Lansing, Michigan - Michigan's Attorney General Dana Nessel on Sunday rejected President Donald Trump's administration of election interference over its demands to gain the state's ballots.

Harmeet Dillon, the Department of Justice's assistant attorney general for civil rights, last Tuesday sent a letter requesting that the clerk who oversees elections in Wayne County turn over crucial voter information within two weeks.

In the letter, Dillon demanded that the clerk provide all ballots, ballot receipts and ballot envelopes from the 2024 election on the basis of the county's "history of fraud convictions and other allegations concerning the election procedures."

The move came two months after National Intelligence Agency Director Tulsi Gabbard attended an FBI raid of a Georgia Election Office in which agents seized a vast trove of 2020 election records.

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On Friday, Nessel responded in writing to the DOJ's request, stating that "Michigan stands ready to defend against these claims and any attempt to interfere in Michigan's elections."

She later joined with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to denounce the demands.

"Trump is weaponizing the Justice Department in an attempt to sabotage our democratic process and turn it into his own personal agency to interfere in state elections," Nessel said in a joint letter. "This request is as absurd as it is baseless."

"This demand is a poorly disguised attempt to justify more doubt and misinformation about our elections as well as direct federal interference," Whitmer said.