Democracy Docket reports:

Among other steps that President Donald Trump will take to undermine a fair election this fall, he’ll likely use the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to bring a flood of litigation aiming to challenge Democratic wins and shape the rules in the GOP’s favor.

But election law experts say those efforts may stumble over the administration’s many legal missteps: the likely weakness of the claims themselves, the lack of experienced and competent voting lawyers in DOJ’s ranks, and the department’s record of consistently misleading the courts, which judges may hold against it.

“Is DOJ going to allege crazy shit, just like in Fulton County?” asked Justin Levitt, a constitutional law professor at Loyola Marymount University and a former DOJ voting official, referring to the department’s debunked claims about potential fraud in Georgia, which underlay its recent seizure of election records there. “Absolutely, yes…. That’s the new normal for the Department of Justice.”

But, he added: “The quantity of litigation isn’t all that frightening when the quality is crap. And the quality is crap.” [Continue reading…]