It is increasingly looking like Marc Elias, the chief lawyer architect of the Hillary Clinton campaign’s efforts to manufacture baseless suspicion that Donald Trump and his campaign “colluded” with the Russians to tilt the 2016 election, may face legal and ethical consequences for his role. We shall see: the investigation’s results are still being analyzed. Meanwhile, Elias is unrepentant and still devising ways to assist his favorite political party ( he has been often called the most prominent Democratic attorney in America ) with strategies for which “dubious” is a compliment.
Behold this tweet by Elias from this week:
The quote below Elias’s “prediction” is from Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which was passed during the post-Civil War reconstruction period and was specifically aimed at officeholders under the former Confederate States of America, to prevent them from serving in the United States Congress. Nevermind…any port in a storm, and if the Democrats can find a way to distort the Constitution’s intent to hold onto power, they will undoubtedly try it. Elias’s “prediction” is in fact a transparent attempt to talk his party into yet another desperation ploy, this one based on the still current Big Lie that what the 300 boobs armed with (at most) sticks and bear spray were trying to do on January 6 is overthrow the government. The plan also requires a very loose definition of “engaged.”
As noted in a previous post, this guy has already lied to the news media about the Clinton campaign’s role in trying to bring down the Trump administration. Elias is more guilty of attempting an “insurrection” than any GOP House members, who at most argued that the 2020 election was tainted, unreliable, and a legitimate target of protest, and no insurrection charge against him would last five minutes before a judge.
Is the public aware of what a cynical, dishonest, slimy batch of anti-democratic Machiavellians (that’s ol’ Niccolo above!) are calling the audibles for the today’s Democratic Party?
Ethics Alarms 
He should watch out what he wishes for.
Many on the left supported bailing out rioters, rioters who attacked police stations, federal courthouses and other governmental facilities.
Could Kamala Harris face removal for giving aid and comfort to those no-goodniks? Of course not; that would be racist!
-Jut
Exactly. Or Rep. Waters exhorting her followers to attack and harass Trump Administration officials. Sounds kinda insurrectiony to me.
jvb
Let us not forget Speaker Pelosi.
The stormtroopers were not the ones trying to burn down the courthouse, but those trying to defend the courthouse.
This was part of a narrative being preached by the media about federal agents kidnapping peaceful protests. Walls of Moms and Walls of Vets were organized to protect rioters and arsonists from police.
That was an ethics train wreck which, for some reason, Jack did not post about.
That written, Pelosi’s tweet does not constitute inciting insurrection.
Exactly
I read too quickly, and instead of “audibles” in your closing question, saw “edibles.” I’m pretty sure the Machiavellians have been supplying those to both parties for some time.
I like “edibles” angle. I could use a chocolate cake right about now.
jvb
Interesting he has his own firm now. The partners at his own firm seem to have wanted to distance themselves from him and his hijinks. The guy is beyond words despicable and an alumnus of my college which thinks he’s the greatest thing since canned milk. Which drives me nuts. He makes Paul Begala and Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler and Robert Reich and their ilk look like Thomas a Beckett. Thanks for highlighting his continuing malfeasance. He’s pretty much Hillary’s Rasputin.
The partners of his OLD firm
Clearly, he doesn’t trust his party’s ability to keep its seats after the midterms. Sad that a major political party in this country has to play games with democracy rather than trust the electorate.
Yes, isn’t it ironic they use the “threat to democracy” shibboleth so brazenly. This guy is truly an asshole’s asshole.
I wonder if he considers burning down courthouses to be a threat to democracy.
Here is a link to the tweet.
I read through the comments to that post and, frankly, it seems we have become a lawless third-world state. I guess it is good that we can imprison our political opponents. That should be fun to watch.
I have said it before and i will say it again: If the 300 or so rabble rousers wandering around the Capitol was a real threat to the future of this republic as alleged by the Democrats and the media, then our republican norms are skating on dangerously thin ice. I mean, if all it took was some idiot in a buffalo-horned hat to bring the entire system crashing down, then . . .
However, if those same rabble rousers really were not such a threat after all, then the system is pretty strong. Perhaps the bigger/biggest threat is from the tyrants within the government (from all sides and the bureaucrats who supposedly run the place – you know, the “Deep State”) who are using January 6th as a pretext to implement totalitarian controls over the society. This bozo’s post is a perfect example of using law enforcement and the courts to strangle opposition to the evergrowing government complex.
jvb
This is setting a very dangerous precedent, more dangerous than this guy thinks. I would point him back to Harry Reid’s foolish changing of the rules for confirmation of appointees and the current pending proposal to require only a simple majority for legislation. These proposals, which might appear good in the short term, always end up being a problem in the long term. The one has already come back to bite the Democratic party very hard, and the latter will bite even harder, like national Right to Work legislation, like a federal ban on abortion, like who knows what else?
I submit that if the Democratic party tries to go this route, then all GOP governors of states where there were insurrections in cities in the summer of 2020 should start arresting the mayors of those cities and any and all legislators who supported these insurrections. What is more, after the next election, in 2024, if Biden is replaced by a Republican, which I’m thinking is getting more and more likely, then the Federal Executive Branch needs to start arresting governors as well as members of Congress who supported what happened that summer. I know some people who post here or who used to post here would call this outrageous. If we follow this model, it is unfair not to expect the GOP to follow suit.
Seriously, I don’t want this nation to descend into that. We do not need to become a racial revenge state like Zimbabwe. We do not need to become a leftist tyranny like Venezuela or Bolivia (until recently). We also don’t need to become a right wing tyranny like Chile under Pinochet or Spain under Franco. Do we really want to be in a situation where today’s prisoner is tomorrow’s president and vice versa?
On a related note.
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