Project 2025, the conservative agenda designed for a possible second Trump administration, calls for the Justice Department to “investigate and prosecute” the top election official in Pennsylvania over the 2020 election as part of a dramatic overhaul of federal law enforcement.
It’s an unprecedented threat to a specific statewide officeholder — Pennsylvania’s Democratic election chief — in a crucial swing state where Donald Trump and his allies aggressively tried to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in 2020, and a state Trump needs to win in November to regain the presidency.
Boockvar told USA TODAY her department "absolutely" did nothing wrong, and accused the authors of Project 2025 of “taking that disinformation and conspiracy theories and elevating it to a point where it’s being used to try to dismantle our institutions of the United States of America.”
Trump has tried to separate himself from Project 2025 amid a heavy backlash against many of its more radical policy prescriptions involving expanding executive power, ending civil service protections for federal workers, and fighting what the document calls "woke culture warriors." Most of the project's authors served in the Trump administration or are otherwise tied to Trump.
Among its hard right recommendations, the plan would curtail federal civil rights enforcement and redirect the Justice Department to investigate alleged fraud in state-level voter registrations.
The document says those changes would make it easier for the federal government to prosecute Pennsylvania's top election official for
the guidance that office gave counties in 2020 over ways voters could cast ballots after an elections office rejected their mail-in ballot.
"It is well past time to stop arguing over the audited, verified results of the 2020 election," Al Schmidt, Pennsylvania's current elections chief, said in a statement.
So project 2025 is still obsessed with the 2020 election being stolen. Kind of reminds me of one of the current presidential candidates.