All posts tagged "Brad Raffensperger"

A federal judge threw out the Trump Justice Department's lawsuit demanding Georgia voters' Social Security and driver's license numbers.

U.S. District Judge Victoria Marie Calvert of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia dismissed the case in an order filed on Wednesday. She granted Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's motion to dismiss and denied the DOJ's motion to compel him to hand over the records.

The fight began in July 2025, when the DOJ asked Raffensperger's office for Georgia's full, unredacted voter registration list. According to the order, federal officials said they wanted to run it through the Department of Homeland Security's SAVE database, which checks citizenship status. Follow-up letters in August demanded that every field be visible, including dates of birth and Social Security numbers....

A Republican candidate for governor in Georgia and the current secretary of state received a death threat the day before a bomb scare at one of his campaign events, according to a new report.

According to the New York Times, Brad Raffensperger received a four-page, handwritten manifesto on Monday. The manifesto came with a photo of Raffensperger and the word "Boom" written across his forehead, a campaign official told the Times.

"It was obviously targeting the secretary of state," campaign spokesperson Ryan Mahoney told the Times, which noted that "Mr. Raffensperger has been the subject of hundreds of threats since the 2020 presidential election, when he bucked President Trump's efforts to reverse his defeat." ...

The Georgia State Election Board will not move forward with a push by GOP activists and Trump loyalists to investigate Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, reported The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Tuesday.

"The State Election Board deadlocked on opening an investigation of Raffensperger on a 2-2 vote, short of the majority required. The board then voted unanimously to ask the General Assembly to clarify whether it has the power to police Raffensperger, a Republican who certified the 2020 vote count," reported Mark Niesse.

"The bid to investigate Raffensperger, supported by a loud crowd of Republicans who filled the Capitol meeting to capacity, reflected a persistent desire to revisit the last presidential election ahead of the next one. Three vote counts confirmed that Democrat Joe Biden defeated Trump by about 12,000 votes in Georgia, and multiple investigations have debunked allegations of fraud," the report continued. Nonetheless, Republicans wanted an investigation of how Raffensperger conducted an audit of the election results....

As overlapping criminal investigations bear down on former President Donald Trump, one potential — and prominent — co-conspirator could face particularly pitched legal jeopardy as a key participant in the multi-state, multi-stage effort to overturn the 2020 election.

Rudy Giuliani — the former mayor of New York City, former federal prosecutor, and one of the former president’s most loyal advocates — figures prominently in an alleged scheme to install fake Trump presidential electors, which appears to be the focal point of anticipated charges by both Special Counsel Jack Smith and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

Giuliani’s promotion of a debunked conspiracy theory about two election workers falsely accused of mishandling Fulton County ballots also implicates him in an infamous phone call from Trump to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger — also a focal point of Willis’ investigation. During the phone call, Trump tried to pressure the state’s chief election officer into flipping the election in the former president’s favor....

WASHINGTON — Since December, when the U.S. House’s Jan. 6 select committee released its damning final report, its chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), has attempted to resume his usual low profile.

But in an exclusive interview this week with Raw Story, the quiet-tempered lawmaker said his special committee “forced” the Department of Justice to finally investigate the role then-President Donald Trump and his closest associates played in fomenting the failed insurrection.

“The work of the committee kind of forced DOJ to get engaged, because a lot of what we did we passed on to them,” Thompson told Raw Story just outside the Capitol on a muggy summer day....