1. United States
2. Texas
3. Letter

A president can't override an election because he dislikes the outcome. I'm asking you to commit publicly, this week, to honoring certified results in every state, and to use your oversight power to stop the Justice Department's attempts to take control of our elections. The President has said he'll accept the midterm results "if they're honest elections." Then he ordered DOJ to sue Alaska to block certification of its Senate race if the Republican incumbent loses. "I'm the one that said do it," he told reporters. A federal judge threw the case out on November 1, and DOJ says it will appeal. The pattern goes beyond Alaska. DOJ sued 30 states and D.C. demanding unredacted voter files with birth dates, home addresses, driver's license numbers, and partial Social Security numbers. It has lost all 27 cases decided so far. President Trump appointed nine of those judges. In Utah, the official who refused was Republican Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, and she's now the subject of a separate DOJ investigation. DOJ keeps appealing anyway, most recently taking its Washington loss to the Ninth Circuit. Taxpayers cover every brief. Prosecutors also asked California and Washington to set aside lawfully cast ballots based on federal lists the states say are wrong. Washington has recorded 15 cases of noncitizen voting since 1982. The Ninth Circuit rejected the California request as a violation of the Constitution's Elections Clause. I'm asking you to take four steps. 1. Issue a public statement committing to respect certified results in every race, including races your party loses. 2. Request a Judiciary Committee hearing with the head of DOJ's Civil Rights Division to account for the cost of these lawsuits and which agencies now hold the voter data DOJ already collected. 3. Support appropriations language barring DOJ from spending more money chasing voter files that 27 courts have said it has no right to. 4. Tell the Attorney General in writing that no eligible voter's ballot should be held back over an unverified list, and that election officials must not be investigated for winning in court. States run elections. Judges appointed by presidents of both parties keep saying so. The rules after Election Day should be the same ones we had before it, no matter who wins.