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Joe Mullins, left, next to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office’s Mike Lutz, who spoke to a group of local residents heading to Washington to protest Congress’ certifying the election of Joe Biden. Mullins, who had someone in the group take a video of him and Lutz, was sponsoring the trip.
Florida law is clear: an elected official at any level may not “Use his or her official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with an election or a nomination of office or coercing or influencing another person’s vote or affecting the result thereof.”
On Monday, Flagler County Commissioner Joe Mullins used official commission letterhead to address Florida’s congressional delegation, urging its members to reject the electoral vote counts “of certain states” in President-Elect Joe Biden’s favor. The letter repeats baseless, false, misleading, conspiratorial and widely discredited claims that Biden’s election was fraudulent.
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The Deep State must be absolutely terrified that President Trump just might once again, pull a rabbit out of his combover. As any American with at least a 7th grade understanding of our Constitution knows, what is currently playing out is a lawful exercise of the procedures for contesting a Presidential election…at least from the President’s side. Point of fact, this is not the first time a party or parties has contested the award of Presidential Electors.
Democrats have a history of challenging Presidential electors. In Bush v Gore, former Vice President Gore took his challange all the way to the United States Supreme Court, before finally being slapped down. In two more recent elections, Bush v Kerry and Trump v Clinton, legislators challenged state selected Electors. Congress as a whole, quickly death with the challange, but that doesn’t obviate the obvious hypocrisy of some of those same legislators decrying President Trump’s legal efforts to preve
A closer look at free speech
The First Amendment, in part, says: “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech.”
For many years the protections of the Bill of Rights, including the protection of freedom of speech, only restricted the power of the federal government. States were at liberty to deny due process, cruelly and unusually punish people, and restrict gun ownership for whomever they chose. Massachusetts had a state-established religion until 1833. Fortunately, with the combination of the 14th Amendment and a few Supreme Court cases, most of the protections of the Bill of Rights, including freedom of speech, now apply to both state and federal governments.
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Gov. Chris Sununu announced Wednesday that he will re-nominate Attorney General Gordon MacDonald to serve as the next Chief Justice of the state Supreme Court.
MacDonald was previously nominated for the job by Sununu in 2019, but Democrats who controlled the majority on the Executive Council at that time blocked his appointment, citing concerns about his previous work in Republican politics, his position on abortion rights, and his lack of judicial experience.
Sununu has left the chief justice seat vacant since then, declining to bring forward another nominee.
In November’s elections, Republicans won a 4-1 majority on the Executive Council, making MacDonald’s nomination much more likely this time.