Twenty-seven House Republicans sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to have Attorney General William Barr appoint a special counsel to probe November's presidential election, Fox News reported on Wednesday.
The requests, according to the Washington Examiner, ask Trump to direct Barr “to appoint a Special Counsel to investigate irregularities in the 2020 election” because “the American people deserve a definitive resolution to the uncertainty hovering over the outcome of our election, but legitimate questions of voter fraud remain unanswered.”
The letter said inaction from the Department of Justice, "along with comments made by the attorney general, indicate a lack of willingness to investigate the irregularities."
Barr stated last week that the Justice Department has “not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election,” according to the Examiner.
Barr's comments came as the Trump campaign and Republican-adjacent groups have suffered a continuing string of legal defeats in their claims against the election’s fairmess.
The letter is almost identical to one sent last week by GOP Texas Rep. Lance Gooden, whose office said the new letter was initiated due to "an outpouring of support" from fellow Republicans, Fox News reported.
Gooden's home state of Texas recently filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court against the battleground states of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, claiming they improperly changed their election procedures.
The lawsuit calls for special elections in those states to appoint presidential electors, or if they have already been appointed, for state legislatures to appoint new ones.
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