House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan is aggressively investigating a series of lame-duck actions the Biden Justice Department has been taking during its last few weeks in power, saying a recent flurry of activity against businesses and red states smacks of a new wave of politically weaponized government action.
In a wide-ranging interview with Just the News on Friday, Jordan cited DOJ efforts to investigate Elon Musk and his companies after his overt support for Donald Trump’s campaign, threatening letters sent to states seeking to remove noncitizens from voters rolls and several hastily launched antitrust inquiries as examples of potentially abusive DOJ behavior.
“This pattern of turning these agencies on the very people they’re supposed to serve — we the people, the taxpayers — has been a concern from the get-go,” he told the Just the News, No Noise television show. “We’re concerned now with what they may be doing with the antitrust issue, going after companies as they’re heading out the door.
“Of course, right prior to the elections, we saw the Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department going after Virginia for simply keeping noncitizens from voting in our elections,” he added. “Imagine that we got the same thing in Ohio, our Secretary of State was sent a letter three weeks before Election Day saying they were concerned about the good work he was doing. So we’re always concerned about this. We’re going to keep working.”
Jordan sent a letter Friday to Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter, who oversees the DOJ’s antitrust division, demanding answers about a recent spate of activity since Trump was declared the winner of the Nov. 5 election.
