12 Dec 2024 1:25 pm
-------------------------------------------------------------------------PHOENIX (AP) — A Republican activist who signed a document falsely claiming Donald Trump had won Arizona in 2020 became the first person to be convicted in the state’s fake elector case.Loraine Pellegrino, a past president of the group Ahwatukee Republican Women, has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of filing a false document, Arizona Attorney General’s Office spokesperson Richie Taylor said Tuesday, declining to comment further. Records documenting her guilty plea haven’t yet been posted by the court. Still, court records show Pellegrino was sentenced to unsupervised probation. Before the plea, she faced nine felony charges.Seventeen other people had been charged in the case, including 10 other Republicans who had signed a certificate saying they were “duly elected and qualified” electors and claimed Trump had carried Arizona in the 2020 election. President Joe Biden won Arizona by 10,457 votes. Joshua Kolsrud, an attorney representing Pellegrino, said in a statement that his client has accepted responsibility for her actions. “Loraine Pellegrino’s decision to accept a plea to a lesser charge reflects her desire to move forward and put this matter behind her,” Kolsrud said.On Monday, former Trump’s campaign attorney Jenna Ellis, who worked closely with his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, entered a cooperation agreement with prosecutors who have asked for her charges to be dismissed. The remaining defendants, including Giuliani and Trump presidential chief of staff Mark Meadows, have pleaded not guilty to conspiracy, fraud and forgery charges.ConservativeWave » 12 Dec 2024, 12:54 pm » wrote: ↑ THIS is what the Constitution says:
Article II, Section 2, Clause 1:The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
Someone could make the case that THAT might NOT include offenses against the "Constitutional RIGHTS of an individual" (i.e. Donald Trump)"... but only against the PROPERTY, INSTITUTION, or EMBLEMS of the "United States"... AND THAT, Pardoning a SON who may have engaged in TREASON... and/or ENTIRE segments, and departments, of the Government, that were weaponized AGAINST Donald Trump, and in effect... Abuses against "We the PEOPLE"... and LEADING to the subversion of MILLIONS of persons from THEIR Constitutional RIGHTS... THAT, MIGHT be going a bit over the line... based on a Presidential power, that is delineated by ONE sentence, and 20 words, in the U.S. Constitution !!
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