Alternate slates of electors is not criminal, in fact the constitution allows for it...
At the crux of the indictment is the idea that election challenges are inherently illegal if they fail and that the idea of alternate electors is criminal by the same logic.
So to look at this situation more simply, let's play on a much more realistic hypothetical situation.
In Wisconsin, the Trump election challenges were not heard by the Wisconsin State Supreme Court. Not because of merit, but because of time limitations. This was a 4-3 decision to not hear it. So obviously three judges still wanted to hear the case.
However, after the election was over a voter(s) moved forward with the same claims. Rather than suggest they wanted to overturn election results, they just wanted the court to determine whether what the Governor and election officials did was legal under Wisconsin law and the Wisconsin constitution in order to prevent it from happening in another election.
One judge flipped and by 4-3 decision they decided to hear this case. Eventually they ruled that the Governor and election officials had overstepped their authority and basically broke Wisconsin election laws with their actions in 2020 election. Had this decision come "before" the safe harbor date for the 2020 election rather than a year later, the Wisconsin legislature would have been placed in a position of voting to decertify the results and declaring the election illegal and thus void. They may not have voted to decertify their election, but they certainly could have.
At that point, the electors already sworn to Biden are still sworn to Biden, so moving forward the state would require an alternate slate of electors sworn to Trump if they wanted to hold another vote on who should get Wisconsin's electoral college votes. This has been how State disputes have been settled in the past, and there is nothing "illegal" about that alternate slate of electors. In fact they are needed if a state were to decertify their results.
But in Fulton County, Willis is suggesting that the creation of such alternate electors is akin to impersonating an official and any documents associated are either forgery, filing false documents, or false statements. She is charging member of the alternate electors as being part of a conspiracy in spite of the fact that these people were taking the advice of the attorney who was working on the election challenges.
The argument "appears" to be that because it was unlikely that they would win the lawsuit and they just "had to know" they would lose, that the entire idea of creating alternate electors (which the left refers to as fake electors) is illegal. They argue this even though there is a constitutional process involving alternate electors during election challenges. Moreover, the entire idea of the alternate slate of electors provides literally no harm to anyone if the lawsuits fail. The alternate electors become a moot point.
So to get around the idea that alternate electors are not illegal in general, they are apparently suggesting that the legal steps they took are part of a conspiracy to commit a larger crime of some sort, which then makes the steps taken within the conspiracy illegal. This is horrible circular logic. But shoving a square peg into a round hole seems to be what the left is expecting. They really did not like any of these election challenges and they want them punished. The entire idea is to criminalize the very process of challenging an election, or at least making it a crime to challenge and lose.... if you are a Republican.
"Last #FactChecker piece on Joe Biden, who this week claimed to see a bridge collapse (one of dozens of lies in his Milwaukee speech), is from April 28. The one before that was on Feb 15. https://t.co/AsdL5tRanC" / X (twitter.com)
but they "counted" every utterance of Trump a lie every day
even when it was proved to be true
state media
hopefully they die faster than America
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and where is the state media reporting
too soon?
Not that the 201,234 defendants are necessarily guilty of anything criminal, but just that it might go to trial.
The problem for those defendants is that they are facing financial ruin if they try to defend themselves, fighting the government is extremely expensive and the penalties if unsuccessful huge.
So like a lot of the J6 defendants they succumb to the government bullying and accept a guilty plea rather than face a judge and jury of left-wing zealots
Tyranny
Animal Farm
Banana Republic
I agree, to a point. But if you recall when the Jack Smith indictment dropped it was reported by the drive-by's that some of the charges carried the fucking death penalty if convicted.
Trump has utterly broken a significant percentage of Americans, and a not insignificant portion of THAT group want to see the guy imprisoned or better yet, executed. You get dozens of emails a day from one of them, and you can bet he's not alone.
America is in the grip of a severe mental illness right now, from 'woke' to CRT to BLM to ESG, to TDS. Honestly, if Trump were to…