Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee sparred Wednesday over the Justice Department’s priorities during a hearing on the Biden administration’s efforts to protect election workers from harassment and threats in the wake of the 2020 presidential election.
Republicans including Sen. Mike Lee of Utah said a Justice task force has little to show for its investigations spurred by voter anger over the election, while failing to devote similar resources to protecting conservative Supreme Court justices from demonstrators.
Sen. Mike Lee of Utah took issue with the enormous number of investigations undertaken by the Justice Department’s elections threat task force, compared with the small number of prosecutions it launched from those probes.