“In certain social and professional circles these days, having disfavored views on the 2020 election can be as personally damaging as being labeled a communist was in the 1950’s,”
Exactly the same! Except for the bit about how one was misplaced accusation meant to ruin people, and the other is what you’ve said publicly are your actual views. Which aren’t “disfavored” so much as disingenuous bullshit. But other than that, they’re exactly the same.
Say I was about to murder my wife, could I hire a lawyer to defend me before I did it?
Telling the lawyer I am going to murder my wife, would that put any obligations on the lawyer?
Don’t forget, folks: John Eastman (or someone very much like him) was trial ballooning the Mike Pence/state legislatures gambit with Bart Gellman in September 2020:
The Trump-campaign legal adviser I spoke with told me the push to appoint electors would be framed in terms of protecting the people’s will. Once committed to the position that the overtime count has been rigged, the adviser said, state lawmakers will want to judge for themselves what the voters intended.
“The state legislatures will say, ‘All right, we’ve been given this constitutional power. We don’t think the results of our own state are accurate, so here’s our slate of electors that we think properly reflect the results of our state,’ ” the adviser said. Democrats, he added, have exposed themselves to this stratagem by creating the conditions for a lengthy overtime.
“If you have this notion,” the adviser said, “that ballots can come in for I don’t know how many days—in some states a week, 10 days—then that onslaught of ballots just gets pushed back and pushed back and pushed back. So pick your poison. Is it worse to have electors named by legislators or to have votes received by Election Day?”
Ain’t none of those comms privileged.
Turns out, there’s a small, but vociferous, community of fascists here in the U.S., and they all know one another.
I would describe them as cohorts.
Co-Conspirators, even.
Kellyanne knew. That was her thing.
He also said that in 2016.
Turns out it was rigged, by Putin.
There is (or was) a private email list of ex-Thomas law clerks that includes Clarence and Ginni too. Ginni had to apologize to the group for her role in fomenting the insurrection. That list would most likely include Eastman, and it ain’t privileged.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/us/politics/ginni-thomas-apology.html
No Republican should be allowed to speak on any topic without being asked whether they agree with Trump’s comments regarding Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine. If they want any mass media access, they should be forced to answer and defend this simple question. Enough already. It’s called accountability. What do we all say? Let’s bring it back and make it front and center for any Republican politician.
Given the massive lead time Eastman et al had to prepare, it’s remarkable they managed to lose almost every action that they filed (even in front of Trump-appointed judges).
If you consider how rapidly their overweening stupidity outran their education and meager intelligence, it’s not remarkable at all.
TBF: It isn’t so much for lack of trying, or even lack of imagination. The blame should be laid at the feet of the founders who really just didn’t create a good mechanism for a single individual to become King.
Crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege. “If I put Louie in the East River, will I beat the rap?”
Like most TPM readers (I suspect), I am not a lawyer. But it seems inconceivable to me that attorney-client privilege could validly be used to hide evidence of criminal activity. And hiding a conspiracy to overturn a valid election seems to clearly cross that line in many ways. Can an attorney on the list comment, please?
Miraculously, he survived and we named him Devin.
I thought I herd we cud moove on from Devin.
No single entity polls more than the US GOP. They knew trump was going to lose at least one year before the election, so they began their corrupt schemes long before he lost.
Mutually exclusive, unfortunately.
