A staunch conservative's urgent warning to the GOP about Trump and 2024

[Nevilledog]

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Greg Sargent
@ThePlumLineGS
Nightmare scenario:

Do we really want Speaker Kevin McCarthy to be the one who decides which 2024 presidential electors count?

Because that could very well happen.

Here's a major conservative legal figure talking about exactly this possibility:

washingtonpost.com
Opinion | A staunch conservative’s urgent warning to the GOP about Trump and 2024
A conservative legal figure demands that Republicans face the truth about the Trump threat.
7:57 AM · Feb 14, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/14/2024-coup-electoral-count-act-luttig/

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https://archive.fo/XLIvm

Donald Trump is telling us exactly how he intends to rerun his coup attempt, should the conditions align for it in 2024. He regularly flaunts his view that attempting to overturn his 2020 loss was the correct thing to do, even as he seeks to install loyalists, one by one, in positions of control over the 2024 election.

It is a depressing fact about this moment, and about our country, that most Republicans do not see all this as disqualifying in a 2024 standard-bearer. But that leaves a question: Will Republicans at least act to make such an outcome less likely to succeed?

A widely respected conservative former federal judge just issued an urgent warning about Trump’s intentions that clarifies the stakes. In a New York Times op-ed, J. Michael Luttig makes the “conservative case” for reforming the Electoral Count Act of 1887, or ECA, for the express reason that failing to do so will make it easier for Trump to steal the 2024 election.

This should be a seminal moment in the debate over the ECA. It should also make it harder for Republicans to keep playing the role of apologists about Jan. 6 — and about Trump’s future intentions.

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[SharonClark]

1. A "warning"? More like a promise the GQP is betting on.

[scipan]

2. I have faith in VP Kamala Harris.

[bullwinkle428]

3. I think the Speaker is more likely to be Jim Jordan, which will make the

situation even more desperate.