The report provides a behind-the-scenes look at how the election denial movement led several states to abandon the bipartisan Electronic Registration Information Center — and what it means for voting rights and U.S. democracy.
The watchdog group’s amicus brief argues that the D.C. Circuit does not have jurisdiction to hear the former president’s immunity appeal, but can still reach the merits.
“ICE loses on each challenged exemption,” the court ruled in American Oversight’s lawsuit for documents that could shed further light on conditions and procedures in immigration detention.
American Oversight compiled a guide to public records it has obtained that shed light on the activities and communications of individuals named or likely referred to in the recent DOJ and Fulton County indictments.
Co-Conspirator no. 5 laid out the strategy for the fake electors plot in a newly uncovered memo, and election deniers discussed an alleged voting machine breach in Michigan in public records we obtained.
“It appears he still does not recognize how harmful his actions and proposals were,” wrote then acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, referring to an email from Clark sent on Jan. 8, 2021.
American Oversight obtained records showing officials in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and New Mexico communicating with the National Archives about the submission of “alternate” certificates falsely claiming Trump had won those states.
Amid a string of momentous decisions this week, the U.S. Supreme Court this week also rejected a dangerously legal theory that would have upended American democracy.