16 GOP Attorneys General Challenge Garland’s Comments on Voting Laws

GOP prosecutors say U.S. Constitution is clear in its direction to leave state elections up to the elected representatives of those states.

Attorney General Merrick Garland in Washington on Sept. 20, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

A group of Republican state attorneys general are pushing back against U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s comments made in March at a church in Selma, Alabama, where he discussed using the Department of Justice (DOJ) to interfere in state voting laws.

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, in a letter supported by 15 other GOP prosecutors, including Ken Paxton in Texas and Liz Murrill in Louisiana, stated that Mr. Garland’s comments are “concerning.”