Michigan's attorney general, Dana Nessel, has rejected a request by the US Justice Department (Dana) to obtain ballots and other voting materials from the Detroit area, a target of the Trump administration's efforts to investigate elections in states the president falsely claims he won in 2020. The DOJ's assistant attorney general for civil rights, Harmeet Dhillon, requested that all ballots, receipts, and envelopes from the 2024 election be turned over within two weeks. Nessel responded by calling the claims of voter fraud "baseless" and standing ready to defend against state officials' attempts to interfere with Michigan's elections. The move comes amid concerns about how far the federal government will go in policing future elections.