Republican activist, facing nine felony charges for fake electors scheme, accepts plea deal offer of unsupervised probation

9 fucking felonies. "Unsupervised probation". What tf.

The average person gets caught with a bowl of weed (a single misdemeanor) in a red state and all the sudden probation officers are stopping by their house unannounced, they're peeing in cups twice a month, and, under threat of imprisonment and slavery, they are forced to give up constitutional rights. Plus all the associated fees that don't get applied to "Unsupervised Probation".

This is some bullshit.

That's a light sentence, I wonder what the state got in return.

We may find that the states that are prosecuting the fake electors without going after Trump directly have more importance than the GA case. That case gets the most attention, because Trump is directly named in it. But it also gets the most attention from Republicans seeking to protect their God Emperor.

These other cases are just as important, because they establish that this fake elector nonsense has no basis in law, and people who try to pull it off will be prosecuted as the lying liars they are. It makes it harder for Trump to try this again, because if it doesn't work the people who helped him will know for certain they they will be investigated by the States. They can o longer claim it is anything other than a coup attempt.

Well over 3 years later. Take your time. It's not like a lack of justice would affect democracy or anything...

A tap on the wrist if that. When are we going to rise up against the wealthy and the oligopolies? It's time to test the safe rooms and modern castles and see if they can withstand the storm. Because that is the only thing that will change how it works. Otherwise, just sit back, do nothing and continue to enjoy the shit show. It's a weird time to be alive.

And you have that gross Stephen Miller dude on Ari Melber last night claiming that the fake electors were totally legitimate and just citizens practicing free speech being victimized by the government. He was screeching like a Karen about it.

I get why they didn't want to indict Trump... yet. They can't charge him twice and were concerned about a lack of evidence. If they get a bunch charged with this, some of those people might provide more evidence against Trump directly to support a new charge that does have enough evidence.

What I don't get is why they specifically asked to not indict all 20 GOP people who signed off on the fake electors document or the GOP attorney who worked on it. Those people all knew what they were doing. Maybe the crimes were small enough that it would be expensive and time consuming with very little payoff that distracts from the bigger case they want to pursue.

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