Trump’s First Tweet Since Right after the January 6 Invasion of the Capitol Celebrates His Mugshot After Being Arrested for Election Interference in Georgia
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Category Archives: election subversion risk
“Republican debate divides on Trump with Christie leading attacks: ‘Have to stop normalizing this conduct'”
The Independent:
Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie attacked former president Donald Trump for the multiple legal investigations the latter faces during the first Republican presidential primary debate on Wednesday as other candidates defended the former president.
Debate moderators asked… Continue reading
“Trump praises Jan. 6 crowd, repeats election lies in online interview while skipping GOP debate”
AP:
In the most inflammatory exchange, Trump seemed to indulge a suggestion from Carlson that Trump’s political opponents might try to end his life.
“They’re savage animals. They are people that are sick. Really sick. You have great people in… Continue reading
Announcing the Fall Webinar Series for UCLA Law’s Safeguarding Democracy Project (Each event free but registration required)
Very excited to announce this lineup for the Safeguarding Democracy Project’s Fall 2023 webinar series (each event free but registration required):
September 5, 12pm-1pm – The Trump Indictments, the 2024 Elections, and Public Peace
Webinar
Ruth Ben-Ghiat (NYU)
Benjamin … Continue reading
“Where the 2024 candidates stand on elections, democracy and Jan. 6”
WaPo:
As former president Donald Trump seeks a return to the White House, he is promoting false claims about the 2020 election, championing violent offenders who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and refusing to commit to abiding by… Continue reading
“Trump and his allies double down on election lies after indictments for trying to undo 2020 results”
AP:
A federal indictment and one in Georgia charging Donald Trump with lying about the 2020 election to overturn President Joe Biden’s win have done nothing to slow the geyser of election falsehoods flowing from the former president and his… Continue reading
“What the Heck Happened in Coffee County, Georgia?; A detailed look back at the computer intrusion that features prominently in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s election interference indictment”
Lawfare deep dive by Anna Bower:
Days before the forensics team sets foot in Douglas, which is about 130 miles southwest of Savannah, voters had arrived at the elections office to mark their ballots in the state’s runoff election for… Continue reading
My New One at Slate: “Why the Fulton County Indictment Is Different From Jack Smith’s Case”
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins:
If the recent federal indictment of Donald Trump on charges related to his attempt to subvert the 2020 presidential election was a streamlined surgical strike aimed at assuring a clean case… Continue reading
“Trump, 18 others indicted for trying to overthrow 2020 Georgia election”
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Former President Donald Trump orchestrated a sweeping criminal enterprise, committing more than a dozen felonies, as he tried and failed to overturn his defeat in Georgia’s 2020 election, according to an indictment handed up Monday by a… Continue reading
“Atlanta-area prosecutor expected to seek more than a dozen indictments in Trump case”
CNN:
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is expected to seek more than a dozen indictments when she presents her case regarding efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia before a… Continue reading
“Previously Secret Memo Laid Out Strategy for Trump to Overturn Biden’s Win”
NYT:
A lawyer allied with President Donald J. Trump first laid out a plot to use false slates of electors to subvert the 2020 election in a previously unknown internal campaign memo that prosecutors are portraying as a crucial link… Continue reading
My New LA Times Oped: “Why Georgia might beat the feds at holding Trump accountable”
I have written this piece for the LA Times. It begins:
In Fulton County, Ga., Donald Trump and others are widely expected to be indicted any day for attempting to illegally reverse Joe Biden’s victory in that state in 2020.… Continue reading
Jack Goldsmith: “The Prosecution of Trump May Have Terrible Consequences”
Must-read NYT oped:
It may be satisfying now to see the special counsel Jack Smith indict Donald Trump for his reprehensible and possibly criminal actions in connection with the 2020 presidential election. But the prosecution, which might be justified, reflects… Continue reading
“John Eastman, awaiting potential indictment, asks judge to postpone his disbarment proceedings”
Politico:
Attorney John Eastman, an architect of Donald Trump’s last-ditch efforts to subvert the 2020 election, is asking a California judge to postpone disbarment proceedings lodged against him, saying he’s increasingly concerned he’s about to be criminally charged by special… Continue reading