West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey on Monday submitted a Freedom of Information Act request for the U.S. Department of Justice to produce documents showing the department may have colluded with state prosecutors involved in former President Trump’s plethora of cases.
The Attorney General addressed the requests to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland. It outlines in detail the documents requested, including information on meetings attended by a DOJ employee and any of the prosecutors “pursuing President Trump for illusory violations of state law.”
“The American people have a right to know what is going on, especially when it comes to whether DOJ is using taxpayer monies and the coercive lever of the federal government to manipulate elections,” Attorney General Morrisey wrote in the letter. “This strategy against a former President and current political candidate seems to be an unprecedented weaponization of the prosecutorial system for political ends.”
One example the Attorney General cited in the letter is that of a senior DOJ official who moved from that leadership post to a line prosecutor job in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office—and was paid thousands of dollars by the Democratic National Committee.
“We need to get to the bottom of this political prosecution of a former president who is on track to defeat the incumbent in November,” Attorney General Morrisey said. “The timing on these cases is suspect, to say the least—the integrity of our country’s election process is at stake.”
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