hold accountable those who target public servants with violence. the case against the texas man is actually the first following the creation of a doj task force focused on threats against election officials. evan perez is out front and, evan, the justice department making clear that this indictment, while the first and while, you know, more than a year after the election itself, is likely just the beginning? it really does seem like it s just the beginning, erin. we heard from justice department officials today that they have gotten about 850 referrals of threats just like this one, and in this case, this man s name is chad stark. he was arrested today in texas. prosecutors in atlanta are bringing this case and what they say he did was on january 5th, 2021 a day before the capitol attack he posted a message on on craig s list offering to pay $10,000 to anyone who
department s election threats task force. according to the indictment chad stark posted a message to kragz list on january 5th calling for georgia patriots to, quote, put a bullet in three unnamed georgia officials. writing, quote, if we want our country back we have to exterminate these people. a group of house democrats led by my next guest congressman allred of texas is now urging the justice department to monitor the review of the 2020 election results in four texas counties citing serious concern this audit may be an attempt to invalidate properly cast ballots in the 2020 presidential election. the request comes as hundreds of mail ballot applications are being rejected by texas officials trying to comply with changes in last year s voter suppression bill. what would senator joe manchin say about this because here s
machines were hacked into, or they had fraudulent data on them from a foreign government. there is also news from the fbi and doj today about an arrest of a man who took all of these assertions in, and was making threats against georgia election officials. what can you tell us? georgia election officials and other state officials in georgia. the man s name is chad christopher stark. he s from the suburb of austin called leander, texas. and they say that on january 5th of last year, that s the day on which people in georgia were going to the polls in the runoff election for the u.s. senate, he posted an ad on craigslist offering $10,000 for anybody who would shoot at least three or four officials that he mentioned by name. he said, it s our duty as american patriots to put an end to the lies of these traitors, according to court documents. he used the word exterminate
this ruling now says that that can t happen, although of course the administration is going to appeal it so they re going to try to get that put back into place, but for the time being the administration is not able to go ahead and implement and enforce that requirement for those millions of federal workers. josh lederman, thank you very much. just in the last hour, we have to get to other breaking news. you had this man in texas charged with threatening election officials, making his first court appearance. that s after he became the very first person ever arrested by the department of justice s new election threats task force. we are talking about chad stark, he was arrest this had morning by the fbi and here is the deal, officials say he put up an ad on craigslist just one day before the capitol riot calling for the killing of several georgia elections workers, allegedly saying it was, quote, time to put a bullet in one of them, as well as federal and local judges, two other ele
dangerous. justices can change their minds. so we won t know until we get a decision, probably in june, whether this will be the last time they re marching to overturn roe. norah. o donnell: jan crawford at the court tonight. thank you. threats against local election officials have skyrocketed. a new justice department task force is looking at 850 cases and is is planning to enhance security for workers who face those threats. here s cbs jeff pegues. reporter: investigators say 54-year-old chad stark, arrested today in texas, was angry about the results of the 2020 election. and cbs news has learned he threatened georgia officials, including republican secretary of state brad raffensperger and republican governor brian kemp. the election was totally rigged. reporter: both were being pressured by former president trump to overturn the election results in the state. the secretary of state, who is really he s an enemy of the people. people. your governor should be ashamed