Will Arizona Be Next?
I was pissed off when I read Jack Smith still hasn’t charged Trump with sedition, treason and insurrection— or anything most people will understand as serious crimes— or anything that would merit a firing squad. But I was happy to see that Michigan Attorney General has charged the fake electors with easy to understand felonies. There were 16 fake electors in Michigan and on Tuesday Attorney General Dana Nessel became the first to charge their state’s fake electors with crimes, which will hopefully start a trend that will reach Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania. In the 8th state with fake electors, Wisconsin, they’re more likely to give them awards than charge them with crimes.
Michigan’s parade of criminals who met in that basement of what was then the GOP state headquarters— since abandoned due to lack of funds— includes former state Republican Party co-chairwoman Meshawn Maddock, as well as Republican activists Kathy Berden (a close associate of Ronna McDaniel), William “Hank” Choate, Amy Facchinello, Clifford Frost, Stanley Grot, John Haggard, Mari-Ann Henry, Timothy King, Michele Lundgren, James Renner, Mayra Rodriguez, Rose Rook, Marian Sheridan, Ken Thompson and Kent Vanderwood.
The various forgery charges could lead to up to 14 years in prison for each. Nessel explained the charges to Michiganders in a video:
With the GOP line— repeated endlessly on Fox and their other propaganda outlets— that these prosecutions are all about a difference in politics, Nessel noted that that’s “a lie…Undoubtedly, there will be those who claim these charges are political in nature. But where there is overwhelming evidence of guilt in respect to multiple crimes, the most political act I could engage in as a prosecutor would be to take no action at all.”
The election wasn’t very close in Michigan. Biden won by 154,188 votes— almost 3 points. He won in 9 of Michigan’s 12 big population counties. Trump won in most of the small, rural counties but that didn’t put him close to winning.
The Michigan GOP lost a court case challenging the votes and the GOP leaders in the state legislature told the state party to face reality and just stop the bullshit. The fake electors didn’t; they kept going— and that’s why they are likely to go to prison.
On Tuesday, Emptywheel predicted that this could be the beginning of “other senior Republicans” being criminally charged because they went along with “Trump’s recklessness.” I hope that by the end of this there will be enough convicts who participated in the coup attempt-- from Trump on down-- to fill their own prison, where they can all share conspiracy theories and experience cognitive decline together.
More than 1,000 people have been charged for crimes on January 6, and hundreds have been found guilty.1
But of the elected officials who helped plan or participated in the riot, few have faced any consequences whatsoever.
The 14th Amendment states explicitly that anyone who has engaged in insurrection against the United States is disqualified from holding public office.
We’ve mobilized tens of thousands of people to demand enforcement of the 14th Amendment’s prohibition on insurrectionists holding public office. Now it’s up to us to keep educating the public and demand a thorough investigation of every other politician who may have violated their oath to the Constitution on January 6.
If the facts are confirmed, they should be expelled and…
And again and still... timing. Nothing new has been learned in the past 2.5 years. Yet Nessel picks now to begin prosecution. What... is there an election coming up or something?
Inadvertently perhaps, Ms. Nessel just indicted the biden admin and merrick garland with the truth: "But where there is overwhelming evidence of guilt in respect to multiple crimes, the most political act I could engage in as a prosecutor would be to take no action at all.”
Thankfully, the media are paid to ignore such obvious parallels. And everyone who votes is far too stupid to be able to figure this out.
Too bad that same sentiment wasn't in existence in '68 for nixon, '80 for reagan... and in…