Friday, October 4, 2024

The Untold Link Between Justice Alito and Trump's Election-Denying Efforts

Records from the January 6 committee and other sources show Martin helped float a radical theory: that state legislatures had "plenary," or absolute, authority over the selection of presidential electors, regardless of what their respective state laws or courts might say. This theory is often credited to Eastman. But records show Martin spread it to an influential state legislator, Mark Finchem of Arizona, who is an unindicted co-conspirator in the Arizona "fake electors" case and who repeatedly based his own actions on his "plenary" authority as a state legislator…

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