Judge Luttig in closing: "Almost 2 years after that fateful day in January 2021, still Donald Trump and his allies and supporters are a clear and present danger to American democracy... 1/5 #January6thCommiteeHearings
... To this very day, the former president, his allies, and supporters pledge that in the presidential election of 2024, if the former president or his anointed successor as the Republican party presidential candidate were to lose that election, they would attempt... 2/5
... to overturn that 2024 election in the same way that they attempted to overturn the 2020 election, but succeed in 2024 where they failed in 2020.... 3/5
... I don't speak those words lightly. I would have never spoken those words ever in my life except that that's what the former President and his allies are telling us... 4/5
... the former president and his allies are executing that blueprint for 2024 in open and plain view of the American public. 5/5 #January6thCommiteeHearings
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Today in Texas, the @BrennanCenter filed for a preliminary injunction so that election officials will again be allowed to advise voters to apply for mail ballots. Officials are banned from doing so under the state's restrictive voting law S.B. 1. /1
Voting by mail is perfectly legal in Texas, yet S.B. 1 forbids election officials from encouraging voters to apply for mail ballots. The punishment? Minimum of 6 months in jail and a fine of up to $10,000. /2
“S.B. 1 makes it a crime for me to do a critical part of my job, and it hurts the most vulnerable voters,” said Harris County Elections Administrator Isabel Longoria (@LongoriaTx). Longoria is the top election official in the county. /3
A federal judge has upheld the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s mail ballot drop boxes, county residency restriction for poll watchers, and other voting rules, rejecting claims of “voter fraud” as too “speculative” and supported by “scant” evidence.
The ruling, in Donald J. Trump for President v. Boockvar, will ensure that eligible Pennsylvania voters can vote safely this year.
On June 29, President Trump’s reelection campaign, the RNC, several members of Congress, and several individual voters sued Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar, originally seeking an injunction banning the use of mail ballot drop boxes altogether.
BREAKING: We’re suing Texas Governor Greg Abbott to block him from limiting absentee ballot drop-off sites to only one per county. His plan will make it unreasonably difficult for Texans to vote by mail, and it goes beyond his legal authority.
The plaintiffs — @ADLAustin, @ADLSouthwest, @ADL Texoma, and @CCauseTexas — argue with only one drop-off location per county, many voters would have to travel far and spend substantial amounts of time to cast their ballots.
“Many of the Texans who qualify to vote absentee have disabilities and are elderly, and they rely on public transportation,” said @antgutierrez.
First, the states are in charge of elections, not the president. Most have taken measures to ensure safety against cyberattacks and system failures and both red and blue states have expanded absentee voting.
Second, it’s really really hard to steal an election. Trump’s statements that polls will be watched by law enforcement are alarming but what he’s promising is simply illegal.