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Your grandkids are going to read about the last 20 days in Michigan -- the lies, the abuses of trust
Dave Weigel RetweetedThis is fantastic reporting. Be sure to read the whole thing.
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Your grandkids are going to read about the last 20 days in Michigan -- the lies, the abuses of trust (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Nov 2020
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The unpowerful but moral Republican who stopped the Trump election chaos
mahatmakanejeeves
Nov 2020
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exboyfil
(17,862 posts)1. In addition to the Trump miniseries
This needs to be put in a dramatic movie. That seems the only way to get to many people. A great documentary should come first of course.
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,664 posts)2. Problem is my grandkids...
are reading about it now...they lived it.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,316 posts)3. The unpowerful but moral Republican who stopped the Trump election chaos
David Fahrenthold Retweeted
I think
@TimAlberta
s praise of the unpowerful but moral Republican who stopped the Trump election chaos is worth republishing widely.
https://politico.com/newsletters/politico-nightly/2020/11/24/the-michigan-republican-who-stopped-trump-490984
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(57,316 posts)4. The Michigan Republican who stopped Trump
The Michigan Republican who stopped Trump
By TIM ALBERTA 11/24/2020 09:00 PM EST
FIRST IN NIGHTLY After five years spent bullying the Republican Party into submission, President Donald Trump finally met his match in Aaron Van Langevelde. ... Who?
Thats right. In the end, it wasnt a senator or a judge or a general who stood up to the leader of the free world. There was no dramatic, made-for-Hollywood collision of cosmic egos. Rather, the death knell of Trumps presidency was sounded by a baby-faced lawyer, looking over his glasses on a grainy Zoom feed on a gloomy Monday afternoon, reading from a statement that reflected a courage and moral clarity that has gone AWOL from his party, pleading with the tens of thousands of people watching online to understand that some lines can never be uncrossed.
We must not attempt to exercise power we simply dont have, declared Van Langevelde, a member of Michigans board of state canvassers, the ministerial body with sole authority to make official Joe Bidens victory over Trump. As John Adams once said, we are a government of laws, not men. This board needs to adhere to that principle here today. This board must do its part to uphold the rule of law and comply with our legal duty to certify this election.
Van Langevelde is a Republican. He works for Republicans in the statehouse. He gives legal guidance to advance Republican causes and win Republican campaigns. As a Republican, his mandate for Mondays hearing handed down from the state party chair, the national party chair and the president himself was straightforward. They wanted Michigans board of canvassers to delay certification of Bidens victory. Never mind that Trump lost by more than 154,000 votes, or that results were already certified in all 83 counties. The plan was to drag things out, to further muddy the election waters and delegitimize the process, to force the courts to take unprecedented actions that would forever taint Michigans process of certifying elections. Not because it was going to help Trump win but because it was going to help Trump cope with a loss. The president was not accepting defeat. That meant no Republican with career ambitions could accept it, either.
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By TIM ALBERTA 11/24/2020 09:00 PM EST
FIRST IN NIGHTLY After five years spent bullying the Republican Party into submission, President Donald Trump finally met his match in Aaron Van Langevelde. ... Who?
Thats right. In the end, it wasnt a senator or a judge or a general who stood up to the leader of the free world. There was no dramatic, made-for-Hollywood collision of cosmic egos. Rather, the death knell of Trumps presidency was sounded by a baby-faced lawyer, looking over his glasses on a grainy Zoom feed on a gloomy Monday afternoon, reading from a statement that reflected a courage and moral clarity that has gone AWOL from his party, pleading with the tens of thousands of people watching online to understand that some lines can never be uncrossed.
We must not attempt to exercise power we simply dont have, declared Van Langevelde, a member of Michigans board of state canvassers, the ministerial body with sole authority to make official Joe Bidens victory over Trump. As John Adams once said, we are a government of laws, not men. This board needs to adhere to that principle here today. This board must do its part to uphold the rule of law and comply with our legal duty to certify this election.
Van Langevelde is a Republican. He works for Republicans in the statehouse. He gives legal guidance to advance Republican causes and win Republican campaigns. As a Republican, his mandate for Mondays hearing handed down from the state party chair, the national party chair and the president himself was straightforward. They wanted Michigans board of canvassers to delay certification of Bidens victory. Never mind that Trump lost by more than 154,000 votes, or that results were already certified in all 83 counties. The plan was to drag things out, to further muddy the election waters and delegitimize the process, to force the courts to take unprecedented actions that would forever taint Michigans process of certifying elections. Not because it was going to help Trump win but because it was going to help Trump cope with a loss. The president was not accepting defeat. That meant no Republican with career ambitions could accept it, either.
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