DOJ Should Investigate Jeff Clark and Mark Meadows for Political Coercion Act and Hatch Act...

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This piece, written by some serious scholars, argues there’s a “strong possibility of political corruption crimes committed by” Jeffrey Boessert Clark and Mark Meadows, and that AG Garland must act.

DOJ Should Investigate Jeff Clark and Mark Meadows for Political Coercion Act and Hatch Act...
A detailed examination of how the reported facts match the criminal prohibitions of the Political Coercion Act and the Hatch Act.
justsecurity.org
7:33 PM · Oct 7, 2021

https://www.justsecurity.org/77994/doj-should-investigate-jeff-clark-and-mark-meadows-for-political-coercion-act-and-hatch-act-violations/

Recent domestic headlines have been awash with the news of former President Donald Trump’s desperate attempts to weaponize the Justice Department to overturn the election. Beneath those headlines is the strong possibility of political corruption crimes committed by former Trump Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Boessert Clark and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, not to mention Trump himself.

The background is this: Following former Attorney General William Barr’s abrupt resignation on December 23, it fell on Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to resist Trump’s entreaty to “just say the election was corrupt [and] leave the rest to me” Rosen refused, fulfilling his oath, at least in that instance, to “support and defend the Constitution” (we bracket here his less ideal conduct as William Barr’s Deputy Attorney General, in the forced resignation of Atlanta-based U.S. Attorney Byung J. Pak and other matters). When Rosen rejected Trump’s move, the President openly threatened “to replace DOJ leadership.” He named who he had in mind to take Rosen’s job, then-Assistant Attorney General Clark.

An especially shocking allegation is that Clark was secretly backdooring Rosen by collaborating and communicating directly with Trump. In late December, Clark drafted a letter asking Georgia legislators to void the state’s vote for President Biden and reportedly pressed Rosen to sign it. Trump and Meadows repeatedly pressured Rosen to enlist the Justice Department in overturning the election, and Clark appears to have directly participated in the plan.

The law: These actions may have run afoul of 18 USC §610, the Political Coercion Act. Its felony provisions make it a crime to intimidate, threaten, command, coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, command or coerce a government employee to engage in “any political activity,” including working “on behalf of at candidate.”

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