minister wrote that federal prosecutors should investigate “serious charges” for the election “very carefully”, while “flimsy, speculative, absurd or outlandish” charges should not give them any reason to investigate.
Pilgrim resigns by letter from Barr
According to US media reports, Richard Pilger, head of the Justice Department’s Voting Rights Department, resigned due to Barr’s letter.
Barr is an extremely controversial minister. Critics accuse him of serving as something of a Trump trumpeter and failing to adequately safeguard the independence of the judiciary. The powerful leader of Trump’s Republican parliamentary group in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, had defended legal action against the election result on Monday: “President Trump has 100 percent of the right to examine allegations of wrongdoing and weigh your legal options. “
If there have been irregularities on a scale that will affect the outcome of the election, “all Americans” should want this out, McConnell said. “A few” legal steps by the president would not mean “the end of the republic.” Unlike the president, McConnell did not speak of “fraud” in the elections.
