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https://www.alternet.org/2021/05/maricopa-county-audit/

https://www.alternet.org/2021/05/doj-trump/

Four right wing GOP lawmakers on Monday teamed up to send a letter advancing a far right conspiracy theory promoted by Donald Trump over the weekend.

U.S. Reps. **Matt Gaetz** (R-FL), **Marjorie Taylor Greene** (R-GA), **Andy Biggs** (R-AZ), and **Paul Gosar** (R-AZ) have signed the joint letter drafted by the embattled Florida Congressman to the top DOJ official in charge of civil rights, telling her to stay out of the Maricopa Country, Arizona recount. That recount, being conducted by a company that has no experience in election recounts and that has been soliciting funds for the effort despite that the taxpayers fund it, has now been going on for well over three weeks, with no end in sight.

The four extremist lawmakers include a man accused and under DOJ investigation for possible sex-trafficking and possible sex with a minor; a QAnon supporter accused of illegal tax fraud; and a white nationalist. All have voted to overturn the 2020 election.

Their letter is addressed to Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Pamela Karlan of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice.

In the letter they claim: "It has also been widely reported that before the equipment was delivered to independent auditors, an entire 'Database' directory of election information was deleted from the Election Management System Primary machine. According to Senator Fann, 'this suggests that the main database for all election related data for the November 2020 General Election has been removed.'"

On Saturday in a blog post Donald Trump wrote, "The entire database of Maricopa County in Arizona, has been DELETED!"

The claim is absolutely false, according to the Republican county recorder in Maricopa County, Stephen Richer, who calls Trump's conspiracy theory "unhinged" and "insane":

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the four Republican end the letter by demanding a response by Thursday.

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https://www.alternet.org/2021/05/arizona-ballot-audit/

the Arizona Senate is ditching its controversial measure to knock on doors and ask Arizona residents about their voting history. According to AZCentral, Senate President Karen Fann (R) on Fridaypenned a letter U.S. Department of Justice detailing the decision.

The ditch effort comes as federal officials expressed concern about how the canvassing could infringe upon residents' civil rights and the laws enacted to put a stop to voter intimidation.

The Arizona Senate contract agreement with Cyber Ninjas, the Florida-based firm tapped to conduct the audit, says that a "registration and votes cast team" has already completed work with a number "in order to statistically identify voter registrations that did not make sense, and then knock on doors to confirm if valid voters actually lived at the stated address."

However, Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan refused to explain the company's methods for identifying voters but claimed their work was "based on a statistical analysis performed by someone else he would not identify and maintained that canvassers would not ask anyone how they voted."

On Wednesday, May 5, Fann also expressed concern about the nationwide overhauls being made to voting and election practices and how many of the measures appear to be aimed at predominately minority communities. Pamela S. Karlan, who serves as the principal deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice's department's Civil Rights Division, also weighed in with her concerns.

"Such investigative efforts can have a significant intimidating effect on qualified voters that can deter them from seeking to vote in the future," wrote Karlan.

Although the Arizona Senate has indicated that it will suspend canvassing for the foreseeable future, Fann did not say if the effort would not be revisited in the future.

Fann wrote, "If canvassing is necessary to complete the audit, we believe these protocols, which will be reinforced by thorough training programs, would permit the Senate to discharge its legislative oversight and investigation functions without compromising the rights or privacy of any voter."

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despite his off-the-charts narcissism, Donald Trump knows on some level that the majority of Americans don’t want him to be president and he cannot win in a fair election. He didn’t beat Hillary Clinton in the popular vote in 2016 — she got nearly 3 million more votes — and only won because of the outsize influence of smaller, rural states in the Electoral College. He has only grown less popular since then and is now well behind former Vice President Joe Biden in most national polls, usually by a margin of 5 to 8 points.

But Trump has had a plan to win in 2020, ever since his re-election campaign kicked off the second he was inaugurated: Cheat like crazy.

Trying to cheat in the presidential election is, of course, what Trump was impeached for in December, which no doubt feels like ancient history, due to the rising death tolls and exploding unemployment rate over which our “very stable genius” of a president has presided since then.So here’s a refresher: Trump, anticipating (apparently correctly) that Biden would be his Democratic opponent, leveraged the power of the State Department in an effort to blackmail the Ukrainian president into publicly backing right-wing conspiracy theories about Biden, threatening to withhold military aid unless Ukrainian officials announced “investigations” into Biden. The idea was to create the 2020 version of “Clinton’s emails” by using phony investigations and innuendo to paint Biden as corrupt, even though there’s no evidence Biden did anything corrupt in his dealings with Ukraine.

Impeachment did a lot to shut down that scheme (though I have no doubt they’ll keep trying), but that doesn’t mean Trump has given up the hope that he can rig some kind of victory, even in an election when strong majorities of Americans oppose him.Since shamelessness and callousness are among Trump’s central qualities, he’s perfectly happy to exploit the coronavirus crisis to do it. Yep, that same crisis that he made exponentially worse with his negligence and open hostility to science — now he wants to use it to deprive American voters of their chance to kick him out on his keister in November.

For obvious reasons, a numerous states have decided to dramatically increase the ability of voters to vote by mail in November, especially after the Republican-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court forced in-person voting in April, leading to a spike in coronavirus cases in the weeks afterwards. No one can assume that the virus won’t still be a threat this fall, and it’s better to prepare now for the possibility that people won’t be able to vote in person in November.

but Trump is certain — and for good reason — that if more people get to vote, he’s likely to lose. So he’s freaking out. He’s particularly sweating the possibility that voters in swing states will be able to vote by mail in large numbers, since he knows his best chance of winning those states lies in making sure that as few people vote as possible.

“Breaking: Michigan sends absentee ballots to 7.7 million people ahead of Primaries and the General Election,” Trump tweeted on Wednesday, in typical hyperventilating style. “This was done illegally and without authorization by a rogue Secretary of State. I will ask to hold up funding to Michigan if they want to go down this Voter Fraud path!”

He deleted and reposted the tweet later to reflect it was ballot applications that were sent, not ballots themselves, but kept the more disturbing false claim that it’s illegal to mail ballot applications to voters. He also threatened Nevada in similar fashion.

As Jack Holmes of Esquire pointed out, Trump is threatening two U.S. states in exactly the same way he threatened Ukraine: Claiming he will withhold funds authorized by Congress if the recipient doesn’t help him cheat in the 2020 election. This is election fraud and blackmail, but this time directed at Americans.

Not only are these tweets an effort to blackmail the states, but they are also a direct effort to scare ordinary citizens out of voting.

As political analyst Judd Legum pointed out in his newsletter, Popular Information, “Telling someone that an absentee ballot application they receive was sent to them ‘illegally’ could dissuade them from voting.”

Indeed, the tweets themselves are arguably voter intimidation, since Trump is literally trying to scare people into thinking they may be prosecuted if they fill out an application for a mail-in ballot.Voter intimidation is a federal criminal offense that could lead to jail time — except that Trump is hiding behind “executive privilege,” which has been used to argue against legal punishment for all his criminal behavior.

Stanford law professor Pamela Karlan literally warned the nation about this possibility during Trump’s impeachment hearings....[hypo is real]

https://www.alternet.org/2019/12/the-women-who-must-pull-us-from-the-pyre-of-political-madness/

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Many others publicly have stood up, including in recent days Nancy Pelosi and the women who testified before the House Intelligence Committee last month – especially ex-National Security Council adviser Fiona Hill and former US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, the woman unjustly fired in an effort to grease the wheels for the reelection scheming of Count Donald and his penny ante Renfield, Rudy Giuliani.

To this honor roll, now add now the name of Pamela Karlan, constitutional law professor at Stanford University, one of the four scholars who testified on Wednesday. Defending the proposed impeachment, she described Trump as, “A president who has doubled down on violating his oath to faithfully execute the laws, and to protect and defend the constitution. The evidence reveals a president who used the powers of his office to demand that a foreign government participate in undermining a competing candidate for the presidency.”

“What happened in 2016 was bad enough. There is widespread agreement that Russian operatives intervened to manipulate our political process. But that distortion is magnified if a sitting president abuses the powers of his office actually to invite foreign intervention.”

The right immediately zeroed in on Karlan,largely ignoring the two male professors who also spoke out in favor of impeachment at the hearing. They described her as a “babe who is making up stories” (Rush Limbaugh), a “psychotic individual” (Sean Hannity) and “a moron” (Tucker Carlson). Thus enraging the Three Stooges of Fox News Misogyny was proof positive that Karlan had hit the mark.

But what far too many obsessed on was a small joke she made to prove a point: “I’ll just give you one example that shows you the difference between [Trump] and a king, which is the constitution says there can be no titles of nobility. So while the president can name his son Barron, he can’t make him a baron.”

There was a collective gasp of feigned outrage. How dare she? First Lady Melania Trump tweeted, “Pamela Karlan, you should be ashamed of your very angry and obviously biased public pandering, and using a child to do it.” Kellyanne Conway went on Fox and Friends: “If you went to work today to manicure nails, to manicure lawn, if you went to work with a jackhammer or a welding machine… that woman yesterday looks her nose down on you… who the hell are you, lady?”

To which Columbia Law professor Kamal Greene aptly replied, “Pam Karlan hates working people so much that she parlayed her Supreme Court clerkship into a huge $0 bonus and tony middle class salary litigating civil rights cases at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.”

You can argue that it may not have been the most elegant comparison Karlan could have made and she did apologize (unnecessarily in my opinion). But come on, she was not making fun of the president’s son. She was making a point about Trump’s assuming the faux-ermine cloak of royalty, pretending to be what he must never be – a monarch who can do no wrong because his tenure is a divine right, not the result of a few twists in the Electoral College that ran counter to the popular vote.

There was disingenuous sanctimony from far too much of the mainstream media and from the right, especially from Republicans whose president has bragged about grabbing women by their genitals, claimed if Ivanka Trump was not his own daughter he would date her and used to call himself John Barron, a “go-to alias,” The Washington Post reported, when Trump “was under scrutiny, in need of a tough front man or otherwise wanting to convey a message without attaching his own name to it.”

What’s more, when it comes to abuse of children, infinitely worse is this administration’s gross maltreatment of immigrant young people – including that newly reported 16-year-old Guatemalan who died from flu last spring in a Texas holding cell – and poor American youth who can’t get enough to eat.

It wasn’t about the Trump kid. Get real. To paraphrase Harry Truman, Pam Karlan didn’t just give the Trump gang hell. She told the truth and it felt like hell, so they lashed out with all their child-strength venom.

With her testimony, Pam Karlan confirmed her membership in the ranks of American truthtellers. Bless and praise these women professors, the women office holders, the candidates, the advocates, the women who will vote to throw the rascals out and do their utmost urging others to do so, too.

Without them, we’re goners.

ref https://www.salon.com/2019/12/05/right-wingers-go-full-misogynist-at-impeachment-witness-pamela-karlan/

as soon as Pamela Karlan, a constitutional law professor at Stanford who specializes in voting rights, opened her mouth during Wednesday's impeachment hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, I knew she would become the prime if not exclusive focus of the entire right-wing response to the hearing.

Republicans were desperate to do anything to keep voters from paying attention to the actual substance of the testimony from the three law professors summoned to explain why Donald Trump should be impeached for his crimes, since the substance of their testimony is irrefutable. And while all three were articulate, intelligent and crystal clear in their arguments, only Karlan was female.

Her gender alone guaranteed she would take the lion's share of the abuse from Trump's defenders and base, who are as sexist as they are racist. But once she started talking, it was also clear that Karlan was sharp as a needle, confident, possessed of a biting wit and entirely unapologetic about those things — qualities that reliably drive Trump supporters into a witch-burning level of misogynist frenzy.

Sure enough, my suspicions proved correct and Karlan, who once celebrated her space in a community of "snarky, bisexual, Jewish women," was offered up by Republicans and the right-wing media as the object of the current Two Minute Hate, a focal point for Republican voters to obsess over, rather than actually considering the facts and arguments presented at the hearing.

Unsurprisingly, the go-to move on the prime-time Fox News shows Wednesday night was to "diagnose" Karlan with a mental illness. Calling women "crazy" in order to avoid listening to them speak truth has been the primary tactic of woman-haters since time immemorial.

"This lady needs a shrink," sneered Tucker Carlson on his nightly Fox News show, adding, "What a moron."

"Imagine carrying around that much hatred, that much resentment and anger every day of your life. Pretty sad, pretty pathetic," Sean Hannity echoed, sounding like every other troll I have to block on Twitter on a daily basis.

"House Democrats, they look really, really stupid," he continued, adding a concern-troll flair and describing Karlan as a "psychotic individual."

As I noted in my analysis of Wednesday's hearing, being angry about Trump is far from a sign of irrationality. On the contrary, the only rational, decent reaction to what Trump is doing to this country is anger. But, of course, calling women "crazy" is rarely, if ever, uttered sincerely. If anything, the saner the words coming out of a woman's mouth, the likelier she is to be dismissed as nuts.

Rush Limbaugh, of course, did more of the same, saying Karlan is a "babe who is making up stories" and that she's been "poisoned with abject hatred."

Limbaugh also made sure to quote the "snarky, bisexual, Jewish women" line from Karlan's 2006 speech, just in case his slower listeners were unaware that she has been singled out as a hate object for her identity. The site also photoshopped one of those pink pussy-hats on Karlan's head, lest there be any remaining doubt that she was hated for being a disobedient woman.

There were, it must be noted, two other law professors who were summoned before the committee and who agreed with Karlan's analysis: Noah Feldman of Harvard and Michael Gerhardt of the University of North Carolina. Both men made sharp, unapologetic arguments that Trump should be impeached, explicitly saying, "President Trump has committed impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors" (Feldman) and "If what we’re talking about is not impeachable, nothing is impeachable" (Gerhardt).

But both men were ignored by the right-wing hate machine. As of Thursday morning, there were multiple stories about Karlan on the front pages of Fox News and Breitbart, all featuring photos of her looking angry, and not a single story about either of the two men who testified alongside her. There were even fewer stories about Jonathan Turley, the George Washington University professor brought in by Republicans to make a rather feeble case against impeachment.

The main excuse for ginning up outrage against Karlan was that she made a joke about what Trump had named his youngest son during the hearing — and actually a pretty good joke, as far as these things go.

"The Constitution says there can be no titles of nobility, so while the President can name his son Barron, he can't make him a baron," Karlan cracked, in response to a question about the differences between kings and presidents.

This became the pretext for what might qualify — in a heavily competitive contest — for the lamest bad-faith offense-taking by right-wingers in recent memory. Multiple White House officials, including Melania Trump,feigned anger over Barron Trump's "privacy" being violated by the public acknowledgment of his existence and his name. (Whatever idiotic claims have been made to the contrary, Barron's name was public knowledge long before this.

Multiple right-wing personalities — most of whom support putting immigrant children in cages, depriving children of food because they have low-income parents and making false accusations against teenagers who speak out about global warming and gun violence — escalated, absurdly suggesting this joke was an "attack" on an innocent child.

Obviously, no one actually thought Karlan was "attacking" or "mocking" Barron Trump. The target of the joke was clearly the father who named him. The only person who has done harm to this child is his father, by giving him a tacky and pretentious name.

Nah, the real reason conservatives are mad is Karlan landed a sick burn on Trump. Nothing sets misogynists off faster than a woman laughing at a man who deserves it. That's why the right's claims about Karlan were as out of touch with reality as 16th-century peasants yelling that the elderly widow had curdled the cow's milk with curses.

But the narrative that a smart, professional woman somehow hates children is, of course, catnip to misogynists. This, along with accusations of witchcraft (which are probably coming soon enough) is the oldest and most consistent of slurs against women who dare to defy patriarchal demands of subservience, silence and compulsory heterosexuality: They are a threat to children.

This is also what fuels the anti-choice movement, of course: Hatred of women that is concealed by, and rationalized with, feigned concern over the fate of "babies." Those were also the arguments used against women's right to vote, divorce, hold jobs or do pretty much anything that gives them power and agency in the world: Somehow, this will harm children.

It's a lie, of course, and one exposed by the fact that the people who wield "child-hater" and "baby-killer" accusations are also the ones who consistently support policies that leave actual children in poverty and distress. But reactionaries love hiding behind fake concern for children rather than admitting what really worries them, which is that strong, independent women pose a threat to men's unchecked power.

Republican politicians and pundits are fully aware why this attack on Karlan is so potent. It's about taking the anxiety some men feel about women who reject them romantically or get promoted over them at work, and equating that anxiety with Trump's anxiety over being impeached for committing crimes. Never mind that those two things are completely separate concerns — although both are equally invalid.

Unfortunately, this is likely to work as intended: By appealing straight for the lizard-brain hatred of smart, independent women on the right, Republican politicians and pundits will be able to bamboozle their base into doing what most already want to do, which is to think about anything besides the fact that their beloved president committed crimes and is trying to get away with it. Misogyny is a blunt instrument. But all too often it's an effective one.

Amanda Marcotte is a politics writer for Salon. Her new book, "Troll Nation: How The Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters Set On Rat-F*cking Liberals, America, and Truth Itself," is out now. She's on Twitter @AmandaMarcotte

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https://www.alternet.org/2019/12/scholar-rains-hell-on-republican-who-questioned-her-integrity-at-impeachment-hearing-im-insulted/

Scholar rains hell on Republican who questioned her integrity at impeachment hearing: ‘I’m insulted!’

Stanford Law School professor Pamela Karlan, CNN

Written by Brad Reed / Raw Story December 4, 2019

Stanford Law School professor Pamela Karlan hammered Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) on Wednesday after he had questioned whether she and other House Judiciary Committee witnesses had bothered to read transcripts and reports about the House impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.

In her opening statement, Karlan immediately took issue with Collins’ claim that witnesses called before today’s hearings did not have time to read and digest all the relevant information about Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political opponents.

“Here Mr. Collins, I would like to say to you, sir, that I read transcripts of every one of the witnesses who appeared in the live hearing because I would not speak about these things without reviewing the facts,” she said. “So I’m insulted by the suggestion that, as a law professor, I don’t care about those facts.”

She then outlined how the president’s actions warrant his impeachment and removal from office.

“Everything I read on those occasions tells me that when President Trump invited — indeed, demanded — foreign involvement in our upcoming election, he struck at the very heart of what makes this a republic to which we pledge allegiance,” she said. “Drawing a foreign government into our elections is an especially serious abuse of power because it undermines democracy itself.”

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