Election 2024 Part III: Out with the old!

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Core Imposter said:
My definition of deep state is similar to the "conspiracy of the commons" that I have spoken of before. It is not five shadowy figures in a smoke-filled room, although those kinds of groups certainly exist, but rather the collective will of an organism reacting in what it perceives as its "best interest". The organism is the mass of humanity that depends on the government for sustenance, like a parasite, and when you consider the way modern economies are structured, the organism includes the majority of our population. Anything that is considered a danger is resisted, Trump is emblematic of that, but in these times any Republican, conservative, traditional value, religion, history, institution, white person, heterosexual male, and founding ideas such as speech and liberty, and principals such as merit and property ownership are all things that are under siege or direct attack as the organism is in the process of transmogrification. This process is best understood as compared to the rise of communism in the early 20th century in Europe.

The full power and scope of this movement will not break out until the collapse of the "magic monetary" polices of the US and other western nations occurs. likely in the next round of global war. At which point it will quickly and totally seize the levers of power. All liberties will then vanish, and the "party" will thoroughly redwash US history and provide citizens with correct thought, simply on a universal scale of the current processes wherein Democratics don't know what they think until they receive their daily talking points.

There will be blood. Although resistance is futile, there will be blood.

Another apt analogy would be to consider this evolving organism as a human body and Trump as a virus with the Deep State playing the role of the immune system mobilizing to eject the perceived threat by any means necessary. As a child of American liberty, Trump is oblivious to the degree to which the body politic has been "vaccinated" and trained to eject vestigial traces of the former order, which "vaccination", actually mass indoctrination, was largely carried out in the nation's universities in the 20th century. In hoping to Make America Great Again, Trump instinctively understands that something horrible has happened to our country but fails to understand the reality and finality of the death of the Republic, murdered by the democracy of the mob.

Salvation is of the Lord. He is our only refuge.
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Core Imposter said:
My definition of deep state is similar to the "conspiracy of the commons" that I have spoken of before. It is not five shadowy figures in a smoke-filled room, although those kinds of groups certainly exist, but rather the collective will of an organism reacting in what it perceives as its "best interest". The organism is the mass of humanity that depends on the government for sustenance, like a parasite, and when you consider the way modern economies are structured, the organism includes the majority of our population. Anything that is considered a danger is resisted, Trump is emblematic of that, but in these times any Republican, conservative, traditional value, religion, history, institution, white person, heterosexual male, and founding ideas such as speech and liberty, and principals such as merit and property ownership are all things that are under siege or direct attack as the organism is in the process of transmogrification. This process is best understood as compared to the rise of communism in the early 20th century in Europe.

The full power and scope of this movement will not break out until the collapse of the "magic monetary" polices of the US and other western nations occurs. likely in the next round of global war. At which point it will quickly and totally seize the levers of power. All liberties will then vanish, and the "party" will thoroughly redwash US history and provide citizens with correct thought, simply on a universal scale of the current processes wherein Democratics don't know what they think until they receive their daily talking points.

There will be blood. Although resistance is futile, there will be blood.

Another apt analogy would be to consider this evolving organism as a human body and Trump as a virus with the Deep State playing the role of the immune system mobilizing to eject the perceived threat by any means necessary. As a child of American liberty, Trump is oblivious to the degree to which the body politic has been "vaccinated" and trained to eject vestigial traces of the former order, which "vaccination", actually mass indoctrination, was largely carried out in the nation's universities in the 20th century. In hoping to Make America Great Again, Trump instinctively understands that something horrible has happened to our country but fails to understand the reality and finality of the death of the Republic, murdered by the democracy of the mob.

Salvation is of the Lord. He is our only refuge.
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Well, that brought something to my day. Authentic, at least, because I'm sure no one would post that if they didn't actually believe it. My dad does similar style thinking. Apocalyptic style Christian thinking with pieces from the political and business world put together like an ill fitting, head canon puzzle.

IMO universities are pushing a form of thinking more suited to advanced capitalism, overturning traditional social values in the process. Universities simply prepare students for the corporate world, which wants pro-social docility, generally seeking to maximize the labor pool through all means available and minimizing frictions which may emerge from it.

Neither progressives nor Marxists have any real power. It just so happen corporate capitalist preferences tend to align with their social preferences. The Marxism found in the university is so bourgeois and corporate that I don't actually believe it is capable of gaining any traction amongst the workers it would seek to lead, because the value differences are too stark on many issues. The workers, not from college educated families nor college educated themselves, do not obey the same protocols, effectively making both groups anathema to the other
 
Core Imposter said:
but rather the collective will of an organism reacting in what it perceives as its "best interest".
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But, you're describing this:
Core Imposter said:
Anything that is considered a danger is resisted, Trump is emblematic of that, but in these times any Republican, conservative, traditional value, religion, history, institution, white person, heterosexual male
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This is just what you described. You're literally textbook describing in-group politics.

It's like whining that a DnD club only has players that want to play DnD. Yes. That's why they're playing DnD.
 
Ajidica said:
Eisenhower despised Lumumba and his fixation on Lumumba as an "African Castro".
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Wasn't Castro after Eisenhower's time in office?

Edit: nope! Eisenhower's second term saw Castro take Cuba.
 
Numbers from ICE:

“As of July 21, 2024, there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on ICE’s national docket, which includes those detained by ICE, and on the agency’s non-detained docket,” an agency official wrote. “Of those, 435,719 are convicted criminals, and 226,847 have pending criminal charges.”
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“Those include 62,231 convicted of assault, 14,301 convicted of burglary, 56,533 with drug convictions and 13,099 convicted of homicide. An additional 2,521 have kidnapping convictions and 15,811 have sexual assault convictions. There are an additional 1,845 with pending homicide charges, 42,915 with assault charges, 3,266 with burglary charges and 4,250 with assault charges.”
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Kamala Harris can't repair her immigration record

There’s not much Kamala Harris can do to negate the electoral consequences of this administration’s border policy except to keep quiet about it. Her campaign, though, appears to be doing the opposite. She’s leaning in. As if to illustrate the point, the VP got doused with a metaphorical bucket...
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As a reformed criminal I wish them all well with their new start in a new land.

A U.S. Department of Justice analysis of recidivism rates in 24 states concluded that 82 percent of individuals released from state prisons were rearrested at least once during the 10 years following release.
 
@Core Imposter Thanks I did go take a look. Here is the actual ICE letter with the breakdown.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1839699359010533680

Did you read the middle paragraph of the first page? If Ice has returned or departed 893,000 undocumented folks and the majority of those coming across in the past 3 years, then it seems that all of those in detention who are criminals, came across in previous years while Trump was President.
 
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Although I don't think that the polling can be taken too seriously given all the disruption during the cycle, I have looked at them and something seems incongruent to me. The Harris lead looks a little too pat, for example, considering things like the following:

For the first time ever, more Americans identify as Republicans than Democrats, according to a new analysis by Gallup. Based on an average of polls between July and September, the pollster found that 48 percent of U.S. adults say they at least lean toward the Republican Party, whereas only 45 percent say the same for the Democratic Party. The result comes a little over a month out from what is shaping up to be a hard-fought presidential election between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
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Voidwalkin said:
Universities simply prepare students for the corporate world, which wants pro-social docility, generally seeking to maximize the labor pool through all means available and minimizing frictions which may emerge from it.
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Voidwalkin said:
IMO universities are pushing a form of thinking more suited to advanced capitalism, overturning traditional social values in the process. Universities simply prepare students for the corporate world, which wants pro-social docility, generally seeking to maximize the labor pool through all means available and minimizing frictions which may emerge from it.

Neither progressives nor Marxists have any real power. It just so happen corporate capitalist preferences tend to align with their social preferences.
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Well put.

You can't actually tell someone you're promoting docility so you let them have some silly seemingly rebellious ideas that aren't actually viable, that's part of the placation.

This 'radical left' stuff like is like superheros for young adults. And then the right can rally against this stuff and distract from actual change.

It's brilliant really, dunno if it's as deliberate as all that but it's worked wonders at making idiots argue over minituea while power chugs a long largely unchecked.
 
Voidwalkin said:
Neither progressives nor Marxists have any real power. It just so happen corporate capitalist preferences tend to align with their social preferences. The Marxism found in the university is so bourgeois and corporate that I don't actually believe it is capable of gaining any traction amongst the workers it would seek to lead, because the value differences are too stark on many issues. The workers, not from college educated families nor college educated themselves, do not obey the same protocols, effectively making both groups anathema to the other
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That is a result of power structures that create a certain kind of consciousness in the workers (e.g. parochial, conservative, prejudiced worldviews). The division is not inherent to any of those groups' identities.
 
Core Imposter said:
My definition of deep state is similar to the "conspiracy of the commons" that I have spoken of before. It is not five shadowy figures in a smoke-filled room, although those kinds of groups certainly exist, but rather the collective will of an organism reacting in what it perceives as its "best interest". The organism is the mass of humanity that depends on the government for sustenance, like a parasite, and when you consider the way modern economies are structured, the organism includes the majority of our population. Anything that is considered a danger is resisted, Trump is emblematic of that, but in these times any Republican, conservative, traditional value, religion, history, institution, white person, heterosexual male, and founding ideas such as speech and liberty, and principals such as merit and property ownership are all things that are under siege or direct attack as the organism is in the process of transmogrification. This process is best understood as compared to the rise of communism in the early 20th century in Europe.

The full power and scope of this movement will not break out until the collapse of the "magic monetary" polices of the US and other western nations occurs. likely in the next round of global war. At which point it will quickly and totally seize the levers of power. All liberties will then vanish, and the "party" will thoroughly redwash US history and provide citizens with correct thought, simply on a universal scale of the current processes wherein Democratics don't know what they think until they receive their daily talking points.

There will be blood. Although resistance is futile, there will be blood.

Another apt analogy would be to consider this evolving organism as a human body and Trump as a virus with the Deep State playing the role of the immune system mobilizing to eject the perceived threat by any means necessary. As a child of American liberty, Trump is oblivious to the degree to which the body politic has been "vaccinated" and trained to eject vestigial traces of the former order, which "vaccination", actually mass indoctrination, was largely carried out in the nation's universities in the 20th century. In hoping to Make America Great Again, Trump instinctively understands that something horrible has happened to our country but fails to understand the reality and finality of the death of the Republic, murdered by the democracy of the mob.

Salvation is of the Lord. He is our only refuge.
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Voidwalkin said:
IMO universities are pushing a form of thinking more suited to advanced capitalism, overturning traditional social values in the process. Universities simply prepare students for the corporate world, which wants pro-social docility, generally seeking to maximize the labor pool through all means available and minimizing frictions which may emerge from it.
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I'd say on the opposite that they are deliberately creating frictions, as more frictions means less union. Pitting people against each others so they don't cooperate and unionize/put up a common front.
 
@Core Imposter Here is a follow up to your "criminals detained" post. As liar-in-chief, Trump, and you seem to agree.

Fact check: To attack Harris, Trump falsely describes new stats on immigrants and homicide​


WashingtonCNN —
Former President Donald Trump is wildly distorting new statistics on immigration and crime to attack Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump falsely claimed Friday and Saturday that the statistics are specifically about criminal offenders who entered the US during the Biden-Harris administration; in reality, the figures are about offenders who entered the US over multiple decades, including during the Trump administration. And Trump falsely claimed that the statistics are specifically about people who are now living freely in the US; the figures actually include people who are currently in jails and prisons serving criminal sentences.

“Kamala should immediately cancel her News Conference because it was just revealed that 13,000 convicted murderers entered our Country during her three and a half year period as Border Czar,” Trump wrote in one post on Friday, the day Harris visited the southern border in Arizona. Harris “allowed almost 14,000 MURDERERS to freely and openly roam our Country,” Trump wrote in another Friday post. They “roam free to KILL AGAIN,” he wrote, escalating his rhetoric, on Saturday.

Facts First: Trump’s claims are false in two big ways. First, the statistics he was referring to are not specifically about people who entered the country during the Biden-Harris administration. Rather, those statistics are about noncitizens who entered the country under any administration, including Trump’s; were convicted of a crime at some point, usually in the US after their arrival; and are now living in the US while being listed on Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s “non-detained docket” — where some have been listed for years, including while Trump was president, because their country of citizenship won’t let the US deport them back there. Second, that ICE “non-detained” list includes people who are still serving jail and prison sentences for their crimes; they are on the list because they are not being held in immigration detention in particular.

The new statistics, released by ICE in a letter to a Republican congressman this week, said there were 425,431 total convicted criminals on the non-detained docket as of July 21, 2024, including 13,099 people with homicide convictions.

The statistics have been deployed by Trump and various Republican lawmakers and right-wing commentators as alarming evidence of Harris’ supposed mismanagement of immigration policy. But in addition to exaggerating her role on the file — she was never actually “border czar” — much of the chatter has inaccurately described what the statistics show.

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, said in a Saturday email: “The data in this letter is being misinterpreted. The data goes back decades; it includes individuals who entered the country over the past 40 years or more, the vast majority of whose custody determination was made long before this Administration. It also includes many who are under the jurisdiction or currently incarcerated by federal, state or local law enforcement partners.”

It’s not clear how many of the 13,099 people with homicide convictions on ICE’s non-detained docket as of July 21 are currently incarcerated in jails and prisons. Regardless, John Sandweg, an attorney who served as acting director of ICE during the Obama administration, said in a Saturday interview that it is “100% false” to say all the homicide offenders on the non-detained docket entered the US during Harris’ vice presidency. Sandweg added: “These are individuals who undoubtedly entered the United States over a long period of time. … A lot of them have probably been on the list for 20 years, where the US has just been unable to deport.”

CNN could not immediately find public statistics on how many people with criminal convictions were on the non-detained docket during Trump’s presidency. But there are public statistics from just before and just after his presidency — and those statistics, which we’ll discuss later in this article, make clear that Trump, too, presided over a non-detained docket that included hundreds of thousands of people with criminal convictions.

A Supreme Court decision requires ICE to release some offenders

Trump’s posts left open the impression that the homicide offenders on the non-detained docket had foreign homicide convictions but were nonetheless allowed to cross the US border and live freely in this country. In reality, public data makes it clear that the overwhelming majority of people with criminal convictions on the non-detained docket were convicted in the US, as Sandweg and Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, which supports immigration, both told CNN.

Why aren’t these people in immigration detention if they have been convicted of a crime as serious as homicide? Under a 2001 Supreme Court decision, the US government is not allowed to indefinitely keep someone in immigration detention after they have been ordered removed from the country. So if someone has served their criminal sentence for homicide and then is ordered to be removed from the US, but their country is uncooperative with the US on immigration and won’t take them back, they must be released in the US — usually after no more than six months in immigration detention.

“Let’s say you have a Russian who was convicted of homicide. There’s nothing we can do there,” Sandweg said, given how Russia simply won’t accept the deportation. “There comes a point where you just have to release them.” He added that this doesn’t mean the person is “completely free” — people on the non-detained docket often have to check in with ICE or be monitored electronically — “but there’s just no more legal authority to continue the detention.”

Sandweg added: “ICE, of course, is not willy-nilly saying, ‘Okay, people convicted of murder, you’re not a priority.’ … We have a guy convicted of homicide, our strong preference is not to release them onto the streets.”

Reichlin-Melnick, who noted Saturday on social media that the non-detained docket includes people in jails and prisons, wrote on social media on Friday that “anyone on ICE’s non-detained docket with a homicide conviction has likely been in the country for decades, served a full criminal sentence, and can’t be removed because they’re from a country which restricts US deportations.”

Reichlin-Melnick continued: “There are others on ICE’s non-detained docket who have serious criminal records who, after serving their time, managed to win some form of protection and relief from removal. They are now here legally, but remain on the docket and are required to check in with ICE periodically.”

The list of convicted criminals on the non-detained docket includes both people who crossed the border illegally and people who came to the US legally, such as with a visa or green card, and then committed a crime and were placed in removal proceedings or were given a removal order.

What the numbers show

The non-detained docket is not a new creation of the Biden-Harris administration. In fact, there were hundreds of thousands of people with criminal convictions on the non-detained docket during the Trump presidency, too.

A reporter for Fox News, the right-wing outlet whose reporting on these statistics Trump repeatedly promoted on Friday, noted Friday evening on social media that “not all of these criminals entered during the Biden admin, as some are claiming” and that “some of these criminals go back many years across multiple administrations.”

A previous official federal report said there were 368,574 total convicted criminals on the non-detained docket as of August 2016, under the Obama administration, about five months before Trump became president. And another federal document said there were 405,786 total convicted criminals on the non-detained docket as of early June 2021, less than five months into the Biden-Harris administration. Again, the July 2024 number was 425,431 total convicted criminals.

In other words, the list grew about 10% between August 2016 and June 2021 — a roughly five-year period that included the four-year Trump administration — and then grew about another roughly 5% in the three-plus years under the Biden-Harris administration between June 2021 and July 2024.

Because official information on people on the non-detained docket with criminal convictions has only been released sporadically, with dates that don’t line up with the start and end dates of presidential administrations, it’s not possible to say how much of the increase happened under the Trump administration versus how much happened during the final months of the Obama administration and the first months of the Biden-Harris administration.

Regardless, there’s no basis for saying, as Trump kept doing Friday, that all of the people on the docket with homicide convictions came in during the Biden-Harris administration — and the numbers show “the docket certainly grew under the Trump administration,” Sandweg said. (He added that, to be fair, Trump faced the same stubborn issues with uncooperative foreign countries as other presidents.)

The crimes committed by people on the non-detained docket in July 2024 ranged from the most serious offenses, like homicide and sexual assault, to “gambling,” “liquor,” and “obscenity” offenses. The conviction categories with the highest number of people on the non-detained docket were “traffic offenses” (77,074), “assault” (62,231), “dangerous drugs” (56,533) and “immigration” (51,933).

CNN could not immediately find public data on the number of people with homicide convictions specifically who were on the non-detained docket in past years, including during the Trump administration.

It is clear that the total number of people on the non-detained docket, including people without any criminal conviction, has spiked during the Biden-Harris administration. (There are numerous reasons that people can end up on the docket; we won’t get into those here.) ICE says the docket jumped from roughly 3.3 million in the 2020 fiscal year, the last full fiscal year under Trump, to roughly 6.2 million in the 2023 fiscal year.

Harris critics are entitled to cite this real increase. Her presidential opponent, though, is criticizing her dishonestly.
 

Trump Allies Bombard the Courts, Setting Stage for Post-Election Fight​

Republicans are filing a barrage of election lawsuits in the final weeks of the presidential campaign. The cases may be a road map for a legal battle over the results.

Republicans have unleashed a flurry of lawsuits challenging voting rules and practices ahead of the November elections, setting the stage for what could be a far larger and more contentious legal battle over the White House after Election Day.
The onslaught of litigation, much of it landing in recent weeks, includes nearly 90 lawsuits filed across the country by Republican groups this year. The legal push is already more than three times the number of lawsuits filed before Election Day in 2020, according to Democracy Docket, a Democratically aligned group that tracks election cases. Voting rights experts say the legal campaign appears to be an effort to prepare to contest the results of the presidential election after Election Day should former President Donald J. Trump, the Republican nominee, lose and refuse to accept his defeat as he did four years ago. The lawsuits are concentrated in swing states — and key counties — likely to determine the race. Several embrace debunked theories about voter fraud and so-called stolen elections that Mr. Trump has promoted since 2020.

In Montgomery County, Pa., the state’s third-largest county, the party is seeking to force local officials to count ballots by hand, evoking debunked conspiracy theories about corrupted voting machines. A case filed by the Republican National Committee in Nevada this month falsely asserts that nearly 4,000 noncitizens voted in the state in 2020, a claim that was rejected at the time by the state’s top election official, a Republican.

If successful, the Republicans’ lawsuits would shrink the electorate, largely by disqualifying voters more likely to be Democrats. They seek purges of voter rolls, challenge executive orders from President Biden aimed at expanding ballot access and create stricter requirements to voting by mail. Election experts, including some Republicans, say a vast majority of the cases are destined to fail, either because they were filed too late or because they are based on unfounded, or outright false, claims. The volume and last minute timing of the cases, along with statements from party officials and Trump allies, suggest a broader aim behind the effort: Laying the groundwork to challenge results after the vote. The claims in the lawsuits may well be revived — either in court or in the media — if Mr. Trump contests the outcome. “Many of these cases reinforce particular narratives, particularly those about immigrants and voting,” said Jessica Marsden, a lawyer at Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan group that monitors elections. “Putting false claims in the form of a lawsuit is a way to sanitize and add legitimacy.”

Republican lawyers involved said their work was aimed at creating more confidence in elections. “Our legal efforts are fighting to fix the problems in the system, hold election officials accountable, protect election safeguards and defend the law,” Gineen Bresso, who is running the election integrity operation for the Republican National Committee and the Trump campaign, said in a statement. “While Democrats want a system open to fraud without safeguards, that counts illegal votes, we are committed to securing the election so every legal vote is protected.”

The R.N.C. is leading a broad network of conservative legal groups in the effort. Mr. Trump’s allies, including his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, took over the committee last March, placing Ms. Bresso in charge of the legal operation and promising a more aggressive strategy. After the 2020 election, the party’s lawyers had at times refused to participate in Mr. Trump’s legal campaign, forcing him to rely on a collection of outsiders who filed cases rife with errors and false claims. Several Trump lawyers have since been criminally charged. Among them is Christina Bobb, who is now senior counsel on the R.N.C.’s election integrity team. Ms. Bobb recently suggested that she was braced for more litigation after Election Day.
“I’m kind of holding my breath for that,” she said on a recent podcast. “I think we’re in probably, at least litigation-wise, as good of a place as we can be before the election.”

Democrats, too, say they are prepared. The Harris campaign says it has a legal team of hundreds of lawyers and thousands of volunteers. They have played more defense than offense, but have picked some key places to intervene. The campaign recently filed a lawsuit in Georgia against the State Election Board after it made refusing to certify results easier for its members. “We’re doing more defensive interventions than we’ve ever done before,” Marc Elias, a leading Democratic election lawyer working for the Harris campaign, said in an interview. “I am a big believer that you do not allow the Republicans to bring serious litigation that goes unresponded to.”

The expanded legal effort represents a strategic gamble for the Republican National Committee. The party has typically spent much of its energy on turning out voters — funding extensive organizing operations that knock on doors, run phone banks and track voters. This year, the Republicans and the Trump campaign have largely outsourced those efforts to allied organizations and redirected resources to litigation and other so-called election integrity efforts.
Many of the leaders are new to the party’s legal team. Several lawyers aligned with Mr. Trump from the last presidential election — including Rudolph W. Giuliani and John Eastman — have suffered personal consequences, including disbarment and criminal charges, connected to their work.

Two of the G.O.P. lawyers facing felony charges in Arizona related to their work four years ago, Ms. Bobb and Boris Epshteyn, are still in the Trump fold. (All four lawyers have pleaded not guilty.) Ms. Bobb has remained defiant. “I had the audacity to tell everybody that the election was stolen,” she said in the recent podcast interview, adding, “I think they thought that we would be easier to break.”

Ms. Bresso, however, has a history as an establishment Republican election lawyer. She served on the federal Election Assistance Commission and was for a time associated with a G.O.P. election law firm, Holtzman Vogel. She has said relatively little publicly about Mr. Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election, although it appears her views may have shifted. In the early days of the pandemic, she co-wrote an opinion piece arguing that state and local governments needed to be given “flexibility” to adjust to the crisis and that expanded access to mail-in votes “might be part of the solution” though it was “no cure all.” That perspective was soon rejected by Republicans aligned with Mr. Trump, who came to see the surge of mail voting as an attempt to steal the election. After the 2020 election, Ms. Bresso blamed the Covid-era changes to voting procedures for “this landscape that we have in place right now.”

Since then, Ms. Bresso repeatedly participated in meetings of the Election Integrity Network, a leading group of activists who promote or buy into conspiracy theories about voting. During a panel discussion in 2022, she urged those in attendance to “go out and be a poll worker,” adding, “we need to have eyes on the process.” Under her direction, the R.N.C. has filed several lawsuits seeking to restrict mail voting, including active cases in Pennsylvania, Nevada, Michigan and North Carolina.

The committee has also sought to remove voters from the rolls, filing several recent cases based on false claims that Democrats are signing up vast numbers of illegal immigrants to vote. Some have already been dismissed.
“Democrats continue to put noncitizens first and Americans last as they allow noncitizens to vote,” Michael Whatley, the chairman of the R.N.C., said in a recent news release announcing the Nevada lawsuit. Studies of prosecutions and state voter data have shown it is very rare for noncitizens to cast ballots. “The one thing they need in court is evidence,” said Ty Cobb, a former White House lawyer under Mr. Trump, who bemoaned the revival of old falsehoods. “They didn’t have any last time, and they’re unlikely to have any this time.”

Activating a Legal Network​

Stephen Miller, a close associate of Mr. Trump, runs America First Legal, a group working with the Republican National Committee on its election litigation efforts.Credit...Graham Dickie/The New York Times Yet, Republicans have found no shortage of allies eager to jump into the legal work. The list includes America First Legal, a group run by Stephen Miller, a close Trump associate and former policy adviser, and the America First Policy Institute, led by Linda McMahon, a leader of Mr. Trump’s transition team.

The institute has filed election cases in Georgia, Arizona and Texas. In Wisconsin it is defending the town of Thornapple, a tiny community that last week was sued by the U.S. Department of Justice for banning voting machines. The Justice Department says the ban violates accessibility requirements, and election experts argue it will disrupt the vote count. Some of the institute’s lawsuits are aimed at giving local election officials authority to refuse to certify results.
United Sovereign Americans, a group that describes itself as nonpartisan, has filed lawsuits in nine states. The cases zero in on potential anomalies and minor errors in the voting rolls. The group contends the issues must be resolved before election officials certify the results. State lawyers have pointed to problems with both the group’s numbers and its approach. A lawyer responding for Pennsylvania wrote in a filing, “Their questions about dates on paperwork, for example, are both factually baseless and irrelevant” to federal law.

Marly Hornik, a co-founder of the group, said it is trying to ensure that U.S. citizens can participate in “an election that is fairly and honestly conducted.” The group’s lead lawyer is Bruce Castor, a former district attorney in Pennsylvania and Mr. Trump’s defense lawyer in his second impeachment trial. Mr. Castor acknowledged that if the group’s cases don’t succeed before November the arguments could be used to mount challenges after Election Day. If the results are close enough, a losing candidate can look to the group for evidence of “anomalies” in the vote and decide to contest the result, he said. “I’ll say, ‘How much money do you have left over from the campaign fund?’” Mr. Castor said. “If he has enough, I think I’d have to hire people to look into it.”

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Trump Allies Bombard the Courts, Setting Stage for Post-Election Fight

Republicans are filing a barrage of election lawsuits in the final weeks of the presidential campaign. The cases may be a road map for a legal battle over the results.
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