Yahoo Finance Make No Mistake, This Was a Roadmap for a Coup
The continuing release of documents that prove that the previous president* tried to use his office to ‘jack a second term is both depressing and revelatory. The latest chapter in the political thriller, Six Months In May, is an utterly insane letter that Jeffrey Clark, the former head of the Department of Justice’s civil division, wanted the acting Attorney General and his deputy to send to officials in Georgia, including the governor, to arrange for a special session of the state’s legislature in order to “investigate” the current president’s win in that state, and to do it before that election could be certified in Congress.
The legal reasoning in this letter is, well, nutty. From ABC News:
"The Department of Justice is investigating various irregularities in the 2020 election for President of the United States," the draft letter said. "The Department will update you as we are able on investigatory progress, but at this time we have identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple States, including the State of Georgia."The draft letter states: "While the Department of Justice believe[s] the Governor of Georgia should immediately call a special session to consider this important and urgent matter, if he declines to do so, we share with you our view that the Georgia General Assembly has implied authority under the Constitution of the United States to call itself into special session for [t]he limited purpose of considering issues pertaining to the appointment of Presidential Electors.”
Nothing can go wrong, Clark assured the acting AG and his deputy.
Clark attached the draft letter in an email to Rosen and Donoghue telling them "I think we should get it out as soon as possible…Personally, I see no valid downsides to sending out the letter," Clark wrote. "I put it together quickly and would want to do a formal cite check before sending but I don't think we should let unnecessary moss grow on this.”
It is my considered opinion that Mr. Clark has unnecessary moss growing on his brain, but I am neither a neurologist nor a lawyer. Make no mistake, though, this was a road map for a coup by which El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago intended to overturn the 2020 election. (That Clark is a thoroughgoing hack is demonstrated by Josh Kovensky at Josh Marshall’s site, who reports that Clark’s now working for a wingnut-welfare group that’s fighting mask mandates around the country.)
It’s really time for the current AG and the current DOJ to get off the freaking dime here. It’s time to go medieval on the former president*—“to the full extent of the law,” as they say on signs warning you that your car can be towed. New York AG Letitia James brought the hammer down on Andrew Cuomo in less than seven months, and she wasn’t drowning in actual video evidence of Cuomo’s harassment. (Ed Note: Ewww!) I begin to get the feeling that this DOJ isn’t going to go after the former president* unless and until they find his fingerprints on Brad Raffensperger’s throat. Time has come today, folks.
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