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Texas Courts are Obstructing Fulton County Georgia's Inquiry into 2020 Election Interference [1]
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Date: 2022-10-08
This is really maddening and it’s taking “state’s rights” to a level not seen, I think, since the Civil War. Fani T. Willis’ pursuit of justice for the egregious election interference wrought by Trump, his lawyers and other supporters is both necessary and good and other states have in fact respected Georgia’s right to interview witnesses including Giuliani. Indeed I read today that she might subpoena Flynn and Gingrich. Good. Regardless, despite the fact that witnesses don’t always come otherwise they’ve been compelled by judges in their states to cooperate with Georgia’s investigation.
From the NYT,
A number of them have fought their subpoenas in their home-state courts, only to have local judges order them to cooperate. That was the case with Trump-aligned lawyers John Eastman in New Mexico, Jenna Ellis in Colorado and Rudolph W. Giuliani in New York; Mr. Giuliani was also told by an Atlanta judge that he could come “on a train, on a bus or Uber” after his lawyers said a health condition prevented him from flying. But the state of Texas is proving to be an outlier, creating serious headaches for Fani T. Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, who is leading the investigation into efforts by Mr. Trump and others to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia. Last month, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state’s highest criminal court, thwarted Ms. Willis’s effort to force Jacki L. Pick, a Republican lawyer and pundit, to testify in Atlanta, saying that her subpoena had essentially expired. But in a pair of opinions, a majority of the judges on the all-Republican court went further, indicating that they believed the Georgia special grand jury conducting the inquiry may not have the legal standing to compel testimony from Texas witnesses.
www.nytimes.com/...
Apparently, Texas judges (Republicans anyway) think Texas witnesses are above the law. Interfering in another state’s election processes doesn’t merit their participation in the investigation even though this was a NATIONAL election!
This includes Sidney The Kraken Powell and Phil Waldron, who may now be inspired to blow off the Georgia investigation into their misdeeds and Trump’s attempts to rig the results of the election, on which they have him dead to rights in my opinion. Beyond that of course they’ve intimidated and harassed election workers and elected officials alike and spread doubts about our electoral processes throughout the land and now are poised to take control of election infrastructure in many key states. This of course could subvert our democracy altogether and render it absolutely meaningless.
And, no less than Ken Paxton, scoflaw, has also weighed in, filing an amicus brief that supported Lindsey Graham’s attempts to avoid testifying. Let us not forget that Paxton jump-started the whole insane January 6 rebellion in Congress itself with his lawsuits attempting to nullify the votes of tens of millions of Americans in several key states.
Mr. Paxton, who is running for re-election this year despite having been indicted and arrested on criminal securities-fraud charges, has sought to intervene in Georgia before. After the 2020 election, he sued Georgia and three other swing states that Mr. Trump lost, in a far-fetched attempt to get the Supreme Court to delay the certification of their presidential electors.
I’m reading a book now about the murders of several dozen, maybe hundreds of Osage tribal members and their supporters and family members and the difficulty of bringing the perpetrators to justice. I will write a review of “Killers of the Flower Moon” which is just staggering and devastating and post it anon but felt compelled to mention it in regard to Trump and his supporters’ — and the GOP’s — corruption of our entire system because something similar happened back then: despite the obvious fact that many many crimes had been committed it was all but impossible to bring the perpetrators to justice and many of them never were.
They had, through money, power and influence succeeded in corrupting so much of the investigatory and law enforcement and even the medical establishment of oil-rich Osage County and beyond that they damn near never got caught and to this day there’s been no justice or resolution for the survivors beyond the capture of a few of people which is better than nothing. And in fact it required a dogged effort and in effect the founding of the modern FBI to catch the people they ultimately did expose. But gaping wounds in the psyche of the Osage people remain.
So what we are seeing now is the same thing only much, much larger and with even more fraught and dangerous implications. What happened in Osage County was terrible, tragic and devastating. It happened and continued happening because the system had been corrupted by greed, racism, the lust for power and an absolute moral vacuum.
Doesn’t this ring a bell?
Only now it isn’t “just” the people of Osage County who are being victimized. It is all of us, our democracy, and the rule of law.
When people talk about corruption, when the Obama Administration and Joe Biden and Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch worked so hard to battle corruption in Ukraine, this is why. There can be no justice and no fairness and no rule of law when the government and its proxies and the establishment and the “pillars of the community” are corrupt. Corruption rots communities from the inside out. It isn’t always visible.
This time, it is.
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