Judge says Georgia's GOP chairman had singular role in fake elector scheme

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https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3756692-judge-says-georgias-gop-chairman-had-singular-role-in-fake-elector-scheme/

Judge says Georgia’s GOP chairman had singular role in fake elector scheme

BY BRAD DRESS - 11/30/22 4:55 PM ET

A Georgia judge on Wednesday singled out the chairman of the state’s Republican Party, saying he had a “substantively” different role than 10 other fake electors who supported former President Trump in the 2020 election.

Judge Robert McBurney in the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, said in a court ruling that David Shafer was “not just another alternate elector” and that he must have separate counsel in an investigation probing efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 results.

Shafer’s “role in establishing and convening the slate of alternate electors, his communications with other key players in the District Attorney’s investigation, and his role in other postelection efforts to call into question the validity of the official vote count in Georgia” separate him from the other 10 alternate electors, the judge wrote.

The attorneys seeking to represent all 11 “alternate” electors are Holly Pierson and Kimberly Debrow.

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[CurtEastPoint]

1. the pasty face of the GA GOP is Shafer's

[John Ludi]

2. I generally don't like

to "dis" people based on their appearance (especially since I've slowly morphed from "cute lead singer in a band" to "creepy old dude people generally try to avoid", but Jebus these people look like what would happen if you asked an AI to give you a human-like representation of a cartoon villain. Almost all of them look like something bad happened to the mold they were pulled out of.

[4Q2u2]

4. The Mater Race

You can tell by the lack of a Chin.

[2naSalit]

8. I think that...

Following a certain amount of over-stuffing they simply ooze out of their molds and slither about looking for the low spot in their environment.

[Whiskeytide]

7. I didn't know Kent Dorfman went into ...

… GA politics after graduating from Faber.

[MissMillie]

3. Captain Obvious is in the building!!!! (n/t)

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[4Q2u2]

5. Then get him

A singular cell for his singular role.

[uponit7771]

6. THIS !!!! ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾 I don't understand why everyone of the fake electors aren't in jail now

[malaise]

9. A lot of folks are heading

to prison. Next year will be fun.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. Georgia's GOP chair will need own lawyer in fake electors probe

This will be fun to watch

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/georgia-gop-chair-fake-electors-rcna59568?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma

On Wednesday, a judge in Fulton County, Ga., ruled that the chair of the state’s Republican Party, a key figure in the 2020 scheme to have fake Electoral College voters give Georgia’s votes to Donald Trump rather than Joe Biden, can’t be represented by lawyers repping 10 of the other 15 fake electors.

In his ruling, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney said the GOP chair, David Shafer, engaged in “substantively” different behavior from other fake electors targeted in Fulton’s criminal probe of Trump’s effort to subvert Georgia’s 2020 election results. .....

The judge said details about Shafer’s central role set him apart from other fake electors.

“Given the information before the Court about his role in establishing and convening the slate of alternate electors, his communications with other key players in the District Attorney’s investigation, and his role in other post-election efforts to call into question the validity of the official vote count in Georgia,” McBurney wrote, “the Court finds that he is substantively differently situated from the other ten clients jointly represented by [two defense attorneys].” (The attorneys, Holly Pierson and Kimberly Debrow, said in a statement that they disagree with the ruling.)

The judge continued with a rather scathing reading of Shafer’s conduct:

His signed waiver may be identical, but his situation is not. He is not just another alternate elector; his lawyers’ repeated incantation of the “lawfulness” of the 2020 alternate electoral scheme and invocation of a separate electoral process from 60 years ago and 4,500 miles away do not apply to the additional post-election actions in which Shafer engaged that distinguish him from the ten individuals with whom he shares counsel. His fate with the special purpose grand jury (and beyond) is not tethered to the other ten electors in the same manner in which those ten find themselves connected.

The ruling seems like it could be bad news for Shafer.