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SCOTUS "agreement to hear Moore v. Harper... isn’t just bad news for efforts to control gerrymandering.

The Court’s right-wing supermajority is poised to let state lawmakers overturn voters’ choice in presidential elections."

#SCOTUSIsCorrupt
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
"Trump then tried and failed, lawlessly, to muscle the GOP state legislators into discarding Biden’s victory and appointing Trump electors instead.

The Moore case... could give Republicans legal cover in 2024 to do as Trump demanded in 2020."

#ISLtheory
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
"That is a genuinely radical proposition...

The idea that legislatures stand unbound by any limit from their own founding documents is a fringe debating point invented for Republican political advantage."

#ISLtheory
#TrumpCoupAttempt
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
"three justices—Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Clarence Thomas—have spent two years campaigning for the ISL doctrine... Brett Kavanaugh, wrote a concurrence... invited the North Carolina Republicans in the Moore case to return to the SCOTUS after losing an emergency motion."
"If you give the legislature a blank check on the manner of appointing presidential electors, then a Republican majority could... simply disregard a Biden victory in the state’s popular vote & appoint Trump electors instead."

#ISLtheory
#TrumpCoupAttempt
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
"In litigation over the 2020 election, Texas and other Republican-led states showed exactly how that argument would work when they asked SCOTUS to block the certification of Biden electors in four swing states."

#ISLtheory
#TrumpCoupAttempt
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
"The pernicious threat of ISL, wrote Richard L. Hasen, an election-law expert at UCLA, is that “a state legislature dominated by Republicans in a state won by Democrats could simply ... take matters into its own hands & choose its own slate of electors.”

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
"another threat to presidential elections...
state lawmakers may discard presidential voting results & appoint electors instead by declaring that voters have “failed to make a choice”—a phrase that is undefined in the law & was exploited in rogue vote-stealing efforts in 2020."
"Moore could set the stage for a major shift in voting law in the run-up to the 2024 election. The Court’s right wing appears to be spoiling for that...

SCOTUS would not even have put this case on its calendar."

#ISLtheory
#TrumpCoupAttempt
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
"None of these factors restrained the Supreme Court’s right-wing justices. Just as they did in overturning Roe v. Wade... the right-wing justices seized on the first available vehicle for a paradigm-shifting decision."

#ISLtheory
#TrumpCoupAttempt
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
"Just as they did in overturning #RoeVWade, a ruling they need not have made to uphold the Mississippi abortion law, the right-wing justices seized on the first available vehicle for a paradigm-shifting decision."

#ISLtheory
#DemocracyInDanger
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Read the whole article by @bartongellman

How Six States Could Overturn the 2024 Election:
The Supreme Court may let state legislatures decide the presidency.

#MoorevHarper
#ISLtheory
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
See also this 🧵:

"Trump’s #Jan6th effort failed because every contested state had laws on the books requiring all of their Electoral College votes to go to whichever candidate won the popular vote in the state.

That will not be the case in 2024."

Or see @Thom_Hartmann article on Independent State Legislature (ISL) theory.

If SCOTUS legitimizes ISL (which is likely), GOP-run states can ignore actual election results & give that state's electoral college votes to whomever they want.

#MoorevHarper
hartmannreport.com/p/the-nightmar…
Also see🧵by @DavidPepper

“Giving statehouses [state legislatures] unfettered power when they aren't tied back to the people is precisely the nightmare the Founders feared.

And here's the problem...it's exactly what's happening...”

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Oct 6, 2022
"A majority of Republican nominees on the ballot this November for the House, Senate and key statewide offices — 299 in all — have denied or questioned the outcome of the last presidential election"

#DemocracyIsOnTheBallot
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"Donald Trump on Friday issued what can only be described as a threat against Mitch McConnell, declaring that the Senate minority leader’s support for bipartisan bills amounts to a “DEATH WISH.”"

News orgs fail to ask GOP pols about this threat by Trump.

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"Alas, there is little sign that mainstream outlets have dropped their addiction to false equivalence and willful, moral blindness."
~@JRubinBlogger

#Journalism
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"What should reporters be doing?

Let’s start with 5 basic rules.

First, they cannot leave these exchanges for the end of an interview, when the guest can filibuster until the commercial break. Do it upfront, and don’t allow them to move on"

#journalism
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"During his 4 years in office, Trump never strictly followed the rules & customs for handling sensitive government documents...

Documents that would ordinarily be kept under lock & key mingled with piles of newspaper articles in Trump’s living quarters"

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"Aides also found other ways to circumvent Trump’s “sticky fingers,” as one put it."

Donald "sticky fingers" Trump

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"In the absence of higher authority backing them up, personnel in the staff secretary’s office could not be expected to remove documents from the president’s possession...

“They would have gotten their heads cut off by the president if they tried to take things from him.” Image
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"Russian paratrooper Pavel Filatyev spent more than a month fighting in Ukraine after his poorly equipped unit was ordered to march from its base in Crimea for what commanders called a routine exercise."

#RussianArmy
#RussiaInvadedUkraine
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"Filatyev was evacuated after being wounded.

Over the next 5 weeks, deeply troubled by the devastation caused by ... Putin’s bloody invasion, he wrote down his recollections in hopes that telling his country the truth about the war could help stop it."

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"His damning 141-page journal... describes an army in disarray: commanders clueless & terrified, equipment old & rusty, troops pillaging occupied areas in search of food because of a lack of provisions, morale plummeting as the campaign stalled."

#Россия
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"The searing takeaway was not [KKK klansman David] Duke himself, but nearly 700,000 Louisianans who, knowing what he stood for, voted for him anyway."

#Racism #USA
#elections
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"On Election Day 2016, nearly 63 million Americans voted for Trump, giving him more than 300 electoral votes and the White House.
The takeaway?
They, too, knew where he stood and voted for him anyway."

#Racism #USA
#elections
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"Four years later, the impeached, scandal-scarred president went before the American people once again.

By then, Trump was known all too well.

In his losing bid for reelection, Trump attracted 74.2 million votes."
[HE STILL LOST.]

#Racism #USA
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"The OIG Joseph V. Cuffari did not press the dept leadership at that time to explain why they did not preserve these records...

Cuffari also failed to alert Congress to the potential destruction of government records."

#Jan6
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#Jan6
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"In the weeks before the attack on the Capitol, Trump had been pressuring both men to help him claim the 2020 election results were rigged and even to seize voting machines in key swing states to try to “re-run” the election."

#TrumpCoupAttempt
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