A staffer for a voting rights group founded by former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is serving as a volunteer on the review team to pick Justice Department staffers for the Joe Biden administration — a choice raising eyebrows with some conservative critics, the Daily Signal reported.
Jose Morales Jr., the deputy director for voter protection at Fair Fight Action — founded by Abrams in 2014 — is working with the Biden transition team to evaluate incoming staff for the DOJ, the Federal Election Commission, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, the Commission on Civil Rights, the National Council on Disability, the United States Access Board, AbilityOne, the State Justice Institute, and the Legal Services Corporation, according to the transition team's website.
J. Christian Adams, a former Justice Department lawyer who now heads the Public Interest Legal Foundation, an election integrity watchdog group, told the Daily Signal Morales' choice wasn't surprising — but chided Abrams as “the leader of the conspiracy wing of the Democratic Party, assuming every election they don’t win is rigged.”
Abrams, who lost the Georgia gubernatorial race in 2018, never conceded the race.
“I can think of 50 names for the transition team worse than his. This is not unexpected,” Adams told the outlet.
But Capital Research Center head Scott Walter was incensed at the selection of Morales — who has a long list of Democrat work credentials — speculating it may signal the creation of a politicized Justice Department under Biden, the Daily Signal reported.
“I would like to know: Does this gentlemen have anything to do with picking staff to oversee election law, and does he believe that Stacey Abrams is the rightful governor of Georgia?” Walter told the news outlet.
“Everything he has done has been pure partisanship,” he added. “What qualifications does he have for hiring people at DOJ? It could be a sign we are going back to the days of Eric Holder, when the DOJ was just a piece of the political machine.”
Fair Fight sued the state of Georgia after the 2018 gubernatorial election, claiming minorities were denied the right to vote because of “discriminatory voting barriers reminiscent of the Jim Crow era,” The New York Times reported. It called for the state to stop updating voter rolls and to ban touch-screen voting machines.
Abrams has been mentioned as a possible attorney general pick for Biden.
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