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Risks of violent election threats skyrocket as Trump DOJ 'dismantles' protections: report
What happened
RawStory, citing The Guardian, reports that the Justice Department’s election-threats task force has effectively stopped prosecuting new cases under the Trump administration, even as former officials warn that threats against election workers are rising. The department did not directly answer The Guardian’s question about the task force’s status; former Oregon election-security official Nikki Fisher said it appears “defunct in practice.”
From 2021 through 2024, the task force reportedly received more than 2,000 threat reports, opened more than 100 investigations and prosecuted…
The skinny
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