Judge Orders Trump’s Voter Fraud Panel to Hand Over Documents to Democratic Member
There are seven Republicans and four Democrats on the commission. Dunlap and Democrat Alan King have openly expressed frustration over a lack of information on what the panel is working on. Republicans deny they’re excluding Democrats, though a document in another lawsuit shows Republican panelists have communicated privately.
Justice Department lawyers, representing the commission in court, argued Dunlap wasn’t entitled to all commission documents but only those that were prepared for the entire panel.
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, rebuked the Justice Department’s position in her Friday opinion and said the commission must turn documents over to Dunlap.
“Plaintiff has a right, as a commissioner, to ‘fully participate’ in the proceedings of the Commission. In the Court’s view, his assertion that he will be unable to fully participate without the information contained in relevant documents that the Commission has not shared with the public has merit,” she wrote in her 24-page opinion. “He has a right to access documents that the Commission is considering relying on in the course of developing its final recommendations.”
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