Cathy Latham was one of the Georgia fake electors.
Cathy Latham is also the Coffee County election officially that gave “election forensics experts” affiliated with Sidney Powell access to Coffee County’s voting systems.
She was also one of the ten fake electors represented by Kimberly Debrow who Fani Willis recently sought to disqualify for conflict of interest among other things.
Latham’s latest filing is not signed by Debrow, but by someone named Kieran Shanahan.
I’m rather fascinated that she’s skipping the third term of court that begins in May.
I think there is a strategy here, with perhaps some sense that the DOJ’s investigation will fall prior to the fourth term. It will take priority over all else, and there’s a lot of benefit for states to take a secondary position behind federal charges.
On January 7, 2021, the day after rioters stormed the US Capitol, two people walked into an elections office in Coffee County, Georgia, a rural part of the state that voted overwhelmingly for Trump in 2020. A local election official helped them gain access to sensitive voting data which they downloaded onto a portable hard drive.
Last year, a former Trump official testified under oath to the House January 6 committee that plans to access voting systems in Georgia were discussed in meetings at the White House, including during a now infamous Oval Office meeting on December 18, 2020, that included Trump.
I am not a lawyer, but this, to me, looks like all the elements of conspiracy and Trump himself is one of the conspirators.
Kimberly Debrow has filed her response to Willis’s motion to disqualify her. Unsurprisingly she says she didn’t do anything wrong.
The interesting part is that this filing says that eight of the fraudulent electors were offered immunity and two were not. Debrow used to represent all ten, but now it’s just the eight, and thus she claims there’s no conflict.
I can’t find the whole thing online yet, but here’s a two Tweet mini-thread from Anna Bower (Lawfare) on the topic:
I don’t see how. SB 92 doesn’t take effect until October.
(n) The commission shall commence by July 1, 2023, and the rules and regulations promulgated by such commission shall be established no later than October 1, 2023. No complaint shall be filed before October 1, 2023. The commission shall not receive complaint submissions regarding misconduct in office that occurred prior to the effective date of this Code section, unless such alleged misconduct is related to a continuous pattern of conduct that continues beyond that date.
Good, but I’m sure the case won’t be completed by then. I believe Kemp has now signed it. Republicans, making sure to bypass the will of the people in all red states at every turn.
I’m bumping this thread (for the record, it’s the day of Trump’s 1st federal arraignment) because of a news tidbit that I just heard on the teevee, and confirmed below.
Plans are afoot. I’m thinking this indictment is coming in August.
Maybe. I hope so. But the New York case was just put on hold in deference to the Federal case brought in Miami by Jack Smith. I wonder if that will happen in the Georgia case, as well.
from what i understand states and cities allow federal to go first. at this time there is not a date for the federal case. states and cities can get their cases going. they may defer if the federal case gets going. manhattan has a date already (3/25/24).
i’m very interested in georgia. that is not just trump but other members of congress and trump’s administration. with the indictment(s) possible in august, that would fall into the august recess, a good time to scoop up some senators and congress people.
I’m expecting Fulton County to indict not only DJT, but Meadows and perhaps Giuliani as well. They’ll defer to the feds as far as the trials for Donnie goes, but I’m hoping that the other defendents can be tried without waiting on the feds.
Graham’s general agenda is to ingratiate himself with anyone that can help him to pass his own preferred policy.
He went too far, working towards that goal, in trying to help Trump during the election. But even that was still all in the aim of “Lindsey Graham is priority #1”. It wasn’t out of a love or belief in the greatness of Donald J Trump.
If he’s looking at charges, he’ll turn and give everything he knows to whoever will trade him leniency for it. Given Trump’s carelessness, I’d expect that Lindsey has seen something worth trading for.
Case in point, he relentlessly attacked Trump before Trump became the nominee in 2016. And he has on occasion criticized him, presumably when he thought that it was in his best interest to do so, though he’ll walk that back once he doesn’t see it benefiting him.
The MAGA crowd knows that he’s not a true believer and doesn’t care for him.
The South Carolina senator, who at one point called Trump a “race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot” during the 2016 campaign, became one of the president’s fiercest supporters in the Senate during his administration.
Graham briefly turned against Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. However, he ultimately endorsed the former president’s 2024 White House bid.
There was some discussion of this in the thread back on Feb. 17.
I can’t see any justice in a judge departing from sentencing guidelines for political reasons. If Trump is re-elected, the Georgia Boards of Pardons might be able to grant a four year delay in punishment. If legal, that probably would be wise, but I’m not sure it’s legal.
Question:
Suppose that Trump wins a clear GOP delegate majority, but between the day he clinches the nomination, and the convention, he reports to a Georgia or New York prison for, say, a three year term. I don’t predict this, but there’s a fair chance it will happen. And let’s say the GOP leaders look at general election polls and find that when Trump went into that prison, Biden finally bounced way up in the polls. Can Republican Party leaders declare Trump unable to serve and nominate someone more electable?