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Post by mhbruin on Mar 15, 2024 8:46:53 GMT -8
Lawyers Must Love the New QOP
The Washington Post reported Tuesday that the newly constituted RNC will abandon plans previously sought by numerous Republicans to encourage early and mail-in voting among the registered Republicans it purports to represent. The discontinued “Bank Your Vote” initiative will be replaced by an effort to connect with “less likely Trump voters” in a new program called “Grow The Vote.”
In a victory for the extremist wing of the Republican Party, it looks like Donald Trump’s hand-picked leadership team at the Republican National Committee has officially scrapped the GOP’s plan to encourage early voting this election cycle. Instead, the party is taking steps to prioritize legal challenges to voting systems ahead of November.
This appears to be a realization of the far right’s goal of focusing the Republican Party on election-related “lawfare,” that is legal challenges designed to restrict ballot access and undercut election systems in ways that make it harder to vote.
Nothing screams “We can’t win a majority of voters fairly” like prioritizing legal attacks on voting rights. But that’s precisely what the Trump-branded RNC is preparing to do. Lara Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law and the current RNC co-chair, claimed “massive resources” will go to its so-called election integrity division.
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Post by mhbruin on Mar 15, 2024 8:48:58 GMT -8
The DOJ Screws Alvin Bragg and the People of America. Thanks, Merrick!
In a surprise move on Thursday, prosecutors in New York asked a judge to push back former President Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial by up to 30 days in order to allow all parties time to sort through a cache of potential new evidence.
The case, centering on payments made to silence accusations of extramarital affairs in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, had been set to go to trial on March 25 as the first of its kind for a former president.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a court filing that, although his office is still prepared to begin trial on the scheduled date, they would prefer more time in light of the fact that the U.S. Attorney’s Office only recently released tens of thousands of pages of records in response to a subpoena from Trump’s legal team.
Bragg said the bulk of the new records, stemming from former Trump attorney Michael Cohen’s 2018 case, appears to be irrelevant to his case. But the prosecutors noted that more were expected next week, and more than 30,000 pages were released Wednesday.
The Request for the Documents Was Made Months Ago, but the DOJ Waited Until Days Before the Trial Was to Begin.
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Post by hasben on Mar 15, 2024 12:58:22 GMT -8
The DOJ Screws Alvin Bragg and the People of America. Thanks, Merrick!
Hur now this. As I said before, I think Garland is either totally corrupt and working to help trump take over the country, or totally incompetent. I don't understand why Biden hasn't replaced him. Maybe he's that naive.
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Post by mhbruin on Mar 16, 2024 17:56:40 GMT -8
The DOJ Screws Alvin Bragg and the People of America. Thanks, Merrick! Hur now this. As I said before, I think Garland is either totally corrupt and working to help trump take over the country, or totally incompetent. I don't understand why Biden hasn't replaced him. Maybe he's that naive. I think Merrick is bending over backwards to not appear partisan. He is bending over so far, he is in fact acting partisan, and helping the QOP.
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Post by hasben on Mar 16, 2024 20:55:18 GMT -8
>he is in fact acting partisan
He isn't acting partisan he is being partisan. I no longer buy the bending over bit.
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