In his last months, Trump was pressuring his Justice Dept. to pressure

[applegrove]

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the Supreme Court to invalidate Biden's election win. CNN

[VA_Jill]

1. Pretty much

what Rachel was talking about Friday night, I think. Or an extension thereof. This adds fuel to the impeachment as well as criminal charges.

[applegrove]

3. Good that impeachment is far enough away that more intel will come out. N/T

[soothsayer]

2. Is there a timeline to his election shenanigans?

I’m thinking (off the top of my head):

Floating the idea the election would be stolen and that polls were wrong

Saying mail-in voting was crooked/dangerous so states would not allow it

Floating the idea of delaying the election due to covid

Jacking up the post office to delay mail-in votes

Trying to stop the count/filing scores of frivolous suits to disenfranchise voters (minority, mostly)

Trying to get Supreme Court to invalidate

Trying to get GA AG removed so the new one would change the results

Trying to get Pence to not count all the EC votes

Trying to strong arm and possibly kill members of Congress via insurrection


I’m sure I’ve missed some.

[inanna]

4. From Slate:

JAN 24, 20212:51 PM

Trump Reportedly Pressured DOJ to File Case in Supreme Court to Overturn Election

In his last weeks in office, Donald Trump started to get desperate. As his efforts to overturn the election results with his baseless claims of voter fraud kept collapsing, he suddenly started pressuring the Justice Department to go straight to the Supreme Court to overturn the election results, reports the Wall Street Journal. But he was unable to get senior officials, including then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, former Attorney General William Barr and former acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall, to go along with his plan. Trump’s attorneys outside government were trying to convince the then-president of the plan, but even his White House counsel, Pat Cipollone and his deputy, Patrick Philbin, objected to the idea.

As Trump kept pushing the move, the senior Justice Department officials continued to insist that there was no basis to challenge the election results. And besides, they said, the federal government couldn’t really make the argument considering it had no legal interest in who actually won the election. “He wanted us, the United States, to sue one or more of the states directly in the Supreme Court,” a former administration official said. The official said that “the pressure got really intense” after a lawsuit Texas filed in the Supreme Court against four states Biden won was dismissed in early December. An outside lawyer who was working for Trump even wrote a brief that the then-president wanted to be filed in the name of the Justice Department, but officials refused.

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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/01/trump-justice-department-supreme-court-election.html

[applegrove]

5. Will read when i am out of PPE and my face shield is not so foggy.

I am visiting my dad in a long term care home and watching cnn. Thanks for adding to the OP.

[inanna]

6. ...

[keithbvadu2]

8. 'I put several of you SC justices in office. You owe me.'

[applegrove]

9. Yup. He doesn't understand public service is a higher calling and a happier life.