Tag: Presidential Election 2020

RICK WILSON INTERVIEW, PART 2: THE LINCOLN PROJECT CO-FOUNDER ON KILLING ADS THAT DON’T WORK—AND WHY STEVE BANNON ‘MUST BE DESTROYED’

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

RICK WILSON INTERVIEW, PART 2: THE LINCOLN PROJECT CO-FOUNDER ON KILLING ADS THAT DON’T WORK—AND WHY STEVE BANNON ‘MUST BE DESTROYED’

But be careful, though. Is Steve Bannon back in prison? It’s hard to know where he is at the moment.

Bannon and I have a lot of history. In 2015, when I came out against Trump, a person inside Breitbart News sent me an internal Slack from Bannon.

And Bannon said, “I want you to go after Wilson. I want you to go after his kids, his family, his wife, his business, everything. I want to destroy him.” And someone said, “Yeah, he’s gonna punch you back, Steve,” and Steve wrote, “This will be fun.” So, since then, I have pursued Steve Bannon like a wild animal. And I will never—Steven Bannon will never be off the hook for me. Once he goes back to prison, once he gets into prison, I’m gonna … I’m only just starting.

Seeking ‘Biggest Incident of Voter Nullification’ in US History, 18 Republican AGs Back Texas Effort to Overturn Biden Win

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Seeking ‘Biggest Incident of Voter Nullification’ in US History, 18 Republican AGs Back Texas Effort to Overturn Biden Win

Texas doesn’t have standing to raise these claims as it has no say over how other states choose electors; it could raise these issues in other cases and does not need to go straight to the Supreme Court; it waited too late to sue; the remedy Texas suggests of disenfranchising tens of millions of voters after the fact is unconstitutional; there’s no reason to believe the voting conducted in any of the states was done unconstitutionally; it’s too late for the Supreme Court to grant a remedy even if the claims were meritorious (they are not).

Richard Hasen, University of California Law Professor

Koch-Funded ALEC Planned Since February To Claim The Election Was Stolen From Trump

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Koch-Funded ALEC Planned Since February To Claim The Election Was Stolen From Trump
Lisa Nelson told a room full of conservative activists that ALEC had been working with three GOP attorneys on “action items that legislators can take to question the validity of an election.”

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NEWLY SURFACED RECORDING REVEALS ALEC AND GOP ELECTION ATTORNEYS WORKING WITH STATE LEGISLATORS TO QUESTION VALIDITY OF ELECTION

Videotape Reveals Corporate-Funded Plan To Try To Overturn A Trump Loss

Legal experts quickly push back on Texas AG’s attempt to overturn election

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Legal experts quickly push back on Texas AG’s attempt to overturn election

Under federal law, election disputes are supposed to be resolved by six days before the Electoral College meets, a deadline known as safe harbor, which is today. The electors officially cast their ballots for president on Monday.

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With case pending in state court, Wisconsin is only state to miss election safe-harbor deadline

Paxton, who is under a federal bribery investigation, alleges Wisconsin “exploited” the coronavirus pandemic to ignore election rules, which affected the outcome of the Nov. 3 election.

“Think of the irony. We have a Texas Attorney General who is being investigated by the FBI for various improprieties … and he teams up with President Trump to try to take away the votes of the people of Wisconsin,” Gov. Tony Evers told reporters on Tuesday. “It’s irony but it’s not funny irony. It’s extraordinarily sad.”