Rep. Jim Jordan to Biden administration: preserve your records
Inside Rep. Jim Jordan's latest ultimatum to the Biden administration...
With just weeks before Donald Trump assumes office, Rep. Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) has warned the Department of Justice (DOJ) against improperly deleting records, according to a letter he sent to the department’s Assistant Attorney General, Jonathan Kanter.
“According to information available to the [Judiciary] Committee, the Antitrust Division aggressively moved to escalate its regulation of American businesses shortly following the election of President Trump,” Jordan wrote to Kanter. “Specifically, we have received allegations that the Division sent demand letters to numerous businesses indicating an intention to start enforcement actions in the final days of the Biden-Harris administration.”
Jordan’s actions come after House Republicans demanded that every Biden administration agency preserve all documents. “In addition to compliance with federal record retention laws, we are also expressly directing that all necessary steps be taken to preserve relevant Department documents and communications,” Republicans wrote to agency heads.
The letter from Jordan comes as the outgoing Biden administration attempts to push through last minute enforcement actions. President-elect Donald Trump, for his part, has pledged to make taking on woke corporations a feature of his tenure, a phenomenon for which many would attribute blame to Biden-era enforcers like Lina Khan and Kanter.
