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Scott Perry (R-PA) needs more time in the tree-watering barrel [1]
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Date: 2022-07-01
As long as the spotlight is being shown on Jeff Clark and John Eastman’s coup plot, the other players need a hand. Scott Perry may need a subpoena someday, along with Gym Jordan and some other Freedom Caucus members.
According to the interim report on the Jan. 6 insurrection by the Senate Judiciary Committee, it was Scott Perry — who was involved in strategy meetings at the White House, along with other members of the House Freedom Caucus — who introduced Jeffrey Clark to Trump. He also took it upon himself to call Donohue, the no. 2 official at the Department of Justice, and demand that he investigate debunked election fraud allegations in Pennsylvania, effectively reading him the riot act for not pursuing all these ludicrous claims. (I can't imagine it's common for congressmen to harangue leading law enforcement officials and importune them to lie. Maybe under the Trump administration it happened all the time.)
We know that White House chief of staff Mark Meadows exchanged text exchanges with more than 40 current and former GOP members of Congress during the period between the November election and the Jan. 6 attack. Some of these members were actively involved in the coup plotting, and 147 Republican members voted to overturn the election results just hours after the Jan. 6 insurrection. They are all implicated in the coup attempt, every last one of them.
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x Seems that @RepScottPerry previously worked w/ members of Roger Stone’s innermost network—Alex Jones, Jack Posobiec, Laura Loomer, & Tucker Carlson—to spread a lie re the LV shooting. Gives an idea of who he may have worked w/ re: stealing the election. 1/
https://t.co/LK3QLYyIFm — Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢 (@jennycohn1) June 30, 2022
Rep. Scott Perry, R-York County, was involved in discussions with senior White House staff about a plan for former President Donald J. Trump to accompany his supporters to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a former aide to Trump’s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows told the House Committee investigating the attacks on the Capitol.
After the hearing, Perry, through his spokesman, denied he’d been part of discussions with Meadows, Trump or anyone else regarding Jan. 6 or the events unfolding around the Capitol.
Giving a detailed, fly-on-the-wall perspective of White House planning for the pro-Trump protests – which ended in deadly violence at the Capitol as Congress met to hear the final Electoral Vote count certifying Joseph R. Biden’s win – Cassidy Hutchinson made a series of damning and embarrassing allegations about Trump and Meadows, her former boss, in the days leading up to and during the riot.
Perry, in the committee’s slickly produced version of Hutchinson’s story, rated only a bit part, especially compared to last Thursday’s public session when Perry was presented as a central figure in an effort to install a new attorney general hand-picked specifically for his willingness to use the U.S. Department of Justice as a tool in Trump’s increasingly desperate attempts to stay in power despite his electoral defeat.
But Tuesday’s mention again added another layer of depth to the idea that the fifth-term congressman from northern York County was one of Trump’s leading congressional loyalists through the end of his presidency.
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As the date for Congress to affirm Mr. Biden’s victory neared, Mr. Perry and Mr. Clark discussed a plan to have the Justice Department send a letter to Georgia state lawmakers informing them of an investigation into voter fraud that could invalidate the state’s Electoral College results. Former officials who were briefed on the plan said that the department’s dozens of voter fraud investigations nationwide had not turned up enough instances of fraud to alter the outcome of the election.
Mr. Perry and Mr. Clark also discussed the plan with Mr. Trump, setting off a chain of events that nearly led to the ouster of Mr. Rosen, who had refused to send the letter. www.nytimes.com/...
When the New York Times reported that Rep. Scott Perry (R., Pa.) was connected to a failed plot to overturn Georgia’s presidential election results, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro suggested Perry had run afoul of an obscure section of the Constitution.
"Rep. Perry ought to familiarize himself with Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of our Constitution," Shapiro tweeted on Jan. 23. "There must be consequences for this conduct."
Perry has confirmed the Times report that he introduced then-President Donald Trump to a sympathetic Justice Department lawyer, Jeffrey Clark, who hatched a plan to oust department leadership and use the weight of the country’s top law enforcement agency to invalidate Georgia’s Electoral College results. It’s unclear how much Perry was involved other than connecting Trump and Clark. The plan never came to fruition.
We wondered, What does Section 3 say? And could Perry have any legal exposure because of it?
Here’s what you need to know:
What is Section 3 of the 14th Amendment?
Section 3 bars public officials who swear an oath to the Constitution and who have "engaged in insurrection or rebellion" against the United States or "given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof" from holding public office.
Drafted after the Civil War, Section 3 was designed to block an armed rebellion against the government. In the years since, the provision has hardly been used. Mark Graber, a University of Maryland law professor, called it "the most forgotten provision" of the 14th Amendment, which guarantees citizenship to those born in the United States and equal protection under the law.
Congress enforced Section 3 a handful of times during Reconstruction by refusing to seat elected members who had ties to the Confederacy, and once during World War I, when one member-elect was convicted under the Espionage Act, although the conviction was later reversed on appeal.
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