Category Archives: election subversion risk
“Document in Jan. 6 Case Shows Plan to Storm Government Buildings”
NYT:
A document found by federal prosecutors in the possession of a far-right leader contained a detailed plan to surveil and storm government buildings around the Capitol on Jan. 6 last year, people familiar with the document said on… Continue reading
“Fearing political violence in 2024, judges sentence Jan. 6 defendants to probation through the next election”
WaPo:
U.S. judges including those appointed by Republican presidents are increasingly sentencing defendants who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the Capitol to three-year terms of court supervision, fearing they could be misled into committing political violence… Continue reading
“‘Gutted’: What happened when a Georgia elections office was targeted for takeover by those who claim the 2020 election was a fraud”
WaPo:
Any thought they’d had that the atmosphere might calm down was gone. What amounted to a grass-roots uprising had gained momentum, become more organized and started coming after the election office.New people had been showing up for the… Continue reading
“Beware the Never-Ending Disinformation Emergency”
Gilad Edelman for Wired:
For that matter, why should YouTube police election fraud claims at all, long after the election is over?Social media companies are private entities that aren’t bound by the First Amendment. But their power over communication is… Continue reading
My New Washington Post Piece Connected to My Cheap Speech Book: “Facebook and Twitter could let Trump back online. But he’s still a danger.”
I have written this piece for the Washington Post. It begins:
In the Menlo Park, Calif., offices of Meta, discussions probably have already begun to consider what will happen Jan. 7, 2023, when former president Donald Trump’s ban from Facebook… Continue reading
“Pressure on Justice Dept. as Jan. 6 Panel Lays Out Case Against Trump”
NYT:
The Justice Department is facing mounting pressure to prosecute former President Donald J. Trump after the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack laid out its argument for a potential criminal case on Wednesday night, placing Attorney General… Continue reading
“New evidence shows Trump was told many times there was no voter fraud — but he kept saying it anyway”
WaPo:
A data expert for former president Donald Trump’s campaign told him bluntly not long after polls closed in November 2020 that he was definitely going to lose his campaign for reelection.In the weeks that followed, multiple top… Continue reading
“Georgia’s race to oversee voting pits an election denier against an election defender”
Miles Parks for NPR:
There has never been evidence to support that claim. No major or widespread issues with the 2020 election were uncovered anywhere in the United States, and paper ballots in Georgia were recounted multiple times, including… Continue reading
“Jan. 6 Committee Lays Out Potential Criminal Charges Against Trump”
NYT:
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol said on Wednesday that there was enough evidence to conclude that former President Donald J. Trump and some of his allies might have conspired to commit… Continue reading
“First Jan. 6 defendant pleads guilty to seditious conspiracy in Capitol attack”
WaPo:
A member of the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group has become the first to admit to engaging in seditious conspiracy on Jan. 6, 2021, to keep President Biden from taking office.Joshua James, 34, of Arab, Ala., pleaded guilty in… Continue reading
“Jan. 6 committee expected to release new details about effort to pressure Pence to reject electors, overturn election results”
WaPo:
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol is expected to submit a court filing Wednesday laying out new details about the effort by conservative lawyer John Eastman to persuade Vice President Pence… Continue reading
“‘Multiple’ Jan. 6 calls between Trump and lawyer on Texas election lawsuit, panel reveals”
Politico:
Congressional investigators say former President Donald Trump had “multiple phone calls” on Jan. 6, 2021 with an attorney who represented Texas in its lawsuit to overturn the election.The revelation that Trump had spoken repeatedly with Kurt Olsen amid… Continue reading
“John Eastman, Trump’s lawyer on overturning election, under investigation by California Bar”
LAT:
Orange County attorney John Eastman is at the center of an ethics investigation into whether he violated laws while advising President Trump on how he could overturn his election defeat in 2020, the State Bar of California said… Continue reading