Trump Pardons 77 American Citizens Unjustly Targeted by the Fully Weaponized Deep State

Good.

The same people whining that prosecuting James Comey for his long, sustained career of perjuring himself before Congress is "politically vindictive" are the exact same people demanding that run of the mill protesters and their lawyers be jailed for dissent.

These people were part of the "alternative electors" scheme -- a legal theory which may well be doubtful, but it has never been illegal, until now, to attempt a doubtful legal theory.

Margot Cleveland for The Federalist:

President Donald Trump pardoned 77 U.S. citizens targeted by Democrat attorneys general for their participation in alternative elector efforts and challenges to 2020 presidential election vulnerabilities. A memo obtained exclusively by The Federalist explains the theory behind the presidential pardons issued to defendants charged with various violations of state criminal law -- a novel theory but one that corners the Democrats behind the weaponization of the criminal justice system.

On Friday, the Trump Administration began contacting the scores of Republicans still facing criminal charges in a handful of blue states for their service as alternative electors -- or connection to the alternative electors -- conveying the president's decision to pardon them. The official pardon provides that "the President grant[s] a full, complete, and unconditional pardon for all conduct relating to the advice, creation, organization, execution, submission, support, voting, activities, participation in, or advocacy for or of any slate or proposed slate of Presidential electors, whether or not recognized by any state or state official, in connection with the 2020 Presidential Election."

President Trump's pardon adopts the recommendation the Office of U.S. Pardon Attorney Edward R. Martin provided in a 15-page memorandum obtained exclusively by The Federalist. In that memorandum, Martin detailed the numerous illegal changes to election laws that proceeded the 2020 presidential election, stressing that "[l]awsuits brought to challenge the unconstitutional changes to election laws, procedural violations, ineligible voters, and election irregularities were dismissed by courts on technical and procedural grounds rather than being fully adjudicated on the merits."

To preserve those legal challenges, the Republican electors in the contested states met and cast votes as alternative electors for Donald Trump, transmitting those results to Congress consistent with, as the memo explained, "core Article II and Twelfth Amendment federal functions." Martin's memorandum further explained:

Those actions were taken based on sound historical and legal precedent, and ensured that legislatures in the Challenged States could select the rightful winner of the Election in the event the legislatures or the courts determined there had been a flawed calculation of votes or an unconstitutional deviation from state election law resulting in the wrong electoral votes being counted.

Martin, of course, is right, as The Federalist detailed in "The Left's 2020 'Fake Electors' Narrative Is Fake News." As The Federalist reported and as Martin also explained in his memorandum, the Trump campaign's submission of alternative electors mirrored the process the Kennedy campaign used in 1960 after the acting governor of Hawaii certified the Republican electors to Nixon. There, as in Trump's case, Kennedy had filed a challenge to the results in state court, and accordingly Democrats certified three alternative electors to cast their ballots for Kennedy in the event the court ruled in his favor.

Two of the three Democrat electors were retired federal judges and yet they certified -- as did the Trump alternative electors -- that they were "duly and legally qualified and appointed" electors for Kennedy. The Democrats further certified "the votes of the state of Hawaii" were given to Kennedy. Kennedy later prevailed in his legal challenge, with his alternative electors then casting their votes in his favor.

Notwithstanding the clear precedent for using alternative electors, former FBI Director Christopher Wray, with then-Attorney General Merrick Garland's explicit approval, launched a criminal investigation into Donald Trump, his lawyers, and the alternate electors based on the supposed "fraudulent certificates of electors' votes [] submitted to the Archivist of the United States" for Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin. Whistleblowers have since revealed "that the FBI wasn't merely targeting Trump or a few high-level officials, but potentially more than 150 individuals."

Read the whole thing.

Speaking of the Rigged and Fraudulent Election of 2020, aka "The Most Secure (and 'Fortified') Election In History of Mankind" -- the Supreme Court will finally take up the minor little matter of 30 blue (or purple states) illegally and unconstitutionally counting votes invalidly cast after Election Day.

This is no quibble about a date on a calendar -- the Constitution itself specifies that votes for office will be held on a specific Election Day.

And during the "Most Secure (and 'Fortified') Election in the History of Mankind," states controlled by Democrats at the time, whether they be blue or purple, all counted tens of thousands of improper votes, including undated votes and votes clearly cast after the Constitutionally-sanctioned Election Day.

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether federal law prohibits states from counting ballots that arrive after Election Day.

President Donald Trump has long railed against mail-in voting and has argued that allowing ballots to be counted after Election Day creates opportunities for fraud. He's claimed that the practice undermines voter confidence by making it impossible to quickly announce final results.

However, the laws of about 30 states authorize counting mail-in ballots after Election Day, with officials contending that the grace period aids voters -- including military personnel -- whose ballots are delayed for reasons outside their control.

The Supreme Court announced in a routine order list Monday that it will grant review in challenges the Republican National Committee and the Mississippi Libertarian Party filed against that state's law allowing mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted if they arrive within five business days after the election.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the challengers and struck down the Mississippi law last year, holding that it is at odds with a trio of federal laws establishing a uniform, nationwide day for voting in federal elections.

In June, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, a Republican, asked the Supreme Court to take up the issue, arguing that the federal appeals court's decision will have "destabilizing nationwide ramifications."

They always dishonestly use an exceptional circumstance to make a normative, general rule.

Military personnel are overseas at the direction, which they cannot legally refuse, of the government. They are at the whim of logistics and chance when it comes to posting their mail-in ballots.

A special rule can acknowledge that military ballots, and only military ballots, are deemed to have been cast and received by Election Day without granting every Democrat operator in the country a free five-day "grace period" after the election to harvest ballots from homeless people and dementia patients dying in hospitals to overturn the results of an election already decided.

Meanwhile, Jake Tapper -- who is both a Noted Excoriator of Election-Deniers, as well as being a well-compensated Election-Denier himself, has never before witnessed such authoritarian affrontery.

Brace yourselves -- SJW dweeb, six-time undisputed world champion at DM Griefing, and ambiguously-gendered Democrat chair-sniffer Jake Tapper is offended!

Again!

Six times this week alone!

Can you believe Lara Trump said that Joe Biden was showing signs of cognitive decline?! What a viciously insightful utterance!

Jake Tapper just can't even with all this!

posted by Ace at 02:23 PM

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