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babylonsister

(171,065 posts)
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 06:48 PM Nov 2020

'Haul Louis DeJoy In Front Of A Criminal Grand Jury'


11/04/20 8:03am
'Haul Louis DeJoy In Front Of A Criminal Grand Jury'
Outrage After Postal Service Misses Court-Ordered Election Day Deadline. "It's how we all thought they would do it. It's what they said they wouldn't do. And it's exactly what they are doing."
By Common Dreams


Election experts and other critics of voter suppression responded with alarm Tuesday after the United States Postal Service failed to meet a court-ordered afternoon deadline to conduct sweeps at mail processing facilities to "ensure that no ballots have been held up and that any identified ballots are immediately sent out for delivery."

Earlier Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan of the District of Columbia had ordered the sweeps between 12:30 pm and 3:00 pm ET, and set a 4:30 pm ET deadline for facilities to file a status update. John Kruzel, a reporter at The Hill, tweeted Tuesday afternoon that the USPS failed to comply, in spite of saying this week that about 300,000 ballots had entered the mail sorting system but lacked a delivery scan.

In response to Kruzel's long tweet thread, Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-N.J.) took aim at the postmaster general, tweeting: "Haul Louis DeJoy in front of a criminal grand jury."

Journalist Ari Berman, who has extensively covered voting rights in the United States, similarly declared that "Louis DeJoy should be held in contempt of court and face criminal charges for obstructing an election if these ballots are not delivered on time."

Berman noted that mail delays have gotten worse in the lead-up to Election Day. For months, voting rights advocates have slammed DeJoy—a GOP megadonor who took over the Postal Service earlier this year—for forcing mail operations changes that critics charge were intended in part to sabotage the November election.

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'Haul Louis DeJoy In Front Of A Criminal Grand Jury' (Original Post) babylonsister Nov 2020 OP
1 count of voter supression whistler162 Nov 2020 #1
This directly affected elections run by states RockCreek Nov 2020 #2
Where bdamomma Nov 2020 #3
+1,000,000 highplainsdem Nov 2020 #4
Our laws & enforcement regarding justice for lost votes are so weak. diva77 Nov 2020 #5
Again, Republicans ignore laws not in their favor and suffer no consequences. Hermit-The-Prog Nov 2020 #6

RockCreek

(739 posts)
2. This directly affected elections run by states
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 06:54 PM
Nov 2020

And state elections.
Couldn't he get charged in each state where he pulled this?

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