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Republican Wayne Johnson, former Trump admin official, won GOP primary runoff for House seat in #Georgia, Decision Desk HQ projects, defeating a candidate convicted of a misdemeanor related to #Jan6..
Johnson beat out Chuck Hand for the GOP nod in race for Dem Rep. Sanford Bishop’s seat in the Peach State’s 2nd Congressional District.
Both #Turkiye and #Georgia probably won't go far in #Euro2024 but both are going at each other like there's this is a cup final - and it is one helluva good game!
#BorisEpshteyn routinely surfaces as a lesser character in Trump-related indictments, court records show. Election cases in #Georgia & #Wisconsin identify him as “Individual 3” & “Individual A.” In one federal case pending against #Trump, he appears as “Person 5.” In another, his email traffic matches that of “Co-conspirator 6.”
JUST IN: The Fulton County DA's Office has moved to dismiss the appeal filed by #Trump and some of his co-defendants on Judge McAfee's denial of their motion to disqualify DA #FaniWillis.
The Fulton County DA's Office argues that the appeal should never have been allowed to move forward in the first place b/c there is a "lack of sufficient evidence based on the explicit factual findings of the trial court." #Georgia#legal#TrumpIndictment
An unwieldy #RICO trial that could see #YoungThug imprisoned for decades on gang charges veered toward chaos this week, when the rapper’s #attorney was held in #contempt of court & ordered to #jail after suggesting that the judge & prosecutors pressured a key witness.
Late Wed, the #Georgia Supreme Court stayed enforcement of the contempt charge, meaning Young Thug’s lawyer, Brian Steel, will not go to jail on Fri as previously ordered.
'Georgia Is Our Laboratory': Inside Trump's Plan to Rig 2024
Team #Trump sees #Georgia as 'a road map' for putting Trump's heads-I-win-tails-you-lose philosophy of #elections into practice
The Peach State is unique—it's the sole battleground state in which the #Republican Party has total #control over the levers of #power: a trifecta in state #House, #Senate, & governorship
Over the past 4 yrs, #Trump-loving elements of the #Georgia#GOP have wielded that advantage in a crusade to convert discredited #election#ConspiracyTheories into policies well ahead of #Election Day 2024. It is an alarmingly anti-democratic experiment that Trumpland & much of the GOP hope to take national.
"Georgia is our laboratory," a source close to Trump tells Rolling Stone. "If you can get this up & running in Georgia, you get a road map for other states, maybe the country as a whole."
In 2020, top #Georgia#Republicans such as Gov #BrianKemp & Sec of State #BradRaffensperger managed to block Trump's attempts to illegally overturn the #election results. Kemp earned #Trump's fury by refusing to use what the then-president called “emergency powers" to stop the certification of Joe #Biden's victory. In an infamous Jan 2021 phone call that helped lead to Trump's #indictment in #FultonCounty, Raffensperger rebuffed the president's demands to "find" him votes.
But ever since President #Biden's inauguration, #conservative activists & policymakers in #Georgia have tried to bypass #Raffensperger & worked diligently to turn Trump's heads-I-win-tails-you-lose philosophy of #elections into public #policy.
As #Trump has continued to lie that the #2020election was "stolen" & "rigged", Trump & his supporters have been making concrete, step-by-step progress in shaping electoral processes to his benefit.
… #MAGA die-hards are devoting considerable resources to purging voter rolls, intimidating #election ofcls, employing #legal dirty tricks, & ousting #Republican ofcls & appointees who haven't been initiated into the cult of #Trump.
Republican operatives have remade #Georgia's state election board, exec branch, Legislature, & legal ecosystems, all in Trump's image. #Conservatives in the state Assembly have unleashed thousands of voter eligibility challenges…turbocharged w/a new #ElectionLaw.
#Conservative activists heckle #election ofcls on a regular basis w/ #ConspiracyTheories Trump birthed, & an indicted election denier -now the state's lt gov- pushes Trump's agenda…
#Trump sits atop the sprawling network, receiving updates on progress from pol advisers & other #MAGA acolytes.
#Lawyers close to Trump are already preparing for TFG to claim #fraud in #Georgia & challenge the results…-even in the event that he wins just to prove a point about imaginary "fraud" in Democratic areas.
JUST IN: Judge McAfee in Fulton County DENIES Misty Hampton’s Motion to Stay Proceedings while the #Georgia Court of Appeals hears the appeal of McAfee’s denial of #Trump and other defendants’ motion to disqualify DA #FaniWillis. #legal
As expected, #Trump’s lead attorney in #Georgia election subversion case, Steve Sadow, is requesting oral arguments at Georgia Court of Appeals on whether Fulton County DA #FaniWillis should be disqualified.
If court OK’s request, oral arguments tentatively scheduled for October. #legal
A 2nd #Trump admin could #weaponize existing government agencies to dismantle democracy itself.
This article is part of “Project 2025: The Plot Against #America,” a Nation special issue devoted to unpacking the right’s vast & chilling program for a 2nd Trump term.
managing elections to benefit himself & his #Republican allies; gutting public broadcasting & constraining #press#freedom; & undermining civil society. #Trump, who…demanded that the results of #Georgia’s 2020…[election] be “recalculated” to give him a win, wants the trappings of #democracy w/o the reality of electoral consequences. That’s what #propaganda experts Edward Herman & Frank Brodhead described as “demonstration elections,” in which…wins are assured for the #authoritarians….
The GA Court of Appeals on Wed ordered a halt to the proceedings in the election interference case against Trump & 8 co-defendants pending the outcome of their appeal seeking to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney #FaniWillis.
The order, issued by the full appeals court, means the case against #Trump & his co-defendants, accusing them of a #criminal#conspiracy to try to overturn his defeat in the state, will almost certainly not be scheduled for trial before the fall #election or even the new year. It remains unclear if the case against the 6 remaining co-defendants who did not sign onto the appeal will proceed.
“#Georgia Court of Appeals temporarily halted proceedings in #Trump case while it reviews a trial judge's ruling that allowed Fulton County District Attorney #FaniWillis to continue prosecuting the case.
The stay issued by the court applies only to Trump and the eight co-defendants who sought to have Willis and her office removed from the case because of an improper relationship she had with Nathan Wade, who served as a special prosecutor” #legal