Federal law makes it a *crime* to hold out appropriations to intererfere with right to vote:

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Walter Shaub Retweeted

As
@waltshaub
notes, federal law makes it a *crime* to hold out appropriations in order to intererfere with individuals’ exercise of their right to vote:

https://law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/598

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[Cracklin Charlie]

1. What if the criminal only constantly publicly threatens to do such crimes?

Then, he’s just a troll, right?

Can somebody please do something about our insane president?

[leftieNanner]

2. Laws - Schmaws!

Since when have any Republicans cared if he followed any of those.

His response would be - "So MAKE me!"

And they wouldn't.

Because he is only targeting Blue states, they think it's fine and dandy.

[PatSeg]

12. Yes, Trump is a lawless president

and he just doesn't care. Why should he? He never gets held accountable for anything.

[leftieNanner]

13. Precisely nt

[BSdetect]

3. He's made it clear nothing will stop such crimes continuing

[fleur-de-lisa]

4. Impeach that orange fucker again.

[SoonerPride]

5. things are only against the law if there is someone to enforce the law

and there is no one to stop trump from doing any fucking thing he wants.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. "Trump is a clownish autocrat. House Ds tell me Michigan has already gotten its $$$"

As
@ThePlumLineGS
rightly noted, this is the very scenario we forecasted during this deranged president’s impeachment.

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?s=20 Prescient. Current. Timeless. Acceptable?

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[crickets]

9. +1

[aggiesal]

7. Lock him up, lock him up, ...

[c-rational]

8. I initially thought this had to do with Nevada's vote by mail resolution. What a corrupt nincompoop

[louis-t]

10. GOP walks it back in 3..2..1..

Or insane orange posse says "Ah's jes jokin'."

[malaise]

11. Deep down he knows he deserves to be in prison

Lock him up! Lock him up!

[Evolve Dammit]

15. x 1000. Any idea of status of the grand jury materials from Mueller's investigation?

We need lots of sunlight right now. I'm hoping a group from CDC speaks out. And Pompeo staff. And while I'm wondering, how is Covid doing in the WH? Maybe they'll all just be carried out like the end of a Jim Jones "rally".

[duforsure]

14. When you have a corrupt Republican Congress and president

Who now are corrupting the courts. How high? Then we'll know if we have laws , or trump justice.

[Midnight Writer]

16. Someone should file charges, so this can disappear into our Court system for five years.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

17. This is one of those lies that'll be lost in the history books b/c there aren't enough pages.

Radley Balko Retweeted

This is one of those lies that'll be lost in the history books b/c there aren't enough pages. But it's menacing in this moment. The president is spreading egregiously false information that will incite his base (already seeing it on my FB feed) and fuel talk of a rigged election.

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1. Michigan sending absentee ballot applications not ballots to voters

2.
@JocelynBenson
one of best Secretaries of State in country & has authorization to do so

3. Threatening to block funding to sway election outcome exactly what Trump impeached for

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Trump would totally try to block FEMA funding to a state experiencing catastrophic flooding because he doesn’t understand the difference between ballots and ballot applications.

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[mahatmakanejeeves]

18. This tweet has now been resent to say "applications" were sent to all voters.

Kaitlan Collins Retweeted

This tweet has now been resent to say "applications" were sent to all voters. But it's still not true that this was done illegally. All Michigan voters are, by state law, entitled to vote by mail. Applications are sent out all the time, including before the coronavirus pandemic.

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[Wednesdays]

19. Are you kidding? To them, laws are for cucks.

Rump hasn't yet met a law he couldn't ignore.