I see no problem with this, so long as they are correctly and properly labelled as what they are, complete with provenance.
That these nutjobs exist should also be part of the national record.
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Itâs now up to seven states where the Republicans submitted forged electoral college slates, and unlike the official documents, they all used the same document template.
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Whatâs interesting in seeing them side by side is that it is obvious that the forgers had access to the real document from Wisconsin when they created their forgery. Theyâre all based on that one.
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Oh look, they Godwinned themselves!
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If they have any copies in electronic form, the metadata might be interesting. (Like maybe the name of the document creator, oh please, please!)
I wonder if the âelectorsâ on the forged documents are even the Republican electors who would have voted if Trump had won? They tend to be safe party hacks, but all of them agreeing to this criminal act seems unlikely.
eta: Wisconsin makes sense since it was the only state that wasnât within the safe harbor rules (deliberately?). Itâs the only state that Congress could have legitimately questioned without sparking a Constitutional crisis.
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Just to apply Occamâs razor to my own argument, I should mention that it is possible that they had access to several documents and Wisconsinâs was the easiest to forge with only a word processor, since it doesnât incorporate any seals or other images. I also donât know how publicly available the documents from earlier years are. Quite possible that you didnât need any inside knowledge.
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Thatâs the Oath Keepers founder.
https://trashpanda-x.github.io/darklantern/#Stewart%20Rhodes
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now, maybe, weâre getting somewhere!
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Good choice for first indictment on those charges. Itâs hard for politicians to defend a transporter accident that combined Blofeld with Tuco from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
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Heâs going to be waiting a while for âBlondieâ to shoot his noose.
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Oh, that is just lovely!!!
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Chose your wall:
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Gloomy analysis: Electoral-vote.com
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gonna take on DC police with - checks notes - a muzzle loader?
creative. not very effective
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âŚand then he sped off to a high school girls volleyball game.
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â Someone may need to tell Rep. Mo Brooks to stop talking.
The Republican congressman from Alabama keeps defending himself in court against accusations that he helped incite the Jan. 6, 2021 riotâand itâs not helping the former prosecutor in the slightest.
The particular defense Brooks has chosen seems aimed at having Justice Department lawyers mount a legal defense for him. He is arguing that his incendiary speech on Jan. 6 was part of his official duties as a congressman, a crusade he continued in federal court on Monday.
If that is the case, Brooks may have opened himself up to potential removal from office. And if itâs not the caseâas prosecutors are trying to proveâthen Brooks has handed prosecutors all the ammunition theyâd need to charge him with misusing congressional resources.
In his shaky attempt to prove that his Jan. 6 speech was part of his official duties, Brooks has introduced evidence that his staff spent taxpayer time preparing and helping him with his Jan. 6 speech. So now, if Brooks falls back and admits his speech was a form of campaigningâas prosecutors are arguingâthen he may have a whole new set of legal problems.
Brooks has created a classic âdamned if you do, damned if you donâtâ legal conundrum.â
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He was dammed because he did.
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I think itâs more the conundrum of claiming in court the defence âI couldnât possibly have murdered my wife! I was all the way on the other side of town at the time, murdering my mistress! I mean, um, wait, ⌠can we do that over?â
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