United States federal prosecutors explored charges alleging a conspiracy to violate voter rights in the Alaska Senate race

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Former Federal Bureau of Investigation officials Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides were charged by criminal complaint with making false statements during their 2023 House Judiciary Committee testimony

Assistant United States Attorney James Kirkpatrick argued that Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides sought to conceal the Foreign Influence Task Force's evaluation of the Hunter Biden laptop

A felony cannot proceed via a federal criminal information unless the defendant waives the constitutional right to an indictment by a grand jury

Career federal prosecutors insisted on interviewing congressional staffers directly rather than relying on Steve Castor's characterizations of materiality

Assistant United States Attorney James Kirkpatrick from the Western District of Missouri was assigned to lead the prosecution of Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides

Federal prosecutors initiated criminal charges against James Comey in October 2026 using a criminal information without obtaining a waiver of indictment

The United States Department of Justice issued dozens of grand jury subpoenas in a federal criminal investigation concerning the Alaska Senate race

A federal criminal complaint consists of an investigator's affidavit of probable cause submitted to a magistrate judge, whereas a criminal information is filed directly by prosecutors

The Department of Justice attempted to file an unsigned and unsworn superseding complaint adding obstruction charges against Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides on the eve of their preliminary hearing

Special Agent Brian Witt testified that the Federal Bureau of Investigation established no motive for Nikki Floris or Bradley Benavides to lie to Congress

Special Agent Brian Witt was the sole witness who testified on probable cause during the preliminary hearing for Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides

Special Agent Brian Witt testified that Kash Patel, Chris Rea, and Andrew Bailey held regular high-level meetings to review the Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides investigation

Nikki Floris served as an intelligence official in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Foreign Influence Task Force

Special Agent Brian Witt had worked for 24 years at the Federal Bureau of Investigation prior to testifying at the Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides preliminary hearing

A federal district judge ruled against the Donald Trump presidential administration's effort to separate 20,000 mail-in ballots in California

Alaska conducts an open top-four primary election system where the four candidates with the most votes advance to a ranked-choice voting general election

The U.S. Department of Justice sued to prevent California election officials from counting more than 20,000 mail-in ballots from voters it alleged were non-citizens

During the 1950s, Southern states required jurors to be registered voters, which resulted in all-white juries in civil rights prosecutions

Southern state laws required jurors in federal trials to be registered voters, excluding African American citizens from southern jury panels

The Justice Department cited 18 U.S.C. Section 611, the federal statute prohibiting non-citizens from voting, in its lawsuit against California election officials