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In 1820, Thomas Jefferson wrote to Congressman John Holmes that the Missouri Compromise over slavery was “a fire bell in the night” that “awakened and filled” the former president “with terror” as he “considered it at once as the knell of the Union.”
I am no Thomas Jefferson. But last month’s federal seizure of 2020 voting records in Fulton County, Georgia, with Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard personally present for the execution of the search warrant, filled me with a similar foreboding.
Kevin Carroll served as senior counsel to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly (2017-18) and House Homeland Security Committee chairman Peter King (2011-13), and as a CIA and Army officer. Now in private practice, the views expressed by Carroll are solely his own and do not represent the views of his law firm or its clients.
