'Trump has so far enjoyed near-impunity. He has gotten away with abuse after abuse... A case centered on the Georgia phone call, however, provides an antidote to that astonishing record.'
that"conclusive proof" of Trump's"illegal effort to steal the presidential election is hiding in plain sight."
When Trump asked Raffensperger to 'find' a specified number of new votes, he was asking him to rig the result. He did this with no concern about the truth and in the face of an initial vote count and two recounts that had already taken place—with all three showing Biden the winner. Citing last week's testimony by former federal judge Michael Luttig—who called Trump and his allies a"clear and present danger" to U.S. democracy, Laurence H. Tribe, Phillip Allen Lacovara, and Dennis Aftergutopinion piece that"this historic phrase generates an extraordinary constitutional power of government to act—and a duty to do so."
Even without a direct charge of insurrection, allegations of such insurrectionist activities in an indictment for conspiring to defraud the United States or to obstruct an official proceeding or for seditious conspiracy might suffice for 14th Amendment disqualification if Trump were convicted.
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