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Supreme Court denies Jan. 6 appeal from former Trump lawyer John Eastman
The Washington Post ^ | October 2, 2023 | Ann E. Marimow

Posted on 10/02/2023 1:34:39 PM PDT by JSM_Liberty

The Supreme Court on Monday denied a request from conservative lawyer John Eastman to wipe out a lower court ruling that said he and former president Donald Trump “more likely than not” committed a crime when they worked together to try to block certification of the 2020 election.

Eastman, who was a law clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas, was the architect of the legal strategy Trump used to try to overturn his election loss to President Biden. He faces criminal charges in Georgia, along with Trump, in connection with those efforts, and his conduct is described in the federal indictment of Trump in Washington on charges of trying to obstruct the election results.

Thomas “took no part” in the high court’s decision to deny Eastman’s request to vacate the ruling by the lower court, which stemmed from a lawsuit Eastman filed to try to block a congressional committee examining the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol from obtaining his emails. ... Thomas’s decision to step away in the Eastman matter was a departure from his previous participation in cases involving the investigation of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Thomas was the only member of the court last year to side with Trump’s request to withhold White House documents from the committee. He was criticized for participating in that decision because his wife, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, was actively involved in challenging the election results. Thomas did not provide an explanation for his recusal in the court’s brief order regarding Eastman. But the justice figured prominently in some of the emails the California judge ordered released to the committee. In discussing their legal strategy, Trump’s lawyers said they saw Thomas as integral to their efforts to overturn the election results.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: deepstate; j6; jan6; scotus
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1 posted on 10/02/2023 1:34:39 PM PDT by JSM_Liberty
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To: JSM_Liberty
Eastman, who was a law clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas, was the architect of the legal strategy Trump used to try to overturn his election loss to President Biden. He faces criminal charges in Georgia, along with Trump, in connection with those efforts, and his conduct is described in the federal indictment of Trump in Washington on charges of trying to obstruct the election results.

What, exactly, is "trying to obstruct the election results."

2 posted on 10/02/2023 1:36:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: JSM_Liberty

How do you defeat tyranny in the U.S?

By getting angry? They don’t care.

By using common sense? They couldn’t care less. Common sense has no power to arrest them

There’s ONLY ONE WAY to defeat tyranny in the U.S.

1) First DEFINE tyranny AKA the Deep State: Tyranny AKA the Deep State is the UNCONSTITUTIONAL act and agencies of the federal and/or state government.

2) Once you get what tyranny is, how do you defeat it? By ENFORCING THE CONSTITUTION which is the Supreme Law of the Land against the federal government (or state constitutions against rogue state governments, like NY).

THE CONSTITUTION boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen.

The Constitution is the MOST powerful weapon Trump can use against these criminals because the Constitution is what MAKES them criminals besue when they violate the Constitution their acts are ILLEGAL and, thus, they can be validly arrested for illegal acts.

TRUMP, AMERICA, REINSTATE AND ENFORCE THE CONSTITUTION AGAINST THESE WORST-OF-ALL OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT CRIMINALS!!!!!


3 posted on 10/02/2023 1:37:45 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Jim W N
Once you get what tyranny is, how do you defeat it?

Isn’t that what the second amendment is for? Wasn’t it intended to give the people the right to take up arms against a tyrannical government?

4 posted on 10/02/2023 1:44:52 PM PDT by Go Gordon
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To: JSM_Liberty

Looks like the fix is in then.


5 posted on 10/02/2023 1:46:42 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Go Gordon
Isn’t that what the second amendment is for? Wasn’t it intended to give the people the right to take up arms against a tyrannical government?

We'd better do it soon, because China is flooding the US with military age men through the southern border via the Darien Gap.

6 posted on 10/02/2023 1:47:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Go Gordon

But you are not allowed to carry arms (attached to your body) as you stroll into the Capitol building.

/sarc


7 posted on 10/02/2023 1:53:48 PM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: Jim W N

Without excercising the 2A, the Constitution has no teeth. Question is....how much tyranny is enough?


8 posted on 10/02/2023 1:57:46 PM PDT by Right Brother (Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republic)
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To: Go Gordon

Did not see your post before I posted. GMTA.


9 posted on 10/02/2023 1:59:21 PM PDT by Right Brother (Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republic)
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To: Jim W N

You say you want a revolution? We’ll you know, we’d all love to see the plan.


10 posted on 10/02/2023 2:04:08 PM PDT by bigbob (Q)
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To: JSM_Liberty

This is political persecution worthy of any dictatorship.

It is outlawing political activity of people they deign dissidents.

It has happened here.


11 posted on 10/02/2023 2:09:21 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Right Brother

The federal govt is the unparalled world leader in dealing with violence.

They have immense institutions starving for it.

They’re on their hands and knees begging for it.


12 posted on 10/02/2023 2:09:48 PM PDT by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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To: JSM_Liberty

In the 1970s, The Church Committee in the Senate investigated illegalities and unconstitutional practices of the intelligence agencies and FBI/DOJ against American citizens (who, unlike foreigners, have clear Constitutional rights).

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA court) was the set up as a panel of 11 federal judges responsible for deciding whether the U.S. government has enough evidence against foreign powers or individuals (Americans) believed to be foreign agents to allow for their surveillance by the intelligence community. The court was established under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to oversee requests for surveillance warrants against foreign spies inside the United States by federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies. The court operates under strict secrecy due to the nature of the cases being presented. Each application for a FISA warrant must first be presented to an individual judge of the court, and it is extremely rare for FISA warrant requests to be turned down.

It is well established that the FBI LIED, knowingly, in the evidence to get a FISA warrant on the Trump campaign in 2016 by using the Steel Dossier, a Clinton Campaign document to be used in her run against Trump.

To this very day, the Supreme Court and Chief Justice has done nothing to investigate or rule on this official perjury or even speak about it.

NEVER FORGET, and if by some lucky circumstance you ever meet a Supreme Court Justice, especially Chief Justice Roberts, you owe it as a patriot to publicly ask him why this is so.


13 posted on 10/02/2023 2:13:07 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: JSM_Liberty

The case isn’t ripe for consideration. Once the lower courts have done their thing, then it will be the time to go to SCOTUS.


14 posted on 10/02/2023 2:18:46 PM PDT by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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To: bigbob

“we’d all love to see the plan”

Glad you asked...

The plan is simple and I’ve been screaming it for years.

First, read and understand the Declaration of Independence and Constitution as written and originally understood and intended.

Second, do whatever you can to make THE CONSTITUTION the issue - bolster constitutional state sovereignty, influence others, and vote on that basis. Understand that the only legal force and power between you and absolute tyranny is the Constitution.

Third, support in every way possible reinstating the Constitution as the Supreme Law of the Land and constitutional state sovereignty including STOPPING FEDERAL FUNDING of states which is how the feds exercise control over the states.

Fourth, support in every way possible the DISMANTLING of the $3+ trillion, 80%+ unconstitutional portion of the federal government AKA “The Deep State”.

Fifth, START LIVING FREE!!!!


15 posted on 10/02/2023 2:24:01 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Go Gordon

Here’s how it works:

First, read and understand the Declaration of Independence and Constitution as written and originally understood and intended.

Second, do whatever you can to make THE CONSTITUTION the issue - bolster constitutional state sovereignty, influence others, and vote on that basis. Understand that the only legal force and power between you and absolute tyranny is the Constitution.

Third, support in every way possible reinstating the Constitution as the Supreme Law of the Land and constitutional state sovereignty including STOPPING FEDERAL FUNDING of states which is how the feds exercise control over the states.

Fourth, support in every way possible the DISMANTLING of the $3+ trillion, 80%+ unconstitutional portion of the federal government AKA “The Deep State”.

Fifth, START LIVING FREE!!!!


16 posted on 10/02/2023 2:25:35 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Right Brother

Here’s how it works:

First, read and understand the Declaration of Independence and Constitution as written and originally understood and intended.

Second, do whatever you can to make THE CONSTITUTION the issue - bolster constitutional state sovereignty, influence others, and vote on that basis. Understand that the only legal force and power between you and absolute tyranny is the Constitution.

Third, support in every way possible reinstating the Constitution as the Supreme Law of the Land and constitutional state sovereignty including STOPPING FEDERAL FUNDING of states which is how the feds exercise control over the states.

Fourth, support in every way possible the DISMANTLING of the $3+ trillion, 80%+ unconstitutional portion of the federal government AKA “The Deep State”.

Fifth, START LIVING FREE!!!!


17 posted on 10/02/2023 2:26:05 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Freest Republican

I think the revolution will be a slow roll out. I think the red states will become more and more autonomous and will reject federal overreach. The feds can put down small insurrections, but they would have one hell of a fight on their hands if they try to move in on entire states. Very few people that are currently serving in the US military will obey orders to fire on US citizens. Hence, the reason to accept transsexuals and other freaks into the military. There has to be a tipping point, and I think it is coming soon.


18 posted on 10/02/2023 4:06:31 PM PDT by Right Brother (Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republic)
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To: Go Gordon

Beginn8ng today with a deadline of Jan 1, illannoy residents are supposed to register “assault weapons” (guess why). The nauseatingly slow federal court system dragging feet on lawsuit decisions.


19 posted on 10/02/2023 5:31:05 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: WASCWatch

The case isn’t ripe for consideration. Once the lower courts have done their thing, then it will be the time to go to SCOTUS.


And it may be moot at this point anyway.


20 posted on 10/02/2023 5:35:59 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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