Mike Pence's 6-point plan to steal the election: Republicans leave roadmap for future authoritarians

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Mike Pence's 6-point plan to steal the election: Republicans leave roadmap for future authoritarians
The memo from John Eastman was circulated in January to some of Trump's staunchest Republican defenders in Congress

By HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 22, 2021 9:40AM


(Salon) One of the most important lessons of the 2020 election is just how easy it would be for someone with a little bit more savvy to upend the constitution and prevent the peaceful transfer of power in the future. Democracies don't always crumble as a result of violent revolution. It's often done by manipulating the law and using intimidation to ensure compliance.

The most famous example is the German Enabling Act of 1933, also known as The Law to Remedy the Distress of the People and the Reich. That law allowed Adolph Hitler to enact other laws, including ones that violated the Weimar Constitution, without the approval of either parliament or Reich President Paul von Hindenburg, effectively making Hitler a dictator. Through some adroit maneuvering and the detention of certain members of the Parliament, he was able to gain the two-thirds majority required and the courts all went along with it. The rest, as they say, is history.

Donald Trump is no Hitler, of course. He is not that clever. But he does have some of the same impulses, particularly when it comes to seizing power.

This week we learned, through the new Woodward and Costa book "Peril," that one of Donald Trump's closest legal advisers, a law professor by the name of John Eastman, had prepared a memorandum to serve as guidance for the Vice President to overturn the election on January 6th. The memo laid out a six-point plan:

First: The Vice President begins the counting with the state of Alabama as usual. .........(more)

https://www.salon.com/2021/09/22/mike-pences-6-point-plan-to-steal-the-election-leave-roadmap-for-future-authoritarians/

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1. Eastman 'retired' or 'resigned'. Now a visiting law professor,

https://www.businessinsider.com/eastman-memo-law-professor-says-trump-attorney-abused-his-work-2021-9

[or a fellow at a conservative think tank. Still spewing apparently].

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2. It was Trump's guy's plan, not Pence's ... Pence didnt' go along with it ...

Annoying headline ... but overall it is an alarming document really.

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3. Make a note folks K/R