One thing I told @RichardFausset awhile ago was that not all the fake electors are the same— these are folks come from all over Georgia and from very different walks of life. It is a stretch to say they’re all exactly situated, even if they committed similarly wrong acts. #gapol
One thing I told @RichardFausset awhile ago was that not all the fake electors are the same— these are folks come from all over Georgia and from very different walks of life. It is a stretch to say they’re all exactly situated, even if they committed similarly wrong acts. #gapol
@AnthonyMKreis @NastyOldWomyn @RichardFausset B/c this is Twitter, NG: The following is not a defense of what the Trump electors did; these are technical legal points. Is it clear that Georgia has criminal jurisdiction here? The Trump electors didn't interfere with the election of or voting by the Biden electors. 1/
@AnthonyMKreis @NastyOldWomyn @RichardFausset If Congress had counted the votes of the Trump electors rather than those of the legitimate Biden electors, the voters of Georgia would suffered an injury, but is that legally enough? Considering the ECA anticipates receipt by Congress of documents merely... 2/
@AnthonyMKreis @NastyOldWomyn @RichardFausset … purporting to be proper certificates, and instructs Congress to decide whether count them, I think it's (at best) unclear if what anyone did to back the submission by Trump's GA electors is a federal crime, but if it nevertheless could be a crime in GA, I don't know. 3/3
@KDbyProxy @AnthonyMKreis @RichardFausset The actions of the fake electors would also be governed by their respective state election codes.
@NastyOldWomyn @AnthonyMKreis @RichardFausset Of course Trump's GA electors were wrong. Trump lost. But they still had a 1A right to petition Congress to claim Trump won. AND unless they went through the steps they did, if Congress did decide Trump had won, there could not have been redress w/o a cert from Trump's electors.