This Week in Statehouse Action: Nights Indict Satin edition

Inside: How Trump’s indictment relates to state legislatures, Tennessee Statehouse Drama, and more

…never reaching the end

Newsletters I’ve written

Never meaning to send…

Kidding, kidding – I totally meant to send this.

I also, quite intentionally, read The Indictment when it dropped this week, and … well, let’s just say it was quite the spooky walk down memory lane.

• In the long-ago time of September 2020, I wrote extensively about the election-stealing shit GOP-controlled state legislatures in key swing states could stir at the behest of Trump and his co-conspirators.

  • Thankfully, none of said shit specifically came to pass, and even if it had, courts would have likely shut Republicans down.

• But the fact remains that GOP leaders in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin actively worked to invalidate any ballots counted after Election Day, even if they’d been properly cast or received by Election Day – a tactic thought to give a heavy advantage to Republicans.

  • You see, absentee and early vote returns seemed to strongly favor Democrats that year.

  • Also, absentee and early votes also take longer …