Playing 5-dimensional Chesebro

For your Wednesday evening reading, yet another memo to destroy democracy just dropped.

The document, signed by “K.C.,” was one of a series of memos crafted by Chesebro and John Eastman, a conservative attorney, that formed the proposed legal basis for the ultimately unsuccessful fake elector scheme. The indictment alleges the plan “evolved over time from a legal strategy to preserve the Defendant’s rights to a corrupt plan to subvert the federal government function by stopping Biden electors’ votes from being counted and certified.”

The House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol cited two other memos written by Chesebro in its final report, but the committee apparently didn’t obtain the Dec. 6 document. One Trump campaign lawyer who testified before the committee said he remembered seeing the document but lost access to his emails after he left his job.

The cunning plan is typically Republican, in that sounds like something Snidely Whiplash would cook up:

The memo was dated exactly one month before Jan. 6, 2021, when Congress would meet to count the Electoral College votes and seal Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.

It detailed a scheme in which groups of Trump supporters in six contested states won by Mr. Biden could organize to cast alternate electoral votes one week later on Dec. 14, when the legitimate members of the Electoral College would meet and certify their states’ results. The alternate slate of electors, the memo says, would submit their own certifications. Chesebro said the vice president could then count these electoral votes instead of the legitimate votes on Jan. 6 to upend the election results and potentially keep Trump in the White House. 

And if the SC told them to pound sand?

Chesebro wrote he thought the dispute over the electoral count could ultimately reach the Supreme Court if the six states’ votes were contested. Even if the justices sided with Mr. Biden, Chesebro wrote, such a strategy “would guarantee that public attention would be riveted on the evidence of electoral abuses by the Democrats, and would also buy the Trump campaign more time to win litigation that would deprive Biden of electoral votes and/or add to Trump’s column.”

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The memo published by The Times lays out key logistics for organizing the fake slates of electors, citing state and federal laws about how and when presidential electors must meet. The document also includes a “messaging” strategy to portray the scheme “as a routine measure that is necessary to ensure that in the event the courts (or state legislatures) were to later conclude that Trump actually won the state, the correct electoral slate can be counted in Congress in January.”

Nothing to see here, just some routine couping. Go about your business.

And at this link: Laurence Tribe reacts to a former student taking his name in vain, Lauro’s free speech defense.

People who post off-topic comments smell like Ken Chesebro’s armpits.