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15 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
The Georgia GOP civil war intensifies.

Trump retweeted Lin Wood, who informed @BrianKempGA and @GaSecofState that Trump will throw them in jail.

Wood is the guy who told GA Republicans to boycott the Senate runoffs.

(Both Kemp and Raffensperger say they voted for Trump)
Trump can't throw them in jail, but he can endanger their lives.

So much is stunning.
🔹It's now GOP officials who supported Trump, who are being targeted.
🔹Trump is targeting Georgia GOP, where early voting has started in the runoff election.
The firing of Barr is supposed to make you think that in the few weeks remaining, Trump can weaponize the DOJ to jail Kemp and Raffensperger. He can't: there are procedures for arrests and indictments, including judicial oversight.
Over the summer, I spent time offline explaining to people that Barr couldn't just arrest Biden for the same reasons.

Thank goodness for all those procedures.

As Ruth Bader Ginsburg said, it's the "dry procedural" part of law that creates fairness.
Actually, I don't know if that was Trump's intention. It may have just been vindictive. Or Barr could really have resigned. Who knows?

But I do think that Lin, in talking about jailing people, intended Barr's departure to make it seem plausible.

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17 Dec
To think there may still be people out there who don't know who Barbara Johns was.

What?! YOU don’t know who she was?

Well. On April 23, 1951, in Farmville, VA, Barbara Johns led a walkout of her segregated high school in protest of the deplorable and unfair conditions.

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She was 16. She led her walkout more than 4 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus, and before MLK, Jr. embraced nonviolence as the way to equality.

After she and her classmates turned the rural town of Farmville upside down, she called in the NAACP.

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The NAACP took their case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Barbara and her classmates became plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark case that ended segregation in America.

Their case was combined with cases from other states.

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14 Dec
This is equal parts horrifying and absurd. These are not real electors. There is not a "competing" slate of electors.

It's the Nevada GOP showing that they are completely unhinged from reality.
You see, Nevada certified its election for Biden on 11/24.
forbes.com/sites/alisondu…
Nevada law requires that the electors are legally bound to vote for whoever wins the presidential election in NV. apnews.com/article/electi…
Dear Nevada GOP:

It's time for Election Law 101.

Because of a complicated system we have called the electoral college, when you vote for president, you don't actually vote for president, you vote for a slate of electors.

The GOP electors lost when Trump lost the election.
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14 Dec
Here it is. What is surely the last gasp of the strategy to accomplish a judicial coup d'état.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court decision.

Who is surprised? Nobody.

But it's still fun.

wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/Dis………

Reading it now . . .

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Petitioners sought to "invalidate the ballots" of more than 220,000 Wisconsin voters in Dane and Milwaukee Counties.

As with the other complaints, the issue wasn't that any voters did anything wrong; it's how the election was conducted.

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The doctrine of laches as applied to elections in a nutshell: You can't agree to the rules, wait to see how the election turns out, and then challenge the rules.

That's why lawyers kept saying the courts won't allow it, even if the judges are Republicans.

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14 Dec
Reading recommendation: Rand Corp, "The Russian Firehose of Falsehoods Propaganda Model," includes advice on how to counter a rapid and continuous stream of lies.
rand.org/pubs/perspecti…

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The liar has a “shameless willingness” to tell outrageous lies that lots of people know are lies.

The liar doesn’t care about consistency.
He doesn’t care if it’s obvious he’s lying.
rand.org/pubs/perspecti…
In fact, that's the whole point.

Putin perfected the method.

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It seems to come naturally to Trump.

@TimothyDSnyder tells how reporters were often so astonished by Putin's outrageous lies, that they focused on the lies instead of Putin's latest atrocities.

The lies became the news.
The actual news gets pushed off the stage.

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13 Dec
What is Happening In America in 4 Tweets

#1:Trump invents whatever suits his fancy.

#2: People around Trump tell him he is right: He is entitled to the presidency as was robbed of what he deserves.

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12 Dec
I'll lay the entire process out here, and show why this can't happen. Applicable law: The Electoral Count Act and of course, your favorite document and mine, the Constitution, or, if you prefer cliff notes: crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF…

Here's what happens on Jan. 6.

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The Houses meet to count the votes.

Both Houses are required by law to declare the winner of the election.

But (and here's the rub) members may object to particular electors.

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This creates some theater. Trump loyalists can object.

What then? If both a Senator and member of the House object to a particular elector, there is a recess. The Houses meet separately for a maximum of 2 hours.

They vote. If both Houses agree, the delegates are tossed.

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