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    Not seeing how it isn’t criminal charges, and instead a settlement with little more then a sorry we got caught.

    “I feel like I have to do it otherwise there will be a target on my back in my own district for the chair,”

    What a coward.

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      The big part here is they won’t work as electors in any future election where Donald Trump is a candidate on the ballot. Obviously any result they got in the train wouldn’t overturn the election but the ruling can help prevent it from happening again.

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        I can’t understand why they wouldn’t be disallowed from working as electors in any future election full stop. Limiting it like that seems like almost no consequence.

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        How is that a deterent? So other MAGA zealots look at that and say “oh, so I can deny democracy in a position of power, and have zero consequences. Hold my beer”

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    In Wisconsin, the Republicans said they met at the state capitol to sign the paperwork so their votes would count if a court ever overturned Biden’s victory in the state. They met about an hour after the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld Biden’s victory in a 4-3 decision that Trump later unsuccessfully appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

    Just a reminder that Three (3) Wisconsin Supreme Court Justices participated in an attempted coup in 2020.