The Justice Department has demanded that officials in Wayne County, Michigan, turn over more than 860,000 ballots, along with envelopes and receipts, from the 2024 general election. Trump defeated Kamala Harris to win Michigan’s 15 electoral votes, but he lost in Wayne County, which is home to Detroit, by nearly a quarter-million votes. The DOJ’s threats come weeks after the FBI subpoenaed election records in Arizona’s Maricopa County and raided an elections hub in Fulton County, Georgia, seizing thousands of ballots. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel called the request “absurd” and “baseless.” She wrote, “Once again, President Trump is weaponizing the Justice Department in an attempt to sabotage our democratic process and turn it into his own personal agency to interfere in state elections.” Meanwhile, FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox News that arrests over the 2020 election were coming as soon as this week.