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Healey signs brief opposed to Texan attempt to butt into the way other states run their elections

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is one of 23 attorneys general who filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court today explaining in dry legal language why the attorney general of Texas is just wrong about life in general and elections, the Constitution and coronavirus in particular.

Or as Healey explained it more succinctly on Twitter tonight:

Ken Paxton got tired of disenfranchising people in Texas so now he's coming for voters in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

I've joined 22 AGs in support of an amicus urging the Supreme Court to throw this lawsuit into the trashbin of history.

Texas’s lawsuit is unconscionable.

Memo to AG Paxton: You’re supposed to be the people’s lawyer, not the President’s.

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Whatever Maura Healey who won't support the milquetoast police reform bill.

She's just Charlie Baker in basketball sneakers to me now. So disappointing..

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...the Exxon suit comes to mind. Wonder how that's going for her?

Problem here is the 'perfect storm' of different interests determined to destroy a sitting President. For three years it was 'Russia, Russia, Russia'. Well, how'd that go for the left? Answer...not good. Big tech is openly censoring any news that doesn't go its way. Hunter Biden was being investigated for two years. CNN said so, yesterday. Twitter openly and without shame is killing opposing viewpoints.

You want to split a country? You're doing it right.

Every step of the way it's been, first, last and only to get Trump. This past election? A fucking train wreck. Piles of credible stories of election racketeering. A computer voting company that wants to deep-six its machines rather than have anyone look at them. Georgia voting personnel that lawyer up when asked questions. Insane rumors (ya, maybe) of all kinds of shenanigans. State courts that change voting regulations in contravention of basic Constitutional rules.

Is it too much to ask, if it's all on the level, that it be audited? Why fight it so much?

What the hell is being hidden here?

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Piles of credible stories of election racketeering. A computer voting company that wants to deep-six its machines rather than have anyone look at them. Georgia voting personnel that lawyer up when asked questions. Insane rumors (ya, maybe) of all kinds of shenanigans.

All lies, and of course there's little to no credible evidence to back any these anecdotes up. There's a reason these stories don't make it as evidence in the several courtrooms where challenges have been mounted and why these cases keep getting tossed: Lawyers don't want to lose their licenses to practice law for knowingly submitting easily debunked false "evidence", but as long as the lies are put out into the ether and not presented as evidence in a courtroom, most fools will take them as gospel. Some lawyers have no problem throwing unreliable and possibly unstable witnesses under the bus after they sign affidavits so that they can repeat these lies and questionable anecdotes, but for an attorney to knowingly present false testimony and evidence to a court is a recipe for disbarment.

Anyhow, most of what you posted in the first paragraph has nothing to do with the frivolous suit that Paxton, et al are going to lose. Trump is probably a criminal, likely a rapist (Innocent, etc.), definitely a racist, and definitely lost this election bigly. Get a grip with reality.

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See above. ^

- “Train wreck”? So dishonest.

WASHINGTON – The members of Election Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council (GCC) Executive Committee – Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Assistant Director Bob Kolasky, U.S. Election Assistance Commission Chair Benjamin Hovland, National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) President Maggie Toulouse Oliver, National Association of State Election Directors (NASED) President Lori Augino, and Escambia County (Florida) Supervisor of Elections David Stafford – and the members of the Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Council (SCC) – Chair Brian Hancock (Unisyn Voting Solutions), Vice Chair Sam Derheimer (Hart InterCivic), Chris Wlaschin (Election Systems & Software), Ericka Haas (Electronic Registration Information Center), and Maria Bianchi (Democracy Works) - released the following statement:

“The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history. Right now, across the country, election officials are reviewing and double checking the entire election process prior to finalizing the result.

“When states have close elections, many will recount ballots. All of the states with close results in the 2020 presidential race have paper records of each vote, allowing the ability to go back and count each ballot if necessary. This is an added benefit for security and resilience. This process allows for the identification and correction of any mistakes or errors. There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.

“Other security measures like pre-election testing, state certification of voting equipment, and the U.S. Election Assistance Commission’s (EAC) certification of voting equipment help to build additional confidence in the voting systems used in 2020.

“While we know there are many unfounded claims and opportunities for misinformation about the process of our elections, we can assure you we have the utmost confidence in the security and integrity of our elections, and you should too. When you have questions, turn to elections officials as trusted voices as they administer elections.”

https://www.cisa.gov/news/2020/11/12/joint-statement-elections-infrastru...

- “Piles of credible stories of election racketeering” LOLOLOLOL! That’s why Rudy, Jenna Ellis, and the Kraken lady have submitted 55 now-dismissed cases and have not introduced one shred pf evidence when the penalty of perjury is on the table. If there are “piles”, then introduce it in court or gtfo.

- Oh, and the August 202 Rubio Committee report from the senate lays out the case for Trump and Russian collusion. It passed 14-1.

- CNN reported in Hunter Biden yesterday because Hunter Biden himself disclosed the investigation. And given how much Ivanka profited from lucrative and conveniently-timed Chinese patents since her father took office and Trumps undisclosed secret Chinese bank account, it SHOCKS me how all of a sudden you are concerned with Hunter’s supposed China dealings. (That was sarcasm; I am not in fact shocked.)

Your posts are filled with lies and pure BS.

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Working for Shiva's Fraud Squad are ya now?

As for "Piles of credible stories of election racketeering", well, obviously not if 1) you and nobody else can produce anything other than doctored you-tube fraud videos, and 2) GOP darling judges are saying WTF and where is this evidence.

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So I'll just field this one:

Big tech is openly censoring any news that doesn't go its way. Hunter Biden was being investigated for two years. CNN said so, yesterday. Twitter openly and without shame is killing opposing viewpoints.

First - your first and last sentences have nothing to do with the middle two. This is bad writing - remember, you want "topic - example - discussion". You've switched topics twice in 4 sentences. Revise and resubmit.

That said - neither of these things have anything to do with the legitimacy of the election.

What "big tech" and Twitter are doing to "censor" may be bad, and may be a reason to not use them or even to break them up - but they are not government agents and there's no evidence to suggest that "big tech censorship" somehow cost Trump the election (and even if there was - I'm not even sure that would be illegal. Private companies get free speech, right? Remember Citizens United?).

Meanwhile, Hunter Biden was not and is not running for office, and he's not being considered for any random nepotistic government positions under his father's administration. If he's guilty of tax fraud, I hope they throw the book at him (as they should for any tax cheat), but whether they do or not has absolutely nothing to do with the integrity of this election.

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For three years it was 'Russia, Russia, Russia'. Well, how'd that go for the left? Answer...not good

not good by whose standard? is trump going to be president on 1/20? even if you believe that the whole thing was elaborate subterfuge perpetrated by a coalition of democrats, republicans, clarence thomas, brett kavanaugh, et al, losing an election by 7 million votes is one hell of a way to measure victory.

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And, at last check, Russia, still not our friend!

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And all Republicans who support this fascist effort to subvert the will of the people.

If they win, it’s a win for fascism and tribalism, and it will be an end of the democratic American experiment. We’ll join Russia, China and Belarus in the “Let’s pretend we’re a democracy” camp.

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Paxton's a crook. HIs conduct is explained by a desire for a pardon, since Trump is handing them out like party favors. But the other 109?

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Based on the 2020 election results, a near majority of the country is just fine with fascists. The GOP won big in down ballot races to candidates that did not reject Trump.

As it turns out, almost a majority of Americans are just fine with dictatorship provided their guy is the man in charge.

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I'm sorry, I thought my point was obvious. Paxton IS under indictment and desperate for a pardon. Are you claiming that the 109 treasonous Republican members of Congress are in the same situation?

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Everyone who is disputing the election -- and who supported Trump after knowing what he's done -- is a traitor as far as I'm concerned.

Like many people I was hopeful that the 2020 would show the GOP that Americans will only take so much and won't support candidates who openly try to subvert the rule of law.

But I was wrong. The GOP came within a hair of winning back the house and held the Senate. So for a GOP politicians, there's no political downside to doing what Trump wants.

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There is some irony here, given that Healey has filed numerous suits regarding pollution, discrimination, etc. in other states. She's the AG of Massachusetts, not Ohio, and there are certainly more than enough issues here to keep her busy.

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A bunch of other states are piling on. I believe the count is up to eighteen.

As was mentioned, down-ballot Republican candidates seemed to do pretty well. Dems lost a bunch of House seats and in Georgia? They have to win both Senate seats to get power in the Senate.
There are California seats that went Republican.

Seems Trump has long coattails and Biden, well, not so much.

So, possibilities...The election, which was so bad that the Las Vegas bookies won't pay off on a winner, gets a fork stuck in it.

Trump wins.

Or, more to your liking, Biden gets sworn in, Hunter becomes the hunted (after all, the Fibbies have been investigating him for two years), Biden resigns because he's such a damn crook and Heels Up becomes the Commander in Chief.
She'll have no Senate (I think the voter fraud thing has run its course), a paper thin House and the support of only a minority of her own party.

Lucky her.

Gotta go now, popcorn is getting low.

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Does this level of group orange nether whuffling surprise you?

There is a word for this sort of bullshit attempt to derail the votes of some people and not others ... SEDITION.

I for one think that MA should sue all the states that don't provide for their own people and end up taking the money we put into the federal coffers and don't get back. How's that sound?

Because this sort of bullshit of states pleading to interfere in the business of other states in order to circumvent elections has a flip side, dear.

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down-ballot Republican candidates seemed to do pretty well.

Well, that’s just evidence that the real fraud was committed by the GOP down ballot and their game wasn’t strong enough to subvert the nation-wide vote for Biden, lol!

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A bunch of other states are piling on.

Oh. Yeah. Like "New California" and "New Nevada"?

Y'all need to stop sniffing glue.

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