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11/04/2026

byKyle Mantyla

In the wake of an election that saw Republicans across the country swept out of office by a massive blue wave, former Trump attorney and religious-right commentator Jenna Ellis is calling for the Constitution to be amended because the voters are too "stupid" to be trusted to elect their own senators.

Outraged by Michigan voters' decision to elect Abdul El-Sayed to the U.S. Senate, Ellis said on her radio program today Republicans must focus on making "generational" changes to our electoral process via a Convention of States that will propose constitutional amendments to alter our system of government as it currently stands.

Originally under the Constitution, senators were chosen by their respective state legislatures, but that was changed by the passage of the 17th Amendment in 1913 which gave voters the power to elect their senators.

This was a mistake, Ellis said, because "the people can be stupid," as demonstrated by the election of El-Sayed.

"The whole Trump era has basically been a dam and a wall against this entire deluge of the worst from the left," Ellis said. "There are cracks now that we've seen over the last couple of years in that wall and I think that the dam broke last night."

"Every election can't just be a reprieve," she continued. "We have to holistically look at some changes for the country that are more generational. And this is why for a long time I have been an advocate of the Convention of States Project, because one of the things that our founders provided for us in the original Constitution was a republic, not just a democracy that every election and every office went directly to the voters."

"There's kind of been this perception, even among conservatives, that more access to the franchise of voting, the more things that go on the ballot for the people's engagement, the better," Ellis declared. "Well, the people can be duped. When you look at people who are voting for socialist candidates; the fact that we have El-Sayed now in Congress, the people can be stupid."

"This is why when Amendment 17 changed the U.S. Senate, instead of having the state legislatures appoint U.S. senators to represent the states, it went to a popular vote, this is why now we may not have a good Senate until 2032," Ellis griped. "So we have to take stock of maybe some of those generational losses that it's not just at the ballot box, but that we can cure some of these systemic process problems moving forward and take a really hard look. ... If not now, when? How long are you going to wait, and how much does America have to lose before we say, 'Okay, now we're finally going to shatter the glass and say it is time'?"

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Jenna Ellis Says Religious Freedom Only Applies To Christians

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05/04/2026

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Kyle Mantyla

During Friday's episode of her "Jenna Ellis In The Morning" radio program, former Trump campaign attorney Jenna Ellis declared that only Christians are entitled to religious freedom in the United States.

In 2020, Ellis was plucked from obscurity to serve as an attorney for President Donald Trump as he fought to overturn the results of the presidential election. As a result of her efforts, Ellis found herself facing a variety of legal troubles and saw her law license suspended.

Now, Ellis hosts a morning radio program on American Family Radio, where she interviews antisemitic figures like British cleric Calvin Robinson, who was stripped of his license to serve as a priest in the Anglican Catholic Church after he closed out his remarks at the National Pro-Life Summit in 2025 by delivering a Nazi-like salute.

Ellis interviewed Robinson about his forthcoming book "The Silent Jihad: Exposing The Islamification Of The West," which is being published by an imprint run by racist, antisemitic, and deeply misogynistic theocratic fascist Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon. During the conversation, Ellis insisted that the Constitution's guarantee of religious freedom only applies to Christians.

"If we're going to prefer a religion, we need to prefer the Christian faith," Ellis said. "More Christians need to stand up and actually say that and suggest that and say our laws need to be based on truth and the biblical Christian worldview. We say that in a policy context, kind of, but because the left has been so diligent, frankly, in trying to confine Christians to only uttering the Bible as authoritative within the four walls of the church, we often don't use the Bible as being authoritative in the public square. And that needs to change."

"The whole point of having a civil society that recognizes the principles of religious freedom is so that we can go and evangelize, so that we can practice our faith, so that we can train up our children in the way they should go," Ellis insisted. "It's so that we can preserve and protect the Christian way of life. We don't have all of these protections for our rights that our founders recognize come from God, our creator, so that we can go out and live in a pluralistic society and say, 'Well, let's recognize the dignity of Islam.' I mean, that's not the point. That's not the purpose whatsoever. We have a civil government that protects the right of Christians to be able to live and work. And we have this whole perverted notion that somehow our Constitution demands pluralism that just isn't there if you take the whole context of the Declaration, the Constitution, the founding, and everything we're celebrating in America 250."

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Ellis’s position, while certainly extreme and unconstitutional, is not entirely a surprise, given that she was a fellow at Liberty University’s Christian nationalist Falkirk Center – since renamed the Standing for Liberty Center – and that she once wrote a book that declared “divine law” is “the only legitimate basis for constitutional authority.”

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James Fishback Says Don Lemon Is 'Lucky That He's Not Getting Executed In The Public Square'

01/30/2026

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Kyle Mantyla

James Fishback is a far-right Republican candidate for governor in Florida whose campaign has overtly appealed to the white nationalist movement, with Fishback making multiple appearances on programs hosted by virulently antisemitic white nationalists and voicing his admiration for white nationalist Nick Fuentes and his "groyper" movement.

On Friday, Fishback appeared on the American Family Association's "Jenna Ellis In The Morning" program, hosted by one of President Donald Trump's former attorneys, where he opened the interview by praising the Trump administration for arresting independent journalist Don Lemon for his coverage of a group of anti-ICE protesters who invaded a church in Minneapolis earlier this month.

"It is a good day for law and order in America," Fishback declared. "A man ransacked a church during Sunday service with BLM and antifa thugs. If our Founding Fathers knew that a bunch of thugs, led by Don Lemon, had ransacked a church on Sunday morning while parishioners were praising our awesome God, they would have likely called for his public execution."

"Don Lemon should be lucky that he's not getting executed in the public square for his little stunt, his violence, his aggression," Fishback continued. "It's time that Christians stand up for our rights in this country. We cannot be bullied. We cannot be pushed around, least of all by Don Lemon, and so it's a good day for law and order. I'm proud of what President Trump and the DOJ are doing and let's see that justice is served in this case all the way through."

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02/09/2026

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President Donald Trump has ordered “full, complete, and unconditional” pardons for over 70 of his political allies who backed alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, according to the Department of Justice’s Pardon Attorney, Ed Martin.

In a social media post published in the early hours of Monday morning, Martin shared a signed proclamation of the list of names, which contains high-profile figures such as Trump’s former personal lawyer and one-time Mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani, his former chief of staff Mark Meadows, lawyers Sidney Powell and John Eastman, and more.

“Thank you, POTUS, for allowing me, as U.S. Pardon Attorney, to work with the White House, along with Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy AG Todd Blanche, and Solicitor General John Sauer to achieve your intent,” Martin wrote, crediting the team who worked on the pardons. “Let their healing begin.”

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“This proclamation ends a grave national injustice perpetrated upon the American people following the 2020 presidential election and continues the process of national reconciliation,” reads the pardon signed by Trump on Nov. 7.

The pardon applies to those “for conduct relating to the advice, creation, organization, execution, submission, support, voting, activities in, or advocacy for or of any slate of presidential electors… in connection with the 2020 presidential election.”

In a statement to TIME on Monday morning, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said of the pardons: “These great Americans were persecuted and put through hell by the Biden Administration for challenging an election, which is the cornerstone of democracy.”

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Giuliani was held in contempt of court in January for failing to cooperate in the handover of $11 million of personal assets to Georgia poll workers he had falsely accused of helping to steal the 2020 presidential election. Giuliani later reached a settlement in the dispute.

Trump, meanwhile, said in September that he would be awarding his former lawyer with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, days after Giuliani was injured in a New Hampshire car crash.

Trump has repeatedly made false claims that he, not former President Joe Biden, won the 2020 election. Rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, amid the fraught rhetoric.

In January, Trump pardoned almost 1,600 people convicted for their involvement in the Capitol Riots on Jan. 6, 2021, including commuting the sentences of violent offenders from the riots, such as Proud Boys leader Enrique Torrio, who was serving a 22-year sentence.

Former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, called the pardon “an outrageous insult to our justice system and the heroes who suffered physical scars and emotional trauma as they protected the Capitol.”

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Rep. Brandon Gill is more than willing to be bipartisan, provided that it is the Democrats who "cross the aisle and help us execute our agenda."

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After reaching a plea deal with Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis in her election interference case, former Donald Trump attorney Jenna Ellis has also flipped in a separate election interference case being prosecuted by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes.

Law professor and former federal prosecutor Joyce White Vance, known for her frequent appearances on MSNBC, offers legal analysis of Ellis' latest agreement with prosecutors in her Civil Discourse blog.

Vance described this agreement as a "sweetheart deal," noting that "all charges against" Ellis "will be dismissed" and laying out some reasons why this development could prove to be "a big deal."

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"A defendant who enters into a cooperation deal like this makes themself very vulnerable," Vance wrote. "The decision about whether a defendant has failed to uphold their end of the bargain is left to the 'sole discretion' of prosecutors. If they believe Ellis has double-crossed them, she will be in serious trouble, facing not just the original charges, but anything else prosecutors have on her."

Vance added, "It's this feature of the deal that is often helpful in convincing a jury to believe a cooperator's testimony — the witness' only path forward is telling the truth."

The former federal prosecutor also wrote, "If Ellis lies or withholds anything material, her deal is off, and the (Arizona) attorney general can reinstate the old charges and file new, additional ones."

Newsweek's Sean O'Driscoll notes that Ellis "may be called to testify against" other defendants in Mayes' case, including former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.

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Giuliani and Meadows are also defendants in Willis' case in Georgia. But a major difference between the Georgia and Arizona cases is that Donald Trump is not indicted in Arizona, although some legal analysts have predicted that he will be.

During a Tuesday, August 6 appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," legal expert Lisa Rubin said of Ellis' deal in Arizona, "I think it could affect the presidential campaign.... depending on what Jenna Ellis says."

Rubin added, however, that she doesn't think the Arizona case will go to trial before the November election.

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Former President Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, has praised Trewhella’s book several times, extolling it as a “masterful blueprint showing Americans how to successfully resist tyranny.” And a member of Trump’s 2020 campaign legal team, Jenna Ellis, cited Trewhella’s work as a solution to government overreach in her 2015 book advocating for a biblical interpretation of the Constitution.

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Right-wing media spared no time in hurling racist and sexist attacks against the likely Democratic presidential candidate

WRITTEN BY PAYTON ARMSTRONG, CHARIS HOARD & EMMA MAE WEBER

PUBLISHED 07/23/24

Since President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential election and endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris, right-wing media have launched sexist and racist attacks at Harris to try to diminish her qualifications. They’ve claimed that she can’t be president because she doesn’t have biological children, labeled her “the ultimate diversity, equity, and inclusion candidate,” fixated on her laugh, claimed that she promotes "the occult,” and likened her to “Jezebel.”

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Oklahoma’s top education official Ryan Walters praises right-wing media figures as among “the best minds” to develop the “best history standards in the country”

07/11/24

On July 9, Oklahoma’s superintendent of public instruction Ryan Walters announced that a number of people — many of them key figures in right-wing media — would be rewriting the social studies curriculum in the state. The list includes right-wing hosts with ties to Walters like Steve Deace, Dennis Prager, and Stacy Washington, as well as Kevin Roberts, the head of The Heritage Foundation, which has organized Project 2025. (For more on the right-wing figures helping guide Oklahoma's curriculum, see here.)

Walters appeared on the July 11 episode of Jenna Ellis in the Morningand discussed the plans for a new curriculum, using rhetoric that appears to mirror Christian nationalism and expressing excitement with the group of right-wing figures that will help develop the curriculum.

Oklahoma’s top education official Ryan Walters praises right-wing media figures as among “the best minds” to develop the “best history standards in the country”

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CitationFrom the the July 11, 2024, edition of American Family Radio's Jenna Ellis in the Morning

JENNA ELLIS (HOST): I’m speaking with Oklahoma state superintendent Ryan Walters, who is overhauling the curriculum for schools to simply reflect the truth of our national heritage, to explain civics.

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And yet, the left, who clearly they haven't read the Bible because they think that this is just, you know, a bunch of fairy stories that have nothing to do with reality. They don’t understand that the Bible is actually a history text. It’s actually so much more than that that gives a chronology of world history up until, of course, the New Testament, but then we also have Revelation, the end of all things.

I mean, they just think of this as a purely religious text that is trying to push the Christian religion onto students rather than, as you rightly point out Ryan Walters, the Bible actually is so much more than that and should be studied if kids actually want to understand our American heritage.

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And so talk about this curriculum more that you have proposed, and I know that people like my good friend Steve Deace are already working on this. What was the design for, you know, bringing in some of these really great — I think just civics philosophers — like Dennis Prager, Kevin Roberts, Steve Deace?

RYAN WALTERS (OKLAHOMA STATE SUPERINTENDENT): Yes. What we’ve seen in education is education has been controlled by the radical left, by these left-wing institutions. You see them all the way down. You see it at the federal level with the Department of Education, but you see it all the way down to the local level. You see it embedded in state departments of education.

Jenna, when I came into the office, I fired 130 of the staff there. And we had embedded left-wing bureaucrats. And so we’ve come in and said, listen, you know, the left has completely tried to control everything, all the way down to curriculum.

So what I want is I want folks that understand American history, understand how to articulate that in a way that kids are going to be able to understand it. And we’re going to come in here, and we’re going to have the best history standards in the country. We’re going to find the best minds from around the country to come in here and help us develop out that story of America. We want our kids to be able to truly understand it. We don’t want any of our history censored from our kids.

We want them to truly understand that because, you know, you look at it too — And when the left has taken away any type of moral, religious reference in our history, you know, you look at folks like Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, who were very clearly — you know, you think about some of John Adams quotes about, you know, this constitution was made for a moral or religious people. And part of — so much of what they articulated was an equation that, yes, our rights come from God, we maximize those individual liberties. And there’s also the citizenry has to be moral or religious so that they can self govern. That’s how maximizing individual rights work.

Well, generally, we don’t tell half of that story. We’re lying to our kids. Our kids aren’t getting that picture. And Winston Churchill said the further back you look is the further ahead you can see. And how in the world are we going to move this country forward and continue to be the greatest country in the history of the world if our kids don’t even understand the history of where we came from? And that’s where we are so excited with this group that we have to help us develop these standards.

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Tony Perkins Calls GOP Platform Process ‘Despicable,’ Slams Chair Marsha Blackburn’s ‘Unbelievable’ and ‘Shocking’ Behavior

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Right Wing Watch reported this week that members of the Republican Platform Committee were subjected to heavy-handed authoritarian tactics by the Trump RNC, which refused to allow any questioning of the candidate’s wishes. Rather than drafting and debating the platform in public, Trump’s team closed the doors, shut down debate, took away delegates’ phones, and intimidated them into rubber stamping the language wanted by the Trump campaign. Not surprisingly, that hasn’t gone over too well with some platform committee members.

On Thursday, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins used his Washington Watch show to slam the “despicable” and “disgusting” process and criticize the “heavy-handed” platform committee chairperson, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, who apparently acted as the Trump team’s enforcer. She was “unbelievable,” said Perkins:

I mean, it was shocking. They allowed for no amendments or discussion before forcing a scripted vote. Now, this process done in secrecy behind closed doors, quite frankly, is unbecoming of a party that champions free speech and due process.

Ironically, the document itself calls for vigorous defense of free speech and the end of government censorship. Well, deprived of the opportunity to actually discuss this so called draft document and strengthen the weak platform that lacked the party’s historical stand for the unborn, there was a group of us delegates that have submitted a minority report to supplement the platform…

The delegates had a gag, basically a gag rule put on them, their phones taken. Media was not allowed in. So most people don’t know what happened in the room. But fortunately, I have a microphone, and I can tell you. It was despicable. It was disgusting. It was not befitting of a party that claims to be a defender of law and order, due process, and the freedom of speech—and certainly not a party that claims to protect the unborn.

A July 11 action alert from FRC criticized the “highly choreographed” and “unprecedented, tightly scripted process that allowed for no amendments or substantive debate before the vote.”

Perkins and his FRC colleagues aren’t the only ones angry about the process. “They rolled us,” outraged platform committee member Gail Ruzicka told Milwaukee’s WISN12News.

The language rammed through the platform committee is purposefully vague on issues like abortion and marriage. That way, the Trump campaign can send two different messages. Religious-right leaders loyal to the campaign can put the strongest anti-abortion spin on the language, while the campaign encourages headlines about a new “moderate” position to appeal to the majority of voters who don’t share the religious right’s anti-choice and anti-equality obsessions.

Still, the abandonment of more explicit language calling for constitutional bans on abortion and laws defining marriage as one man and one woman is rankling some religious-right leaders.

Perkins called the platform “woefully inadequate in communicating a definitive position on the protection of human life.” He complained that the last GOP platform recognized God 15 times, while the Trump version has just two “passing references” to God. And he noted that the platform contains no reference at all to the Second Amendment—“none, zero.”

Religious right activist Michael Brown complained this week that the platform language was so “watered down” that the GOP can no longer be viewed as “the party of life.” Brown warned that “allowing the platform to be weakened in the name of electoral pragmatism might signal a whole new wave of GOP candidates who are less committed to the pro-life cause but who are allegedly better than the Democrats.” He added, “It might also embolden current GOP congressmen to soften their own stances in the name of electability, thereby continuing to erode the GOP’s stance for life. In the end, there might be little to distinguish the two parties when it comes to abortion.” Brown continued:

My counsel would be that we do not take this new platform lying down, but do our best to work for a change until the last minute possible. If, in the end, we cannot bring change about, then we still work with the GOP for the moment while making it clear behind the scenes that the next GOP candidate will have to embrace our pro-life position — otherwise, they will not make it through the primaries.

Among other religious-right figures unhappy about the platform include former VP Mike Pence, Jason Rapert of the Christian nationalist National Association of Christian Lawmakers, and former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis, who went dramatically for a maximalist position, posting, “You cannot be a faithful Christian and a faithful Republican after today.” Brent Leatherwood, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission called it “political malpractice.” Ryan Anderson, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, called the platform changes an example of “cowardice.”

Anderson and his mentor Robert George—who has urged the Supreme Court to require all states to treat abortion as homicide—were among a group of anti-abortion activists who released a letter to GOP delegates Friday urging them to “vote down any platform that weakens the party’s pro-life stance.”

At the right-wing Christian outlet The Stream, John Zmirak slammed MAGA politicians and anti-abortion activists who have gone along with Trump:

It’s sickening to see previously pro-life politicians like Marco Rubio and J.D. Vance sell their souls for pennies on the dollar, then watch pro-life groups pretend the miserable half of a moldy loaf tossed to them by the Trump campaign is a wedding cake. It’s both morally repulsive and deeply humiliating.

As Right Wing Watch noted earlier this week, Trump’s team clearly calculated that religious-right activists have nowhere else to go. At The Stream, Zmirak demonstrated the thinking that Trump’s team is counting on. “We must yell our heads off now, try to bluff Trump and his lowbrow cronies into thinking we might sit the election out,” Zmirak wrote, but in the end religious-right voters would have to “quietly go ahead and vote in our own self-defense.”

Other religious-right activists who have worked hard to cement the relationship between conservative evangelicals and the Republican Party warn that even if very few of their constituents would ever vote for a Democratic candidate or sit the election out, many who feel betrayed may feel less motivated to make phone calls and knock on doors to turn out voters.

And maybe some of them, perhaps those who learn how Trump’s team treated his close allies on the platform committee, may be more open to warnings about Trump’s dictatorial tendencies, the authoritarian agenda of Project 2025, and the consequences of giving Trump power after the right-wing Supreme Court ruled that he is virtually immune from accountability for any crimes he commits as president.

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on Thursday, in the midst of the July 4th holiday, a former Donald Trump staffer who worked on his 2016 campaign went public with a series of texts she allegedly made with Trump attorney Jenna Ellis asking about secret lawsuit settlements for accusations of "sexual harassment and gender discrimination" within the campaign.

In replies to those texts from attorney A.J. Delgado, who posted them on-line, Ellis appears to reply, "Yes off record — Boris The campaign settled multiple lawsuits. Have your investigator contact [campaign staffer] Michael Glassner. I will of course tell you the truth."

As the Daily Beast's Josh Fiallo wrote, the "bombshell" texts were included in a filing by Delgado as part of a lawsuit she filed against Trump campaign adviser and he supervisor, Jason Miller, whom she has accused of raping her while they were having an affair.

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According to the report, "As part of that lawsuit, Delgado, a lawyer who’s representing herself, filed a motion Thursday that included a text thread she claims to be between her and Jenna Ellis, another ex-Trump staffer who is a co-defendant in his election subversion case in Georgia."

Ellis pleaded guilty in the Georgia case.

The report adds that the Boris in question appears to be Boris Epshteyn, who has been at Trump's side during his courtroom appearances.

The report states, "The Daily Beast has not independently verified the authenticity of the texts, and neither Ellis, Delgado or a Trump representative responded to questions messaged and emailed on Thursday night. It’s the second time the texts were submitted as evidence by Delgado, after the Trump campaign’s lawyers asked her to re-submit them without names redacted and an offer to mark them as “confidential” appeared to be ignored."

Fiallo added, "The texts did not specify what sort of lawsuits “Boris” may have faced, but Epshteyn was accused of repeatedly groping two sisters at an Arizona bar in 2021 until a bouncer and cops intervened to remove him. "

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Jenna Ellis hosts election denier and fellow former Trump lawyer Cleta Mitchell to spread election misinformation

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'I was wrong to be involved': Ex-Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis' license suspended

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Right-wing pundits rally behind indicted former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis and fundraise for her legal fees

Across right-wing media, Ellis has claimed that Trump should pay her legal fees and promoted herself as “a political prisoner”

WRITTEN BY PAYTON ARMSTRONG

PUBLISHED08/30/23

After being indicted for her role in attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election, former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis is touring right-wing media and using her own radio program to claim the former president should pay her legal fees and to solicit donations for her legal defense fund. In her pitch to prospective donors, Ellis has positioned herself as a “political prisoner” and victim of political persecution by the Biden “regime,” claiming that she is part of “the great Christian history and tradition of being political prisoners of regimes.”

Right-wing media figures, such as Fox News host Mark Levin and Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro, have rushed to publicly support Ellis and urged their audiences to donate to her legal defense fund — with Salem Media Group’s Dinesh D’Souza even pledging to give $10,000. So far, Ellis has raised more than $185,000 using right-wing Christian fundraising site GiveSendGo.

Ellis was among 18 individuals indicted with Donald Trump for their alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 Georgia election

Ellis was charged along with former President Donald Trump on August 14 in Fulton County, Georgia, in a sweeping indictment for efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. She is accused of racketeering and asking a public official to violate their oath as part of a conspiracy to convince Georgia officials to appoint new electors for Trump. [Axios, 8/15/23]

Ellis was intimately involved in Trump’s public and private acts to reverse his 2020 election loss. Acting as Trump’s attorney in the post-election period, Ellis appeared at public hearings and spoke with lawmakers in Michigan, Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Georgia, urging them to reject the popular vote results in each of their states. She also authored a memo in December 2020 that outlined a multi-step strategy to overturn the election on January 6, 2021, that included urging then-Vice President Mike Pence to reject electoral votes for Joe Biden. [The Washington Post, 8/24/23]

In a Colorado disciplinary court hearing earlier this year, Ellis admitted to knowingly misrepresenting facts about the results of the 2020 election while representing Trump, including in Georgia. The disciplinary judge issued a public censure and wrote in his six-page order that Ellis had made “these misrepresentations on Twitter and on various television programs, including Fox Business, MSNBC, Fox News, and Newsmax.” While representing Trump, Ellis also spread false claims that the Denver-based company Dominion Voting Systems had flipped votes in favor of Biden. [The New York Times, 3/9/23; 9 News Denver, 8/24/23; Business Insider, 5/9/23]

Since it was reported that Trump’s campaign would not pay for her legal defense, Ellis has used the right-wing Christian crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo to fund her legal expenses. Ellis has raised over $185,000 on GiveSendGo, a platform that is also popular with neo-Nazis. [NPR, 8/16/23; Rolling Stone, 8/22/23; GiveSendGo, accessed 8/30/23]

Ellis hosts programs for American Family Radio and Salem Media Group, and has received public support from the outlets since the indictment. Ellis launched shows on Salem Media and American Family Radio in 2021 and 2022, respectively. Salem has shown its support by launching a line of “Free Jenna” merchandise on its website. An article on the American Family News website detailed AFR host Abraham Hamilton III declaring his and the outlet’s support for her. (American Family Radio is run by the extreme anti-LGBTQ group American Family Association.) [Salem Media event store, accessed 8/25/23; American Family News, 8/16/23]

Ellis has claimed on social media that Trump should pay her legal bills

Ellis said that Trump should pay all his team’s legal fees: “Not just mine, but all his lawyers.” Ellis also questioned, “Why isn’t MAGA, Inc. funding everyone’s defense?” [Twitter/X, 8/18/23, 8/18/23]

Ellis reposted a user who said Trump “SHOULD be paying the bills of everyone that is being targeted. Why is this even a question?” [Twitter/X, 8/22/23]

Ellis responded to a complaint on Twitter/X that Trump had not given “a dime of his money to fund” Ellis’ defense. In the post, anti-abortion activist Abby Johnson accused Trump of doing “nothing to defend these people who worked so hard for him” and argued that the former president had “thrown all of them under the bus to prop himself up.” Then Johnson urged her followers to contribute to Ellis’ legal defense fund, to which Ellis replied: “Thank you for your prayers and support.” [Twitter/X, 8/23/23]

Ellis questioned why Trump is reportedly paying for Stephen Miller’s legal fees for a case unrelated to his work for the campaign, “but won’t help any of the lawyers whose charges are only because we represented Trump and did our jobs.” Ellis posted: “I’d love to know why Trump is paying for Miller’s personal family law issues totally unrelated to his campaign role, but won’t help any of the lawyers whose charges are only because we represented Trump and did our jobs.” [Twitter/X, 8/29/23]

Ellis has repeatedly used her American Family Radio program to promote her GiveSendGo fundraiser to listeners, referring to herself as a “political prisoner”

Ellis promoted her legal defense fund and referred to herself as a “political prisoner.” Ellis discussed how she has leaned on her faith and said: “I've … never been indicted before. I've never been a political prisoner before. But, you know, so there's a first time for that.” [American Family Radio, Jenna Ellis in the Morning, 8/18/23, 8/18/23]

Ellis promoted her legal defense fund, thanked American Family Radio listeners for their support, and claimed the indictment “is criminalizing the practice of law.” Ellis also claimed that the indictment is “attempting to criminalize petitioning the government for redress.” [American Family Radio, Jenna Ellis in the Morning, 8/22/23, 8/22/23]

Ellis announced that her lawyers had negotiated a $100,000 bond agreement and directed viewers to her GiveSendGo page, saying, “I'm not independently wealthy and I'm very grateful for your support in any way that you can help.” Ellis again characterized her indictment as “an attempt to criminalize the practice of law.” [American Family Radio, Jenna Ellis in the Morning, 8/23/23]

Ellis announced that she was “out of the slammer,” thanked “the AFR family” as well as several conservative media figures for their support, and again plugged her GiveSendGo fundraiser. Ellis noted that figures had “rallied in support of my defense," including her “friends from Daily Wire, Dan Bongino, Mark Levin, Dinesh D'Souza.” Ellis also said that the indictment is part of “the left” attempting “to tear down our freedom and liberty so that they can push in a socialist communist regime.” [American Family Radio, Jenna Ellis in the Morning, 8/28/23, 8/28/23]

Ellis’ right-wing media blitz to promote her legal defense fund

Ellis appeared on Andrew Klavan’sDaily Wirestreaming show, where she promoted her legal fund and said that she was indicted for “being a zealous advocate.” Klavan, who introduced Ellis as a “friend,” argued that she had essentially been indicted for “attending press conferences, doing what lawyers do, going before public meetings.” Ellis declared that she is being “politically persecuted.” [The Daily Wire, The Andrew Klavan Show, 8/18/23]

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CitationFrom the August 18, 2023, edition of The Daily Wire's The Andrew Klavan Show

Ellis promoted her legal defense fund during an “exclusive interview” on Breitbart radio. Ellis again claimed that the indictment is “criminalizing the practice of law.” [Breitbart, 8/22/23]

During an interview with Ellis, election denier Dinesh D’Souza announced he would contribute $10,000 to Ellis’ fund and encouraged his listeners to do the same. D’Souza said that, “It doesn't really matter whether Jenna is a Trumpster right now, or whether she's a DeSantis person, she's on our side on this issue and we are all in the crosshairs of the left.” [Twitter/X, 8/22/23]

Right-wing pundit Steve Deace congratulated Ellis on her indictment, claiming that she had joined “luminaries and influential people, including our own Lord,” who “spent some time either under the threat of incarceration, or actually being incarcerated.” Deace proclaimed that charging Ellis and others amounted to “stuff of intifadas and inquisitions,” and said, “We are in a state of cold civil war and I don't see a way to end it” unless we “get our people now to go after your people.” Ellis also promoted her GiveSendGo page and complained about being forced to “surrender to Fulton County Jail and literally become a political prisoner, and get arrested, because I dared to stand up for a client, and because I dared to speak truth.” [BlazeTV, The Steve Deace Show, 8/22/23]

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CitationFrom the August 22, 2023, edition of BlazeTV's The Steve Deace Show

Ellis appeared on Tomi Lahren’s OutKick show to promote her legal defense fund and reiterated that she has not received financial support from Trump. Ellis also claimed during the interview that the indictment was part of a larger “weaponization of government” by the Biden administration against “conservatives across the country.” [Outkick, Tomi Lahren Is Fearless, 8/22/23]

The day after her arrest, Ellis promoted her defense fund on Michael Knowles’ Daily Wire show and said the message of the indictment was if you “give legal advice and provide assistance of counsel to the leader of the political opposition, then you too will become a political prisoner and you will be targeted.” “You're a political prisoner, simple as that,” Knowles told Ellis. “Which nation is going to have more political prisoners by the end of 2024 — Communist China, Communist North Korea, Putin's Russia, or good old U.S. of A.?” Ellis also evoked images of religious martyrdom while making the case of her persecution. “I will face this with the joy that I have in the Lord, in my faith, and with the great Christian history and tradition of being political prisoners of regimes.” [The Daily Wire, The Michael Knowles Show, 8/24/23]

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CitationFrom the August 24, 2023, edition of The Daily Wire's The Michael Knowles Show

Right-wing media figures have rallied around Ellis, urging their audiences to fund her legal defense

Fox’s Mark Levin called on his radio listeners to give money to Ellis’ legal fund and promised to personally make “a significant donation.” The day before, Levin posted a link to her GiveSendGo fundraiser on social media, adding that: “Our friend Jenna Ellis has been wrongly indicted in Georgia by the radical Democrat DA and doesn’t have the funds needed to vigorously defend herself. Please join me in helping her and use this link to give what you can. This is a sickening abomination.” [Westwood One, The Mark Levin Show, 8/17/23; Twitter/X, 8/16/23]

Turning Point USA contributor Jack Posobiecpromoted Ellis’ GiveSendGo page to his more than 2 million followers on Twitter/X and argued that she “is being persecuted for defending Trump.” Posobiec, who has collaborated with neo-Nazis, added that the charges against Ellis are “wrong and a complete disgrace.” [Twitter/X, 8/17/23]

On his show, Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro urged viewers to donate to Ellis’ defense fund. Shapiro also condemned Trump for using campaign money to fund his own legal bills. [The Daily Wire, The Ben Shapiro Show, 8/18/23]

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton shared Ellis’ GiveSendGo page and said that she is “being victimized by Fulton County prosecutors.” Fitton is reportedly one of dozens of unindicted co-conspirators mentioned in the Georgia indictment. [Twitter/X, 8/20/23]

Conservative influencer Will Chamberlain promoted Ellis’ fund on social media and said, “I donated, you should too.” [Twitter/X, 8/15/23]

Right-wing pundits Dan Bongino and Steve Deace contributed $250 and $500, respectively, to Ellis’ defense fund. Both also encouraged their social media followers to donate to Ellis’ GiveSendGo fundraiser. [Colorado Times Recorder, 8/22/23]

Disgraced right-wing media figure James O’Keefe urged his social media followers to donate to Ellis’ GiveSendGo fundraiser. O’Keefe was forced out of his far-right organization Project Veritas in April over allegations of financial mismanagement and an abusive workplace. [Twitter/X, 8/20/23]

American Family Radio host and general counsel Abraham Hamilton III declared his support for Ellis and argued that “she didn’t do anything wrong.” During his show, Hamilton dismissed the notion that Ellis authoring a legal memo was evidence of conspiring to commit a crime, saying, “She prepared a memorandum … that’s an 'overt act and furtherance of the criminal conspiracy.' What?!” [American Family News, 8/16/23]

Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon posted Ellis’ GiveSendGo page on social media and asked his followers to “please join me and the hundreds of other people who are donating to her legal defense fund.” [Twitter/X, 8/25/23]

Right-wing host Liz Wheelerposted a photo of Ellis’ mug shot and said, “If you’re looking at ⁦@JennaEllisEsq⁩’s mugshot, please donate her to legal fund.” Wheeler added, “We MUST enable her to defend herself against this brutal, tyrannical govt abuse against her as a private citizen.” [Twitter/X, 8/23/23]

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"I was reliably informed Trump isn’t funding any of us who are indicted," Ellis said Friday in response to a tweet by American Conservative Union Chairman Matt Schlapp.

Schlapp had suggested that Republicans should “unify behind nominee” in order to “use resources to fund the defense of everyone indicted for being a Trump Republican.”}:

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“Why then, not now?” Ellis asked.}:

The former Trump attorney and 17 others were charged alongside Trump by Fulton County, GA District Attorney Fani Willis on Aug. 14 in a sweeping criminal indictment that included allegations of racketeering in their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

USA Today reports:

Ellis allegedly “solicited, requested, and importuned” Pennsylvania legislators present at a meeting to unlawfully appoint presidential electors from the state, according to the indictment. She also allegedly made false election fraud statements.

“Officials with the Trump campaign and the pro-Trump political action committee, Make America Great Again, Inc., have not publicly commented on Ellis' question,” the report adds. “Trump has called on donors and supporters to help with his legal fees.”

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TRUMP'S LAWYER VISITS GEORGIA

DECEMBER 3, 2020 — DECEMBER 10, 2020

In the days after the 2020 general election, Trump’s legal team includingRudy Giuliani visited Georgia’s state Capitol in an attempt to persuade lawmakers that they should illegally reverse Biden’s win. Giuliani’s team showed a video they claimed was evidence of ballot-counting improprieties after polls closed. Giuliani alleged then Fulton County elections workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea Moss, handled a suitcase of fraudulent or stolen ballots that tilted the election for Biden

STATE GOP 'ELECTORS' FALSELY CERTIFY ELECTION

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Sixteen Georgia Republican electors, including then-state Sen. Burt Jones, who is now lieutenant governor, and state Republican Party Chairman David Shafer, signed false election certificates that were sent to the vice president and other government officials to be counted by Congress. The bogus Republican electors met at the state Capitol on the same day as legitimate state Democratic electors selected Biden as the winner of the 2020 election.

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https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2023/08/15/here-are-19-people-named-sweeping-indictments-against-donald-trump/

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Here are the 19 people named in the sweeping indictment against Donald Trump

Here is a list of who is named in Fani Willis’ sweeping indictment of the nation’s 45th president and his allies.

By Tim Darnell, Atlanta News First staff and The Associated Press

Published: Aug. 14, 2023

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Fulton County DA Fani Willis’ sweeping indictment from her investigation into alleged attempts by former President Donald Trump to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election includes some of the most prominent figures in the Republican Party.

It comes just two weeks after the Justice Department special counsel charged him in a vast conspiracy to overturn the election, underscoring how prosecutors after lengthy investigations that followed the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol have now, two-and-a-half years later, taken steps to hold Trump to account for an assault on the underpinnings of American democracy.

Though the indictment is centered on Trump’s efforts to subvert election results in just one state, its sprawling web of defendants stands apart from the more tightly-targeted case brought by special counsel Jack Smith, which so far only names Trump as a defendant. The Georgia case also stands out because, unlike the two federal prosecutions he faces, Trump would not have the opportunity to try to pardon himself if elected president.

FULL COVERAGE: Timeline, history and key players of historic indictment in Georgia

“Trump and the other Defendants charged in this Indictment refused to accept that Trump lost, and they knowingly and willfully joined conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump,” says the indictment issued Monday night by the office of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

The indictment charges Trump with making false statements and writings for a series of claims he made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and other state election officials on Jan. 2, 2021, including that up to 300,000 ballots “were dropped mysteriously into the rolls” in the 2020 election, that more than 4,500 people voted who weren’t on registration lists and that a Fulton County election worker, Ruby Freeman, was a “professional vote scammer.”

Here are the 19 people named in the indictment:

- RUDY GIULIANI: During several legislative hearings at the Georgia Capitol in December 2020, the former New York mayor and Trump attorney promoted unsupported allegations of widespread election fraud in Georgia. Prosecutors have said Rudy Giuliani was also involved a plan to have 16 Georgia Republicans serve as fake electors,falsely swearing that Trump had won the 2020 presidential election and declaring themselves the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors. JENNA

- JENNA ELLIS: The lawyer appeared with Rudy Giuliani at a Dec. 3, 2020, hearing hosted by state Republican lawmakers at the Georgia Capitol during which false allegations of election fraud were made. Jenna Ellis also wrote at least two legal memos to Trump and his attorneys advising that Pence should “disregard certified electoral college votes from Georgia and other purportedly ‘contested’ states” when Congress met to certify the election results on Jan. 6, 2021, prosecutors have said.

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-RAY SMITH: A Georgia-based lawyer, Ray Smith was involved in multiple lawsuits challenging the results of the 2020 election in Georgia. He also gathered witnesses to provide testimony before Georgia legislative subcommittee hearings held in December 2020 on alleged issues with the state’s election.

Willis’ indictments come after months of speculation into whether the first-term Fulton County district attorney would bring charges against the nation’s 45th president. Among the former president’s mounting legal troubles, Willis’ indictments mark the second time Trump has been linked to any alleged attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Those charges include allegedly pressuring Georgia election officials to change the election’s results, including his now-famous phone call to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Jan. 2, 2021.

In February 2021, Willis opened a criminal investigation “into attempts to influence the administration of the 2020 Georgia General Election,” a contest that saw Joe Biden become the first Democrat to win Georgia since Bill Clinton in 1992 by less than one percent of the state’s overall vote.

A special grand jury with subpoena power was seated later that May at her request. In court filings, she alleged “a multi-state, coordinated plan by the Trump Campaign to influence the results of the November 2020 election in Georgia and elsewhere.” Willis’ investigation also examined an alleged plot involving 16 Republicans who served as fake electors, one of whom was allegedly then-state Sen. Burt Jones, now Georgia’s lieutenant governor.

Willis’ special grand jury investigation heard from 75 witnesses. Some of the more notable figures were Gov. Brian Kemp; Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr; Raffensperger; Duncan; former White House official Mark Meadows; former U.S. House speaker and Georgia congressman Newt Gingrich; and Republican South Carolina U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham.

Last year, Raffensperger told a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol that Trump’s claims of 2020 election fraud “were false.”

Raffensperger, along with Gabriel Sterling, the office’s chief operating officer, appeared before the Democrat-led House Select Committee’s nationally televised public hearings. Raffensperger told the committee that the 2020 election went “remarkably smooth,” with average ballot-casting wait times between two to three minutes statewide. “I felt we had a successful election,” he said.

Trump has accused Willis of conducting a “strictly political witch hunt.” In a September 2022 statement, he also took aim at Atlanta as “number 1 in the country in murders and heinous crimes, especially on a per capita basis - even worse than now-fabled Chicago.”

“Yet the District Attorney there is spending almost all of her waking hours, which aren’t many, on attempting to prosecute a very popular president, Donald J. Trump, who got more votes in 2020 than any sitting president in the history of the United States,” Trump said at that time.

Timeline of Donald Trump/Georgia investigation

Trump timeline

Trump announced his 2024 White House candidacy last November.

Earlier this year, Willis notified Fulton County deputies she would announce charges from her investigation sometime between July 11 and Sept. 1. She also notified Fulton County Superior Court Judge Ural Glanville her office planned to work remotely during the first three weeks of August and asked no trials be scheduled during that time.

Willis’ indictments are the latest in a series of legal troubles for the nation’s 45th president. Back in April, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted Trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. With Bragg’s indictment, Trump became the first former president in history to be criminally indicted at any level.

In early May, Trump lost a civil battery and defamation case against him in New York in a case brought against him by E. Jean Carroll. The writer claimed Trump assaulted her in a New York department store back in the 1990s. A Manhattan federal jury has ordered Trump to pay Carroll $5 million, which the former president is appealing.

Then, on June 13, Trump was arraigned at a federal courthouse in Miami on a single federal indictment that included more than 30 charges of mishandling classified documents after he left the White House in January 2021. Trump became the first ex-president ever to face criminal charges from the federal government he once oversaw.

Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is overseeing that federal investigation, was also responsible for overseeing the criminal investigation involving Trump’s alleged role in the U.S. Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, an investigation that yielded, earlier this month, the four-count felony indictment.

The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office sent deputies to both New York and Miami to observe how local law enforcement prepared for any demonstrations or possible unrest in the wake of Trump’s indictments.

In late July, security barriers were seen being set up around the Fulton County courthouse. Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat said in early August his department would be ready for any demonstrations or civil unrest that may result from Willis’ indictments.

FULL COVERAGE OF DONALD TRUMP/GEORGIA INVESTIGATION

Trump Investigation

He also said the former president, if indicted, would be booked, photographed and processed at the county jail on Rice Street, a facility that has come under intense scrutiny over the last several months because of its allegedly deplorable conditions, and which is also the target of a U.S. Department of Justice civil investigation.

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...The charges include:

...In total, there are 41 counts listed in the indictment. Trump is named in 13 of the counts.

Everyone named in the indictment is facing a violation of the Georgia RICO Act charge.

Willis said at a Monday night press conference that those named in the indictment are alleged to have engaged in a “criminal racketeering enterprise to overturn Georgia’s presidential election results.”

Willis said as is “the normal process in Georgia law,” the grand jury has also issued arrest warrants for those charged in the indictment. Willis said she is giving them until noon on Friday, Aug. 25 to voluntarily surrender.

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THE STATE OF GEORGIA

V. DONALD JOHN TRUMP

Counts 1,5, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 2729, 38-39

RUDOLPH WILLIAM LOUIS GIULIANI

Counts 1-3, 6-7, 9,11,13,15,17,19, 23-24

JOHN ChaRLES EASTMAN

Counts 1-2, 9, 11,13, 15, 17, 19, 27

MARK RANDALL MEADOWS

Counts 1, 28

KENNETH JOHN CHESEBRO

Counts 1, 9,11,13,15,17,19

JEFFREY BOSSERT CLARK

Counts 1, 22

JENNA LYNN ELLIS

Counts 1-2

RAY STALLINGS SNIITH III Counts 1-2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13,15, 17,19, 23, 25

ROBERT DAVID CHEELEY

Counts 1, 9,11,13, 15, 17,19, 23, 26, 41

MICHAEL A. ROMAN

Counts 1, 9, 11,13,15,17, 19

DAVID JAMES SHAFER

Counts 1, 8,10,12,14,16,18, 40

SHAWN MCAH TRESHER STILL

Counts 1, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18

STEPHEN CLIFFGARD LEE

Counts 1, 20-21, 30-31

HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT

FLOYD

Counts 1,

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TREVIAN C. KUTTI Counts 1,

SIDNEY KATHERINE POWELL  Counts 1, 32-37

CATHLEEN ALSTON LATHAM

Counts 1, 8, 10, 12, 14, 32-37

SCOTT GRAHAM HALL

Counts 1, 32-37

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mAGA lawyer John Eastman's disbarment hearing took another turn Wednesday, revealing that key players considered telling former Vice President Mike Pence to unilaterally reject the result of the 2020 election.

Eastman, a former lawyer for Trump, is facing 11 disciplinary counts in California including "failure to support the Constitution and laws of the United States. He wrote the infamous so-called "coup memo" that urged former Vice President Mike Pence to reject certified election results on Jan. 6, 2021

On Wednesday, legal affairs reporter Meghann Cuniff tweeted that Greg Jacob, the lawyer for Pence, revealed during testimony details of a Jan. 4 meeting in the Oval Office.

Clad in a maroon Heritage Foundation tie, he said he, Pence, Pence's chief of staff Marc Short, Eastman and Trump got together. "Eastman was proposing two actions, including unilateral rejection by Pence," said Cuniff.

Afterwards, Jacob said he wrote a memo for Pence about Eastman's suggestions, sending it at 9 a.m. the following morning. In it, Jacob explained why Eastman's theory was "unworkable."

Jacob said in an earlier comment that Donald Trump's lawyerJenna Ellis suggested that Pence could go to Congress on Jan. 6 and simply refuse to open the envelopes that contained the Electoral College votes.

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Jacob called it "clearly unconstitutional." "He definitely said it in a "what a moron" way, too," Cuniff reported.

"What he was asking us to do would've required departing from those procedures" in the Electoral Count Act and based on historical precedent, Jacob said, according to a tweet by NPR's investigative correspondent Tom Dreisbach.

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https://www.splcenter.org/year-hate-extremism-2022/trends-and-threats#sheriffs

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Sheriffs Working to Subvert Democracy

By Rachel Goldwasser

A smattering of county sheriffs across the U.S. tested the limits of democracy in 2022, with an assist from extremist law enforcement groups.

These constitutional sheriffs are devoted members of an antigovernment extremist movement that believes sheriffs are the highest authority in the country, above even the president. They usurp the duties of the Supreme Court by personally deciding which U.S. laws are legitimate and whether to enforce them.

These sheriffs are actively damaging the nation’s rule of law and attempting to shape the U.S. into a country where fringe law enforcement officers determine what human, civil and property rights they will enforce.

In the U.S., where the justice system already perpetuates great inequities that disproportionately effect people of color, these members of law enforcement further undermine equal justice under the law.

In 2022, constitutional sheriffs’ ideology intruded into another facet of democracy: elections. Members melded their extremist positions with their law enforcement authority to investigate rogue, conspiratorial allegations of fraud in the 2020 presidential election and brought doubt into the legitimacy of the 2022 midterm elections.

Two extremist law enforcement groups, Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) and Protect America Now (PAN), led these efforts.

CSPOA radicalizes sheriffs and the public through law enforcement training, presentations to lawmakers and civilians, online media and books written by the group’s founder Richard Mack. The organization is linked to extremists, including Oath Keepers, sovereign citizens, neo-confederates and white nationalists.

PAN was founded by political operatives and is less outspoken about their constitutional sheriff beliefs, but most of their advisory board and members are constitutional sheriffs whose ideology has shaped the organization at large. PAN has focused its attention on immigration issues, supporting the anti-immigrant hate group Federation for Immigration Reform (FAIR) in its efforts to demonize migrants and lobby for policies that reflect this.

Beginning in the summer of 2022, both organizations worked with election conspiracy group True the Vote, whose founders participated in the film 2000 Mules, which promotes the “Big Lie,” the conspiracy theory parroted by former President Trump that the 2020 presidential election was rigged.

The Sheriffs Alliance Interfering with U.S. Elections

Graphic connecting individuals and groups with efforts to interfere in U.S. elections

Photos credits: Donald Trump: James Devaney/GC Images; Michael Flynn: Chris Kleponis/AFP via Getty Images;Sidney Powell:Drew Angerer/Getty Images; Catherine Engelbrecht: Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images; Lin Wood, Mark Lamb, Richard Mack: Gage Skidmore; Gregg Phillips: CNN Screen Shot via Texas Tribune

CSPOA posted a press release to its website on May 24, 2022, calling on local law enforcement agencies to investigate the 2020 election. The organization’s leaders and member sheriffs repeated the claim on July 12 at a CSPOA press conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Sheriffs that were investigating and those considering it spoke publicly about their efforts and repeated themselves a day later at the Libertarian Freedom Fest in Las Vegas.

True the Vote announced its partnership with PAN on June 22, calling it ProtectAmerica.Vote. The group advertised that the effort was intended to teach sheriffs about their state election laws and provide them with grants to investigate alleged voting violations. The partnership included a plan to build a “National Election Integrity Voter Hotline” that would be linked to sheriffs’ offices and promote their cause in an informational campaign starting Aug. 1.

Multiple sheriffs affiliated with CSPOA and PAN spent the year attempting to investigate the 2020 election or interfering in the 2022 midterm elections. A group of devout constitutional sheriffs from Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin were the most egregious.

ARIZONA’S CONSTITUTIONAL SHERIFF PROBLEM

Mark Lamb, sheriff of Pinal County, Arizona, and PAN leader acted as the face of the PAN True the Vote partnership. In an interview published in the right-wing media source American Greatness on July 20, Lamb claimed that he was “disturbed” by talk of a law enforcement focus on domestic violence threats, that the feds had no jurisdiction over his county and that if they tried to push what he called unconstitutional mandates, “We would stop them,” Lamb said.

David Rhodes, Sheriff of Yavapai County, Arizona, has been linked to CSPOA and the Oath Keepers, and most recently an Oath Keepers offshoot organization, the Yavapai County Preparedness Team (YCPT). YCPT and the group Lions of Liberty formulated a plan to stake out and film Arizona ballot drop boxes for cases of fraud. At a July 23 YCPT meeting, group leader Jim Arroyo told members, “We have already coordinated with Sheriff Rhodes, and he told us if we see somebody stuffing a ballot box, and we get a license plate, they will make an arrest, and there will be a prosecution. Bottom line.” YCPT and Lions of Liberty eventually halted monitoring after a lawsuit was filed against them by Protect Democracy on behalf of the League of Women Voters asserting the group was engaging in voter intimidation.

MILITIAS, ELECTIONS AND PLOTS IN MIDWEST

Dar Leaf, Sheriff of Barry County, Michigan, is a lifetime member of CSPOA. He received the group’s Sheriff of the Year award in 2017. On May 18, 2020, Leaf appeared at a protest alongside members of theMichigan Liberty Militia (MLM), whose members were found guilty in 2022 of a 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Leaf was asked if he regretted having shared a stage with MLM members, and he replied, “It’s just a charge, and they say a ‘plot to kidnap,’ and you got to remember that. Are they trying to kidnap? Because a lot of people are angry with the governor, and they want her arrested. So, are they trying to arrest or was it a kidnap attempt? Because you can still in Michigan if it is a felony, make a felony arrest.”

In December 2020, Leaf began his investigation into the presidential election. Leaf’s attorney Carson Tucker reached out to Trump allies, including conspiracy theorist and former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn, attorney Sidney Powell and Lin Wood’sFight Back Foundation asking for information regarding "counties that have been potentially compromised.” Leaf tried to seize the voting machines from those counties to run his own investigation. In 2021 Leaf also worked with a private investigator who partnered with a sheriff’s deputy to question county clerks in six Michigan townships. After learning that the state was investigating his own investigation, on June 3, 2022, Leaf sued the Michigan attorney general, secretary of state and members of the state troopers for illegal interference. His claims in his lawsuit were dismissed by a Michigan judge on Aug. 29, 2022.

Leaf’s extremist election denial continued through 2022 as he made claims of voter fraud at the July CSPOA True the Vote press conference, FreedomFest in Las Vegas and to CSPOA members after the midterms. Leaf has gone so far as to call for sheriffs to host common law grand juries on the 2018 “stolen election” conspiracy. This type of grand jury is promoted by the National Liberty Alliance, a sovereign citizen group Leaf has worked with.

Christopher Schmaling, Sheriff of Racine County, Wisconsin, has also closely affiliated with CSPOA. He has appeared on Sheriff Mack’s online show and presented with CSPOA at 2022 FreedomFest. Schmaling, who was once the keynote speaker at a Trump rally, launched his own investigation into alleged 2020 voter fraud.

In 2021, Sheriff Schmaling tried to have nursing home staff and the majority of the Wisconsin Election Commission (WEC) arrested. He claimed they committed voter fraud after the WEC changed a policy during the pandemic that allowed nursing home staff to assist residents with their ballots in 2020. The Racine County District Attorney’s office declined to prosecute.

Ironically, in 2022, Schmaling refused to charge Harry Wait, leader of the group H.O.T. Government, who requested multiple absentee ballots using false information. When asked about it, Wait said, “Basically, I committed a crime when I ordered them. I emailed Sheriff Schmaling, asked if he was going to arrest me, and he said, ‘hell no.’ ” The Wisconsin attorney general’s office began an investigation July 29, 2022.

Schmaling also presented at 2022 FreedomFest, alongside other election denying sheriffs.

Unfortunately, these men have made a significant impact, using their power as law enforcement officials to make and investigate spurious allegations and gotten their ideas in front of a wide audience. Fortunately, these men represent a fringe movement, one many law enforcement officers still refuse to participate in.

While multiple Arizona sheriffs including Sheriffs Lamb and Rhodes joined the constitutional sheriff’s movement and meddled in U.S. elections, making the process more fraught for voters, another Arizona sheriff, Paul Penzone of Maricopa County, Arizona, exemplified the legitimate role of sheriffs: He chose to denounce the same extremist ideology and support democracy rather than participate in actions or groups working to damage it.

In in the run-up to the 2020 election, Penzone said in a press release, “With the same conviction we display when taking the oath of office, we must commit to practice impartial and nonpolitical actions during the course of our duties.” He continued, “Denying, ignoring or refusing to recognize and apply the laws as they are written is not within the authority of law enforcement professionals. Terms such as ‘Sanctuary’ county become an excuse to circumvent the law and defy due process and democracy.”

Then again on Nov 12, 2022, when speaking to the groups and politicians targeting elections and voting facilities, Penzone told the press he would not stand for any threat to voting, voting facilities or election workers.

“We are seeing a radical movement, including some local law enforcement, of people who are committed to destroying trust in our system for their own selfish gain,” Penzone told the press in August as the 2022 midterm elections heated up. “We must fight against it, or our nation will no longer be the democratic standard.”

REJECTING CONSTITUTIONAL SHERIFFS IN POLICY

All law enforcement can play a role in minimizing the harm from the constitutional sheriff movement. They can resist disinformation and conspiracy theories. They can resist recruitment into extremist groups like CSPOA, PAN and the Oath Keepers that actively prey on them. County sheriffs and police chiefs can push back on the notion that their function is to interpret the law rather than enforce it. The National Sheriffs Association can finally decide that there is no place for extremism among their ranks and refuse membership to sheriffs who actively promote antigovernment ideologies, including constitutional sheriffs.

State leaders can ensure that board members of their state police officer trainings and certification programs (POST) are not constitutional sheriffs or affiliated with extremists. These same boards can also create rules that prevent extremists from conducting official law enforcement training in their state.

States should limit the role of sheriffs’ posse members or deputized private citizens to core law enforcement functions – not election administration. And federal and state authorities should ensure that constitutional sheriffs do not engage in voter intimidation or intervene or interfere in election administration in any way.

Congress can ensure no federal funds are used for training that promotes CSPOA propaganda. Congress should investigate all law enforcement departments’ links to extremism. Law enforcement officials who self-identify as constitutional sheriffs, engage in election interference or otherwise violate the Department of Justice’s new Title VI protocols prohibiting discriminatory conduct, should be ineligible to receive federal funds.

Every level of government from national, state, and local law enforcement organizations should publicly reject the views and practices of constitutional sheriffs – and should not permit these individuals to serve in leadership positions.

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Ex-Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis admits to lying 10 times while pushing election fraud lies

Attorney Jenna Ellis speaking at the 2021 Young Women's Leadership Summit, hosted by Turning Point USA at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas,

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Jenna Ellis, a lawyer for former President Donald Trump, admitted in court that she “misrepresented” the truth at least 10 times on major TV news interviews and on social media while pushing Trump’s “Big Lie” about fraud “stealing” the 2020 presidential election from Trump/

Ellis made this admission by signing a legal document stating that she “violated professional ethics rules barring reckless, knowing or intentional misrepresentations by attorneys,” by pushing these lies despite having zero evidence to back them up, CNN reported.

For example, on the November 20, 2020 installment on Maria Bartiromo’s show on Fox Business, Ellis claimed, “We have affidavits from witnesses, we have voter intimidation, we have the ballots that were manipulated, we have all kinds of statistics that show that this was a coordinated effort in all of these states to transfer votes either from Trump to Biden, to manipulate the ballots, to count them in secret.”

Following the November 2020 election, Ellis repeatedly said that the election had been “stolen.” In her recently signed document, Ellis agreed that she, “through her conduct, undermined the American public’s confidence in the presidential election, violating her duty of candor to the public,” Colorado News Wire reported.

Responding to Ellis’ admission, Bryon M. Large, a disciplinary presiding judge in Colorado, censured Ellis, saying, “The parties agree that Respondent [Ellis], through her conduct, undermined the American public’s confidence in the presidential election, violating her duty of candor to the public.”

When asked in December 2020 about the criticism she received for pushing Trump’s “Big Lie,” Ellis told Fox Business anchorperson Charles Payne, “My life is in service and honor to the Lord Jesus Christ and so whatever anybody else says really doesn’t bother me. Ultimately at the end of the day, as long as I know that I’m pursuing truth and I’m doing the right thing for God and my country,. That’s all that matters. So that’s what gives me my optimism and my hope.”

In the biblical Book of Matthew, Jesus says, “He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.”

Now-President Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election with 7,061,839 more popular votes and 72 more electoral votes than Trump. Nevertheless, Trump and his legal team filed over 40 lawsuits alleging widespread voter fraud in key swing states in an attempt to overturn the election in Trump’s favor.

Nearly all of the lawsuits were thrown out or withdrawn for lack of evidence by judges across the political spectrum: conservatives and liberals, Democrats and Republicans, some who were appointed by Trump himself.

Some of Trump’s attorneys asserted that Republican candidates across the country had bribed communist countries to use voting machines to swing elections in their favor. Republican Iowa Senator Joni Ernst called the claim “outrageous” and “offensive.”

Other Republicans said that Trump and his lawyer’s lies about election fraud had compelled Trump supporters to send death threats to election officials.

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jenna Ellis, an ex-attorney for former President Donald Trump, is surprised by the "threats of violence" she is receiving from MAGA fans.

Ellis is now a supporter of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R), who is expected to soon announce his 2024 presidential bid in an effort to beat Trump — which means, the GOP attorney is no longer committed to MAGA.

Ellis wrote Sunday evening on Twitter, "Another account was just suspended for a threat of violence against me. This isn't the MAGA movement I defended and championed and the America First I still support. I'll continue to simply speak truth and my own political opinions without fear or favor."

READ MORE:**'Very ugly': MAGA supporter violently clashes with anti-Trump protesters outside courthouse**

Her comment comes after she also tweeted a few days ago, "Trump 2024’s message to women like me and Erin Perrine: You’re either 100% in all the time or you deserve to be harassed."

Last month, when the former president was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, MAGA supporters took to social media their reactions.

Adam Kaplan, a Media Matters senior researcher tweeted, "Some users on the far-right forum TheDonald -- which was connected to the January 6 insurrection -- are threatening violence in response to Trump being indicted.

He also shared screenshots of messages posted by members of the far-right forum, TheDonald, with one saying, "Time for a real insurrection," and another saying "I smell a Civil War."....

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https://www.mediamatters.org/american-family-association/american-family-radio-jenna-ellis-demands-congress-address-trans-issue

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refused [5th?] to answer if she was at press conf w sidney tho vid/pix exist

https://www.alternet.org/trump-lawyer-jenna-ellis/

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Ellis, a lawyer for former President Donald Trump, admitted in court that she “misrepresented” the truth at least 10 times on major TV news interviews and on social media while pushing Trump’s “Big Lie” about fraud “stealing” the 2020 presidential election from Trump/

Ellis made this admission by signing a legal document stating that she “violated professional ethics rules barring reckless, knowing or intentional misrepresentations by attorneys,” by pushing these lies despite having zero evidence to back them up, CNN reported.

For example, on the November 20, 2020 installment on Maria Bartiromo’s show on Fox Business, Ellis claimed, “We have affidavits from witnesses, we have voter intimidation, we have the ballots that were manipulated, we have all kinds of statistics that show that this was a coordinated effort in all of these states to transfer votes either from Trump to Biden, to manipulate the ballots, to count them in secret.”

Following the November 2020 election, Ellis repeatedly said that the election had been “stolen.” In her recently signed document, Ellis agreed that she, “through her conduct, undermined the American public’s confidence in the presidential election, violating her duty of candor to the public,” Colorado News Wire reported.

Responding to Ellis’ admission, Bryon M. Large, a disciplinary presiding judge in Colorado, censured Ellis, saying, “The parties agree that Respondent [Ellis], through her conduct, undermined the American public’s confidence in the presidential election, violating her duty of candor to the public.”

When asked in December 2020 about the criticism she received for pushing Trump’s “Big Lie,” Ellis told Fox Business anchorperson Charles Payne, “My life is in service and honor to the Lord Jesus Christ and so whatever anybody else says really doesn’t bother me. Ultimately at the end of the day, as long as I know that I’m pursuing truth and I’m doing the right thing for God and my country,. That’s all that matters. So that’s what gives me my optimism and my hope.”

In the biblical Book of Matthew, Jesus says, “He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.”

Now-President Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election with 7,061,839 more popular votes and 72 more electoral votes than Trump. Nevertheless, Trump and his legal team filed over 40 lawsuits alleging widespread voter fraud in key swing states in an attempt to overturn the election in Trump’s favor.

Nearly all of the lawsuits were thrown out or withdrawn for lack of evidence by judges across the political spectrum: conservatives and liberals, Democrats and Republicans, some who were appointed by Trump himself.

Some of Trump’s attorneys asserted that Republican candidates across the country had bribed communist countries to use voting machines to swing elections in their favor. Republican Iowa Senator Joni Ernst called the claim “outrageous” and “offensive.”

Other Republicans said that Trump and his lawyer’s lies about election fraud had compelled Trump supporters to send death threats to election officials.

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Although David Hogg lives in a state that finds itself dominated by Republicans in 2023, the 22-year-old Floridian has become one of the United States' best-known gun control activists. Hogg is a survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre that occurred in Parkland, Florida on Valentine's Day 2018, and he has often used social media to speak out about gun control and the mass shootings that are so common in the United States.

Hogg addressed gun control once again in a Twitter thread posted on February 26, noting what the U.S. Constitution has to say about militias. And it didn't take right-wing Republicans long to become enraged by his comments.

Hogg posted,"You have no right to a gun. You are not a militia. When you're talking about your second amendment rights, you're talking about a state’s right to have what is today the National Guard. The modern interpretation of 2A is a ridiculous fraud pushed for decades by the gun lobby."

READ MORE: **Pro-gun GOP Rep compares Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg to insurrectionists**

By "2A," Hogg is referring to the Second Amendment, which, he argues, Republicans have been misinterpreting.

"We need to stop using the NRA's talking points and the false interpretation of 2A they have been pushing for decades," Hogg argued. "Their version of 2A is younger than I am…. The future the gun lobby is pushing for is one with absolutely no gun regulation whatsoever where anyone can get a gun. That is the path we are going down right now. They want bad guys to have guns so they can use the rise in gun violence to sell more guns to scared people."

:{Republican attorney :(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}:**Jenna Ellis**, famous for promoting former President Donald Trump's false claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him, was quick to slam Hogg and tweeted, "So the Constitution is a living, breathing, fluid document, except for THIS ONE ISSUE ONLY ALWAYS because it suits your (false) narrative."

Twitter user David Benjamin wrote that Hogg is a "paid shill for the [George] Soros crew."

READ MORE:**David Hogg disrupts House gun hearing and accuses GOP lawmakers of 'reiterating points of mass shooters**

Far-right talk radio host Lori Mills responded by posting, "Considering my state Government puts criminal rights above victims rights, my 2nd amendment right is and always will be mine. Don't break into my home, don't threaten my family and my gun will leave you alone."

Hogg's thread was mostly attacked by Republicans, but some Libertarians weighed in as well. @LPNational tweeted, "Our rights aren't subject to what you or any tyrant think we need."

READ MORE: Gun control activists pressure POTUS to act on anniversary of Parkland shooting

Read David Hogg’s Twitter thread at this link.

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...Eastman himself pushed this cavalier attitude towards the courts and compliance with the law during a call with Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers on January 4th. During this call, just two days before the joint session, Eastman pressed Speaker Bowers to bring the Arizona House into session to certify Trump electors or decertify the Biden electors.75 Speaker Bowers responded as he had previously responded to similar entreaties by Giuliani and President Trump: by explaining that doing so would require him to violate his oaths to the U.S. and Arizona Constitutions and that he “wasn’t going to take such an action.” 76 Undeterred, Eastman still pushed Speaker Bowers to “just do it and let the courts sort it through.” 77

Ultimately, Representative Gohmert’s legal gambit failed; a U.S. district judge dismissed the case quickly.78 The judge’s ruling was upheld by the Supreme Court, which rejected Gohmert’s appeal without further consideration.79

Other Individuals Advising President Trump and His Campaign Also Advocated for a Role for the Vice President at the Joint Session.

Other individuals inside and outside the White House also advanced versions of the theory that the Vice President had agency in the joint session. The issue of Vice President Pence’s role came up during a December meeting in the Oval Office. Either President Trump or his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, tasked John McEntee, the director of the Presidential Personnel Office, with researching the matter further.80 Though McEntee was one of President Trump’s close advisors, he was not a lawyer and had no relevant experience. Yet, he wrote a one-page memo claiming that “the VP has substantial discretion to address issues with the electoral process.” 81

This wasn’t the only one-page analysis drafted by McEntee before January 6th.82 He later proposed a “middle path” in which he envisioned the Vice President accepting only half the electoral votes from six disputed States (specifically, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada).83 McEntee portrayed this as a way to avoid “disenfranchis[ing]” States while still achieving the desired result: delivering a second term to President Trump. McEntee conveyed this memo to the President with a cover note reading, “This is probably our only realistic option because it would give Pence an out.” 84 McEntee told the Select Committee that this judgment was based on his assessment that “it was, like, pretty obvious [the Vice President] wasn’t going to just reject . . . the electors or whatever was being asked of him at that time.” 85

Another advocate of a plan for the Vice President to play a role in the joint session was Jenna Ellis, a lawyer working for the Trump Campaign. She argued in two memos that Vice President Pence had the power to delay the counting of certified electoral votes. In the first memo, addressed to President Trump and dated December 31, 2020, Ellis advised that Vice President Pence should “not open any of the votes” from six States that “currently have electoral delegates in dispute.” 86 Ellis asserted that this “dispute” provided “sufficient rational and legal basis to question whether the [S]tate law and Constitution was followed.” Ellis proposed a delay of ten days, as the Vice President and Congress awaited a “response from the [S]tate legislatures, which would then need to meet in an emergency electoral session.” If any of the State legislatures “fails to provide a timely response, no electoral votes can be opened and counted from that [S]tate.” Ellis claimed that Vice President Pence would not be “exercising discretion nor establishing new precedent,” but instead “simply asking for clarification from the constitutionally appointed authority.” 87

Ellis sent the substance of this memorandum in an email to Fox News host Jeanine Pirro on January 1, 2021, under the subject line “Constitutional option.” 88 And, on January 4, 2021, she sent the same substance to Fox News contributor John Solomon under the subject line “Pence option.” 89

Ellis addressed a second memo, dated January 5, 2021, to Jay Sekulow, an outside attorney who represented President Trump during his first impeachment proceedings and in other litigation.90 Ellis again claimed that Vice President Pence had the power to delay the certification of the vote. Ellis recommended that the Vice President should, when he arrived at the first contested State (Arizona), “simply stop the count” on the basis that the States had not made a “final determination of ascertainment of electors.” “The [S]tates would therefore have to act.” 91

Sekulow clearly disagreed. “Some have speculated that the Vice President could simply say, ‘I’m not going to accept these electors,’ that he has the authority to do that under the Constitution,” Sekulow said during an episode of his radio show.92 “I actually don’t think that’s what the Constitution has in mind.” Sekulow added that the Vice President serves a merely “ministerial, procedural function.” 93

In addition, Herschmann discussed this memo with Sekulow. They agreed that Ellis did not have the “qualifications or the experience to be giving advice on this” or to be “litigating the challenges” that President Trump’s team was filing in court.94 Herschmann did not think that Sekulow shared the memo with the President.95

5.2 President Trump and his Allies Exert Intense Public and Private Pressure on the Vice President in Advance of the Joint Session of Congress on January 6th

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JENNA ELLIS  MICHAEL MELITO

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...the Fifth Amendment. 2 Q What about Mark Meadows, who's reflected on this privilege log? 3 Mr. Meadows was not an attorney. He was acting at -- he was at the time the White 4 House chief of staff. Was Mr. Meadows performing work in anticipation of litigation at 5 the direction of an attorney for the Trump campaign? 6 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I'll invoke my constitutionally protected right 7 to assert the Fifth Amendment. 8 Q Okay. One more. What about Steve Bannon, who's a name that is 9 reflected on this privilege log? Was Mr. Bannon performing work at the direction of a 10 lawyer for the Trump campaign? 11 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 12 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 13 Q Ms. Ellis, there's a name on this privilege log, the document identifier is 14 number 7612 -- or, forgive me, 7614. The name is reflected on the log as just Ali, A-I-i. 15 Can you identify for us who that individual is? 16 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 17 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 18 19 - Ms. Ellis, is that person Ali Alexander? The Witness. Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally 20 protected right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 21 - Did you have communications with Ali Alexander during the time 22 period of November of 2020? 23 The Witness. Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will assert my constitutionally 24 protected right to the Fifth Amendment...

Q So at the time of the 2020 Presidential election, you had been practicing law 16 for approximately 9 years. Is that correct? 17 A Approximately, yes. 18 Q Can you describe for us a little bit your experience as a lawyer since 19 graduating? I understand that you worked in government service for a time period. 20 Can you tell us about that? 21 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I'll invoke my constitutionally protected right 22 to assert the Fifth Amendment. 23 Q Okay. Ms. Ellis, did you serve as a deputy district attorney at some time 24 period after graduating from law school? 25 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I'll invoke my constitutionally protected right 21 1 to assert the Fifth Amendment. 2 Q Did you also serve as a law professor at any time since graduating from law 3 school? 4 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 5 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 6 Q Ms. Ellis, have you been affiliated with the Thomas More Society since your 7 graduating from law school? 8 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 9 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 10 Q Is the Thomas More Society a 501{c)(3) charitable organization? 11 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 12 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 13 14 Q A Have you ever been associated with or employed by the Amistad Project? Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 15 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 16 17 Q A Do you have an attorney-client relationship with the Amistad Project? Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 18 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 19 Q Were you employed or affiliated with the Amistad Project at any point 20 between November 3rd, 2020, and January 20th, 2021? 21 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 22 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 23 Q Ms. Ellis, how long have you known Phill Kline? 24 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 25 right to assert the Fifth Amendment...

[INVOICES] Q Okay. Ms. Ellis, will your answer be the same to all of our questions about 2 payments you received from the Trump campaign? 3 4 A Q Yes. So I have a few questions for you about the legal team representing the 5 Trump campaign, and in particular in the post-election time period that's the subject of 6 the subpoena. 7 Who was on the legal team? 8 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 9 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 10 11 Q A How long have you worked with Mr. Giuliani? Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 12 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 13 Q I want to ask you about a few members of the Trump campaign staff to see if 14 they were involved, in your view, as the legal efforts. 15 Did you work with Justin Clark? 16 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 17 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 18 Q Did you work with Boris Epshtyn? 19 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 20 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 21 Q We've seen several documents that reflect Mr. Epshtyn's employment by the 22 Trump campaign as a strategic adviser. Was he working as in a legal role for the 23 campaign at any time? 24 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 25 right to assert the Fifth Amendmen

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ight to assert the Fifth Amendment. 2 Q Would your answer be the same for any other outside lawyers who 3 purported to represent the Trump campaign? 4 5 A Q 6 campaign? 7 A Yes, my answer would be the same. Ms. Ellis, did you appear in court after the election on behalf of the Trump Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 8 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 9 Q During the time period between the November 3rd, 2020, Presidential 10 election and January 6th, 2021, did you represent other clients? 11 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 12 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 13 14 15 Q Let me pause here to see if anyone has any other questions. Ms. Ellis, where were you on election day, November 3rd, 2020? A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 16 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 17 Q What responsibilities did you have for the Trump campaign between 18 election day and November 7th, 2020, when the television networks called the 19 Presidentia I race? 20 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 21 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 22 Q What investigation did the Trump campaign do into allegations of election  fraud that arose following the Presidential election? 24 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 25 right to assert the Fifth Amendment

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Q Would your answer be the same to any questions about your contributions 2 to any speeches or remarks by President Trump regarding election fraud? 3 4 A Q Pursuant to advice of counsel, yes. And is that because you believe the answers to those questions may tend to 5 incriminate you? 6 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 7 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 8 Q Ms. Ellis, were you involved in any discussions about efforts to rerun the 9 2020 Presidential election? 10 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 11 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 12 Q _, could you please bring up exhibit No. 13? 13 Ms. Ellis, do you recognize this document? 14 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 15 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 16 Q This is a document that you produced to the select committee with a Bates 17 number ending 271. It appears to be a memo from Don Brown to several individuals, 18 Lynda McLaughlin, Lauren McLaughlin, Jay Sekulow, and other legal team members. It's 19 dated November 8th, 2020.  In this memo -- sorry.  Did the Trump campaign consider a proposal like the one Mr. Brown articulates in  this document that you produced to, quote, "request that the United States Supreme  Court order new elections in all or some of the eight States still outstanding to ensure  electoral integrity"?25 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected...Ms. Ellis, at the end of this document under the header "Conclusion," 36 7 Mr. Brown writes, quote, "I see nothing to lose by making the request for a new election 8 under the Court's constitutional equity powers," and then later continues, "Whatever it takes to win." 10 Ms. Ellis, did you agree with this assessment of -- that Mr. Brown attributed about 11 his proposal? 12 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 13 right to assert the Fifth Amendment.

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Q This is a document that you produced to the select committee with a Bates 5 number ending 7467. It's an email exchange between yourself and several others. 6 In this email Pennsylvania Senator Mastriano writes to yourself, Katherine Friess,  and Mr. Giuliani asking, "Any success with reaching out to friendly clerks to get ballot 8 images and/or access to the Dominion Systems?" 9 Do you recall this discussion? 10 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 11 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 12 13 14 Q ., could you please bring up No. 15 now? Ms. Ellis, do you recognize this document? A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 15 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 16 Q This is also a document that you produced in response to your subpoena. 17 It has a Bates number ending 7465 and appears to be a continuation of an email among 18 the same participants on a different thread. 19 - could you scroll down a little bit, please? 20 I'd like to direct your attention, Ms. Ellis, to the email there that's dated Monday, 21 December 28th. In this email, Senator Doug Mastriano responds to the question I 22 referred to earlier, saying, quote, "We made good headway convincing (hopefully) two 23 counties with Dominion machines in Pennsylvania." 24 Why was Pennsylvania Senator Mastriano working on getting access to either 25 ballot images and/or dominion voting machines?...[flynn]

...Q Was there a plan in place within the Trump campaign as early as 19 September 2020 that involved appointing alternate electors in battleground States?

...[MEMO] of State Legislatures to Choose Electors," written by John C. Eastman. 2 Why did you send this document to Molly Michael? 3 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 4 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 5 Q Ms. Ellis, how did you know Dr. Eastman? 6 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 7 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Q Your email reflects that you were sending this to Ms. Michael for President Trump. Had you had any communications with President Trump in this time period about the role of State legislatures in choosing electors? A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected right to assert the Fifth Amendment. - - - I'll pause here to see if anyone has any questions. Mr. Raskin? Okay. BY-: Q Ms. Ellis, will your answer be the same asserting your Fifth Amendment 18 privileges to any questions I would ask you about your interactions with Dr. Eastman or 19 about his analysis regarding the role of State legislatures? 20 21 A Q Pursuant to advice of counsel, yes. Is that because you believe the answer to those questions may tend to 22 incriminate you? 23 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 24 right to assert the Fifth Amendment....

Ms. Ellis, do you recognize this document? A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 3 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 4 Q This is a document that is sent by email from a person named Sonny Joy  Nelson. The date is December 1st, 2020. And the subject line is "Surrogate Briefing 6 Call -- 11 a.m. Eastern -- today." 47 7 The content, the body of the email reflects a note that says, "Here are notes from 8 the call." And it reflects that the statements made on the call were made by yourself, 9 described as senior legal advisor, and byJason Miller, senior advisor. 10 So the first few bullet points listed here read, quote, "Our legal and recount 11 efforts are proceeding on two separate tracks: One is through the judicial branch, and 12 the other is through State legislatures. Both of these tracks will provide the relief that 13 we are seeking -- that no illegal vote is counted." 14 Ms. Ellis, did you make those statements on a briefing call for Trump campaign 15 surrogates? 16 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 17 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 18 Q Ms. Ellis, how often did you appear on calls for Trump campaign surrogates 19 during the post-election time period? 20 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 21 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 22 Q Ms. Ellis, what was the purpose of these calls? Was it to provide talking 23 points for campaign representatives who may make public statements in support of the 24 campaign? 25 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected

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Q Did you appear at a hearing in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on November 25th, 5 2020? 6 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 7 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 8 Q Ms. Ellis, it's been publicly reported that President Trump planned to attend 9 the Gettysburg hearing in person. What did he plan to say when he attended? 10 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 11 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 12 Q Ms. Ellis, do you have any knowledge of the circumstances surrounding a 13 visit to the White House by Pennsylvania Senator Doug Mastriano and other Pennsylvania 14 legislators following the Gettysburg hearing? 15 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 16 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 17 Q Ms. Ellis, did you appear at a hearing in Phoenix, Arizona, on November 30th, 18 2020? 19 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 20 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 21 Q You produced the CV of an individual named Lyle Rapacki. Who is Lyle Rapacki, and what role did he play in the Trump campaign's legal work? 23 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 24 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 25 Q Ms. Ellis, did you meet with State legislative leadership, including State 51 1 House Speaker Rusty Bowers and Senate PresidentKaren Fann, in Arizona the day after 2 the hearing in Phoenix? 3 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 4 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 5 Q Did you or any other members of the Trump legal team that were present in 6 that meeting with State legislative leadership in Arizona make any specific 7 recommendations about actions the legislature should take to affect the outcome of the 8 2020 election? 9 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 10 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 11 12 Q A Did you appear at a hearing in Michigan on December 2nd, 2020? Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 13 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 14 15 Q A Were you asked to testify at the hearing in Michigan? Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 16 right to assert the Fifth Amendment...

o assert the Fifth Amendment. 52 15 Q Ms. Ellis, this document appears to be an email from you to Mark Meadows 16 at a Gmail address. It's dated Sunday, January 3rd, 2021. The content of your portion 17 of the email is "FYSA", and it forwards an email from an individual named Kevin Lundberg. 18 His email address is also a Gmail address, indicates he may be a member of the Colorado 19 Legislature. It was emailed to you on the same day, January 3rd, 2021. The subject 20 line is "Transcript From Colorado Audit Committee." 21 Ms. Ellis, did you email the transcript of your remarks before a committee of the 22 Colorado Legislature to Mark Meadows? 23 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 24 right to assert the Fifth Amendment.

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Q Have you ever been affiliated with an entity calledGot Freedom? --I believe  the question mark is in the name, Got Freedom? -- which is a 501{c)(4) nonprofit election 18 integrity watchdog group?

...Q Would your question be the same to -- would your answer be the same to 5 any other questions about other speakers on this call, which included Dr. John Eastman 6 and Phill Kline? 7 8 9 10 A Q A My answer would be the same, yes. BY-: Do you know Mr. Kline? Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 11 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 12 13 14 15 Q A Q A Do you know Ian Northan? I'm sorry, I didn't hear the question. Do you know a gentleman by the name of Ian Northan? Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 16 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 17 18 Q A Do you know a woman by the name of Jacqueline Timmer? Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 19 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 20 21 Q A Was Mr. Northan involved with the Amistad Project? Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 22 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 23 24 Q A Is Ms. Timmer his daughter? Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 25 right to assert the Fifth Amendment...

right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 2 Q ., if you could please go to page 2 of this document. Perfect. 3 So the attachment to this email, it states at the top that it is a -- purports to be an 4 attorney-client privileged communication to President Donald J. Trump from yourself, 5 Jenna Ellis, with a date December 31st, 2020. The subject line or header of the 6 document, the body of the memo, says, "Memorandum Regarding Constitutional Analysis of Vice President Authority for January 6, 2021 Electoral College Vote Count." 8 Ms. Ellis, did you write this memo? 9

A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 10 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 11 12 Q A Who asked you to prepare this memorandum? Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 13 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 14 Q Ms. Ellis, this email -- or the memo, forgive me -- reflects that it is directed to 15 President Donald J. Trump. Did you provide this memo to him? 16 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 17 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 18 Q Did you discuss this memorandum or any of the legal theories that make up 19 the body of it with President Trump either before or after sending it to Mark Meadows? 20 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 21 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 22 Q The first sentence of the body of this memo states, "Six states currently have 23 electoral delegates in dispute." 24 Did you write that because of the alternate slates of electors organized by the 25 Trump campaign?

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"Constitutional option." 2 Did you also send your analysis of the option for the Vice President at the 3 January 6th joint session of Congress to Ms. Pirro? 4 A Pursuant to my advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 5 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 6 7 Q A Who is Jeanine Pirro? Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 8 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 9 10 11 Q I believe Ms. Pirro is a FOX News host or was at the time. Why were you sending this analysis to a FOX News host? A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 12 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 13 14 15 Q I'll direct your attention to exhibit 29, please. Do you recognize this document? A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 16 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 17 Q Ms. Ellis, this is a document that you produced to us, has a Bates number 18 ending 7472. And it is also an email from you to John Solomon at solomonmediallc.com, 19 the email address. 20 Would your answers to my questions about the content and purpose of this 21 analysis under the subject line "Pence option" be the same as those in the previous 22 message to Ms. Pirro? 23 24 25 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, yes.

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hundreds of pages of deposition transcripts released Wednesday by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack offered new insights into the roles Pennsylvania Republicans played in aiding President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

The committee is expected to issue the full report on its investigation on Thursday. But the newly released transcripts were filled with new details including that Mike Roman, a Philadelphia native and one of Trump’s top election advisers, helped spearhead the effort to send pro-Trump electors to Washington as Congress met to certify the election results that day.

They also revealed a previously undisclosed attempt by state Sen. Doug Mastriano to access certain voting machines days before Jan. 6 as well as references to a plan floated by the White House to sue Pennsylvania directly in the U.S. Supreme Court over its administration of the 2020 vote. The documents also shed new light on the role a congressional staffer for U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly played behind the scenes.

Here are some of the highlights from the committee’s interviews:

Mike Roman: A key Trump campaign operative’s role in the false electors scheme

Roman, a longtime Philadelphia Republican political operative, appeared to play a key role in organizing false electors in swing states such as Pennsylvania as part of a plot to overturn the election.

A former Philadelphia ward leader and senior adviser to the Trump campaign, Roman was designated by Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani as “the lead for executing the voting” by the fake electors Dec. 14, 2020, according to an email the committee cited in an interview transcript released Wednesday.

The interview transcript suggests the pro-Trump electors in Pennsylvania were concerned about possible legal exposure if they signed official certificates purporting to be the legitimate electors.

In the interview, investigators referenced a Dec. 12, 2020, email sent to Roman from Trump campaign lawyer Kenneth Chesebro.

“Mike, here is my suggested language for dealing with the concern raised in the PA conference call about electors possibly facing legal exposure, parenthesis, at the hands of a partisan AG, close parenthesis, if they seem to certify that they are currently the valid electors,” the transcript says.

Investigators also asked Roman whether he knew if Mastriano, the state senator who ran as the GOP’s candidate for Pennsylvania governor this year, had expressed concerns about the elector plan. Roman pleaded the Fifth.

The transcript suggests Roman also played a role in organizing the delivery of Wisconsin Republicans’ fake elector certificate to Congress on Jan. 6. A person investigators identified as Michael Brown texted associates that he “should probably buy Roman a tie for sending me on this one. Hasn’t been done since 1876 ... ”

That’s an apparent reference to the disputed presidential election that year.

Roman refused to say whether he’d instructed Brown to deliver the document, the transcript says.

The interview transcript also references a briefing of Pennsylvania lawmakers in November 2020 about purported election fraud. On Nov. 8, 2020, Roman shared with an associate a screenshot of a message he’d obtained that said: “Maybe the Trump campaign should get some actual evidence of fraud and file in court. They’ve been horrible in their court filings. We just got a report from their legal team. They told us on caucus they have zero evidence.”

Roman declined to tell investigators who sent him the message or to discuss the briefing of Pennsylvania lawmakers, apparently delivered by Kentucky’s secretary of state.

U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly: Staffer’s behind-the-scenes involvement in false electors effort

Committee investigators repeatedly asked Roman during his deposition what he knew about behind-the-scenes efforts to undermine the election by a longtime top aide to U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, a Butler County Republican and a top Trump ally in the House.

Between Nov. 21 and Dec. 4, 2020, Roman exchanged 25 messages with Kelly’s then-chief-of-staff, Matt Stroia, according to questioning in the deposition transcripts. Those included exchanges that suggested Stroia may have played a more active and earlier role in the efforts by Trump and his allies than was previously known.

His name had previously surfaced in the committee’s work in connection with efforts to deliver the slates of pro-Trump electors to Pence on Jan. 6.

Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson has said his office passed along the lists to Pence but that it was Kelly’s office that provided it to him. And while Kelly initially denied Johnson’s claims as “patently false,” the congressman’s office later acknowledged an “internal investigation” found Stroia had been in contact with Johnson’s staff.

But Roman’s deposition before the Jan. 6 Committee suggests Stroia may also have played a role in organizing a raucous Nov. 25 state Senate hearing in Gettysburg, during which Mastrianoand Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis pushed unfounded claims of fraud in the Pennsylvania election. Trump called in from Washington to voice his support.

“I hope it turns out like we envisioned,” Stroia wrote to Roman three days before the hearing in a message quoted in the deposition transcripts.

During his interview with the Jan. 6 Committee, Roman pleaded the Fifth and refused to answer questions about it or discuss whether he or Stroia had any involvement in organizing the Gettysburg hearing.

But other messages cited in Roman’s deposition show Stroia was in direct contact with Giuliani, who spearheaded Trump’s election challenges in the state. In one exchange with Roman, Stroia said he’d directed the president’s lawyer to talk to Roman instead.

“Do you know why Mr. Giuliani would have been calling Mike Kelly’s chief of staff ... about presidential election issues rather than you, who was acting as director of election day operations for the campaign?” committee staffers asked. He added: “I told him that you will know everything I do.”

Asked to explain, Roman again pleaded the Fifth.

Doug Mastriano and Jenna Ellis: The state senator and Trump lawyer sought access to Pennsylvania voting machines

The committee’s interview with Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis also shed light on Mastriano’s postelection activities.

“We made good headway convincing [hopefully] two counties with Dominion machines in Pennsylvania,” Mastriano wrote in a Dec. 28 email to Ellis, according to the transcript.

In another email, Mastriano makes reference to efforts to gain access to “ballot images.”Ellis declined to tell investigators why Mastriano was interested in that.

In a Dec. 29 email, Mastriano told Ellis that he’d emailed Trump himself with a letter related to “securing voluntary access for Dominion forensics.”

Fulton County later gave a third-party firm access to its Dominion voting machines, facilitated by Mastriano and state Sen. Judy Ward, R-Blair, for a supposed “audit” of the votes. That prompted the state to decertify those voting machines and force the county to obtain new ones. It wasn’t immediately clear which other counties Mastriano and other Trump allies sought to hand over access to voting machines.

Elliswas also questioned about her contacts with Pennsylvania House Speaker Bryan Cutlerand Jake Corman and Kim Ward, the GOP leaders of the State Senate. She declined to answer questions, however, on any efforts she and Giuliani had made to pressure them to set aside the state’s election results.

Cutler previously told the committee that Giuliani and Ellis called him daily during the run-up to Congress’ certification of the election, looking to push a baseless theory that state legislatures could set aside election results based on unsupported suspicions of fraud and appoint a new slate of Electoral College delegates instead.

Cutler said he largely avoided those calls, thinking they were inappropriate and had his attorneys respond, asking Giuliani and Ellis to stop contacting him.

Jeffrey Clark: A White House plan to sue Pennsylvania in the U.S. Supreme Court

In December 2020, Trump had White House lawyers draft a complaint to sue Pennsylvania in the U.S. Supreme Court over the administration of its election, according to committee questioning in the deposition of former Justice Department attorney Jeffrey Clark.

Clark, a Philadelphia native, has emerged as a central focus for the committee due to his role in a drama in which Trump briefly considered appointing him attorney general in the waning days of his administration.

Clark had been introduced to the president by U.S. Rep. Scott Perry, a York County Republican and key ally of the president in Congress. And according to earlier testimony before the committee, Clark expressed a willingness to use the Justice Department to pressure state legislatures in battleground states to overturn their election results despite no evidence of significant fraud.

On Monday, the Jan. 6 Committee referred him to the Justice Department for potential criminal prosecution.

During two contentious deposition interviews with the committee in November 2021 and February 2022, Clark refused to answer almost any questions about his relationship to Perry, his conversations with Trump, or the ideas he floated on how the Justice Department could help contest the election. He repeatedly invoked executive privilege — the doctrine that allows presidents and their staff to resist some legislative oversight — as well as his Fifth Amendmentright against self-incrimination.

He also balked at answering questions about the draft complaint that a White House assistant sent to top officials at the Justice Department on Dec. 29, 2020, for a suit against Pennsylvania. Correspondence referenced in the deposition of Ellis, the Trump lawyer, also referenced a Trump campaign plan to ask the Supreme Court to order new elections in as many as eight states to “ensure electoral integrity.” Those suits were never filed.

Instead, the Trump campaign filed a brief in support of a long-shot lawsuit filed at the Supreme Court by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, seeking to overturn Pennsylvania’s election. The justices declined to hear the case.

For his part, Clark during his deposition — in one of his only substantive exchanges with committee members — lamented the current partisan state of politics in Washington, recalling his own upbringing in a primarily white, working-class neighborhood near the foot of the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge.

“My dad was a truck driver who never graduated from high school,” he said. “He was a lifelong Democrat and a Catholic. My mom was a lifelong Republican and a Protestant. I wound up as a blend of the two, a Catholic conservative Republican.”

His lawyer Harry MacDougald was more acerbic. He called the Jan. 6 committee’s questioning “railroading” and accused members of indulging in a “paranoid fantasy.”

“It is not enough in Washington to merely disagree with someone about policy questions,” he said. “Instead, they must be destroyed. Those who disagree with Mr. Clark seek his destruction by any means available.”

The QAnon Hummer Duo: Coordination among right-wing extremist groups

Deposition transcripts were also released Wednesday for two Virginia men who made headlines in Philadelphia when they showed up outside the 2020 vote count at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in a Hummer filled with guns and emblazoned with QAnon stickers.

But the transcripts show neither Joshua Macias, president of the organization Veterans for Trump, nor his bodyguard, Antonio LaMotta, were forthcoming in their interviews with committee investigators. Both men asserted their Fifth Amendmentrights again and again, citing their ongoing prosecution in Philadelphia for weapons violations and attempted election interference.

(They were both later convicted on the weapons counts in October, but acquitted on the election related charges. LaMotta has since been federally charged with illegally entering the Capitol on Jan. 6.)

The committee’s investigators attempted to quiz both men on their contacts with other right-wing extremist groups like the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters — the leaders of which Macias and LaMotta were shown in videos to have interacted with Jan. 5.

One video played during an earlier committee hearing showed Macias meeting with Enrique Tarrio, then-president of the Proud Boys, and Stewart Rhodes, head of the Oath Keepers, in a Washington parking garage the day before the Capitol attack. Committee members have previously cited the video to suggest some coordination among extremist groups in the run-up to Jan. 6.

But when asked in his deposition how he came to be in the garage, Macias remained tight lipped.

“I walked,” he responded.

Investigators asked him why. “I was asked to,” he said.

By whom? “Someone said, ‘Hey come here,” Macias replied.

He refused to say what they discussed in that meeting.

As for whether he considered himself a QAnon adherent, Macias responded: “I do not ascribe to people’s beliefs. I have my own belief system.”

Philadelphia Inquirer staff writers Jonathan Lai and Jonathan Tamari contributed to this article.

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...Q Was Ms. Bobb performing work in anticipation of litigation at the direction 9 of an attorney for the Trump campaign? 10 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 11 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 12 Q Did Katherine Friess have an attorney-client relationship with the Trump 13 campaign? 14 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 15 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 16 Q Was Ms. Friess performing work in anticipation of litigation at the direction 17 of an attorney for the Trump campaign? 18 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 19 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 20 Q Did Phil Waldron have an attorney-client relationship with the Trump 21 campaign?

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What litigation strategy were you discussing with Mr. Mastriano on November 3 25th, 2020? 4 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 5 right to assert the Fifth Amendment.

Can you tell us what role Mr. Sekulow and Mr. Herschmann played for the Trump 3 campaign? 4 The Witness. Pursuant to advice of counsel, I'll invoke my constitutionally 5 protected right to assert the Fifth Amendment

...Q Ms. Ellis, on November 24th there's a, looks like, a group text between you, 8 Boris Epshtyn, and Alex Bruesewitz involving legal strategy for Wisconsin. 9 Can you tell us what -- whether you had an attorney-client relationship with Alex 10 Bruesewitz?

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Ms. Ellis, there's another text message communication on your log 21 with the identifier 7847. It's a group text message from November 21st, 2020. The 22 participants in that text message, as reflected on your privilege log are yourself, Andrew 23 Giuliani, Peter Navarro, and Joanna Miller. 24 What relationship did Andrew Giuliani, Peter Navarro, and Joanna Miller have 25 with the Trump campaign?

...Ms. Ellis, actually, I think -- if you can just tell us, are you -- do you 10 intend to assert your Fifth Amendment rights to any questions that we ask you about 11 details of this privilege log that you've produced? 12

The Witness. Pursuant to advice of counsel, yes, I do intend to invoke my 13 constitutionally protected right to the Fifth Amendment to any substantive questions.

...A Q Yes, it is. So we're aware of at least 350 text messages between you and 6 Mr. Meadows between November 3rd, 2020, and January 13th, 2021. However, it looks 7 like your privilege log reflects only 35 of those text messages. Can you explain why that 8 might be? 9 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 10 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 11 Q Did you not produce these text messages with Mark Meadows because you 12 determined that every text message between you and Mark Meadows was either an 13 attorney-client privilege communication or a confidential communication prepared in 14 anticipation of litigation? 15 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 16 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 17 18 Q A To which of your attorney-client relationships was Mr. Meadows a party? Pursuant to advice of counsel, I'll invoke my constitutionally protected right 19 to assert the Fifth Amendment. 20 Q Ms. Ellis, are you going to assert your Fifth Amendment privilege to any 21 questions I would ask you about your interactions with and text messages with the White 22 House chief of staff, Mark Meadows? 23 24 A Q Yes. Is that because you believe the answer to these questions may tend to 25 incriminate you?

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Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 2 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 3 Q Ms. Ellis, let's talk a little bit about your professional background. 4 5 6 7 You graduated from Colorado State University. Is that correct? A Q A Yes, that's correct. Okay. And where did you attend law school? The University of Richmond, T.C. Williams School of Law after transferring 8 from Liberty University where I began my law school career. Okay. And in what year did you graduate from law school? 2011. And when were you first admitted to the bar? In October of 2011. Which State bars have you been a member of since that time period? The State of Colorado. 20 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Q A Q A Q A Q So at the time of the 2020 Presidential election, you had been practicing law 16 for approximately 9 years. Is that correct? 17 A Approximately, yes. 18 Q Can you describe for us a little bit your experience as a lawyer since 19 graduating? I understand that you worked in government service for a time period. 20 Can you tell us about that? 21 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I'll invoke my constitutionally protected right 22 to assert the Fifth Amendment.

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Is the Thomas More Society a 501{c)(3) charitable organization? 11 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 12 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 13 14 Q A Have you ever been associated with or employed by the Amistad Project? Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 15 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. ...

Ms. Ellis, what types of legal training did you have regarding constitutional 2 law? 3 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 4 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 5 Q What prior experience before November 3rd, 2020, did you have regarding 6 the 12th Amendment or the Electoral Count Act? 7 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 8 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 9 10 Q A Ms. Ellis, what is your current occupation? Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 11 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. ...

Ms. Ellis, do you recognize this document? A Q A Yes. Okay. What is it? Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 14 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 15 Q Okay. I'll describe this document generally as it came from your 16 production, it is an invoice for October 2020 and November 2020 services for a total of 17 $30,000. 18 Did you receive payment on this invoice from the Trump campaign? 19 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 20 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 24 21 Q According to public FEC reports on disbursements by the Trump campaign or 22 an associated political action committee, you received a total of $138,259 for the 2020 23 election cycle. Is that correct?

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So beginning on the first page of the schedule under the header "Election 8 fraud claims," I wanted to ask you a few questions about these. 9 Are you aware of evidence supporting the claim that votes were sent to Spain or 10 Germany to be counted in connection with the November 2020 election? 11 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 12 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 13 Q Are you aware of evidence supporting the claim that Dominion voting 32 14 machines flipped or switched votes from one candidate to another in the November 2020 15 election? 16 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 17 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 18 Q Ms. Ellis, will your answer be the same to a similar question regarding each 19 of the other allegations of election fraud listed on this schedule? 20 21 A Q Yes...

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...His email also indicates that this letter related to, quote, "securing voluntary 15 access for Dominion forensics." 16 Do you have a copy of the document that was attached to Senator Mastriano's 17 email? 18 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 19 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 20

Q Ms. Ellis, is there a reason why you withheld production of this document 21 that was attached to Mr. Mastriano's email? 22 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 23 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 24 Q Ms. Ellis, was President Trump aware of or involved in efforts to secure 25 access to Dominion voting machines?

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Although the actual email addresses are redacted from this, it appears that 8 this email was shared among several colleagues with whom you appear to have worked 9 closely during the time period. Specifically, Mr. Kerik, Ms. Friess, and it also appears to 10 have been included, on the "to" line, General Mike Flynn. 11 Have you ever seen this document before? And do you have any understanding 12 of the circumstances that led to drafting it? 13 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 14 right to assert the Fifth Amendment.

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Was there a plan in place within the Trump campaign as early as 19 September 2020 that involved appointing alternate electors in battleground States?

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I would like to state for the record that Representative Raskin has joined us. In this email you've also copied Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff. 22 And the text of this email contains only your statement for POTUS. The attachment to 23 the document -- I think if you scroll down, you should see it Great. That's 24 perfect. 25 So the attachment to this document is a paper titled "The Constitutional Authority 1 of State Legislatures to Choose Electors," written by John C. Eastman. 2 Why did you send this document to Molly Michael?

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Q Ms. Ellis, what was your legal basis for any assertion that the State 16 legislature is the only authority under the Constitution that can select a slate of delegates 17 to the electoral college?

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Fifth Amendment. 4 Q Did you appear at a hearing in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on November 25th, 5 2020? 6 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 7 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 8 Q Ms. Ellis, it's been publicly reported that President Trump planned to attend 9 the Gettysburg hearing in person. What did he plan to say when he attended? 10 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 11 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 12 Q Ms. Ellis, do you have any knowledge of the circumstances surrounding a 13 visit to the White House by Pennsylvania Senator Doug Mastriano and other Pennsylvania 14 legislators following the Gettysburg hearing? 15 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 16 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 17 Q Ms. Ellis, did you appear at a hearing in Phoenix, Arizona, on November 30th, 18 2020? 19 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 20 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 21 Q You produced the CV of an individual named Lyle Rapacki. Who is Lyle 22 Rapacki, and what role did he play in the Trump campaign's legal work?

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Q Did you or any other members of the Trump legal team that were present in 6 that meeting with State legislative leadership in Arizona make any specific 7 recommendations about actions the legislature should take to affect the outcome of the 8 2020 election? 9 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 10 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 11 12 Q A Did you appear at a hearing in Michigan on December 2nd, 2020? Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 13 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 14 15 Q A Were you asked to testify at the hearing in Michigan? Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 16 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 17 Q Why didn't Mr. Giuliani agree to be sworn in by a Michigan State 18 representative at the beginning of the hearing? 19 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 20 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 21 22 Q A Did you appear at a hearing in Atlanta, Georgia, on December 3rd, 2020? Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 23 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 24 Q Ms. Ellis, are you going to assert your Fifth Amendment right to any 25 questions I would ask you about hearings convened in contested States...

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So this reflects on page 3 of exhibit 24 that this letter was sent by-- or issued, I 4 guess, this is a public letter -- by Pennsylvania State Senators Jake Corman and Kim Ward 5 and Pennsylvania Representatives Bryan Cutler and Kerry Benninghoff. 6 Were you aware of this letter, Ms. Ellis, when you called Pennsylvania legislative 7 leaders?

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Have you ever been affiliated with an entity called Got Freedom? --1 believe 17 the question mark is in the name, Got Freedom? -- which is a 501{c)(4) nonprofit election 18 integrity watchdog group?

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A My answer would be the same, yes. BY-: Do you know Mr. Kline? Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 11 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 12 13 14 15 Q A Q A Do you know Ian Northan? I'm sorry, I didn't hear the question. Do you know a gentleman by the name of Ian Northan? Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 16 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 17 18 Q A Do you know a woman by the name of Jacqueline Timmer? Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 19 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 20 21 Q A Was Mr. Northan involved with the Amistad Project? Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 22 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 23 24 Q A Is Ms. Timmer his daughter?

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Q 57 BY-: Ms. Ellis, did you know about the Trump campaign's plan to convene 3 alternate slates of Trump-Pence electors in certain contested States and send purported 4 slates of Trump-Pence electoral votes to Federal authority? 5 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 6 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 7 8 Q A Did you provide or review any illegal analysis related to this effort? Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 9 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 10 Q Did President Trump want alternate electors to submit electoral college 11 votes in States that he had lost so that the Vice President could choose them during the 12 joint session of Congress on January 6th? 13 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 14 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 15

Q Are you going to assert your Fifth Amendment right to any questions I would 16 ask you about the alternate slates of electorsand the submission of their electoral votes 17 to Federal authorities, including the National Archives and the Vice President in his 18 capacity as President of the Senate? 19 20 A Q Pursuant to advice of counsel, yes.

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This is a document that you produced to the select committee. It has a 58 7 Bates number ending 7276. It's an email from Senator Doug Mastriano to yourself, Ms. 8 Friess, and Mr. Giuliani on December 31st. It attaches two letters. 9 - if you don't mind just scrolling down. 10 They are substantially similar, but directed to -- one each to Senator McConnell 11 and Leader McCarthy. 12 Did Senator Doug Mastriano prepare these letters, which in his email he describes 13 as having been signed by many of his colleagues in the Pennsylvania Legislature? 14 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 15 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 16 Q Were you or anyone else affiliated with the Trump campaign involved in 17 drafting or preparing these letters? 18 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 19 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 20 Q Each of these letters ends with an "ask." It states, "We the undersigned ask 21 that you dispute the certification until an investigation is completed." 22 Ms. Ellis, was the intended effect of these letters to interfere with the counting of 23 the electoral votes on December 6th?

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Ms. Ellis, the first in time email in this document, in exhibit 27, is an email from 59 16 you at your Gmail account to Mark Meadows at his Gmail account dated December 31st, 17 2020, at 2:56 p.m. The body of the email just merely reflects that there's an attachment 18 added. 19 Mr. Meadows goes on to forward your attachment to Marc Short, then the chief 20 of staff to the Vice President, on January 1st, 2021, at 3 o'clock eastern time. 21 Mr. Meadows writes, "Marc, this is an idea that Jenna Ellis wanted to put before 22 the VP." 23 Ms. Ellis, did you ask Mr. Meadows to forward your legal memorandum to the 24 Vice President?

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So the attachment to this email, it states at the top that it is a -- purports to be an 4 attorney-client privileged communication to President Donald J. Trump from yourself, 5 Jenna Ellis, with a date December 31st, 2020. The subject line or header of the 6 document, the body of the memo, says, "Memorandum Regarding Constitutional Analysis 7 of Vice President Authority for January 6, 2021 Electoral College Vote Count." 8 Ms. Ellis, did you write this memo? 9 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 10 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 11 12 Q A Who asked you to prepare this memorandum? Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 13 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 14 Q Ms. Ellis, this email -- or the memo, forgive me -- reflects that it is directed to 15 President Donald J. Trump. Did you provide this memo to him? 16 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 17 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 18 Q Did you discuss this memorandum or any of the legal theories that make up 19 the body of it with President Trump either before or after sending it to Mark Meadows? 20 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 21 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 22 Q The first sentence of the body of this memo states, "Six states currently have 23 electoral delegates in dispute." 24 Did you write that because of the alternate slates of electors organized by the 25 Trump campaign?

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Did you believe that the submission of alternate slates of electors by 4 Trump-Pence electors in certain contested States meant that the electoral college votes 5 of certain States was in dispute? 6 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 7 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 8 Q Ms. Ellis, did you recommend that the Vice President, quote, "not open any 9 of the votes from these six states"? 10 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 11 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 12 Q Ms. Ellis, did you at any time recommend, as is reflected in this memo, that 13 the Vice President instead should, quote, "direct a question to the legislatures of each of 14 those states," it goes on later to say, "asking them to confirm which of the two slates of 15 electors have, in fact, been chosen in the manner the legislature has provided for."

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It is an email from yourself toJeanine Pirroat a Gmail account on 24 January 1st, 2021.The substance of the email appears to be the same or similar to the 25 body of the memo that we were just reviewing. And the subject line states, 62 1 "Constitutional option." 2 Did you also send your analysis of the option for the Vice President at the 3 January 6th joint session of Congress to Ms. Pirro? 4 A Pursuant to my advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 5 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 6 7 Q A Who is Jeanine Pirro? Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 8 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 9 10 11 Q I believe Ms. Pirro is a FOX News host or was at the time. Why were you sending this analysis to a FOX News host? A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 12 right to assert the Fifth Amendment

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 Q This is also a memo that has an attorney-client privileged header at the top. 5 It reflects that was it prepared by you and sent to Jay Sekulow. It's dated January 5th, 6 2020. And the subject line is "Regarding Vice President Authority in Counting Electors 7 Pursuant to U.S. Constitution and 3 U.S. Code, Sections 5 and 15." 8 Ms. Ellis, did you prepare this memorandum? 9 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 10 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 11 Q This memorandum discusses the Vice President's authority in counting 12 electors and recommends that the Vice President should not open the electoral votes of 13 certain States, starting with Arizona, and stop the count at that juncture in the joint 14 session. 15 

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Why did you advise that? 16 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 17 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 18 Q What was the legal basis for recommending that the Vice President not 19 count electoral votes from certain States? 20 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 21 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 22 Q Let me pause here to see if anyone else has any questions on this. 23 Ms. Ellis, are you going to assert your Fifth Amendment privileges to any questions 24 I would ask you about the role of the Vice President during the joint session of Congress 25 on January 6th and the pressure placed on Vice President Mike Pence to take action to 1 affect the outcome of the 2020 election? 2 3 A Q Pursuant to advice of counsel, yes. Is that because you believe the answers to those questions may tend to 4 incriminate you?

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Ms. Ellis, were you at the Willard Hotel on January 6th, 2021? 19 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 20 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 21 Q Ms. Ellis, are you going to assert your Fifth Amendment rights in response to 22 any questions I would you about the events of January 6th, 2021, including the attack on 23 the Capitol? 24 25 A Q Pursuant to advice of counsel, yes

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-J6-TRANSCRIPT-CTRL0000051191/pdf/GPO-J6-TRANSCRIPT-CTRL0000051191.pdf

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House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection released a 150-page summary of its findings and voted Monday to send the Justice Department criminal referrals for former President Donald Trump and others who assisted his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Right-wing political groups and leaders generally responded either by ignoring the historic action altogether or by dismissing it as a partisan move without engaging substantively with the committee’s extensively documented findings.

Far-right activist Ali Alexander, who was a leader of the so-called “Stop the Steal” effort to overturn the 2020 election and keep Trump in power, called the committee’s criminal referrals “a coup against the voters.” Alexander, who participated in the recent disastrous Kanye West and Nick Fuentes appearance on Alex Jones’ show that turned into a festival of praise for Adolph Hitler, also released a statement purportedly on behalf of “Team Ye,” accusing Democrats and the “Republican Establishment” of working together “to rig our GOP primary or choose which candidates can be in the ballot before the American Voter.”

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton took to Twitter to charge that “’January 6’ is all about Biden/Left seeking to suppress/jail political opponents who blow the whistle on their election misconduct — and suppressing political opponents in 2024…” Fitton shared a video of himself claiming that “The left has decided that if you are challenging results they like in elections, you’re breaking the law and you should be jailed and prosecuted.”

Fitton also retweeted Claremont Institute Senior Fellow Jeremy Carl’s suggestion that the threat to democracy was somehow not Trump’s effort to overthrow the election or the violent effort to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power, but the committee’s investigation: “A completely partisan House panel is trying to work hand-in-glove with a completely partisan DOJ to bring criminal charges against the previous U.S. President. If you still think we live in a functional democracy you need to wake up and realize what time it is.”

Former Trump attorney and self-styled “America’s lawyer” Jenna Ellis claimed, “It’s all a political pretext with zero basis in fact or law”—a ridiculous statement given the committee’s meticulous gathering of evidence, including testimony from many Trump administration officials.

Not to be outdone, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene dismissed the House committee as “communist.”

Writing in his daily email newsletter, longtime religious-right activist Gary Bauercalled the committee a “kangaroo court” and referred to the criminal referrals as outgoing Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi “seeking to extract one last act of revenge against Donald Trump.” Bauer was similarly grumpy about the committee referring four Republican congressmen to the House ethics committee for refusing to comply with committee subpoenas. Bauer didn’t defend their defiance of the law but railed against what he called a “despicable precedent established by petulant progressives.”

Pizzagate promoter Jack Posobiec greeted the conclusion of the committee’s final public meeting with a message on Telegram: “Bring it, demons.” Posobiec didn’t pass up the chance to raise money, urging his readers Monday night to buy Christmas presents from MyPillow using a code that would presumably give Posobiec a cut: “Jan 6 wasn’t an insurrection to overthrow the govt but promocode Poso is an insurrection to overthrow prices this Christmas!”

The committee is reportedly set to release a massive amount of additional documentation Wednesday.

Tags: Ali Alexander Gary Bauer Jack Posobiec Jenna Ellis Marjorie Taylor Greene Tom Fitton Capitol Insurrection House select committee on Jan. 6 Jan. 6 Judicial Watch

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The final report released by the Jan. 6 committee this week says that Donald Trump – who has spewed election fraud claims for two years now – _{was even stunned}_ by an election fraud claim from one of his former allies, Sidney Powell, the New York Times reports.

Just weeks after the 2020 election, Powell, who's also a former Trump lawyer, said on a conference call that “communistmoney had flowed through countries like Venezuela, Cuba and perhaps China to interfere with the election.” According to Insider, Powell _{also believed}_ technology company Dominion Voting Systems was in conspiracy with Venezuelan leader, Hugo Chavez, who died in 2013.

Former Trump aide Hope Hicks said in response to Powell, the former president “muted his speakerphone and laughed at Powell, telling the others in the room, ‘This does sound crazy, doesn’t it?’”

READ MORE:_{**Sidney Powell facing possible sanctions by Texas regulators for filing frivolous election lawsuits**}_

NYT noted that, however, Trump proceeded to instigate the rioters by saying he “likes the crazies.”

Last month, Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis said, "Sidney Powell is practicing law on her own. She is not a member of the Trump Legal Team. She is also not a lawyer for the President in his personal capacity.”

And the Daily Beast reports that Powell finds herself now _{on Trump’s “no-go list”}_ and he no longer takes calls from the lawyer.

Dominion Voting Systems has since _{sued Powell and Giuliani}_ for spouting “baseless voter fraud claims that hurt its business.”

The Jan. 6 committee wrote in its final report that, “Donald Trump was no passive consumer of these lies. He actively propagated them. Time and again President Trump was informed that his election fraud claims were not true. He chose to spread them anyway. He did so even after they were legally tested and rejected in dozens of lawsuits.”

READ MORE:_{**Mike Pence: John Eastman 'didn’t even believe what he was telling' Donald Trump about election fraud**}_

https://www.alternet.org/2022/11/jenna-ellis-club-q-victims/

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Jenna Ellis, one of the right-wing lawyers who represented former President Donald Trump in his failed attempts to overturn the 2020 election, proclaimed on Wednesday's edition of The Jenna Ellis Show that the five victims who were murdered in the massacre at Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado early Sunday morning are burning in Hell.

"The five people who were killed in the nightclub that night, there is no evidence at all that they were Christians. So assuming that they were not, that they had not accepted the truth of the gospel of Christ and affirmed Jesus Christ as the lord of their life, they are now reaping the consequences of having eternal damnation," Ellis said. "And that is far, far greater – we should be having that conversation. Instead of just the tragedy of what happened to the body, we need to be talking about what happened to the soul and the fact that they are now in eternal separation from our lord and savior Jesus Christ."

Watch below or at this link.

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Political experts are warning about a group of nearly 60 far-right wing politicos including **Ginni Thomas**, **Matt Schlapp**, and **Cleta Mitchell** who reportedly will issue a letter calling for the House and Senate to delay votes on leadership positions including Speaker of the House and Senate Majority Leader.

Axios’ Jonathan first reported the news, posting at least part of the letter and the list of signatories (below).

Some of the other more recognizable names on the letter include **Mark Meadows**, the former Trump White House chief of staff; **Cleta Mitchell**, the attorney who The New York Times calls the “architect of Donald J. Trump’s failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election”; former Trump attorney **Jenna Ellis**; former U.S. Senator and former Heritage Foundation president **Jim DeMint** (R-SC); former Trump deputy campaign manager **David Bossie**, the right wing activist and head of the organization responsible for the **Citizens United** Supreme Court lawsuit that made countless billions of dark money in political elections legal.

READ MORE: ‘Heist’: Ginni Thomas Tells J6 Committee Election Was Stolen, Says She Never Discussed Efforts to Overturn With Spouse

Also, white supremacist and disgraced former U.S. Congressman **Steve King** (R-IA); convicted felon and disgraced former U.S. Congressman **Steve Stockman** (R-TX), right-wing religious extremist **Kenneth Blackwell** of the **Family Research Council**, which is on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of anti-LGBTQ hate groups, and others.

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:{When Kremlin propaganda is translated from Russian into English, it can sound a lot like MAGA propaganda. There are references to “cancel culture” and “traditional values,” and such rhetoric was used when the Russian Embassy in Spain posted an English-language video on Twitter in July. The video depicted two blonde girls running through the grass holding hands and encouraged social conservatives to move to Russia — where they won’t have to worry about “cancel culture” getting in the way of a socially conservative Christian lifestyle.

The image of those two girls has also been used in an ad for far-right MAGA Republican and “Stop the Steal” conspiracy theorist Doug Mastriano }:— who is running for governor of Pennsylvania. According to Business Insider, the blonde girls in the ad are from Belarus. Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus’ authoritarian far-right president, is a major ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Journalist Charles R. Davis, in an article published by Business Insider on October 19, explains, “In a new ad, the GOP candidate — who won his May primary after a late endorsement from former President Donald Trump — even features an image from the same photoshoot used by the Russian government.Posted on Monday, (October 17), the ad features two blonde girls holding hands. ‘For their future,’ it reads, ‘there is hope.’ Visitors to the Mastriano campaign's Facebook page will see it featured as the header. But the girls are not Pennsylvanians, and they are not in Pennsylvania.”

READ MORE: Its 'not a book ban': Doug Mastriano claims while advocating for books to be banned

Davis continues, “Insider was able to track the image back to Pexels, a company based in Germany that offers a repository of free stock photos and videos. It was posted by a videographer who lists their location as Minsk, the capital of Belarus.”

The Philadelphia Inquirer has reported that a liberal super PAC has also traced the images to Pexels.

Davis notes that one of the reasons candidates use “stock footage” like the image in Mastriano’s ad is a need to save money. Attorney Jenna Ellis, who promoted former President Donald Trump’s false voter fraud claims after the 2020 election and is now part of Mastriano’s campaign, has complained that the Republican Governors Association (RGA) isn’t doing enough to help Mastriano — who has been trailing his Democratic opponent, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, in polls.

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“Those complaints have come as Mastriano has been mired in controversy over his associations, with the candidate recently campaigning with Jack Posobiec, a far-right conspiracy theorist who previously claimed that leading Democrats were part of a pedophile ring that operated inside a pizza parlor in Washington, D.C.,”}: Davis observes. “Mastriano has also praised Andrew Torba, an anti-Semite and self-styled Christian nationalist, paying $5000 to Torba's social media company, Gab, in ‘consulting’ fees. The Republican nominee later distanced himself from Gab following criticism from Jewish and Republican leaders, only to then accept a $500 donation from Torba himself.”

READ MORE: Doug Mastriano shredded by Philly paper for 'chilling' plans to overturn future elections

Davis adds, “Another controversy was sparked after Reuters uncovered Mastriano donning a Confederate uniform while a serving as an instructor at the U.S. Army War College.”

Manuel Bonder, a Shapiro spokesman, told Business Insider, “From constantly lying about the 2020 election and peddling dangerous conspiracies, to repeatedly using Russian propaganda in his videos, Doug Mastriano's skullduggery knows no bounds — and it is further proof that he is unfit to be governor of Pennsylvania.”

READ MORE: 'Yes': Doug Mastriano confirms that he wants women who get abortions to be charged with murder

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We ask that the GOP conference meet immediately to vote on stripping Reps. Cheney and Kinzinger from their membership in the GOP conference. We further inform you that conservative leaders are launching a nationwide movement to add citizens’ voices to this effort.

:{:{The Honorable Edwin Meese III}:

Attorney General

President Ronald Reagan (1985-1988)}:

The Honorable J. Kenneth Blackwell

Chairman, Conservative Action Project (CAP)

Chairman, Constitutional Congress, Inc.

The Honorable Bob McEwen (R-OH)

U.S. House Committee on Rules

Former Member

The Honorable Matt Schlapp

Chairman

American Conservative Union (ACU)

The Honorable Jim DeMint

Chairman, Conservative Partnership Institute

Member, US Senate (SC 2005-2013)

Ed Corrigan

Vice Chairman, Conservative Action Project

President & CEO, Conservative Partnership Institute

Jenny Beth Martin

Chairman

Tea Party Patriots Citizen Fund

The Honorable Kenneth T. Cuccinelli, II

Chairman

Election Transparency Initiative

David N. Bossie

President

Citizens United

The Honorable Tony Perkins

President

Family Research Council

The Honorable David McIntosh

President

Club for Growth

Scott T. Parkinson

VP for Government Affairs

Club for Growth

Rachel A. Bovard

Senior Director of Policy

Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI)

The Honorable T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr.

Chief Domestic Advisor

President Ronald Reagan (1987-1988)

L. Brent Bozell III

Founder and President

Media Research Center

Alfred S. Regnery

President

Republic Book Publishers

Lisa B. Nelson odd no affil?Cleta Mitchell, Esq.

David Bozell

President

ForAmerica

Noah Wall

Executive Vice President

FreedomWorks

Chad Connelly

Founder and President

Faith Wins

Terry Schilling

President

American Principles Project

William L. Walton

The Bill Walton Show

Resolute Protector Foundation

The Honorable Brooke Rollins

President and CEO

America First Policy Institute (AFPI)

The Honorable Russ Vought

Director

Office of Management and Budget (2020-2021)

Wesley Denton

Chief Operating Officer

Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI)

Ginni Thomas

President

Liberty Consulting

Lori Roman

President

ACRU Action Fund

The Honorable Gary L. Bauer

President

American Values

The Honorable Briscoe Cain

State Representative

Texas House of Representatives

Elaine Donnelly

President

Center for Military Readiness

Craig Shirley

Reagan Biographer

Presidential Historian

Alan M. Gottlieb

Chairman

Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Gary A. Hofmeister

Businessman

Business Owner

The Honorable George K. Rasley Jr.

Managing Editor

ConservativeHQ.com

Seton Motley

President

Less Government

H. Preston Hawkins

Chairman

The Association for Community Education, Inc.

Richard Manning

President

Americans for Limited Government

Jeremy Cerone

Member

Council for National Policy

Robert K. Fischer

Meeting Coordinator

Conservatives of Faith

William Shaker

CEO

Washington Marketing Group

Paavo Ensio

Chairman

Universal Minerals Group

Richard D Hayes

Partner

Hayes, Berry, White & Vanzant, LLP

Joan Holt Lindsey

President

Lindsey Communications

Allen J. Hebert

Chairman

American-Chinese Fellowship of Houston

The Honorable Mary Vought

Executive Director

Senate Conservatives Fund

Clare Lopez

Founder/President

Lopez Liberty LLC

Sheryl Kaufman

Board of Directors

Americans for Limited Government

Dr. Allen Unruh

Founder

National Abstinence Clearinghouse

Amapola Hansberger

President

Legal Immigrants for America

The Honorable Morton C. Blackwell

President

The Leadership Institute

Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin (Ret.)

Executive Vice President

Family Research Council

Brandon Zehm

Owner

Zehm & Associates

Dr. Richard Rounsavelle

Trustee

MRC

Jenna L. Ellis, Esq.

Chair

Election Integrity Alliance

Wendy Borcherdt

Retired Political Volunteer

Board Member, Hoover Institution

Jessie Jane Duff

Gunnery Sergeant, US Marine Corps (ret)

Ambassador, America First Policy Institute (AFPI)

Ralph A. Rebandt II

Gubernatorial Candidate

Ralph Rebandt for Governor

The Honorable Peter J. Thomas

Chairman

Conservative Caucus

Melvin Adams

President

Noah Webster Educational Foundation

Sandy Rios

Director of Governmental Affairs

American Family Association

Terrence Scanlon

Former Chairman and Commissioner

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Comn.

The Honorable Mike Hill

Former Member

Florida State Representative

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Former President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Jenna Ellis claimed on Sunday morning's edition of Newsmax'sWake Up America that the Federal Bureau of Investigation executed a search warrant at Trump's Mar-a-Lago retreat in Palm Beach, Florida on Monday, August 8th because Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) lost her primary race to Trump-backed challenger Harriet Hageman.

The Cheney-Hagemen contest occurred on Tuesday, August 16th, more than a week after the FBI recovered hundreds of extremely sensitive documents from Trump's estate.

"This is yet another next thing in the line of what the Democrats are targeting President Trump with," Ellis, a constitutional law attorney, griped without providing any supporting evidence.

READ MORE: 'Disgusting': Adam Kinzinger blasts Republican 'hypocrisy' over classified documents at Mar-a-Lago

"Look, we're not hearing anything about January 6th anymore," Ellis proclaimed. "The timing of this is so suspicious because right after Liz Cheney loses her primary, and everything about the January 6th Committee is going away, now this raid happens."

Cheney is the Vice Chair of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, which revealed its findings in eight public hearings over the summer. While future proceedings have not yet been scheduled, the bipartisan panel is continuing its probe into Trump's role in the deadly insurrection.

Ellis added that the Justice Department's criminal pursuit of Trump "is the next mantra. This is the next thing that [Representative] Eric Swalwell [D-California] is tweeting, saying, 'the walls are closing in.'"

Watch below or at this link.

Jenna Ellis, Other 'Big Lie Lawyers' Face Ethics Complaints (lawandcrime.com)

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Advocacy Group Files Wave of Ethics Complaints Against Jenna Ellis and Other ‘Big Lie Lawyers’ Who Tried to Overturn Election for Trump

ADAM KLASFELD  Mar 7th, 2022,

Former President Donald Trump’s lawyer Jenna Ellis and nine other attorneys received ethics complaints for their participation in the wave of litigation seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, an advocacy group announced on Monday.

Sent to courts, bar associations and disciplinary committees across the United States, the wave of 10 complaints was the debut action taken by the non-profit group The 65 Project against attorneys they describe as “Big Lie lawyers.”

Aside from Ellis, the other nine attorneys facing complaints for their efforts either representing Trump or supporting his election-subversion bids are:

Cleta Mitchell, who participated in Trump’s phone call urging Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) to “find 11,780 votes” to tip the election in his favor;

Former Sinclair Media Group talking head Boris Epshteyn, who reportedly had a phone call with Trump on the morning of Jan. 6;

Former U.S. Attorney Joe diGenova, who said that Trump’s ex-cybersecurity czar Chris Krebs should be “taken out at dawn and shot” for finding the 2020 election was secure;

Texas attorney Paul Davis, who filed and dropped his so-called “Gondor” lawsuit seeking the wholesale replacement of two branches of the U.S. federal government;

Georgia lawyer William Calhoun, who allegedly boasted about storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6;

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Fellow Peach State lawyers William Carver and Daryl Moody, who claimed to be Trump “electors” in Georgia, even though President Joe Biden won there handily by more than 12,000 votes;

Fake Wisconsin elector Andrew Hitt, who purported to represent Trump voters in a state Biden won by more than 20,600 votes;

Trump’s lawyer in Wisconsin Jim Troupis, whom a state Supreme Court justice roasted for bringing a lawsuit that “smacks of racism.”

The 65 Project, so-named after the number of lawsuits seeking to overturn the 2020 presidential election, claim that initial wave of complaints represents a fraction of what they have plan. The group announced plans to target a “list of 111 lawyers across 26 states” for possible disbarment for “violating their oaths as officers of the court and failing to follow ethical rules.”

Several pro-Trump lawyers already have been facing blowback for their participation in post-2020 election litigation. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani had his law license suspended in New York and Washington, D.C., following his disastrous turn seeking to overturn Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania. In August, a federal judge in Michigan sanctioned nine lawyers associated with the so-called “Kraken” lawsuit there, including Sidney Powell, Lin Wood and others.

“This lawsuit represents a historic and profound abuse of the judicial process,” U.S. District Judge Linda Parker wrote in her opinion and order at the time. “It is one thing to take on the charge of vindicating rights associated with an allegedly fraudulent election. It is another to take on the charge of deceiving a federal court and the American people into believing that rights were infringed, without regard to whether any laws or rights were in fact violated. This is what happened here.”

Judge Parker referred all of the lawyers to their respective disciplinary committees for potential discipline or disbarment. The lawyer who pursued that sanctions order—the city of Detroit’s lawyer David Fink—is now a consulting counsel for The 65 Project. So is his son, Nathan Fink. The group’s managing director is Yale Law School graduate Michael Teter.

Describing itself as bipartisan, The65 Project appears to lean Democratic. The first member of its advisory board, former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), served as a majority and minority during his decades-long career in the U.S. Senate. Democratic Party activist David Brock is a senior advisor.

Read the ethics complaint against Ellis, below:

[image via screengrab/Centennial Institute/YouTube]

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...After Trump announced on November 14 that he would be challenging the election results in court, Giuliani was tasked with creating a team of lawyers. In a November 19 press conference, Giuliani announced the team, which included Victoria Toensing, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis and Joseph diGenova. Less than three weeks after joining Giuliani’s team, diGenova appeared on a far-right Newsmax podcast and called for the former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Chris Krebs, to be “drawn and quartered, taken out at dawn and shot” for stating that the 2020 election was free of manipulation.

In the meantime, Giuliani and Ellis were pressuring Republican state lawmakers to unilaterally overturn the results in their states. Previous reporting has established that they met with the Pennsylvania Senate Majority Policy Committee on November 25, during which Ellis urged Pennsylvania lawmakers to fix a “corrupted, irredeemably compromised election,” either by arranging for a new, “special election” or directing “the manner of your electors.”

Similar appeals were made by Ellis and Giuliani toArizona lawmakers on November 30, Michigan lawmakerson December 2 and Georgiarepresentatives on December 4.

The Post report states that on January 2, 2021 Trump, Giuliani and Eastman spoke to 300 state legislators on a conference call to provide “evidence of fraud” and galvanize the lawmakers to “decertify” the election results. “You have the real power,” Trump told the lawmakers, according to a report in the Washington Examiner. “You’re the ones that are going to make the decision.”

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https://www.abc27.com/this-week-in-pennsylvania/pennsylvania-politics/jan-6-hearings-pa-speaker-cutler-received-daily-voicemails-from-trumps-lawyers/

Jan. 6 hearings: PA Speaker Cutler received daily voicemails from Trump’s lawyers

by: Lauren Rude

Posted: Jun 21, 2022 /

(WHTM) — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol heard from elections workers and local officials who warded off former President Donald Trump’s pressure to overturn the 2020 presidential election on Tuesday.

It was revealed through Josh Roselman, investigative council, during this hearing that Bryan Cutler, the Republican Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, received daily voicemails from Trump’s lawyers in the last week of November 2020 in relation to how Pennsylvania’s votes turned out in the general election.

“Mr. Speaker, this is Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis.We’re calling you together because we’d like to discuss, obviously the election,” Giuliani said in a Nov. 26, 2020 voicemail.

“Hello Mr. Speaker, this is Jenna Ellis, and I’m here with Mayor Giuliani,” Ellis said in a Nov. 27, 2020 voicemail.

“Hey Bryan, it’s Rudy, I really have something important to call to your attention, that I think really changes things,” Giuliani said in a Nov. 28, 2020 voicemail.

According to Roselman, Rep. Cutler found the outreach by both lawyers to be inappropriate and asked his lawyers to request that Giuliani stop calling him. However, Giuliani continued to call.

Then, in December, Steve Bannon, a former Trump strategist, announced a protest to take place outside of Cutler’s home and district office to “let him know what we think about him.”

Rep. Cutler released a statement on Tuesday afternoon regarding the Jan. 6 committee interview.

“As I’ve confirmed previously, I was in contact with representatives of the U.S. House Select Committee investigating the events leading up to Jan. 6. I was interviewed on two separate occasions in recent months. I was not contacted ahead of today’s proceedings or made aware of what portions of my interview would be included in the public proceedings. As the committee’s investigation is still ongoing, it would be inappropriate for me to provide any additional comments about my testimony at this time.”

The public hearing, the fourth by the panel this month, stemmed from its yearlong investigation into Trump’s unprecedented attempt to remain in power, a sprawling scheme that the chairman of the Jan. 6 committee has likened to an “attempted coup.”

Tuesday’s focus reviewed how Trump was repeatedly told his pressure campaign could potentially cause violence against the local officials and their families but pursued it anyway, according to a committee aide. And it underscored that fallout from Trump’s lies continues, with election officers facing ongoing public harassment and political challengers trying to take over their jobs.

The select committee also aimed to untangle the elaborate “fake electors” scheme that sought to have representatives in as many as seven battlegrounds — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada and New Mexico — sign certificates falsely stating that Trump, not Biden, had won their states.

subpoena w/ kraken, PO at politiico

https://www.alternet.org/2021/12/jenna-ellis/

https://www.alternet.org/2021/12/jenna-ellis/

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Following the 2020 presidential election, attorney Jenna Ellis worked closely with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and other members of then-President Donald Trump’s legal team and aggressively promoted Trump’s false, totally debunked claim that the election was stolen from him because of widespread voter fraud. Politico is now reporting that Ellis, in two legal memos, claimed that then-Vice President Mike Pence could refuse to count the presidential electors in states that now-President Joe Biden won.

According to Politico reporters Betsy Woodruff Swan and Kyle Cheney, “The memos from then-Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis, which contain widely disputed legal theories about Pence’s ability to stop a Biden presidency, underscore Ellis’ promotion of extreme arguments that she promulgated amid Trump's effort to reverse the election results. Her actions have remained largely below the radar as House investigators probe Trump’s inner circle.”

The first memo, Swan and Cheney report, was written on December 31, 2020, and the second was written on January 5 — the day before Congress counted the electoral votes for the presidential election and certified Biden’s Electoral College victory.

“A December 31 Ellis memo delivered to Trump’s office suggested that Pence — who was constitutionally responsible for presiding over Congress’ counting of electoral votes on January 6 — should simply refuse to open envelopes from states whose election results Trump considered to be fraudulent,” Swan and Cheney explain. “That memo was described by ABC reporter Jonathan Karl in his recent book ‘Betrayal.’ Politico is publishing it in full for the first time.”

Swan and Cheney continue, “In a second, previously unreported memo dated January 5, Ellis made a more technical legal argument that she delivered to Jay Sekulow, one of Trump's outside lawyers. Sekulow represented Trump during his first impeachment and in a series of legal battles during his administration, but he had minimal involvement in Trump’s election litigation. The exception was an early November Supreme Court case regarding Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballots.’

The Politico journalists note that in the January 5 memo, Ellis “argued that key provisions of the Electoral Count Act — limiting Pence’s authority to affirm or reject certain electors — were likely unconstitutional.”

“She concluded that Pence, while presiding over lawmakers’ counting of electors, should simply halt the process when their alphabetical proceeding reached Arizona,” Swan and Cheney report. “Then, she said, he should declare that the state failed to meet the legal standard for certifying its own electors and ‘require the final ascertainment of electors to be completed before continuing.’”

Ellis has reacted angrily to Politico’s reporting on her December 31 and January 5 memos. The right-wing attorney tweeted:

Wondering how @politico thinks it\u2019s responsible or ethical journalism to publish attorney-client privileged documents.\n\nThey admit they are the first to publish in their entirety the two Ellis memos, which both have the banner \u201cATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGED.\u201d\n\nTrump hatred persists.

— Jenna Ellis (@Jenna Ellis) 1639164702

She appeared to confirm the authenticity of the report. Her claim the Politico violated journalistic ethics is baseless.

saw headline w/ impeach in it and i thot it meant trump, belatedly

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/12/hows-that-elite-legal-strike-force-doing

HOW’S THAT ELITE LEGAL STRIKE FORCE DOING?

2197 VIEWS BY PAUL CAMPOS

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ON DECEMBER 15, 2020

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IN GENERAL

In addition to burnt out alcoholic husk of a former politician who hasn’t even pretended to practice law in decades Rudy Giuliani, certifiably insane sedition mongers Sidney Powell and Lin Wood, and reactionary racist Kamala Harris isn’t a US citizen wingnut welfare superstar John Eastman, we have this character at the head of the parade:

My fellow Coloradans will find this detail particularly delicious:

I bet! (Buck is a full-throated Trumper now, so hopefully his lapse in judgment in firing Comrade Donald’s fresh-faced legal superstar will lead to him being hurled into wingnut outer darkness).

Weld County is a huge mostly rural (4,000 square mile) county, home to around 25,000 300,000 people, to the northeast of the Boulder-Denver hive of liberal scum and villainy. It’s the kind of place where people like to write up their own Common Law Writs in order to Protect Our (their) Freedoms, and where the most significant cases a brand new assistant DA might handle would involve traffic accidents and maybe an occasional bar fight.

Getting fired from that job after six months, it’s safe to say, would require committing massive multiple screw ups, as even in these times it’s not that easy to get law school graduates to move to Common Law Writ land to get paid $55,000 a year while handling the more trivial legal entanglements of the common clay of the West.

Ellis, however, managed to parlay a resume that consisted of graduating from a very regional law school, and then getting fired almost immediately from a job fairly near the bottom of the legal employment hierarchy, into a professorship at Colorado Christian University, which is pretty much exactly the kind of place its name would lead you to suspect it might be.

While there she excreted a self-published rant about Common Law Writs and the Constitution, which combined with the requisite physiognomy got her an episodic gig as a “Constitutional law expert” at Fox News, where she caught you know who’s eye.

And so what we’re left with is the street, and the game, and what happened here today. all this ties into Scott’s post this morning about the continuum from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump, via which a party that over the past several decades has become increasingly contemptuous of actual knowledge and expertise and the nature of reality itself, and as a result has managed to end up hermetically sealing itself in a vast vat of its own endless bullshit. Thus do we get an Elite Legal Strike Force made up of these preposterous characters.

On a related note, everyone who worked to do so should get credit for helping to make any association with Trump’s attempted post-election coup toxic enough to help scare away a bunch of real law firms, thus leaving Trump to depend on this pathetic crew, while giving Jonathan Turley a perpetual sad.

https://www.alternet.org/2021/10/jenna-ellis/

atticus finch rudy?

calls them terrorists?! nope jenna

https://www.alternet.org/2021/08/jenna-ellis/

gOP's Lauren Boebert slammed for mocking Afghans killed trying to flee on US plane

Leah Foreman Salon

August 17, 2021

There has been a rush of Republican critiques and complaints about the Biden administration's execution of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan after nearly 20 years of fighting. But no reaction appears to have gone...

jenna attacked for saying trump can't be re-install in aug b/c you know lAW/REALITY?

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On June 1, the New York Times' Maggie Haberman reported, on Twitter, that former President Donald Trump still believes that the 2020 election results will be overturned and that he will be "reinstated" to the White House by August. Haberman discussed her reporting during a June 2 appearance on CNN's "New Day," stressing to hosts John Berman and Brianna Keilar that Trump is "echoing" the false claims he is hearing from attorney Sidney Powell and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.

"There is no mechanism by which this can happen," Haberman said of Trump's delusional claim that he will be returning to the Oval Office by August. But Trump's delusions, Haberman added, are being encouraged by Powell and Lindell — and he is "regurgitating" their bogus claims.

Trump has been telling a number of people he’s in contact with that he expects he will get reinstated by August (no… https://t.co/0gUGozPQQR

— Maggie Haberman (@Maggie Haberman) 1622551318.0

Haberman told Berman and Keilar, "What he's doing is echoing things that are being said by Sidney Powell, who was his lawyer — although he distanced himself from her at certain points over the final months of the administration. But she was helping advise him on these efforts to overturn the election last year. This is being said my Michael Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow — who has been pushing this for some time. (Trump) is echoing what they're saying. The difference between them saying it and Donald Trump saying it is that one is the former president — one is a possible future (Republican) Party nominee…. There are people telling him things are possible that are not possible."

Powell and Lindell have been relentless far-right promoters of the Big Lie, falsely claiming that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump — who, Haberman said, has been "so laser-focused" on the recent election "audits" taking place in Arizona and other states because he "thinks they are going to overturn" the 2020 election results.

JUST NOW: "“There is a dangerous component about this conversation that's going on.” @maggieNYT on her reporting t… https://t.co/u3fuzgsHhr

— John Berman (@John Berman) 1622632941.0

Trump, Haberman warned, is trying to use the "conservative media ecosystem" to promote his fantasies of being "reinstated" to the White House this summer.

"People are in their own media ecosystems," Haberman observed.

Berman pointed out that some Trump opponents are upset with Haberman for tweeting about the former president's delusions, and the Times reporter responded that "ignoring" Trump will not make him go away in 2021 any more than it did in 2015 and 2016.

Haberman told Berman and Keilar that Trump "is in control of the Republican Party, to a big extent…. Ignoring him was not the answer in 2015."

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Ex-Trump attorney furious DOJ investigating Matt Gaetz but not Hunter Biden

David Badash and The New Civil Rights Movement March 31, 2021

Former Trump campaign and personal attorney Jenna Ellis is furious about the Dept. of Justice's investigation into Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) for possible sex trafficking of an underaged girl, demanding to know why Hunter Biden has not been charged with wrongdoing – while just hours later lamenting the death of the "presumption of innocence."

"Okay so wait," Ellis, who professes to be a "Constitutional Law Attorney," said on Twitter, "the DOJ has time to investigate Matt Gaetz, but the whole Hunter Biden situation is just fine now?? And where's Durham??? This is why the American people are so over all of it."

"Durham" is now-former U.S. Attorney John Durham, who former Attorney General Bill Barr set up as a special counsel to investigate the origins of the FBI's Russia probe. So far, after two years, he reportedly has found no problems with the FBI's decision to investigate Trump and the Trump campaign for possible Russia ties.

It's unclear who Ellis is referring to when lamenting that "the American people are so over all of it," given that it appears Hunter Biden's actions do not warrant prosecution, but she also went on to lament, ironically, the death of the "presumption of innocence," just seven hours later:

[some crack about twitter annd PC]

Ellis, a devout Christian who has suggested the left is trying to "cancel Christianity," has compared same-sex marriage to pedophilia and bestiality and supports criminalizing homosexuality.

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...Popular Baptist author and speaker Beth Moore denounced Trumpism on Sunday as seductive and dangerous, adding, “This Christian nationalism is not of God.” Moore’s comment drew plenty of blowback from Trump’s supporters, including one from pastor, White House guest, and online angry man Greg Locke, who responded to Moore by telling her she had  “lost her mind.” and should  “SIT DOWN.”

Jenna Ellis, the Trump attorney and Rudy Giuliani sidekick who was just the recipient of a glowing profile from Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody, responded with an “AMEN” and thanks to Locke. Trump “prophet” Lance Wallnau also slammed Moore, as did musician-politician Sean Feucht.

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trump campaign and personal attorney Jenna Ellis is the latest in the president's orbit – one of literally more than 50 – to test positive for coronavirus. As the news broke, CNN's John King chastised the attorney, who has been seen repeatedly without a mask.

Ellis informed the White House, Axios notes, "stirring West Wing fears after she attended a senior staff Christmas party on Friday.

"On CNN, anchor John King reported the news, commenting her contracting the virus was simply, "ramifications of reckless behavior."

Ellis's co-attorney Rudy Giuliani was admitted to a D.C. hospital Sunday after he too tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19.

"People brought their families," a senior White House official who attended the party told Axios, after learning of Ellis' positive diagnosis, as if attending was a good idea sans Ellis' attendance, which it was not.

White House staffers were angered with Ellis even before learning she has COVID-19.

"She had the nerve to show up at the senior staff Christmas party knowing everyone was furious with her for constantly stirring Trump up with nonsense," a senior administration official said....

https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/jenna-ellis-2649402698/

kos

Jenna Ellis, the senior Trump campaign legal adviser who you can see smugly smirking behind just about any image of Rudy Giuliani, is also special counsel to the Thomas More society. That's a supposed national public interest law firm that focuses on "religious liberty" and regularly shows up in the Southern Poverty Law Centers' "Hatewatch" for having pretty unChristian views toward, well, anybody but straight, white Christians.

Their interest in "religious freedom," for example, extends to voter suppression. The group, under a newly formed "Amistad Project" (and yes, they actually had the gall to name the effort after the ship and revolt of Africans who had been kidnapped and sold illegally as slaves in Cuba in 1839) has filed a lawsuits challenging the election in five states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The Thomas More Society has confirmed Ellis' involvement with the organization but maintains that they're not coordinating at all with her and the campaign's legal efforts to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of voters by throwing out the election. The Washington Post speculates it is "a coordinated effort to flood the nation's courts with repetitive litigation that allows the president to claim the election results remain contested." Seems like a safe bet.

The project formed earlier this year, fighting in state courts across the country to—get this—prevent county election officials from taking federal grants to help them gear up for conducting safe elections during the pandemic. Because safe, free, and fair elections are apparently an assault on religious liberty. But no, they weren't coordinating with the Trump campaign at all in its efforts to suppress the vote. The group said so: "As a tax-exempt organization, the Thomas More Society doesn't support or endorse candidates, but when our election laws and even our constitution are under attack, we take action," the organization said in an October statement, bolstering Trump's attacks on mail-in voting.

Ellis, the background Trump lawyer, is on the "Leadership and Advisory Board" of the Thomas More Society, as well as special counsel to it. It's just a total coincidence, then, that the lawsuit the group is filing mirrors the Trump campaign's strategy of asking courts in states with Republican-controlled legislatures to let those legislatures toss the official election results and appoint their own Trump electors to the Electoral College. Really, though, she and the group keep saying, they're not coordinating at all. Thomas More Society President Thomas Brejcha told the Post that Ellis "has no association or involvement with our Amistad efforts" and that they're not "at all connected with the Trump Campaign."

Maybe she's not, but a retired defense intelligence official who sits on Trump's campaign advisory board named Tony Shaffer seems to be. He is both on the campaign team and showed up at a press conference the Amistad group had on Tuesday, calling himself its "lead investigator" in chasing down what they're calling voter fraud. But really, a spokesman for him says, the Trump campaign and Amistad Project are "not related," not at all. But he wouldn't answer whether Shaffer acted as a go-between.

The Amistad group claims to have shared their "voter fraud" evidence with the FBI, but apparently they didn't even convince Attorney General William Barr, who publicly stated last week that the department has found no evidence of widespread fraud. They're not going to find validation there. And, honestly, they should be sanctioned out of court. This is who they are: "a former Kansas attorney general barred from practicing law due to professional misconduct, and a Minnesota attorney who has advocated policies such as restricting the number of Americans who are not Christian or Jewish." Only the best people.

Those sanctions might be coming. Conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Brian Hagedorn rebuked the group's attempt to get the court to overturn the presidential election, calling it "the most dramatic invocation of judicial power" he had ever seen, writing: "This is a dangerous path we are being asked to tread." In addition to sanctions, the group is courting losing its nonprofit standing. Philip Hackney, a former IRS official, told the Post the Thomas More Society is "putting it's tax-exempt status at risk" for so clearly working with Trump in election litigation. "It certainly raises the question of whether they have engaged in a way that the IRS could find violated the law," he said.

Ellis is clearly the connection here, and apparently Tump's new favorite after he saw her on TV and he got the campaign to hire her. Senior administration officials told the Post that she eggs him on in his legal efforts. "The president would call her when the other lawyers would tell him no," one said. They also say she has been feeding him false evidence of voter fraud, and that the bizarre 46-minute speech he gave last week about the election was "a Jenna production." She's also told him the coronavirus-infected public meetings she and Giuliani have been having with Republican legislators are real and could help him overturn the election. "She's willing to say anything. Even as Rudy comes up with legal theories that are not able to be executed, she will think of a way to talk about it on television," one official said.

What she's not willing to do? "[S]he has not converted her allegations into legal briefs or appearances in court, where making false statements could have serious consequences." She's not a true enough believer to want to jeopardize her future in voter suppression.

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/jenna-ellis

Ellis has become a star player on President Trump's legal team, billing herself as a "constitutional law attorney" taking part in the effort to overturn the 2020 election results. But according to the New York Times, Ellis' credentials aren't what they're cracked up to be. She has become one of Trump's most visible defenders and on Wednesday lashed out at Attorney General Bill Barr for saying he had not seen any evidence of widespread voter fraud.

"…a review of her professional history, as well as interviews with more than a half-dozen lawyers who have worked with her, show that Ms. Ellis, 36, is not the seasoned constitutional law expert she plays on TV," write the Times' Jeremy W. Peters and Alan Feuer, adding that since she graduated from law school in 2011, "nothing in her record in the courtroom — limited mostly to appearances in state court as a prosecutor or as counsel for clients charged with assault, prostitution, theft and domestic abuse — shows any time spent litigating election law cases."

While she styles herself as an expert on the Constitution, the Times reports that a national databases of federal cases shows she has never appeared in federal district or circuit court. She also does not appear to have played a major role in any cases beyond her criminal and civil work in Colorado. Out of around 50 election-related lawsuits filed by the Trump campaign, Ellis has not signed her name or appeared in court to argue a single one.

"I find it astonishing that she's gotten to this point," Stephanie Stout, a lawyer who worked with Ellis a few years told the Times. Stout said Ellis was fired from a case they both worked on because she "not up to the job."

"She just didn't have the legal chops," Stout added. "After that, Jenna decided that I had stolen the case from her."

Read the full report over at The New York Times.

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Ellis has become a star player on President Trump's legal team, billing herself as a "constitutional law attorney" taking part in the effort to overturn the 2020 election results. But according to the New York Times, Ellis' credentials aren't what they're cracked up to be. She has become one of Trump's most visible defenders and on Wednesday lashed out at Attorney General Bill Barr for saying he had not seen any evidence of widespread voter fraud.

"…a review of her professional history, as well as interviews with more than a half-dozen lawyers who have worked with her, show that Ms. Ellis, 36, is not the seasoned constitutional law expert she plays on TV," write the Times' Jeremy W. Peters and Alan Feuer, adding that since she graduated from law school in 2011, "nothing in her record in the courtroom — limited mostly to appearances in state court as a prosecutor or as counsel for clients charged with assault, prostitution, theft and domestic abuse — shows any time spent litigating election law cases."

While she styles herself as an expert on the Constitution, the Times reports that a national databases of federal cases shows she has never appeared in federal district or circuit court. She also does not appear to have played a major role in any cases beyond her criminal and civil work in Colorado. Out of around 50 election-related lawsuits filed by the Trump campaign, Ellis has not signed her name or appeared in court to argue a single one.

"I find it astonishing that she's gotten to this point," Stephanie Stout, a lawyer who worked with Ellis a few years told the Times. Stout said Ellis was fired from a case they both worked on because she "not up to the job."

"She just didn't have the legal chops," Stout added. "After that, Jenna decided that I had stolen the case from her."

Read the full report over at The New York Times.

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According to the Washington Post's in-depth look at Donald Trump's strategy to save his presidency with accusations of massive election fraud, the report notes that thepresident's legal options were impacted when lawyers working for the campaign fled rather than implement the president's plans.

The report notes that the president and his team started game-planning out a strategy to contest election results back in June with the expectation that he was looking at a tight election and plans were worked out to have Trump declare himself the winner the night of the election.

However, after Fox News called Arizona for Vice President Joe Biden that evening, those plans fell apart which led to an all-hands-on-deck meeting to come up with a new approach.

According to the report, that led to Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani's ill-fated press conference held in a landscape maintenance company's parking lot which set in motion an exodus of legal expertise.

The Post reports that the president's inner circle, "briefed Trump on a potential legal strategy for the president's approval. They explained that prevailing would be difficult and involve complicated plays in every state that could stretch into December. They estimated a '5 to 10 percent chance of winning,' one person involved in the meeting said. Trump signaled that he understood and agreed to the strategy."

The report goes on to note, "some lawyers around Trump began to suddenly disappear from the effort in what some aides characterized as an attempt to protect their reputations. Former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi, who had appeared at a news conference with Giuliani right after the election, ceased her involvement after the first week."

According to one campaign insider, "Literally only the fringy of the fringe are willing to do pressers, and that's when it became clear there was no 'there' there."

Giuliani's widely-derided press conference then led to a gulf "between the outlooks of most lawyers on the team and of Giuliani, who many of the other lawyers thought seemed 'deranged' and ill-prepared to litigate, according to a person familiar with the campaign's legal team. Some of the Trump campaign and Republican Party lawyers sought to even avoid meetings with Giuliani and his team. When asked for evidence internally for their most explosive claims, Giuliani and Powell could not provide it, the other advisers said."

According to the report, Giuliani's claims that he could win the case led to a shouting match between the former New York City mayor and Trump deputy campaign manager Justin Clark during a conference call where Clark "called Giuliani an expletive and said he was feeding the president bad information. The meeting ended without a clear path, according to people familiar with the discussion."

The report goes on to note that "the next day, a Saturday, Trump tweeted out that Giuliani, [Jenna] Ellis, [Sydney] Powell and others were now in charge of his legal strategy. Ellis startled aides by entering the campaign's Arlington headquarters and instructing staffers that they must now listen to her and Giuliani."

Powell has since been fired by the president for making claims about voter fraud that even the president found too farfetched.

You can read more here.

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David Badash and The New Civil Rights Movement November 27, 2020

Jenna Ellis, President Donald Trump's personal attorney and the Senior Legal Adviser to the Trump campaign is once again being mocked, this time for her near-immediate response to a unanimous 3-0 ruling against the campaign in a Pennsylvania election case.

Ellis says she and Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, have decided that the three judges, who were all appointed by Republican presidents – including the one who wrote the opinion who was appointed by Trump himself – are all part of the "activist judicial machinery" in Pennsylvania.

She is also vowing to take the case – which the judges say has "no merit," to the Supreme Court.

Ellis was quickly mocked.

@JennaEllisEsq @RudyGiuliani If you supposedly have evidence of massive fraud, why did Giuliani tell the court “Thi… https://t.co/4OPVig61xg

— Helen Kennedy (@Helen Kennedy)1606500581.0

@JennaEllisEsq @RudyGiuliani Epic failure but you go for it The world is watching your circus And the voters are la… https://t.co/mC5L02oLg0

— Kathleen Alice ?? (@Kathleen Alice ??)1606499400.0

"The activist judicial machinery" = three Republican-appointed judges in a *unanimous* opinion written by a *Trump… https://t.co/PjTVhWDUIo

— Steve Vladeck (@Steve Vladeck)1606500179.0

Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis are the Milli Vanilli of lawyer duos. Tons of attention, but all lip service. https://t.co/hOPpuZCpc7

— JeremyNewberger (@JeremyNewberger)1606503445.0

The grift will continue until morale improves. https://t.co/AbPPYZ0aYo

— Gary Legum (@Gary Legum)1606503555.0

Down 58-0 and on our own 2 yard line with 42 seconds left in the game is exactly where we wanted to be all along https://t.co/GZat033yHt

— David Frum (@David Frum)1606500275.0

The "activist judicial machinery" meaning a 3-0 decision by three Republican appointees, the scathing opinion autho… https://t.co/JOayV2TOGO

— David Burbach (@David Burbach)1606500667.0

This. Is. HILARIOUS. On just so many levels: hilarious. If you read the opinion (which I IMPLORE you to read), th… https://t.co/nuqp9y8Ie9

— Ken Schneck (@Ken Schneck)1606501178.0

That's an interesting way to spell "we once again failed to produce any evidence and the court justifiably told us… https://t.co/F4LliNOzT7

— L.A.Witt, etc. (@L.A.Witt, etc.)1606503107.0

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high noon on Thursday, Donald Trump's crack legal team sauntered out for a showdown with destiny. They were there to demonstrate for America that Trump's refusal to concede the election wasn't a demonstration of infantile refusal to accept reality, but was really real. Really real. Oh, so real.

And in their presentation on why the press should never again say they were lacking evidence, what emerged before their own tech team appeared to pull the plug was a claim that Democrats engaged in a vast conspiracy to "inject" hundreds of thousands of Biden votes by using voting machines built by Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, with the help of wealthy Jew George Soros, that sent American votes overseas to servers in Germany where they could be altered according to orders from antifa. And then, when even that proved inadequate to defeat Trump, Democrats brought in "garbage cans" full of votes that were marked for Biden. Then counted them three times each. That may sound like an exaggeration. It's not. It's only a subset of the claims that were made during this peek into an alternative reality. Also Rudy Giuliani's hair dye began pouring off his head at a rate that made it look as if his brain might be leaking from his skull. Which seemed entirely possible.

Giuliani took the stage first to begin the general theme of the day, which was to berate the press for saying that there was no evidence of voter fraud when he had a fistful of affidavits. Affidavits, people! For example, Giuliani claimed to have "60 witnesses" to an incident in which a truck pulled up in the wee hours of the morning "and people rushed to it thinking it had food" but instead it was "full of ballots, thousands of ballots" that were in garbage cans and paper bags. And then these votes were brought in "when they thought all the Republican observers had gone home" and run through the voting machines three times. This was not a single event, declared Giuliani, but a product of Joe Biden's "election fraud team" that worked in "Democrat led cities" to plant the votes needed to put Biden ahead of Trump.

Giuliani then gave way to Sidney Powell, who demonstrated that when it comes to being disconnected from reality, this conference went to 12. Powell immediately veered away from trash can votes and right into how the election was really rigged by voting software written for Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. Chavez, rather unexpectedly, is apparently very anti-Trump. (That's really unexpected since he died in 2013.) But Powell launched into an emotional explanation of how "Our votes are counted in Germany and in Spain by a company owned by affiliates of Chavez and Maduro," and these companies are, of course, run by "the number two associate of George Soros." As Powell went on, she also expressed how Cuba was involved, and how there was an "algorithm" that allowed this Venezuela-Jewish-Cuban cabal to define the values of votes. That algorithm that "probably flipped votes all over the country" because, according to Powell, "Donald Trump won in a landslide."

Yes, she said that. This came right before the part where she explained that she also has an affidavit from someone who chatted about all this with Chavez (I am still not making this up) and that it was all approved by antifa. It was a Biden-Venezuelan-Jewish-Cuban-antifa conspiracy. And if you think she didn't mention the Clinton Foundation in this … oh yes she did. All of these groups "had the election rigged for Mr. Biden," said Powell. She went on to explain: "They can say a Biden vote counts 1.25 and a Trump vote counts 0.75, and that may be the numbers that were used here." All of this was explained to her by the Chavez chat man. Also, there is a server in Germany that is definitely connected. Though we don't know how. So … just assume everyone not standing on the stage was a part of the conspiracy.

Powell then gave way to Jenna Ellis, who explained that, lord help everyone, all that had gone before was only the "opening statement" to the full trial they wanted to have. Ellis then explained that this would not be a trial of the public opinion before complaining that there wasn't time to do it in court. But definitely, definitely, 99% of the press wasn't worthy to even report on the story. Because they're part of the conspiracy.

The whole thing finished off with some Q&A time in which Giuliani stepped forward to embrace everything that Powell had claimed about Chavez, Soros, antifa … the works. That included complaining about states being "stupid enough to send our votes out of the country ... to be counted by people who are allies of Chavez and Meduro ... run by an ally of George Soros." He knows this is a fact, said Giuliani. "When I first heard it, I didn't believe it, until Sydney showed me the documents ... you can Google it, well, unless they took it down." This was accompanied by more complaints about antifa's role in fixing the election.

And you know all of this has to be true, because Giuliani gestured around the stage to proclaim, "There is nobody here who engages in fantasies." This was followed by a claim that Trump won Michigan by 50,000 votes, and that the campaign was looking into challenges in both Virginia and New Mexico. By that point, Giuliani's hair dye was largely on his shirt.

All this happened. And I didn't even touch on the most ridiculous moments.

[TWT

FOX NEWS AIRED GIULIANI'S PRESSER IN ITS ENTIRETY -- HERE'S WHAT THEIR CORRESPONDENT HAD TO SAY ABOUT IT AFTERWARDS

FISHER: "CERTAINLY A COLORFUL NEWS CONFERENCE, BUT IT WAS LIGHT ON FACTS. SO MUCH OF WHAT HE SAID WAS SIMPLY NOT TRUE, OR HAS ALREADY BEEN THROWN OUT IN COURT."]

https://boingboing.net/2020/11/19/trump-campaign-legal-clown-car-is-an-elite-strike-force-team-says-advisor-jenna-ellis.html

Trump campaign legal advisor Jenna Ellis TWT says the Trump campaign's legal team, which no longer includes any major law firms, but does include America's hairdripping mayor Rudy Giuliani, "is an elite strike force team."

Jenna Ellis: "This is an elite strike force team on behalf of the president and the campaign to make sure that our constitution is protected."

Can you lose your law license for making statements like that? Asking for America.

https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/did-donald-trump-steal-the-election-2648992261/

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Back in September, Politico's Anita Kumar reportedthat for the previous year the Trump campaign had been assembling a team of election lawyers from all over the country to familiarize themselves in local election laws and prepare "prewritten legal pleadings that can be hurried to the courthouse the day after the election, as wrangling begins over close results and a crush of mail-in ballots." The effort was led by "a 20-person team of lawyers" from major law firms who were overseeing a strategy in "key states the Trump campaign is targeting, like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan." It sounded like a very serious and professional operation, one which came as no surprise to me, since Republicans have specialized in disenfranchising Democratic voters for many decades.

Trump himself repeatedly made clear on the campaign trail what he planned to do, from contesting the validity of mail-in ballots to declaring himself the winner on election night regardless of whether the votes had been counted and filing a flurry of lawsuits contesting the election with an eye toward having "his" judges (including newly-minted Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett) deliver the election to him if necessary. I don't think anyone can possibly say they are surprised at how he has reacted to losing the election.

In the weeks before Nov. 3, Trump did have that team of high-powered legal talent arguing cases around mail-in ballots and shifting deadlines in various states, some of which did make it to the Supreme Court. But then the election actually happened and vote-counting began, and since then Trump's crack team has been been remarkably unsuccessful. The good lawyers have either been pressured to to quit orthrew in the towel themselves as it became patently obvious that they had no evidence of voter fraud.

That hasn't stopped Trump from plowing ahead anyway with the self-described "elite strike force" led by his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, last seen prior to the election with his hand down his pants in the latest Borat movie and famously presiding over a post-election press conference at a landscaping company next door to a sex shop and a crematorium. Trump was evidently impressed by Rudy's performance in both venues, because he gave the former LifeLock spokesman (hat tip to Salon's Roger Sollenberger) full authority to conduct the legal strategy to overturn the election results by any means necessary.

CNN reports that Giuliani has taken full control. For instance, upset by what he was hearing from three of the lawyers assigned to argue one of the Pennsylvania cases, the man once described as "America's mayor" fired them on the spot and took over the case — which was being argued the very next day — himself. He hadn't been inside a courtroom in more than 30 years, and it showed. He was very nearly laughed out of court.

Giuliani was undaunted. He immediately pulled together the other members of the "elite strike force": Sidney Powell, who is former national security adviser Michael Flynn's Fox News lawyer; veteran right-wing husband and wife team Victoria Toensing and Joe diGenova, also Fox News lawyers; and over-the-top Trump defender and campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis. None of them have any expertise in election law, but then they don't have a legal strategy either.

Having lost over and over again in court, Trump and his team have switched to their Plan B, which, as longtime Democratic strategist Chris Marshall spelled out in detail in Salon on Thursday, is to delay the certification of the vote in certain states and try to get Republican legislatures to assign electors to vote for Donald Trump instead of the actual winner, Joe Biden. This is based on the theory that if they can create enough chaos around the election results, Republican loyalists will rise to the occasion and "save democracy" from the Democrats, who are allegedly stealing the election.

This idea has been pushed by conservative talk show host Mark Levin and picked up by the right wing as a way to keep their beloved president in office for at least four more years. It's a theory that is very unlikely to prevail, particularly since the Supreme Court just decided a case on "faithless electors" last July, in which the justices made it very clear that whatever the founders may have anticipated in the 18th century, our democracy today demands that electors express the will of the people. It will take some convoluted intellectual gyrations for them to conclude that state officials can simply change the results at their discretion.

In order to blow the smoke as thick as possible, Giuliani and the "strike force" held a press conference at Republican National Committee headquarters on Thursday which was so surreal that it may have displaced the COVID task force briefing where Trump suggested that people might inject disinfectant as the all-time weirdest press conference of the Trump era.

Giuliani, Powell and Ellis held forth for 90 minutes, going full Infowars and throwing out one insane conspiracy theory after another. They said that Dominion voting machines had been created by former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez (who has been dead for seven years) and financed by George Soros, the Clinton Foundation and "communistic" countries China and Cuba. Just in case that didn't work, the corrupt Democrats had also rigged the vote with a sophisticated computer hack that was only foiled because Trump won so overwhelmingly that it tripped up the algorithm which allowed the "strike force" to catch them in the act. Also, the mail-in ballots were fraudulent because so many of them were filled out properly. (Yes! The fact that there were very few problems with mail-in votes was somehow evidence they were fake!)

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Eric Metaxas and Jenna Ellis: Joe Biden is Mentally Unfit and ‘Extremely Leftist’ Kamala Harris Picked for ‘Identity Politics’

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https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trump-lawyer-jenna-ellis-backs-california-church-defying-public-health-restrictions-from-tyrant-gov-newsom/

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asurion

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Asurion, LLC is a privately held company based in Nashville, Tennessee[2] that provides insurance for smartphones, tablets, consumer electronics, appliances, satellite receivers and jewelry. In 2014, the company operated in 14 countries and had 49 offices with 19,000 employees serving 280 million consumers.[3]

History

In 1995, Stanford graduates Kevin Taweel and Jim Ellis used a search fund to acquire the Houston-based roadside assistance company, Road Rescue. The roadside assistance service was sold through local wireless carriers.[4] Four years later, they purchased Nashville-based Merrimac Group, which was offering specialty insurance to cover cellphones.[citation needed] The company began expanding its operations globally in 2003, with an expansion into Asia followed by expansions into Europe (2008)[citation needed] and Australia (2013).[5] The company expanded into Latin America in 2014 with a partnership with America Movil.

The company’s products, services, and clients have expanded since founding, due in part to acquisitions. On January 1, 2006, Lock/line merged with Asurion making Lock/line's former parent company, DST Systems Inc., 35 percent shareholder of the combine company.[6] With the acquisition of Lumitrend on May 31, 2006, the company expanded its product portfolio to include CellBackup software.[7] Cloud device management firm Soluto was acquired in 2013.[8] Also in 2006, the company acquired Warranty Corporation of America (WaCA)[9] then merged in 2008 with National Electronics Warranty (NEW Customer Service Company).[10]

As the company attempted to expand with new ventures, customer service was always an issue. So in February 2017, Asurion launched its Simplr subsidiary to provide customer-service via on demand staffing and machine learning.[11] Through Soluto, Asurion acquired in 2017 Drippler, another tech support app company, and merged it with Soluto.[1] In August 2019, Asurion acquired uBreakiFix national cellular phone repair chain.[12]

In 2018, Asurion borrowed $3.75 billion via two leveraged loans, the proceeds of which were to be funneled to the PE firms that acquired the company in 2007. The two loans brought the company's total term loans to $11.3 billion.[13]

Recognition

The company received a CES Innovation Award in 2015 for its support and protection apps that combine live support and instant notifications.[14]

References

  1. ^ :{Jump up to::(style="user-select:none;top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:^a b(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asurion#cite_ref-cct_1-1) "Mobile Insurance Company Asurion Buys Device Tech Support Startup Drippler". Calcalist. December 19, 2017. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  2. ^ "Asurion to grow in Nashville". The Commercial Appeal. December 17, 2010. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
  3. ^ "As mobile use climbs, Asurion grows". The Tennessean. September 25, 2014. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
  4. ^ "Paying Entrepreneurs to Find the Right Business". The New York Times. March 11, 2009. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
  5. ^ "Asurion Australia Invest $30m to create 300 jobs". ZDNet. June 3, 2014. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
  6. ^ "Asurion completes Lock\line deal". Nashville Business Journal. January 3, 2006. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
  7. ^ "Asurion Wraps Up Deal for Lumitrend". Nashville Business Journal. June 21, 2006. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
  8. ^ "Cloud based device management startup, soluto, acquired by device insurer Asurion". Techcrunch. October 30, 2013. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
  9. ^ "Asurion plans big new Atlanta software". Atlanta Business Journal. December 16, 2011. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
  10. ^ "N.E.W. Merges with Asurion". Private Equity Hub. May 23, 2008. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
  11. ^ "Fast-growing Asurion launches new company". Nashville Business Journal. April 12, 2018. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  12. ^ "Asurion buys national repair chain". Nashville Business Journal. August 26, 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  13. ^ Richter, Wolf. "A junk-rated company just secured billions in loans — and the deal demonstrates just how irrational the credit market is right now". Business Insider. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
  14. ^ "Jerusalem start-up wins top tech prize for robo printer". The Times of Israel. January 9, 2015. Retrieved 6 April 2015.

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 In Silicon Valley, Jim Ellis, who co-founded a cellphone insurance provider, and his wife, Jenna, are building a 25,000-square-foot home 

 Homa Natoma LLC (Jim and Jenna Ellis). Assessed value: $24.62 million. Homa Natoma LLC purchased this 7.23-acre estate in Los Altos Hills 

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Natoma LLC purchased this 7.23-acre estate in Los Altos Hills in 2008 and today itÕs valued at $24.6 million. It includes nine bedrooms and 11.5 bathrooms, as well as a pool with a slide, a tennis court and a golf green with a pair of sand traps. (Imagery ©Google, Imagery ©2019 CNES / Airbus, Maxar Technologies, U.S. Geological Survey Map Data ©2019) 

Homa Natoma LLC (Jim and Jenna Ellis)

Assessed value: $24.62 million

Homa Natoma LLC purchased purchased this 7.23-acre estate in Los Altos Hills in 2008 and today it’s valued at $24.6 million. It includes nine bedrooms and 11.5 bathrooms, as well as apool with a slide, a tennis court and a golf green with a pair of sand traps.

Documents submitted with Los Altos Hills list Jim and Jenna Ellis as the home’s owners. Homa Natoma is also registered to a Russell J. Ellis. Jim Ellis, a Stanford graduate school alumnus, co-founded the cellphone insurance business Asurion.

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Jenna Ellis is a native and resident of Colorado, where she was home schooled from kindergarten through 12th grade. Growing up in an evangelical Christian family, sound doctrine and theology were the basis of her education and fostered a love for God, a solid understanding of the Christian worldview, and her acceptance of the Gospel and Jesus Christ as her personal Lord and Savior. At age 14, Ms. Ellis attended a class for home schooled students geared toward teaching civics, and through that experience, she found a calling and passion for law and advocacy.

Ms. Ellis attended Colorado State University and earned aB.A. in Technical Journalism, which has served her well in media appearances and written opinion pieces, and she also graduated with honors from the World Journalism Instituteand served as a White House intern in the press office for the Bush 43 Administration. She went on to receive her J.D. from the University of RichmondT.C. Williams School of Law. As a student, she clerked for two Colorado judges. Ms. Ellis served as a law clerk for the Colorado Attorney General’s Office and assisted the Colorado Solicitor General on the motion to dismiss the landmark case Kerr v. Hickenlooper where state legislators challenged Colorado’s taxpayer bill of rights.

Ms. Ellis began her practice as a contract attorney for the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. and was on the legal team representing the United States of America in contract disputes and representing the Department of the Navy. She then moved back to Colorado to become a prosecutor, and later went into private practice as a criminal defense and constitutional law attorney.

Author of the 2015 book, The Legal Basis for a Moral Constitution, which addresses the defense of the Judeo-Christian worldview in American constitutional law, Ms. Ellis was invited to showcase her title at the 2016 London Book Fair, as a representative of American legal philosophy. Ms. Ellis also developed and taught the legal studies pre-law program for Colorado Christian University, where she was a professor and is still a Fellow in Constitutional Law & Public Policy at CCU’s Centennial Institute. She also previously served as the Director of Public Policy for the James Dobson Family Institute.

In addition to serving as Special Counsel for the Thomas More Society, Ms. Ellis serves as the Senior Legal Adviser to Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. and as private counsel to President Donald Trump. She is a Senior Fellow at the Falkirk Center for Faith & Liberty at Liberty University, a member of the Trump 2020 Advisory Board, and faculty at Summit Ministries.

Ms. Ellis is a frequent legal analyst and guest on national television and radio media, including a regular contributor on Fox News, Fox Business, Newsmax, One America News Network, and America’s Voice Network, and a variety of others. She writes opinion pieces on law, public policy, and her Christian faith, that regularly appear in all major news media, including Fox News, USA Today, TIME, Breitbart, TownHall, Daily Caller, Washington Examiner and many others. She is also an allied attorney with Alliance Defending Freedom.

Ms. Ellis considers her work and advocacy in law and media to be a ministry and platform to teach and advocate for the protections the U.S. Constitution specifically provides to secure our individual rights that our Founders acknowledge are God-given. Her life verse is Isaiah 6:8, “Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?’ And I said, ‘Here am I. Send me

Everything you need to know about Hickenlooper v. Kerr, the Guarantee Clause case before the Supreme Court

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will consider a petition for a writ of certiorari in *Hickenlooper v. Kerr*. Colorado legislators challenged an enacted ballot initiative that prohibited legislative tax increases from taking effect without a popular vote, arguing that it violated the Guarantee Clause. A federal district court, and the Tenth Circuit, agreed that the legislators had standing and that the Guarantee Clause claim was justiciable.

I started tracking this matter over a year ago. I provide the background in these links; below that, I'll discuss the briefs in the case that the Court will consider.

Several amici were filed in the case, available at SCOTUSBlog. Of note (and these are very brief summaries of the major arguments):

The Supreme Court will consider the case tomorrow--and we'll eagerly await their decision as to whether to hear this case.

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Election Integrity Alliance will unite groups and efforts across the nation focused on combating election fraud and will build solutions and provide resources to state legislators and the public on challenges to free and fair elections,” announced Jenna Ellis, attorney and former counsel to President Donald J. Trump...

Election Integrity Alliance will be a centralized hub that gives tools to enact meaningful change for the American people,” Ellis explained.

Ellis is the chair of the Alliance’s national board, while Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and former Trump administration adviser Peter Navarro will both be honorary co-chairmen, according to a press release. Former New York police commissioner Bernie Kerik will be among the board’s members.

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Join the Force You deserve full faith, trust, and confidence in our elections and anything short of this is unacceptable. Join the Election Integrity Force to restore integrity into our elections once again. Join the Force Mission Advocate and educate for legislation and processes to deliver election integrity

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The Election Integrity Fund. We MUST Fight for election integrity. 2020 showed the Left first-hand how easy it is to take advantage of loopholes in our electoral system. One of the key ways they were doing this is by exploiting the absentee process. This brought forth not only additional uncertainty - but potentially additional votes as well.

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May 5, 2021"The Election Integrity Alliance will unite groups and efforts across the nation focused on combating election fraud and will build solutions and provide resources to state legislators and the public on challenges to free and fair elections," announced Jenna Ellis, attorney and former counsel to President Donald J. Trump.

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Nov 26, 2021MyPillow CEO and election fraud conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell is an "angel investor" for a new group that says it is focused on upholding "election integrity." Lindell, pictured in the forefront...

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The Election Integrity Force and the Election Integrity Fund are conglomerate, non-profit organizations formed by citizens concerned with attempts to subvert the integrity of our elections. Vision Ensure transparent and trusted elections Accomplishments

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May 5, 2021"The Election Integrity Alliance will unite groups and efforts across the nation focused on combating election fraud and will build solutions and provide resources to state legislators and the public on challenges to free and fair elections," attorney and former counsel to President Trump Jenna Ellis told Just the News in a written statement.

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Jul 18, 2022You know, it's nice to see losers can still get some kind of employment after embarrassing themselves so damned much on national television. I mean, it doesn't get much worse than farting on national t.v. while the other person sniffs. Nope. Not even. Farting rudy and sniffer jenna can join the pillow loser and at least get a cuppa.

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Mar 7, 2022Former President Donald Trump's lawyer Jenna Ellis and nine other attorneys received ethics complaints for their participation in the wave of litigation seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, an advocacy group announced on Monday.

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Oct 15, 2021Former Trump personal and campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis is getting blowback from at least one top legal expert after she falsely compared herself and her colleague, Rudy Giuliani, to fictional hero attorney Atticus Finch from "To Kill a Mockingbird," and to founding father John Adams. "No, you are not John Adams. You are not Atticus Finch.

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Dec 15, 2020Error code 200 The Colorado Sun revealed in a report published on Tuesday that Jenna Ellis, an attorney currently representing President Trump in his legal battle to overturn the election, was...

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The right-wing media ecosystem is broken

While the most powerful and influential conservative commentators rallied around Immanuel, some substantially more marginal right-wing figures pointed out that it’s not a great idea to make a doctor who believes in demon sex the voice of the movement.

On Tuesday night,Erick Erickson, a former CNN and Fox News contributor who has seen his influence shrink during the Trump era, tweeted that Immanuel’s past views make her supporters a “clown show.”He was quickly smacked down by Jenna Ellis,an attorney who represents the president and his campaign. Ellis also pointed to a recent tweet from Gold claiming her group had just “met with Vice President Mike Pence to request the administration’s assistance in empowering doctors to prescribe hydroxychloroquine without political obstruction.”

It’s hard to overstate just how broken the right-wing media ecosystem is right now

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./.. top Trump campaign adviser recently appeared on the Russian-government funded TV network RT, which U.S. intelligence agencies have said plays a role in the Kremlin’s plans to undermine American democracy.

Trump campaign senior legal adviser Jenna Ellis’ appearance on RT’s The Alex Salmond Show aired on July 9. She appears to be the first Trump campaign official to go on the Russian-funded network since the 2016 election.

during her interview, Ellis defended Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and bashed the American media as “propagandist activist media.” Ellis also accused Fox News—the cable news network most friendly to the president—of having an anti-Trump bias....