Election Crimes Bulletin: It’s Georgia — AGAIN!!!

Georgia is on our minds — again —this week on the Election Crimes
Bulletin, with new GOP laws to eliminate absentee voting by
dropbox (SB 221), to stop the use of (unfortunately) much-needed
donations to support election administration (SB 222), and to
create a new Georgia commission to restrict and remove
prosecutors (SB 92). The later law is clearly aimed at curtailing
the activities of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis,
who’s investigating criminal interference in Georgia’s 2020
presidential election by Donald Trump and his cronies, and is
edging ever closer to indictments.


Meanwhile the Biden Administration has joined Fair Fight, the
voting rights organization founded by Georgia’s
should-have-been-governor Stacey Abrams, in their legal action
against True the Vote, the right wing "election integrity"
organization that attempted to overturn the 2020 and 2022
elections with mass voter challenges. Earlier this month, US
District Court Judge Steve C. Jones ordered True the Vote to
stand trial in Atlanta. In his summary judgment, Judge Jones
noted that even True the Vote’s so-called expert, Gregg Phillips,
“candidly admits that there will be voters on the challenge list
that are eligible to vote.” But it remains to be seen how far the
Biden Administration will go to support Fair Fight’s action
against True the Vote and its army of vigilante vote challengers,
which we exposed before the 2022 election in on our film,
Vigilante.


Also in the news is Ginni Thomas, the wife of US Supreme Court
Justice Clarence Thomas, who’s raised new ethics questions after
it was revealed that Crowdsourcers for Culture and Liberty, a
conservative think tank led by her, accepted anonymous donations
totaling $596,000 in 2019. Much of the money, $400,000, came via
Donors Trust, an organization that has long been on the radar of
the Palast Investigations team. As a funnel for Koch funds,
Donors Trust had a prominent role in our 2016 film, The Best
Democracy Money Can Buy.


Learn all about this and more on the latest edition of the
Election Crimes Bulletin with Dennis Bernstein and Greg Palast.