I don’t think it’s just Trump that’s in trouble now that a grand jury is being impaneled. The GOP, incl. Brad Raffensperger, were playing fast & loose with accusations of voter fraud. Wouldn’t be surprised if Brad gets busted.
There’s probably no one in the country who's more vicious when it comes to false, unsupported accusations of voter fraud than Brad Raffensperger. He's the Purge’n General of Georgia. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Brad Raffensperger's no hero. gregpalast.com/stealing-georg…
Raffensperger is the guy that wrongly removed 198,000 legitimate voters from the voter rolls of Georgia. We have their names and addresses. I did the investigation, and the @ACLUofGA put out my report. aclu.org/press-releases…
And @BlackVotersMtr went to federal court to get the 198,000 legitimate voters that Brad Raffensperger wrongly removed put back on the voter rolls before the election. gregpalast.com/federal-court-…
And if you watched @DemocracyNow!, you’d know that I was, literally, physically chasing Brad Raffensperger all over the Capitol to get him to go over that list, as a federal court ordered him to.
When it comes to Jim Crow tactics, Brad Raffensperger is the best in the nation — and I don’t mean that as a compliment, I mean it as a warning. gregpalast.com/there-were-29-…
I think Trump was shocked that he didn’t get the cooperation from Raffensperger he's asked for. And he didn’t get it for a simple reason... soundcloud.com/user-835943867…
Brad Raffensperger mucked with the numbers as much as he could BEFORE the election, but when the count came through, he wasn’t going to serve five to life for Donald Trump. gregpalast.com/raffensperger-…
There were 29 phone calls between Trump and Raffensperger: What was said in those other calls? gregpalast.com/there-were-29-…
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Our action partner, @BlackVotersMtr, has boycotted Biden’s speech in #Georgia on the #VotingRights bills, refusing to act as a photo op prop. Understand the frustration: we’ve been screaming about Georgia as #JimCrow central for 8 years...
Laws alone won’t help: we need the Justice Department to stomp on the new "voter fraud vigilante" challenge system we uncovered. We need enforcement of the laws we have, Joe. gregpalast.com/georgias-origi…
And CNN and MSNBC should stop referring to #Georgia Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger as a "hero" just because he wouldn’t go to jail for Trump. gregpalast.com/stealing-georg…
So, did our Founding Fathers make an unintended error in designating state legislators, not voters, the power to choose our President?
Nope. Our founding nobility chose the nobles of each state, the legislators — all then landed gentry — to choose the Electors who would in turn, choose the President.
Take a Red Pill and join me in the future for the reading of the electoral vote. The year is 2025. It’s 1pm on #January6th and Vice-President Kamala Harris has begun opening the envelopes with the electoral vote from each state, alphabetically... gregpalast.com/what-do-you-ca…
When she reaches Georgia, new Republican Senator Herschel Walker objects to accepting Harris’ choice of the slate of Electors pledged to Joe Biden, the slate submitted by Georgia’s Governor Stacey Abrams. gregpalast.com/what-do-you-ca…
Instead, Sen. Walker demands Harris count the vote of the slate submitted by Georgia’s GOP-controlled legislature with Electors committed to Donald Trump. gregpalast.com/what-do-you-ca…
Roger Stone and Alex Jones, key planners of the January 6 Stop the Steal rally and illegal march that led to the deadly storming of the US Capitol, have been subpoenaed by the US Congressional committee investigating the attack. gregpalast.com/alex-jones-rog…
At the heart of the #AlexJones subpoena is the Infowars broadcast in which a guest host told Jones’ audience to go to Washington and “if necessary, storming right into the Capitol..If you have enough people, you can push down any kind of fence or wall.” gregpalast.com/alex-jones-rog…
The #Jan6Committee seeks details on Alex Jones' astonishing statement that the White House itself asked him and Ali Alexander to lead a march to the Capitol from the Ellipse where President Trump spoke to a rally of supporters. gregpalast.com/alex-jones-rog…
These are the only states that would be policed under the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act requirement to “pre-clear” new, racially biased, voting procedures, such as early voting limits:
Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
South Carolina
Texas
Virginia
Don’t get me wrong, the strangling of the John Lewis Act by filibuster, unlike the overhyped For the People Act, could be the death blow to a democratically elected Congress.
In 2013, Justice Kennedy said the Voting Rights Act would have been constitutional if it didn’t target specific states, a suggestion from New York City which was then under pre-clearance review.