@GottaLaff Cleta Mitchell and "election integrity". More like #votersuppression #CletaMitchell

A fmr #FultonCounty election ofcl who submitted an initial draft of the rule told #ProPublica she had done so at the behest of a regional leader of a #FarRight org involved in challenging the legitimacy of American election systems. That org, the *Election Integrity* Network, is led by [disgraced atty] #CletaMitchell, who helped orchestrate attempts to overturn the 2020 #election & spoke on the call in which #Trump demanded #Georgia’s secy of state “find” 11,780 votes to undo #Biden’s win.

@GottaLaff Cleta Mitchell is a piece of work. She wanted (probably still wants) to make it harder for college students to vote: https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/cleta-mitchell-recording-college-voting-rcna80918 #cletamitchell #Wisconsin #VoterSuppresion #collegevoters

…#RightWing #media outlets have promoted the challenges, casting public ofcls as corrupt & creating fodder that could be used in another round of #legal challenges should #Trump lose again.

…The undertaking pulls from every corner of the #ElectionDenial movement. Its parent grp is an offshoot of #CletaMitchell’s nat’l network. A top deputy to #MikeLindell, a promoter of election-related #ConspiracyTheories, helped conceive of the data program the activists use to hunt for *suspicious* #voters….

The #Michigan activists are part of an expansive web of grass-roots groups that formed after #Trump’s attempt to overturn his defeat in 2020. The groups have made mass #VoterChallenges a top priority this #election year, spurred on by a fmr Trump #lawyer, #CletaMitchell, & True the Vote, a #vote-monitoring group w/a long history of spreading #misinformation.

In the lobby of the grand Biltmore Hotel in CoralGables, FL, where a sprawling new force in Washington’s #RightWing ecosystem, the #CPI, was holding its winter conference, the fmr #Trump #legal adviser #CletaMitchell was exultant.

“Did you hear the ‘War Room’ today? #Bannon was on fire!” she said to a friend. She was referring to the podcast hosted by #SteveBannon, …who had been condemning #Republican senators for supporting billions…in #aid to #Ukraine & #Israel earlier….

Excellent reporting by @HeidiReports it continues & gets even crazier w/millions going to #GinniThomas; characters such as #JohnEastman, #CletaMitchell & more submit amicus briefs & attempt to influence #SCOTUS; #CarrieSeverino a #ClarenceThomas clerk & #LeonardLeo #JEP assoc briefs SCOTUS on the anti-#abortion anti-#Obamacare #HobbyLobby case; the 2016 #Trump election; #FederalistSociety groomed judges #AmyConeyBarrett, #BrettKavanaugh & #NeilGorsuch get appointed.
Recommended read.

Instead of resolving the case along the lines argued by the lawyers, the justices took the unusual step of asking for re-arguments based on a sweeping question — whether they should #overrule prior decisions approving laws that limited #spending on #political campaigns.

The re-argument took place on Sept 9, 2009. Two months later, on Nov 6, #CletaMitchell filed an IRS application on behalf of #GinniThomas to form the group that became #LibertyCentral Inc.

Two months before the #CitizensUnited decision…, #attorney #CletaMitchell — later to play a role in #Trump’s false claims about the 2020 elections — filed papers for #GinniThomas to create a *#nonprofit* group of a type that ultimately benefited from the decision. #Leo was one of two directors listed on a separate application to conduct business in the state of Virginia. #Thomas was president. She signed it on New Year’s Eve of 2009, & #Crow provided much of the initial #cash.