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| credit: J. Oman, Sacremento Bee |
The US federal judiciary has enough of the delay game from Trumpillini and his fellow coup plotters. Judge David Carter ordered John Eastman, author of the coup memo, to speed up his production of documents pursuant to subpoena by reviewing at least 1500 a day and logging those he considers privilege for rulings. The J6 Committee's counsel, Doug Letter, criticized the pace of Eastman's response calling it "slow walking", a tactic with which Repugnants are familiar. The court ordered Eastman to begin preparing the privilege log on January 25th, but Letter told the court he had not even begun his review. The court also ordered Eastman to use a digital program that the Committee would pay for to speed the process with daily tranches of unprivileged material.
Meanwhile, the DOJ has taken an interest in the interstate fraud involving fake Electoral College certificates that have now been traced to none other than the former president's mouthpiece, Rudy Giuliani.That this man was once a respected US attorney for the Southern District of NY boggles the mind. However, this legalistic method of usurping a legitimate election fits his client's MO like a glove. Trumpillini is under investigation by New York State for crimes ranging from tax evasion to financial fraud. Fake certificates were a product of Eastman's six point plan to discredit Biden electors and submit alternative slates loyal to Herr Trumpillini, aka Il Douche. The fake certificates were created by Trump allies in Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada and New Mexico. The fraudulent certificates were sent to the National Archives which processes them for counting by Congress. Unfortunately the real certificates from Biden voters were already certified by the respective state governors according to law. No state actually had competing slates of electors, a condition that would trigger the 12th Amendment, putting the election result in the hands of the House of Representatives. All of this fantastic attempt to overthrow the federal government was made possible because of an anachronistic political institution and its arcane rules that have no place in a modern democracy and desperate, deranged man clinging to power. Only in the USA, which is still fighting to overcome its slave-owning past!
The J6 Committee has subpoenaed 14 people involved in the fake elector scheme, part of the Green Bay Sweep, the plot to overthrow the duly elected government of the United States. Full stop. The NYT reports the dirty fourteen are: Nancy Cottle and Loraine Pellegrino of Arizona; David Shafer and Shawn Still of Georgia; Kathy Berden and Mayra Rodriguez of Michigan; Jewll Powdrell and Deborah Maestas of New Mexico; Michael McDonald and James DeGraffenreid of Nevada; Bill Bachenberg and Lisa Patton of Pennsylvania; Andrew Hitt and Kelly Ruhof of Wisconsin. America, if it is to regain its sanity, must come to grips with this stark reality: a deranged, fascist celebrity will stop at nothing to keep himself out of prison including starting a race war.