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+Ho’s work, in other words, is often indistinguishable from that of a professional troll. He revels in taking deliberately provocative positions. He often joins a fairly extreme opinion written by a colleague, and then writes separately to take an even more extreme position. His judicial opinions mingle Fox News talking points, men’s rights activism, Federalist Society fantasies, and discredited legal doctrines that are now taught to law students to warn them of the Supreme Court’s worst mistakes. +

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+Ho seems to never miss an opportunity to weigh in on a political controversy. When he’s not writing concurring opinions arguing that the Supreme Court should bring back the Lochner era, an age when conservative justices imposed their own laissez-faire ideology on the rest of the nation, he can often be found lecturing law schools on the evils of “cancel culture.” +

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+(That said, Ho did not respond to a request to be interviewed for this piece.) +

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+When I speak to other judges, I often hear them use a derisive word to describe this kind of behavior: “auditioning.” It’s an increasingly common practice among Republican judges itching for a promotion. +

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+In his final years as a lower court judge, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote several opinions laying out his plans to shift power from federal agencies to the judiciary — a high-priority issue for the Federalist Society, which played a key role in picking Trump’s judges and justices. These opinions reportedly “proved decisive” in the Trump White House’s decision to give Gorsuch a big promotion. +

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+Similarly, in his final year as a lower court judge, Justice Brett Kavanaugh — who previously had a thin record on abortion — went out of his way to convey both in a published opinion and in a speech to a conservative think tank that he opposed Roe v. Wade. Trump picked Kavanaugh for the next seat to open up on the Supreme Court. +

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+The most alarming thing about Judge Ho, in other words, isn’t his penchant for trolling. It is the very real possibility that he will be rewarded for it. No judge in America has auditioned harder for a Supreme Court appointment in a Republican administration. And, if the next president is Donald Trump, Trump has already shown that he prefers judges who go out of their way to show their loyalty to Republican causes. +

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+What does Jim Ho’s version of the Constitution look like? +

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+Lochner v. New York (1905) is one of a handful of decisions that legal scholars refer to as the “anti-canon” — a list of cases taught to law students as examples of how judges must never, ever behave. The list also includes the pro-slavery decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) and the segregationist decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). +

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+Ho wants to bring back Lochner. +

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+Lochner stuck down a New York state law that limited, to 60 hours a week, the amount of time worked by bakery workers. At the time, these workers were typically paid by the day or by the week, so the law had prevented these workers from being forced to work extraordinarily long shifts for no extra pay. +

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+Other cases applying Lochner’s reasoning struck down minimum wage laws and stripped workers of their right to unionize. +

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+Lochner was grounded in what it described as the “right of the individual to … enter into those contracts in relation to labor which may seem to him appropriate or necessary for the support of himself and his family.” The idea was that, if a worker entered into a contract to work long hours for little pay, then the law could not alter this contract — even if the contract was itself the product of exploitation or desperation. +

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+Lochner, in other words, not only stripped the government of much of its power to protect workers, it did so on the dubious ground that, by insisting that workers adhere to whatever exploitative employment contracts their bosses imposed upon them, the Court was actually defending the rights of those workers. The Court ultimately abandoned Lochner in West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937). +

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+Ho picked an inauspicious case, Golden Glow Tanning Salon v. City of Columbus, to offer his love letter to Lochner. In it, a Mississippi tanning salon claimed that Covid era lockdowns violated the salon owner’s “right to work,” a common argument made by modern day libertarians who seek to revive Lochner. (A “right to work” is synonymous with Lochner’s so-called right to “enter into those contracts in relation to labor which may seem to him appropriate.”) +

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+Though all three judges who heard Golden Glow agreed that the Supreme Court’s decisions repudiating Lochnerism prevented them from ruling in the tanning salon’s favor, Ho wrote a brief concurring opinion that relied heavily on scholarship by right-wing lawyers arguing that Lochner should be revived. He suggested that the anti-worker right recognized in Lochner has a “better historical grounding than more recent claims of right that have found judicial favor.” And he urged the Supreme Court to take up a pending case seeking to revive Lochner (the justices declined to do so). +

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+Ho’s passion for the sorts of economic “rights” favored by Gilded Age robber barons is matched by his disdain for abortion. He wrote about the “moral tragedy of abortion” in one of his judicial opinions. And he’s urged his Fifth Circuit — which is already the most right-wing federal appeals court in the country, and is typically hostile towards reproductive freedom — to be even more aggressive in quashing abortion rights. +

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+Just last week, for example, a three-judge panel that includes Ho attempted to ban the drug mifepristone, which is used in more than half of all US abortions. That decision will have no effect, because the Supreme Court preemptively blocked it last April — a pretty clear sign that even this very conservative Supreme Court thinks that the legal arguments against mifepristone are weak. +

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+But Ho didn’t just join this attempt to ban the drug, in a case called Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, he wrote a separate opinion arguing that his colleagues were insufficiently hostile to abortion rights. +

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+Technically, the Fifth Circuit’s majority opinion in Alliance did not purport to ban mifepristone outright, it merely ordered the FDA to reinstate restrictions on the drug that the agency abandoned in 2016. As a practical matter, this order would prevent the drug from being marketed in the United States for at least a few months, because it would take a long time for government regulators and the drug maker to comply with the pre-2016 rules. But Ho would have gone even further, ordering the FDA to rescind its decision to approve the medication way back in 2000. +

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+There are so many errors in Ho’s legal reasoning that it would be tedious to list them all here. One of them is that the statute of limitations to challenge an FDA approval of a drug is six years. While there are legitimate reasons that time period can sometimes be extended, Ho can’t rescue a lawsuit that was filed more than two decades after mifepristone’s approval. +

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+On guns, Ho joined the Fifth Circuit’s decision in United States v. Rahimi (2023), a decision the Supreme Court is likely to reverse in its upcoming term, holding that people who violently abuse their romantic partners or their partner’s child have a Second Amendment right to own a gun — even after a court proceeding determines that the abuser is “a credible threat to the physical safety of such intimate partner or child.” +

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+Rahimi is another case where Ho joined an alarming decision written by one of his colleagues, and then wrote separately to argue for an even more extreme position. +

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+Ho argues that one reason his court should be skeptical of a law seeking to disarm people subject to domestic violence restraining orders is that women who are not victims of abuse allegedly obtain these orders to “secure [favorable] rulings on critical issues such as [marital and child] support, exclusion from marital residence and property disposition.” +

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+As evidence that this is a real problem that actually exists, Ho cites a handful of court decisions — including a 1993 decision by a court in New Jersey that invalidated a restraining order because of a lack of evidence that the man subjected to it was violent, and a 2005 incident where comedian David Letterman was briefly subject to a restraining order before a court tossed that order out. +

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+The fact that Ho had to rely on decades-old cases in faraway jurisdictions to show that judges sometimes issue domestic violence restraining orders for invalid reasons is a sign that, maybe, this isn’t as big of a problem as Ho makes it out to be. Nevertheless, Ho would potentially arm hundreds of men who have murderous intentions in order to save someone like Letterman from having to go without a firearm for a couple of weeks. +

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+Ho could be the future of the federal judiciary +

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+Ho’s penchant for tacking to the right of his already quite reactionary colleagues marks him as an outlier, even within a conservative federal judiciary. But he’s hardly an extreme outlier, especially on the far-right Fifth Circuit. +

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+In Collins v. Mnuchin (2019), for example, Ho signed onto an opinion by Judge Don Willett that threatened to invalidate every single action taken by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), which was created in 2008 to stabilize the US housing market during a historic recession. Had Willett’s approach prevailed in the Supreme Court, it could have potentially collapsed the US housing market and triggered a global economic depression (the Supreme Court voted 8-1 against Willett’s approach). +

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+Notably, however, Ho was one of a total of seven judges who signed onto Willett’s attempt to burn down more than a dozen years of work by a federal agency. There is no shortage of judicial arsonists on the Fifth Circuit. +

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+Similarly, the Supreme Court will hear several cases in its upcoming term in which it is likely to reverse similarly aggressive decisions by the Fifth Circuit. Those most likely include the Alliance case about mifepristone, as well as the Rahimi guns case, and two decisions declaring the entire the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unconstitutional and gutting the federal government’s power to enforce securities law. +

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+The leading contenders for the Republican presidential nomination are already signaling that they want to pick justices who are well to the right of the three already very conservative justices Trump placed on the Supreme Court. In his infamous speech before the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, Trump said that he is “not happy with the Supreme Court” because they supposedly “love to rule against me.” (When Trump was president, the Court often manipulated its own procedures to rule in Trump’s favor, but the Court rejected his bid to overturn the 2020 election.) +

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+Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis attacked Trump’s justices in June, claiming that “none of those three are at the same level of Justices Thomas and Justice Alito,” two justices who fairly consistently vote like Fifth Circuit judges. +

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+Ho, meanwhile, is auditioning harder than anyone in the judiciary to catch Trump or DeSantis’s eye. And, even if the next Republican president decides to pick someone less flamboyant for the high court, they will have no shortage of candidates who are eager to light decades’ worth of settled law — along with entire federal agencies — on fire. +

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+Former President Donald Trump +

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+Role: Former president and charged as head of the criminal enterprise +

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+Charges: 13, including racketeering, soliciting a public official to violate their oath of office, and making false statements +

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+Connection to the case: The indictment describes Trump as the leader of the criminal enterprise that sought to overturn the 2020 Georgia election results. +

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+Among other things, it accuses him of planning, alongside allies, of misleading the public about the election in speeches, repeatedly lying to elected officials in key states to get them to back his push to overturn the election, pressuring many officials to tamper with the electoral process, working to disrupt Congress’s certification of the electoral vote, and using social media to foment conspiracy theories. +

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+It also claims that Trump knew he had not won the election and that the activities his allies undertook to overturn it were done with Trump’s implicit, and often explicit, approval. +

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+Trump’s post-election legal team +

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+Giuliani, in a navy suit and red and blue striped tie, wears a neutral expression while looking at the camera in a grainy digital photo. Fulton County Sheriff’s Office/Getty Images +
+Rudy Giuliani, former personal lawyer for former President Donald Trump, poses for his booking photo on August 23, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. +
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+Role: Former Trump attorney +

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+Charges: 13, including racketeering, making false statements, and conspiracy to commit forgery +

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+Connection to the case: Giuliani, formerly New York City’s mayor, became a close Trump ally over the course of the former president’s administration, and eventually served as Trump’s personal lawyer. He was a prominent figure in the days following the election, appearing on television and holding press conferences falsely arguing Trump won. +

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+He is accused of pressuring legislatures in multiple states, including Georgia, to name electors that would award the election to Trump even though multiple recounts had confirmed his loss. +

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+Eastman, white haired and clean shaven, looks with a neutral expression at the camera. Fulton County Sheriff’s Office/Getty Images +
+John Eastman, former lawyer to President Donald Trump, poses for his booking photo on August 22, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. +
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+John Eastman +

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+Role: Former Trump attorney +

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+Charges: nine, including racketeering, solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer, and filing false documents +

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+Connection to the case: Eastman is a longtime fixture in the conservative legal scene and was previously the chair of the Federalist Society. He began advising Trump in earnest following the 2020 election and composed a memo that was central to the former President’s efforts to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to reject the 2020 election results. +

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+The indictment accuses Eastman of working with Trump to coordinate an alternative slate of electors in several states and of filing false documents that allege unfounded claims of election fraud in Georgia, including that thousands of felons and underaged people voted illegally. +

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+Powell, dark blonde in a white blouse, smiles faintly as she stares at the viewer. Fulton County Sheriff’s Office/Getty Images +
+Attorney Sidney Powell poses for her booking photo on August 23, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. +
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+Sidney Powell +

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+Role: Former Trump attorney +

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+Charges: seven, including racketeering, conspiracy to commit election fraud, and conspiracy to defraud the state +

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+Connection to the case: Powell was a Trump campaign attorney who became one of the most visible faces of the effort touting unfounded election fraud claims, famously saying at one point that she would “release the Kraken” of evidence. Powell also vocally spread lies about how Dominion voting machines favored Biden versus Trump, an allegation that later played a role in the defamation lawsuit Dominion filed against Fox News. +

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+The indictment accuses Powell of hiring a forensic data firm to acquire data from Dominion voting machines across the country, including in Coffee County, Georgia. It also alleges that Powell tampered with electronic ballot markers and machines in Coffee County. +

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+Clean shaven, with gelled salt and pepper hair, Chesebro frowns slightly in his mugshot. Fulton County Sheriff’s Office/Getty Images +
+Former Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro poses for his booking photo on August 23, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. +
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+Kenneth Chesebro +

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+Role: Former Trump attorney +

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+Charges: seven, including racketeering, conspiracy to commit forgery, and conspiracy to commit filing false documents +

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+Connection to the case: Chesebro, a lawyer who has worked with conservatives in recent years, is one of the lesser-known Trump attorneys who played a major role in advancing the idea of the fake electors scheme. As part of his argument, Cheseboro suggested that multiple states could have false electors put forth votes for Trump and send them to Washington, sowing doubt around Biden’s win. +

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+The indictment accuses him of several offenses, including conspiracy to commit filing false documents by submitting a document about the Georgia electors in court that contained false statements. His memos allegedly helped fuel the plan to secure a slate of alternative electors in each state that could be sent to Congress to cause confusion and distrust. +

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+Her long blonde hair covering her dark suit, Ellis smiles broadly while looking into the camera. Fulton County Sheriff’s Office/Getty Images +
+Former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis poses for her booking photo on August 23, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. +
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+Jenna Ellis +

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+Role: Former Trump attorney +

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+Charges: two, including racketeering and solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer +

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+Connection to the case: Ellis is a conservative lawyer and a former deputy district attorney from Colorado. Ellis allegedly coordinated Georgia hearings that helped perpetuate unfounded claims of election fraud and is said to have participated in meetings and hearings related to overturning the vote in other key states as well. +

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+The indictment accuses her of writing memos making the legal case that a vice president can intercede during the congressional session meant to certify the electoral vote and can stop that vote from happening. These memos supposedly helped form the basis of the pressure campaign Trump publicly waged to try to get his vice president, Mike Pence, to help overturn the election. +

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+Dressed casually in a blue polo, a clean shaven Smith, his black hair falling into his face, looks grave. Fulton County Sheriff’s Office/Getty Images +
+Georgia lawyer Ray Smith poses for his booking photo on August 23, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. +
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+Ray Smith +

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+Role: Former Trump 2020 campaign attorney in Georgia +

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+Charges: 12, including racketeering, solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer, and false statements +

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+Connection to the case: Smith was previously a staffer in the Georgia Attorney General’s office and served as Trump’s local attorney in Georgia during the 2020 campaign. Smith is named for testifying at a Georgia state Senate hearing and perpetuating election lies there, as well as participating in an election challenge in Georgia state court. Additionally, he is accused of pressuring Georgia House members to appoint alternative electors. +

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+In a blue suit and blue tie, a silver-haired Meadows smiles slightly. Fulton County Sheriff’s Office/Getty Images +
+Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in his August 24, 2023, Fulton County mugshot. +
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+Mark Meadows +

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+Role: former White House chief of staff +

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+Charges: two, including racketeering and solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer +

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+Connection to the case: Meadows was Trump’s fourth (if you count acting chief Mick Mulvaney) and final chief of staff and was a key member of his inner circle in the final days of his administration. In all of the January 6 investigations, there have been many questions about how much Meadows knew about Trump’s state of mind during his attempts to overturn the election. +

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+The indictment mostly casts him as a facilitator, allegedly helping coordinate communications between Trump and Georgia election officials, coordinating legal strategies, and spreading false theories about election fraud. +

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+In a dark suit, a balding Clark wrinkles his forehead, a half smile on his lips. Fulton County Sheriff’s Office/Getty Images +
+Former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark in his August 25, 2023, Fulton County mugshot. +
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+Jeffrey Clark +

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+Role: former acting assistant attorney general at the DOJ +

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+Charges: two, including racketeering and attempt to commit false statements and writings +

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+Connection to the case: Clark became known during the January 6 investigation as a DOJ official said to have tried to use the chaos unfolding at the end of the Trump administration to catapult himself into the role of acting attorney general, and then, to use the power of that office to force key states to acknowledge Trump’s false electors, handing the election to Trump. +

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+The indictment details Clark’s communications with acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen and other key officials, including a false letter intended for Georgia officials that suggested the DOJ had observed concerns with the state’s election results that could have required the reevaluation of the outcome and the appointment of new electors. It suggests that he was a key part of the effort to use the government as a tool to overturn the election. +

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+Clean shaven, his blonde hair in a crew cut, a large silver Windsor knot at his neck, Roman frowns slightly. Fulton County Sheriff’s Office/Getty Images +
+Former Trump campaign staffer Michael Roman in his August 25, 2023, Fulton County mugshot. +
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+Michael Roman +

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+Role: Senior Trump campaign staffer +

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+Charges: seven, including racketeering, conspiracy to commit impersonating a public officer, and conspiracy to commit forgery +

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+Connection to the case: Roman had a low-profile role in the Trump campaign as its director of Election Day operations. That job required coordination with local election officials, lawmakers, and campaign members. The indictment suggests Roman used contacts made during the campaign to help coordinate the plan to set up a slate of fake electors and alleges that he provided organizational support for that plan in Georgia, including setting up meetings. +

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+Dressed in a pink crew neck top, her brown hair pulled back, Hampton smiles, her lips pressed together. Fulton County Sheriff’s Office/Getty Images +
+Former Coffee County elections supervisor Misty Hampton poses for her August 25, 2023, Fulton County mugshot. +
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+Misty Hampton +

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+Role: Former Coffee County, Georgia, election supervisor +

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+Charges: seven, including racketeering, conspiracy to commit election fraud, and conspiracy to defraud the state +

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+Connection to the case: In the weeks after the election, Hampton publicly questioned the results of the election and advanced the conspiracy theory that there was something amiss with Dominion Voting Systems machines, including by posting a video popular among the right meant to show that the machines could easily be tampered with. She told the Washington Post she allowed businessman Scott Hall, one of the other defendants, and others access to the Coffee County elections office to help prove to the world “that this election was not done true and correct.” +

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+The indictment accuses her of improperly accessing and sharing the Coffee County machine’s data and of aiding Trump supporters who were trying to get data. +

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+Local operators and Trump supporters +

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+His silver blonde hair reflecting the ceiling lights and blotting out part of his face, Cheeley looks ahead, his face inscrutable. Fulton County Sheriff’s Office/Getty Images +
+Lawyer Robert Cheeley poses for his booking photo at the Fulton County Jail on August 25, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. +
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+Robert Cheeley +

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+Role: trial attorney in Georgia +

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+Charges: 10, including racketeering, conspiracy to commit impersonating a public officer, and conspiracy to commit false statements +

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+Connection to the case: Cheeley is a local lawyer who represented Trump, a fake elector, and other GOP figures. He is best known for testifying at a Georgia legislative hearing making false allegations of miscounting and election fraud, including under oath. +

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+His silver hair swept back over his head and a short, neat beard covering his face, Hall poses without a readable expression on his face, his shirt open and a dark jacket over his shoulders. Fulton County Sheriff’s Office/Getty Images +
+Bail bondsman Scott Hall poses for his booking photo on August 22, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. +
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+Scott Hall +

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+Role: Atlanta-based Trump supporter +

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+Charges: seven, including racketeering, conspiracy to commit election fraud, and conspiracy to defraud the state +

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+Connection to the case: Hall is a local bail bondsman and Trump supporter. Hampton told the Washington Post that he and others visited Coffee County’s election offices but that she wasn’t sure exactly how they spent their time there, telling the paper, “I’m not a babysitter.” The indictment alleges he illegally accessed data from a voting machine in Coffee County, Georgia. +

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+In a priest’s black and white habit, his face red, Lee frowns, an expression that perhaps seems upset on his face. Fulton County Sheriff’s Office/Getty Images +
+Lutheran pastor Stephen Cliffgard Lee poses for his booking photo at the Fulton County Jail on August 25, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. +
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+Stephen Lee +

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+Role: Illinois pastor and Trump supporter +

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+Charges: five, including racketeering, attempting to influence witnesses, and conspiracy to commit solicitation of false statements and writings +

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+Connection to the case: Before the 2020 election, Lee was a traveling pastor who specialized in ministering to law enforcement post-crisis. A Trump supporter, he went to the home of election worker Ruby Freeman, whom pro-Trump conspiracy theorists accused of helping to illegally swing the election for Biden. +

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+When the police came to the house, Lee told them, “I’m a pastor and I’m also working with some folks who are trying to help Ruby out and also get to some truth of what’s going on.” He went on to connect with codefendant Harrison Floyd, asking for his assistance in talking to Freeman, reportedly believing that Freeman, a Black woman, would respond more positively to Floyd, a Black man. +

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+Lee’s efforts, the indictment claims, constitute intimidation of Atlanta election officials and illegal influencing of witnesses. +

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+Bald, in a blue sports coat and shirt, Floyd looks into the camera, his lips pressed together. Fulton County Sheriff’s Office/Getty Images +
+Former leader of Black Voices for Trump Floyd Harrison poses for his booking photo on August 24, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. +
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+Role: former leader of Black Voters for Trump +

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+Charges: three, including racketeering, conspiracy to commit to false writings, and conspiracy to influence witnesses +

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+Connection to the case: Floyd had long been a Trump supporter but became involved with the other defendants after responding to a call from Lee. He then reportedly recruited defendant Trevian Kutti’s assistance in trying to talk to Ruby Freeman, the Atlanta election worker pro-Trump forces accused of fraud. The indictment claims he participated in an intimidation scheme. +

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+Her wavy black hair in a high pony and wearing a camouflage coat, Kutti smiles broadly, her eyebrows raised. Fulton County Sheriff’s Office/Getty Images +
+Publicist Trevian Kutti poses for her booking photo at the Fulton County Jail on August 25, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. +
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+Trevian Kutti +

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+Role: Trump supporter and former publicist for celebrities like Kanye West +

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+Charges: three, including racketeering, conspiracy to commit solicitation of false statements, and conspiracy to influence witnesses +

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+Connection to the case: Kutti traveled from her base of operations in Chicago to Atlanta after speaking with Floyd. Once there, she reportedly went to Freeman’s home, told her she’d been sent by an unnamed “high-profile individual,” and gave Freeman an ultimatum: Confess to election crimes or go to jail. Freeman called the police and was ultimately told by the FBI to relocate for her own safety. +

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+Kutti, like Floyd and Lee, is now accused of being involved in Freeman’s intimidation and of influencing a witness. +

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+His face a bit blown out by flash or ambient light, Shafer smiles as if laughing in a blue sportscoat and Oxford shirt. Fulton County Sheriff’s Office/Getty Images +
+Former Georgia State Sen. David Shafer poses for his booking photo on August 23, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. +
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+David Shafer +

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+Role: Georgia false elector and former chair of the state’s Republican Party +

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+Charges: eight, including racketeering, impersonating a public officer, and forgery +

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+Connection to the case: Shafer allegedly helped coordinate the false elector scheme in the state and signed documents suggesting that he was one of 16 qualified electors declaring Trump’s victory. According to the indictment, he asked the fake electors to quietly gather at the Georgia state Capitol on December 14, 2020, to “avoid drawing attention to what we are doing.” He then signed a letter to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp asking him to approve the fake slate of electors. +

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+Shafer has asked that the case against him be moved to federal court and has tried to pin the blame for any wrongdoing on those with more power and influence: “Mr. Shafer and the other Republican Electors in the 2020 election acted at the direction of the incumbent President and other federal officials,” Shafer’s attorney wrote in the petition. Trump’s attorneys had argued to Shafer that assembling the fake electors was necessary for the former president to win Georgia’s electoral votes if he was able to win his court challenges to the results, and Shafer has provided evidence that he was closely coordinating with them. +

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+In a gray suit jacket and blue shirt, Still wears a half smile on his face, his crew cut held down by gel. Fulton County Sheriff’s Office/Getty Images +
+Georgia state Sen. Shawn Still poses for his booking photo at the Fulton County Jail on August 25, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. +
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+Shawn Still +

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+Role: false elector and Georgia state senator +

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+Charges: seven, including racketeering, impersonating a public officer, and forgery +

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+Connection to the case: Still, the secretary of the Georgia 2020 Electoral College Meeting, was among 16 Republicans who signed a certificate falsely claiming that they were “duly elected and qualified” electors for the state and that Trump had won the election. He then signed a letter to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp asking him to approve the fake slate of electors. +

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+He has also asked that the case against him be transferred to federal court because he was acting at the direction of Trump’s attorneys, whom he argues were effectively agents of the federal government at that point. +

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+Lit such that her skin seems to glow, Latham, in a floral print dress, looks straight ahead, her lips slightly parted. Fulton County Sheriff’s Office/Getty Images +
+Former Coffee County GOP chair Cathy Latham poses for her booking photo on August 23, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. +
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+Cathy Latham +

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+Role: false elector and former head of the Coffee County Republicans +

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+Charges: eleven, including racketeering, impersonating a public officer, and forgery +

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+Connection to the case: Latham was among 16 Republicans who signed a certificate falsely claiming that they were “duly elected and qualified” electors for the state and that Trump had won the election. Based on phone calls and text messages procured by Georgia prosecutors, she was also charged in connection to a voting system breach in Coffee County allegedly orchestrated by Hampton and other Trump allies who sought to provide evidence that the 2020 election was fraudulent. +

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+The indictment alleges that Latham and others tampered with electronic ballot markers and tabulating machines and took official ballots outside of a polling location without authorization. +

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