2. Meadows introduced Trump to DOJ official Jeffrey Clark, who was plotting to oust the acting attorney general and use Justice Department to overturn election results in Georgia.
3. Meadows arranged and participated in call in which Trump asked Georgia Sec'y of State Raffensperger to “find 11,780 votes," and during the call Meadows asked the Georgia officials to share voting data even after they told him they could not because it was protected by law.
4. Meadows made a surprise visit to Georgia where he met with the Secretary of State’s lead elections investigator. Trump called her the next day — the president said it was on Meadow’s suggestion — and in the call urged her to find fraud in Fulton County.
5. Meadows expressed upset, along with Trump, in response to Attorney General Barr's having told the Associated Press there was no election fraud that could have affected the outcome in the election.
8. In barrage of communications with Justice Department—in violation of White House and Department contacts policies—Meadows pressured the Department to investigate baseless allegations of election fraud.
Here's a sample from the Timeline.👇
9/9. Capstone:
In his final days in office, Trump hopes to issue preemptive pardons for Meadows and possibly Giuliani and himself.
2/ A premise of SCOTUS opinion is that POTUS has "conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority" over the Justice Department.
This should unsettle Americans, regardless of party.
Take a gander at what that means in Chief Justice Roberts' own words.⤵️
3/ Potential effects for aggrandizement of power in executive branch.
Listen to @marty_lederman spell out potential implications for congressional legislation for DOJ (Roberts having sub rosa overruled/cast aside Morrison v. Olson, a 7-1 decision by Chief Justice Rehnquist).
2/ Report by Director of Economics at Yale's @The_Budget_Lab @ernietedeschi:
Analyzes the risk of a "‘black swan’ event outside of the realm of US experience, such as ... military intervention in domestic politics" with profound impact on US safe harbor investment premium.
@The_Budget_Lab @ernietedeschi 3/ "It is also reasonable to assume mass deportation of millions of migrants, the demolition of departments and agencies, and many other planned autocratic-leaning policies risk producing similar [black swan] results."
Breaking: Trump admitted to probation officials he has a gun in Florida
Convicted felon possessing firearm =felony
Indicted person receiving firearm in interstate commerce =felony
Condition of release for Trump in DC , FL, GA is not committing a felony cnn.com/politics/live-…
2/ Donald J. Trump condition of release in District of Columbia:
"IT IS ORDERED that the defendant's release is subject to these conditions:
The defendant must not violate federal, state, or local law while on release."
3/ Florida arraignment:
THE COURT: Subsection B requires the release to be subject to the condition that the person not commit a federal, state or local crime during the period of release .... I assume the Defendant, former President Trump, has no problems with that condition?
MR. BLANCHE: I assure you he does not, Your Honor.
Explaining why bill to sanction #InternationalCriminalCourt would damage US national security
“I come before you today a combat veteran, a supporter of the American Servicemembers Protection Act, a longtime supporter of Israel's security...”
2/ Congressman Crow outlines several pieces of recent congressional legislation and U.S. government support for the vital work of the International Criminal Court including on #RussianWarCrimes in Ukraine, #Darfur, Cote d’Ivoire, #Myanmar, the #DRC, and elsewhere.
3/ "The ICC’s largest funders are amongst our closest allies -- the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, France, and Japan. This bill puts us at serious risk of being forced to sanction many of our closest allies and partners, including: 30 out of 31 of our NATO allies; 6 of out 9 major non-NATO allies who have obligations to the Court like Argentina, Australia, Japan, Jordan, New Zealand, and the Republic of Korea."