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14 Dec, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Last night, Michigan legislators close state capitol offices due to “credible threats of violence,” per the Detroit News. This is where Joe Biden’s presidential electors will be meeting today. detroitnews.com/story/news/pol…
NEW: The Electoral College meets today to affirm Joe Biden’s victory, but Democratic electors’ excitement is tempered by a raging pandemic and Trump’s belligerence about the results, which has led to security threats.

w/ @ZachMontellaro

politico.com/news/2020/12/1…
We interviewed 25 electors, including many from Michigan, and found minimal safety concern and generally few who cited harassment or threats — but a nagging anxiety Trump might direct his followers to disrupt proceedings. politico.com/news/2020/12/1…
The Times has a good story this morning on the measures some states are taking to keep electors safe — with one caveat: electors faced significantly more harassment and pressure in 2016 bc of the effort to get them to defect from Trump.

From 2016: politico.com/story/2016/12/…
BIDEN will receive his 270th electoral vote sometime in the 5pm hour, when California’s electors meet. Here’s a handy rundown of elector meeting times across the country. thegreenpapers.com/G20/EC-Meeting…
Stephen MILLER tells Fox that Trump's electors plan to meet and vote and send the results to Congress. Of course, these slates carry no force whatsoever, since no state legislatures or governors have recognized them.

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14 Dec
JUST IN: The first electoral votes have been cast in Vermont. Electors below depicted being sworn in.

politico.com/news/2020/12/1…
"Not my first rodeo," Vermont's secretary of state says from the podium after a quick and easy ceremony that gives Biden-Harris their first three electors votes. politico.com/news/2020/12/1…
OMINOUS: Mich. GOP state Rep. Gary Eisen tells a radio interviewer that there's some kind of "Hail Mary" effort underway regarding today's elector ceremony. "It'll be all over the news later," he says and declines to say there won't be violence in Lansing

wphm.net/episode/decemb…
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11 Dec
BREAKING: SCOTUS has rejected the Texas lawsuit to overturn Biden's victory.

w/ @joshgerstein

politico.com/news/2020/12/1…
@joshgerstein The determination was, effectively, 9-0. None of the justices would have granted Texas' relief.

Two would've granted the motion to accept the filing but still rejected the case.

Pretty much as definitive as it gets.

politico.com/news/2020/12/1…
@joshgerstein Trump called this case 'The big one." He lost in a big way.

politico.com/news/2020/12/1… Image
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10 Dec
NEWS: Federal judge in Wisconsin — the lyrically named Pamela Pepper — dismissed yet another Kraken lawsuit intended to overturn the state's election results.

"Federal judges do not appoint the president in this country."
Gives me another bite at this apple:

The full ruling: beta.documentcloud.org/documents/2042…
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8 Dec
BREAKING: Judge Sullivan dismisses the FLYNN case, declaring it moot after the Trump pardon.
WOW: Sullivan says the circumstances of DOJ's effort to dismiss the Flynn case were so unusual that it would likely have overcome "the strong presumption of regularity" that attaches to DOJ decisions
Sullivan makes the point that was long expected: it doesn't matter that FBI agents didn't think Flynn was lying at the time. Or that Comey wasn't sure either.
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7 Dec
BREAKING: Federal judge in Georgia rules from the bench. Kraken lawsuit dismissed.
Judge BATTEN says the plaintiffs — GOP electors — lack standing. They waited too long to file the suit. And the issue should be litigated in state court, not federal.
"They ask the court to order the secretary of state to decertify the election results as if such a mechanism even exists, and I find that it does not," Batten says.
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4 Dec
GOP speaker in Arizona says Trump effort to overturn election is an affront to lawmakers' oath of office.

"It would violate ... the basic principles of republican government and the rule of law if we attempted to nullify the people's vote based on unsupported theories of fraud."
BUT: Dozens of Republicans in Pennsylvania's legilsature — including House speaker — are urging their congressional delegation to challenge Joe Biden's win in the state on Jan. 6.

It comes amid a growing pressure campaign from Trump/Giuliani. Story TK.

pahousegopnews.com/AttachedFiles/…
MEANWHILE: Trump's run of futility in litigation continues.

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