WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) launched an investigation with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding The 65 Project, “a “dark money group with ties to Democratic Party heavyweights” that publicly targets conservative lawyers. 

After the 2020 election, then-president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Kristen Clarke called post-election challenge lawsuits “frivolous” and “packed with conspiracy-laden theory and baseless allegations” and suggested that President Trump’s Georgia phone call “is potentially criminal…under both Georgia state law and our federal election law.”

The 65 Project’s managing director, Michael Teter, told CNN that “[c]reating a system of deterrence requires that people know these complaints have been filed.” But critics, like Fordham Law School professor Bruce Green, have stated such tactics are “problematic” because they are “basically designed to embarrass these lawyers, and that may have the effect of discouraging lawyers from engaging in politically involved work, even if they’re playing by the rules.”

With Kristen Clarke now running the Civil Rights Division, the Biden-Harris Department of Justice similarly intimidates the administration’s political opponents and everyday Americans, with the obvious intention of chilling lawful activities and constitutionally protected political discourse. Accordingly, AFL has launched an investigation to obtain any communications between the Biden-Harris DOJ and The 65 Project. 

Read the FOIA here.

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