A federal judge blocked a DOJ subpoena demanding the names of Fulton County election workers from 2020. The Department of Justice wanted a list. The judge said no. This is where we are now.
Trump spent years claiming Fulton County stole the election from him. He said it over and over. He said it so many times that eventually the DOJ decided maybe they should get those workers' names. For reasons. Totally normal reasons that definitely don't involve any kind of targeted harassment or public scrutiny of people who counted ballots in a county that went blue.
The judge looked at this subpoena and thought "you know what these election workers don't need? Their names handed over to an administration that has spent half a decade screaming about fraud in their specific county." Revolutionary legal reasoning. Stunning application of basic pattern recognition.
Fulton County is in Atlanta. Atlanta went for Biden. Trump lost Georgia by 11,779 votes. He asked the Secretary of State to find 11,780. The Secretary of State said no. So Trump moved on to other strategies. Like having the DOJ subpoena a list of the people who did the counting. A list that could theoretically be used for any number of purposes. All of them completely above board I'm sure.
The retail traders who spent 2021 buying Trump SPACs and Truth Social warrants are now experts in Georgia election law. They have spreadsheets. They have theories. They have portfolios down 94% because they bought a SPAC that merged with a social media company that lost to Bluesky. But they definitely understand voter fraud better than election officials.
The judge issued the block. The DOJ can't get the names. The election workers remain anonymous. Trump still lost Georgia. And somewhere a guy with 11 shares of DJT is explaining to his divorce lawyer why subpoenaing poll workers is actually bullish.
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