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This has backfired on Mitch McConnell massively, there is now a #letlizspeak hastag on twitter.
LOL, I doubt seriously that Mitch McConnel will be bothered, or affected one way or the other by a bunch of lefty losers having temper tantrums on Twitter.
And apparently Ms. Warren's attempts at dragging out or preventing Mr. Sessions' confirmation as AG through her marathon attempts at his character assassination didn't work. He was confirmed by the Senate maybe an hour ago.
And no, the Marion 3 was not about suppressing the vote of other black people. They were charged with tampering with absentee Ballots because they helped elderly black people fill them out(something that isnt illegal). Most of the charges where thrown out even before they went to trial and they were acquitted of the rest.
Let's a summary that leaves out quite a bit.
It leaves out that people told FBI agents that the Three changed their votes without their permission. After that, they told the FBI that the Three then pressured them to change their testimony. It was ant until during the trial that these witnesses then recanted their stories and said they didn't tell the truth during their grand jury testimonies.
It leaves out that when Sessions was first told that the Three tampered with absentee votes that he declined to prosecute.
It fails to mention that Sessions had very little to do with the prosecution until the trial started to come apart.
It fails to mention the discrepancy in the number of absentee votes and number of voters.
This whole thing stinks. McConnell is a crafty old bastard. You might not like him, but he knows what he's doing. He had to know shutting down Warren would have consequences, so why do it? IMO, one of the bloggers at the popular right wing blog Hot Air come close - they claim McConnell is trying to make Warren the face of the Democrat Party now and in 2020. Report: Yes, McConnell was hoping to “elevate” Warren by shutting down her Senate floor speech last night « Hot Air
It makes a certain sense. Warren is the liberal we GOP'ers love to hate. I'd rather listen to Nancy Pelosi all day that Warren for five minutes. Her voice is like nails on a blackboard.
So just another speculative log on the fire.
Stupid if so. She was quoting From Coretta Scott King. Not exactly someone you are going to score points off of.
In 1983, a majority-black state grand jury weighed these voter fraud allegations and found serious problems — primarily with the tampering of the right of black Perry County citizens to vote — and asked the federal government to intervene.
But Sessions did not investigate.
“My feeling was that the problem would not continue; that the people would straighten up, clean up, after their act. And I saw no reason to prosecute after the county had not prosecuted, and we did not,” Sessions said, adding that irregularities that year involved only a few ballots.
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Then, in 1984, black officeholders complained of voter fraud and filed an election contest, Sessions said. Perry County, one of the smallest Alabama counties with a population of 15,000, had more absentee ballots filed than Jefferson County, population 700,000, according to a local news article.
Investigators interviewed witnesses who said their ballots were changed and observed a post office where Turner and other activists dropped off ballots. They tracked the ballots and found about 75 out of 700 had been changed, Sessions said — a larger scale than was alleged in 1982.
That should clear up a lot.
It started as a complaint from some black politicians that other black politicians were cheating them out of votes.
Investigators were given names and the location of the post office used. This is why the FBI "targeted them".
The reports of election tampering received were about those three individuals. It only makes sense that the FBI focus on them.
Who reported them, election officials and were they white.
Did the FBI focus in on any other voter fraud in the state of Alabama regarding white voters deserving of an indictment and a grand jury hearing. Did you notice the details on the grand jury hearing.
Sessions was not personally involved in the case until the end, when it became clear that the prosecutors would fail. He acknowledged that “one of the things I think I failed in doing — we only have eight lawyers in the office. I only had two lawyers assigned to the case” against a 10-person defense team comprising experienced civil rights lawyers.
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Some black voters testified that they didn’t authorize any changes to their ballots. But others, who had told the FBI that their ballots were changed without approval, changed their testimony during the trial. Some could not identify ballots as their own because they couldn’t read or write. Other government witnesses spoke positively about Turner and the other defendants before the jury.
Who reported them, election officials and were they white.
Did the FBI focus in on any other voter fraud in the state of Alabama regarding white voters deserving of an indictment and a grand jury hearing. Did you notice the details on the grand jury hearing.
The details that the FBI only investigated the one post office in the black district?
If so, yes. Investigators who investigated the case talked to the black politicians who gave specifics that lead to the Three and the specific post office they used.
If you are referring to other details, tell me which ones so I can either address them or look up the information.
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