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Trump’s attorney general won’t rule out DOJ action to stop states from certifying midterms results

The Independent·Alex Woodward·6 days ago
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Attorney General Todd Blanche said won’t rule out having the Department of Justice take action that could block states from certifying election results .

“Yes, of course there’s scenarios we could all come up with, hypothetically — some ‘doomsday’ scenario, for example,” he told reporters Thursday. “I don’t think it’s proper to make any kind of conclusory statements about what could happen in the future.”

While it’s “never” the Justice Department ’s intention to “improperly interfere with elections or the state confirmation process or certification process,” he told reporters, “to say that there’s no circumstances that we would ever do that, of course, I’m not going to say that,” he said.

“But am I planning my days around the election to be somewhere to not certify?…

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