Election Officials Gain Defenders Against Trump Republicans Bent On Corrupting Democracy- Rachel Maddow

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Bob Bauer, co-chair of the Election Official Legal Defense Network, talks with Rachel Maddow about the rise in threats against nonpartisan election workers and the work being done to bolster their legal protections and to brace for 2024. Aired on 12/15/2021.

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1. Merrick Garland met with Congress

a month ago and promised that DOJ would work with local law enforcement to prevent attacks on school board members and election officials. Garland at the hearing was attacked by GQP Senators who accused Garland of suppressing freedom of speech, I recall Garland cowering to them by saying that DOJ would only make recommendations to local law enforcement. To the wait and see people here, school board members and election officials are being harassed and threatened daily. Thank goodness those 2 attorneys are at least doing something to help defend election workers from being attacked by GQP officials.

One of the consequences of Garland allowing the Cyber Ninjas to violate federal election law with their fraudit in Arizona is that the fraudits have spread to other states. A consequence of allowing this to happen is that the GQP is using these fraudits to intimidate honest election officials, especially people of color election officials, and either forcing them to quit or firing them and replacing them with the Big Lie followers. The report by Rachel here is from Wisconsin I believe.

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2. Government by Death Threat - I Never Thought I'd Live to See the Day!

And I'm beginning to wonder if death threats were a routine part of Trump's intimidation of Republican legislators, and if so, to what extent - who knows???

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3. A number of groups of lawyers will be mobilizing for this election cycle

Poll workers will be defended by a number of these groups