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At least four Supreme Court justices are flirting with helping the Big Lie win in 2024 [1]

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Date: 2022-07-06

Will the Supreme Court endorse this next session?

While the Jan. 6 committee hearings are riveting much of the nation as they narrow in Donald Trump as the leader of the attempted violent overthrow of the government, a huckster industry has emerged in the states promoting the basis of Trump’s insurrection, the Big Lie. It’s not just the civically illiterate being taken in, though they—and their dollars—are the marks. The more cynical recruits are the ones who see power and revenge and the potential to take over this country forever. That group includes at least four sitting U.S. Supreme Court justices.

The Big Lie hucksters include four key proponents who are crisscrossing the nation to spread disinformation about the 2020 election and anger and distrust in the whole apparatus of elections. Seth Keshel, David Clements, Douglas Frank, and the originator Mike Lindell, are the key fraud influencers identified in an NPR investigation. They’ve held hundreds of community events all over the country spreading the new MAGA gospel of fraud. That’s driving local elections, said Chris Krebs, a former Department of Homeland Security official who was in charge of election security in 2020 for the federal government. “It’s this constellation of election conspiracy theorists. […] You can see the complexion of local politics shifting as a result. They have decentralized post-January 6th and are really trying to effect change at the lowest possible level.”

As Daily Kos’ Laura Clawson noted weeks ago, they’ve recruited at least 357 Republican lawmakers in key battleground states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Florida, and Texas. President Joe Biden’s victory in six of those states was essential to his victory. With the help of the Supreme Court, if enough of those Republicans get control in enough of these states, they can steal the White House under the debunked and ridiculed legal theory that John Eastman used to justify the 2020 attempted coup.

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