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THREAD: SCOTUS struck down @RepublicanAGs' embarrassing stunt to undermine the election, but there need to be consequences for using public office to harm our country.
12 of the 19 GOP offices involved are up in 2022.
We plan to hold every one accountable. (1/)
12 of the 19 GOP offices involved are up in 2022.
We plan to hold every one accountable. (1/)
Here's a round-up of what leading conservative outlets & home-state papers of the @RepublicanAGs involved think about their actions...
... Starting with the Wall Street Journal calling indicted TX AG Ken Paxton the "patron saint of lost legal causes" (2/) https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-tries-an-election-long-shot-11607644280
... Starting with the Wall Street Journal calling indicted TX AG Ken Paxton the "patron saint of lost legal causes" (2/) https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-tries-an-election-long-shot-11607644280
The conservative National Review writing, “The Supreme Court can’t dismiss this suit fast enough.” (3/) https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/12/texas-unleashes-an-absurd-kraken/
The New York Daily News put Republicans supporting the lawsuit on notice saying those “who signed on to this radical attempt to steal an election have the gall to call themselves conservatives [and that] is the biggest scam of all.” (4/) https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-edit-texas-lawsuit-20201211-djiyoroch5bepj54kdqglj34rq-story.html
From the Topeka Capital-Journal: "The [Republican] attorney general of Kansas backs a lawsuit seeking to disenfranchise millions of voters in other states in hopes of overturning an election. That’s astonishing, shameful & profoundly anti-democratic." (5/) https://www.cjonline.com/story/opinion/editorials/2020/12/10/editorial-kansas-attorney-general-derek-schmidt-makes-shameful-move/115131598/
And the Lincoln Journal Star: "Flailing of this nature would be laughable if it weren’t an attempt to subvert American elections & assault democracy itself—& Nebraskans should be embarrassed that [Peterson] was one of 17 Republican AGs to sign [on]." (6/) https://journalstar.com/opinion/editorial/editorial-12-13-joining-texas-election-suit-embarrassing-for-nebraska/article_141702f5-920c-5bf6-98b2-dea67fbdbebb.html
The Post & Courier: "Mr. Wilson is using the power of his office to try to overturn the results of a valid election and undermine public confidence in our republic, and he is dragging [South Carolina] into the fray." (7/) https://www.postandcourier.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-how-alan-wilson-is-undermining-undermine-the-foundations-of-our-republic/article_da71ecd4-3b1f-11eb-b742-778aa610de6c.html
Florida's Sun Suntinel: "[Ashley Moody's] actions are appalling, an affront to democracy. She has reduced one of Florida’s most prestigious public offices to a grubby little outpost of Mar-a-Lago." (8/) https://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/editorials/fl-op-edit-ashley-moods-partisan-trump-embarrassment-20201211-2gn7hdngrbc3zjyqr73qowzcha-story.html
Utah's Deseret News: "It is a waste of time, an abuse of the good name of Utah and a dangerous repudiation of a system that has worked as designed." (9/) https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2020/12/10/22168005/trump-election-fraud-texas-court-case-sean-reyes-utah-attorney-general
The Austin American-Statesman: "[Paxton's] most repugnant stunt to date—one that spent taxpayer dollars to fuel division ... used state resources to curry political favor [and] flirted w/ dismantling democracy to preserve his party's grip on power." (10/) https://www.statesman.com/story/opinion/editorials/2020/12/11/ken-paxtons-election-lawsuit-puts-politics-over-good-texas/3888854001/
The list goes on and on... and on and on...
You can read more from the home state papers disgusted by @RepublicanAGs' actions here: https://dems.ag/icymi-ed-boards-slam-republican-ags-attacking-democracy/
And you can join our fight to hold them accountable in 2022 here: https://secure.democraticags.org/page/s/help-elect-democratic-ags
(11/11)
You can read more from the home state papers disgusted by @RepublicanAGs' actions here: https://dems.ag/icymi-ed-boards-slam-republican-ags-attacking-democracy/
And you can join our fight to hold them accountable in 2022 here: https://secure.democraticags.org/page/s/help-elect-democratic-ags
(11/11)
