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The 4th indictment: Key takeaways of maybe the biggest criminal case against Donald Trump

The 4th indictment: Key takeaways of maybe the biggest criminal case against Donald Trump

Posted by | Aug 17, 2023

The fourth indictment of former President Donald Trump may be the most sweeping yet. The sprawling, 98-page case unveiled on August 14 opens up fresh legal ground and exposes more than a dozen of Trump’s allies to new jeopardy. But it also raises familiar legal issues of whether the First Amendment allows a politician to try to overturn an election. Already, Trump and his supporters are alleging the indictment is politicized. Here are some takeaways from the August 14 indictment: THE BIG ONE This may be the last of the Trump indictments, but it was the big one. The...

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Racketeering and Corruption: Why a law used against mobsters is central to Trump’s criminal charges

Racketeering and Corruption: Why a law used against mobsters is central to Trump’s criminal charges

Posted by | Aug 17, 2023

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis opened her investigation into Donald Trump after the release of a recording of a January 2021 phone call between Trump and Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger. Trump suggested during the call that Raffensperger, a Republican and the state’s top elections official, could help “find” the votes needed to overturn his narrow loss to Democrat Joe Biden. More than two years later, the indictment brought on August 14 by a grand jury went far beyond that phone call, alleging a web of crimes committed by Trump and others. Willis used Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced...

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Political Technology: How Trump constructed a false world for voters to elevate his power as a strongman

Political Technology: How Trump constructed a false world for voters to elevate his power as a strongman

Posted by | Aug 17, 2023

After a Georgia grand jury’s indictment of 19 people who worked to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, indicted co-conspirator and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani made a statement saying: “This is an affront to American Democracy and does permanent, irrevocable harm to our justice system. It’s just the next chapter in a book of lies with the purpose of framing President Donald Trump and anyone willing to take on the ruling regime. They lied about Russian collusion, they lied about Joe Biden’s foreign bribery scheme, and they lied about Hunter Biden’s laptop hard drive proving 30 years...

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A criminal enterprise: Trump and 18 allies charged in scheme to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results

A criminal enterprise: Trump and 18 allies charged in scheme to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results

Posted by | Aug 16, 2023

Donald Trump and 18 allies were indicted in Georgia on August 14 over their efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state, with prosecutors using a statute normally associated with mobsters to accuse the former president, lawyers, and other aides of a “criminal enterprise” to keep him in power. The nearly 100-page indictment details dozens of acts by Trump or his allies to undo his defeat, including beseeching Georgia’s Republican secretary of state to find enough votes for him to win the battleground state; harassing an election worker who faced false claims of fraud; and attempting to...

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Policy Violence: Civil Rights leaders decry DeSantis’ defense of whitewashed slavery curriculum

Policy Violence: Civil Rights leaders decry DeSantis’ defense of whitewashed slavery curriculum

Posted by | Aug 15, 2023

Civil rights activists cheered when Ron DeSantis pardoned four Black men wrongfully convicted of rape as one of his first actions as Florida’s governor. But four years later, as DeSantis eyes the presidency, their hope that the Republican would be an ally on racial justice has long faded. Instead, African American leaders decry what they call a pattern of “policy violence” against people of color imposed by the DeSantis administration that reached a low point after the recent release of an “anti-woke” public school curriculum on Black history. Specifically, Florida’s teachers are now required to instruct middle-school students that...

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War on Woke: DeSantis’ push to rewrite history echoes the ideology of authoritarian countries

War on Woke: DeSantis’ push to rewrite history echoes the ideology of authoritarian countries

Posted by | Aug 15, 2023

By Rochelle Anne Davis, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Georgetown University; and Eileen Kane, Professor of History, Connecticut College A Florida law that took effect on July 1, 2023, restricts how educators in the state’s public colleges and universities can teach about the racial oppression that African Americans have faced in the United States. Specifically, SB 266 forbids professors to teach that systemic racism is “inherent in the institutions of the United States.” Similarly, they cannot teach that it was designed “to maintain social, political and economic inequities.” We are professors who teach the modern history of the Middle East...

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