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24 Sep, 5 tweets, 3 min read
"The 107-page report, written by seven legal analysts, concludes that Trump’s post-election conduct leaves him at “substantial risk of possible state charges predicated on multiple crimes.”"
~@TamarHallerman @bluestein

#TrumpCoupAttempt
ajc.com/politics/lawye…
"Much of the report centers on the Jan 2 phone call between Trump & Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger...

But it also outlines a host of other potential criminal infractions... incl direct calls to Gov. Brian Kemp and state Attorney General Chris Carr"
ajc.com/politics/lawye…
Charges against Trump could include:

criminal solicitation to commit election fraud

intentional interference with performance of election duties

conspiracy to commit election fraud

racketeering

and violations of more than a dozen other state statutes

ajc.com/politics/lawye…
“Stated simply, soliciting and then threatening senior state officials to alter the outcome of a presidential election does not fall within any reasoned conception of the scope of presidential power”

#TrumpCoupAttempt
ajc.com/politics/lawye…
“The president doesn’t have the right to overturn state elections to benefit himself,” Eisen said. “He doesn’t have any role in state elections.”

#TrumpCoupAttempt
ajc.com/politics/lawye…

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"some Republicans will not use the audit news to affirm that confidence in our election system has been restored. Instead, they’ll use it to continue undermining that confidence, for the express purpose of justifying further anti-democratic tactics."

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Why, it’s almost as if that was the real point all along!"

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"Treating this audit as if it somehow “confirmed” [Biden's win] suggests it was about empirical verification of the results, and as such, risks normalizing such practices.

But it wasn’t about that, and it absolutely cannot be normalized."
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"Ownership of the real, core assets is where the region’s wealth comes from, and it doesn’t extend down the social hierarchy."

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"These elites’ wealth derives not from their salary—this is what separates them from even extremely prosperous members of the professional-managerial class, such as doctors and lawyers—but from their ownership of assets."
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"When SB1 becomes law, we will breathe a sigh of relief that Texas elections — where voter fraud makes up a menacing .000185 percent of votes cast — will finally be deemed safe for the purposes of Republican campaign speeches"

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"Media coverage that draws a false equivalence between one party operating in defense of democracy and another seeking to tear it down ... fails the most fundamental goal of journalism: to inform the public."
~@JRubinBlogger

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"The false balance syndrome ironically enables the one party whose survival depends on deflection and obfuscation to triumph over one trying desperately to debunk serial lying."
~@JRubinBlogger

#journalism #journalists
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"What would accurate, morally defensible coverage look like?

First, instead of the “Republicans say” formulation, the most precise framing is more often than not “Republicans lied” or “Republicans offered a non sequitur.”"
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"It’s totally bizarre to me to say we want to keep the 60-vote threshold, but obviously, that’s not working, ... So we’re going to do this dumb thing and abuse another rule in a way that creates worse legislation instead."
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