“Let’s apply Trump v. United States to Watergate’s facts. It’s not pretty.”
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy analysis.
Category Archives: chicanery
Wisconsin: “Police in Glendale remove election observers for being disruptive while objecting to ballots”
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
Election observers showed up at several polling locations in the Milwaukee area Tuesday, and two of them were removed by police in Glendale for being disruptive while objecting to absentee ballots, Glendale Mayor Bryan Kennedy said.
Glendale… Continue reading
“Paid operatives linked to a GOP firm are helping Cornel West in Arizona”
NBC News:
A dozen paid operatives registered with Arizona’s secretary of state on Sunday to collect signatures on behalf of left-wing presidential candidate Cornel West, listing their employer as a Republican-leaning firm that recently worked for GOP House candidate Blake… Continue reading
“Supreme Court Ruling Reflects Challenges of Jan. 6 Prosecutions”
Alan Feuer NYT analysis:
The Supreme Court’s decision on Friday that prosecutors had misused an obstruction law in charging hundreds of rioters who attacked the Capitol is the latest example of the persistent challenges the Justice Department has faced in… Continue reading
“Allegations of Democratic Voter fraud and Support for Political Violence Among Republicans”
James A. Piazza in American Politics Research:
Are partisans more likely to endorse political violence when politicians accuse their rivals of election improprieties? I theorize that for Republican partisans in the United States, the answer to this question is… Continue reading
My New One at Slate: “That Big Jan. 6 Supreme Court Decision Is Not the Win for Trump People Think It Is”
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins:
In Fischer v. United States, a divided Supreme Court, in an opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts, handed Donald Trump a political victory by saying the government overreached in prosecuting some… Continue reading
“Arizona RNC delegation chair: ‘I would lynch’ county election official”
WaPo:
Earlier this month, Shelby Busch — chair of Arizona’s delegation to the Republican convention — was in court trying to learn the identities of local elections workers. Under oath, she said she was unaware of any threats that had… Continue reading
Must-read WaPo: “Trump allies test a new strategy for blocking election results”
WaPo:
When a member of Georgia’s Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections refused to join her colleagues as they certified two primaries this year, she claimed she had been denied her right to examine a long list of election… Continue reading
“A Democratic Super PAC’s New Trump Ad Might Be Borderline Criminal”
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins:
Here’s something to scramble your brain: A progressive super PAC in Pennsylvania put out an advertisement trying to suppress mail-in voting by MAGA Republicans, and the Trump campaign responded by saying… Continue reading
“Trump campaign accuses Democratic group of ‘election interference’ — for quoting Trump”
Philadelphia Inquirer:
Donald Trump urged his supporters in 2020 not to vote by mail calling it “totally corrupt.” Now, his campaign is speaking out against an ad featuring Trump’s own comments about mail ballots.
The ad, running on some… Continue reading
“Tax documents detail how election deniers profit from group founded by conspiracy theorists Patrick Byrne and Michael Flynn”
Issue One:
A new tax filing reviewed by Issue One shows that several prominent election deniers have been profiting from The America Project, a nonprofit founded in 2021 by former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne and President Donald Trump’s former National Security… Continue reading
“Racist slurs and death threats: The dangerous life of a Georgia elections official
Stateline:
When Milton Kidd leaves work at the end of the day, he slips out the back door of the domed Douglas County Courthouse, avoiding the public entrance where people might berate him or demand his home address.
He… Continue reading
“The Biden admin has no firm plan to call out domestic disinformation in the 2024 election”
NBC News:
The Biden administration has no firm plans to alert the public about deepfakes or other false information during the 2024 election unless it is clearly coming from a foreign actor and poses a sufficiently grave threat, according to current… Continue reading
“The deceptive Biden G7 video was quickly debunked, but it kept going viral anyway”
David Ingram for NBC News:
Misleading videos and false claims that President Joe Biden wandered off aimlessly from the G7 conference last week continued to go viral despite debunkings and fact-checks that tried to correct the record.
Google recommended false… Continue reading