Coup in the USA?

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This is easily grounds for disbarment. Although it seems like their attorneys are trying to stay within ethics and legal guidelines while their publicists are spouting shit.
 

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to undo sanctions against several lawyers allied with former President Trump for filing a meritless lawsuit challenging Michigan’s 2020 presidential election results.

Lawyers Sidney Powell, Lin Wood and others brought the lawsuit against Michigan state officials and Detroit in November 2020, one of dozens of suits filed in an attempt to prove election results were illegitimate in states where Trump had lost. The efforts failed across the board and no evidence of widespread fraud was uncovered.
 

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On Monday, the nation’s conservative-majority high court upheld a ban preventing former New Mexico official Couy Griffin from running for office within the state again due to his specific criminal history: In 2022, Griffin was convicted on misdemeanor offenses for his role in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, ultimately costing him his job as county commissioner.

It’s the Supreme Court’s first decision on the Fourteenth Amendment since it axed a Colorado decision earlier this month to keep Trump off the state’s GOP presidential primary ballot, and the first time that the “insurrectionist clause” has been used to bar someone from office since it was created to keep ex-Confederates from reattaining high office following the Civil War. By allowing the Fourteenth Amendment to be used against Griffin, the Supreme Court seems to have, circuitously, deemed the January 6 riot an insurrection.
The rationale for the discrepancy between Trump’s and Griffin’s cases, however, likely boils down to state election specifics—whereas Colorado attempted to bend national electoral precedent by keeping Trump off the ballot, New Mexico’s case keeps Griffin out of New Mexico politics.
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Sadly, without a conviction from the U.S. Senate, I'm certain the Supreme Court will block any attempt to keep TFG off the ballot, even if they've basically all but agreed that it was an insurrection attempt. :(
So this is Donnie's grand master scheme, then: delay and politicize, citing lack of actual conviction in 2 impeachments, then claim failure to impeach is also exoneration. Then claim immunity because "jail". Then delay delay delay so he can try to be President so he can pardon himself and every one of his crooked cronies plus all the actual insurrectionists from 1/6. Failing that, I'm afraid we're looking at an endless repeating loop from that side of the aisle spouting falsehood after falsehood that only fools about 1/4 of the population.

Sigh.
 

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So this is Donnie's grand master scheme, then: delay and politicize, citing lack of actual conviction in 2 impeachments, then claim failure to impeach is also exoneration. Then claim immunity because "jail". Then delay delay delay so he can try to be President so he can pardon himself and every one of his crooked cronies plus all the actual insurrectionists from 1/6. Failing that, I'm afraid we're looking at an endless repeating loop from that side of the aisle spouting falsehood after falsehood that only fools about 1/4 of the population.

Sigh.
Yes, it's so frustrating and soul bruising. Unfathomable that all systems designed to curtail this nefarious conduct are failing or turning a purposeful blind eye. To the good and mentally intact people of the world, this is utterly nonsensical.
 

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So this is Donnie's grand master scheme, then: delay and politicize, citing lack of actual conviction in 2 impeachments, then claim failure to impeach is also exoneration. Then claim immunity because "jail". Then delay delay delay so he can try to be President so he can pardon himself and every one of his crooked cronies plus all the actual insurrectionists from 1/6. Failing that, I'm afraid we're looking at an endless repeating loop from that side of the aisle spouting falsehood after falsehood that only fools about 1/4 of the population.

Sigh.
Honestly I think the only reason he's interested in running again is just to stay out of jail just long enough to live out his final years. I shudder to think what kind of lasting damage someone with that kind of vengeful attitude could have. Worse by far than tfgs first term!
 
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