The US Department of Justice announced that its internal watchdog will be launching an investigation to figure out if any department official attempted to overturn the results of the 2020 US Presidential elections, reported CNN. 

On Monday, the office of Inspector General Michael Horowitz said, “The DOJ will be initiating an investigation into whether any former or current DOJ official engaged in an improper attempt to have DOJ seek to alter the outcome of the 2020 Presidential Election.”

The investigation is being assumed a result of the reports released by The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times which suggested that former President Donald Trump may have utilised the Department of Justice to challenge the election results, which also traces back to the removal of former acting Attorney General Jeffery Rosen, reported CNN. 

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The New York Times reported that a lawyer at the US Department of Justice, Jeffery Clark, had almost convinced the former President to remove Rosen and overturn the Georgia election results with help from the department. Clark, who is no longer at the department, would fill in for the Attorney General who was removed and then would attempt to obstruct the US Congress from certifying the election results. 

Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader tweeted that it was “unconscionable a Trump Justice Department leader would conspire to subvert the people’s will,”  and urged Horowitz to launch the investigation.