While waiting for the Georgia indictment expected this week, the N.Y. Times recaps in detail the events upon which the anticipated charges are based. One detail I hadn’t seen before:
“The Raffensperger family was soon barraged with threats, leading his wife, Tricia, to confront Ms. Loeffler in a text message: ‘Never did I think you were the kind of person to unleash such hate and fury.'”
Also this on Gov. Kemp’s role in heading off an alternate slate of electors in the state:
“Trump allies in the legislature were hatching a new plan to defy the election laws that have long been pillars of American democracy: They wanted to call a special session and pick new electors who would cast votes for Mr. Trump. …
“Mr. Kemp issued a statement warning them off: ‘Doing this in order to select a separate slate of presidential electors is not an option that is allowed under state or federal law.'”
UPDATE: The Washington Post also has its own recap, with graphics and video of Giuliani and Eastman. The story quotes Eastman’s video:
“Eastman’s remarks indicated that Trump’s electors may have met and voted in seven states on Dec. 14 not merely to preserve their legal recourse in pending lawsuits, as many claimed, but also to prepare for Jan. 6, when Trump and his allies would heavily lobby Pence to block the final counting of the electoral college votes for Biden.
“’Unfortunately, Section 15 of Title III is embarrassingly ambiguous about which of those slate of electors ought to be counted,’ Eastman told the senators. ‘And the 12th Amendment is also a bit ambiguous about who has the final say. So in making that determination, I think a very credible argument can be made that it’s the president of the Senate as the presiding officer of that joint session of Congress.’
“State Sen. Elena Parent, a Democrat, reacted incredulously to what Eastman was saying. ‘So correct me if I’m wrong here,’ she said during the live broadcast. ‘Your argument is that essentially we have a failed election that would require the legislature to step in and assign electors. Am I correct?’
Eastman’s reply: ‘Yes.’”