(Congressional Agenda) – A new report has been published by the folks over at the Washington Examiner detailing a secret voter plan that has been in the works by Joe Biden and officials within his administration, which kicked off on March 7, 2021, which was less than two full months after Biden took office. On that day, he signed a new executive order “promoting voting rights,” according to the words found in a Washington Post report, that would “make voting easier,” according to The New York Times.
Both of these left-wing rags tried to downplay the story as simply Democratic measures designed to offer some push back on GOP efforts to “roll back voting access,” again the words of the Washington Post, in order to counter former President Donald Trump’s “months-long assault on the voting process,” according to words written by the NY Times.
“Executive Order 14019 directed what is known as an ‘all of government’ initiative, meaning Biden ordered all federal agencies to be involved, to increase voter registration among groups that have historically been part of the Democratic coalition. ‘Black voters and other voters of color have faced discriminatory policies and other obstacles that disproportionately affect their communities,’ the order said. ‘These voters remain more likely to face long lines at the polls and are disproportionately burdened by voter identification laws and limited opportunities to vote by mail,'” the report from WE stated.
“It was standard Democratic boilerplate — and mostly false, at that. Democrats have long pushed the ‘voter suppression’ story even as data showed it was a myth. But March 2021 was the month in which the Georgia legislature, controlled by Republicans, was debating a new voting law, and Biden and other Democrats were making hysterical, over-the-top pronouncements about ‘Jim Crow 2.0.’ Maybe they believed it. Maybe they didn’t. The goal was to pass two bills that were at the top of the Democratic agenda in Washington: the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. Together the bills, if passed and signed into law, would nationalize elections and remake voting laws on terms favorable to the Democratic Party. But Democrats, barely in control of the Senate, could not pass such a baldly partisan bill without some Republican support — and there was none of that,” the report continued.
Well, the executive order would just have to do for the moment. Biden then rolled out the order with the idea in mind to provide a historic civic-rights kind of setting and to make this whole thing to appear to be about “voting rights,” on “Bloody Sunday” during a pre-recorded message that was to be played at the Martin and Coretta Scott King Unity Breakfast that took place in Selma, Alabama.
“But the order itself, according to media coverage, didn’t do much. ‘This executive order is pretty limited in scope,’ reported CNN. ‘The executive order is relatively limited in scope,’ the New York Times said. ‘It calls upon officials at federal agencies to study and potentially expand access to voter registration materials, especially for those with disabilities, incarcerated people and other historically underserved groups. It also orders a modernization of the federally run Vote.gov website to ensure that it provides the most up-to-date information about voting and elections. But the order does not directly address efforts by many Republican-led state legislatures to restrict voting, including measures that would roll back the mail voting established in many states during the pandemic,'” the WE report stated.
The question of what exactly this order would do remained. The Republican Party most definitely had reasons to be hesitant about it, as this course of action had become a pattern of behavior from the Democratic Party. When Democrats are frustrated that they cannot somehow get something they want passed through Congress, they attempt to bypass the legislature altogether and abuse executive authority to push their agenda.
The executive order put together by Biden contained directives for the heads of all federal agencies to sent the White House a “a strategic plan outlining the ways identified under this review that the agency can promote voter registration and voter participation.” That’s not very specific and could well mean just about anything, especially when you understand that this would be concocted by the leftist Democrats and enforced by those individuals within the party who were upset they could not get their little voting scheme passed through Capitol Hill. The public deserves to know what in the heck is going on, because one of the most fundamental building blocks of our republic is safe and fair elections.
“On July 30, 2021, a conservative but nonpartisan think tank called the Foundation for Government Accountability sent a Freedom of Information Act request to the Justice Department asking for documents showing how the department is complying with Biden’s order. The foundation was particularly interested in the specific plan the department came up with — what was the DOJ actually going to do to implement the president’s wishes? ‘Please provide your agency’s strategic plan developed pursuant to President Biden Executive Order 14019 … outlining ways you identified for your agency to promote voter registration and voter participation,’ the request said,” the report said.
“The Justice Department’s answer was…nothing. A year passed, and the Justice Department did not turn over a single document. So the foundation went to court, and as a result, a federal judge ordered the Justice Department to turn over the material. The judge set a deadline of Sept. 8, 2022. The Justice Department waited until the last day and turned over…next to nothing. It sent a batch of emails and a few documents that turned out mostly to be staffers corresponding with each other over who would be present at which meeting,” the Washington Examiner reported.
The DOJ then refused to hand over the strategic plan. As in they didn’t turn over anything. Nothing at all. The chief of the Freedom of Information branch of the Civil Rights Division then said, “After review of the Civil Rights Division documents responsive to your request, the Division has identified (15) pages of material representing the STRATEGIC PLAN for the Implementation of Executive Order 14019, Promoting Access to Voting. I have determined that these materials are to be withheld in full pursuant to Exemption 5 of the Freedom of Information Act, 551(b)(5), which pertains to certain inter- and intra-agency records protected by civil discovery privileges, in this instance the deliberative process and presidential communications privileges.”
In order to maintain its hold on the plan, the DOJ employed the use of one of its most abused exemptions, Exemption 5, which is also known as (b)(5), of the Freedom of Information Act.
This incredibly large cutout is often called the ‘withhold it because you want to’ exemption,” journalist and FOIA advocate Nate Jones went on to write about the situation back in 2014. “According to stats compiled by the Associated Press, (b)(5) use is at an all-time high.” Even though later reform reduced its use a little, Exemption 5 is still an indispensable tool for administrations seeking to hide what they are doing.”
“So the strategic plan, the document that would give the world some information on what the administration is doing to enact Biden’s order, remains a secret. But that’s not all. The Justice Department is withholding lots of other information, as well,” the report continued.
An email from the White House, dated April 1, 2021 — I will hold back from making an April Fool’s joke in connection with the federal government, as the material simply writes itself at this point — that was sent out to 30 officials talking about an interagency police meeting that would be scheduled for April 9. In the content of the email there was a list of questions included, along with the topics that were going to be discussed during the meeting.
“Please note that the questions below, and the topics we plan to cover in this meeting, relate to the provisions of the Executive Order applicable to all agencies,” the White House stated in the email. So what topics were discussed at the meeting? Well, unfortunately, we do not know. The DOJ blacked them out, once again citing deliberative process privilege. Another section, which listed some suggested reading called “Read-Aheads,” was also blacked out, along with another section called “Agenda.”
Yeah, they aren’t trying to hide anything from the public at all. Folks, the progressives in the government are absolutely up to no good. We already knew that, but more and more evidence like this voting plan and these documents are proving that this is no longer conspiracy theory, but total fact. Corruption is the name of the game.
Let’s jump ahead now to May 13, 2021, and look at an email describing a May 21 meeting. “Below, please find the agenda for the May 21 interagency meeting,” it read. Guess what? Blacked out. Why? You already know. Deliberative process privilege.
Another email that was sent out on July 9, 2021 to Pamela Karlan, a professor who works for Stanford University, who was on leave serving as an assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division, started things off by saying, “Hi Pam, I looked at the” — and, once again, was all blacked out because of deliberative process privilege. A later email message, 10 pages in length, was nothing but pure black.
“Remember that the main concern of the Foundation for Government Accountability is that the Biden administration is using the power of the federal government for partisan political purposes to influence elections. There are also fears that the administration might be taking on a federal role in elections that the Constitution leaves to the states. ‘The American people deserve to know if the Biden administration’s unprecedented action is fair and non-partisan, or if it is designed to help one political party over the other,’ Tarren Bragdon, head of the foundation, said in a statement,” the report revealed.
“Why are they ignoring public record requests for strategic plans on federal voter registration efforts? Why are they treating these documents like they are classified information dealing with nuclear weapons? Midterms are approaching, and the DOJ’s failure to disclose information raises troubling issues. They need to reveal these public documents to keep our elections fair,” he added.
“One troubling clue did make it past Justice Department censors. On July 12, 2021, the Justice Department held a ‘listening session’ with outside activists working on voting rights. The group included dozens of people, all of them from left-leaning groups. There were 10 from the American Civil Liberties Union, five from the Campaign Legal Center, three from Demos, three from the Southern Poverty Law Center, five from the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, two from Black Lives Matter, and many others. The list would not reassure anyone hoping that the Justice Department is working in a scrupulously nonpartisan way. But of course, we don’t really know what the department is doing because the administration is keeping it a secret,” the report concluded.
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