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A Weekend Read: The Atlanta Trials & Race

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You Can’t Talk About Trump’s Georgia Case Without Talking About Racism

TIME Magazine — IDEAS
BY JANELL ROSS — AUGUST 24, 2023
Janell Ross is the senior correspondent on race and identities for TIME.
Janell Ross, TIME Magazine

As the final bars of Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” filled the room, former President Donald Trump took the stage in Windham, N.H. The audience, many of them white New Englanders and veterans, chanting “U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A” had to settle a bit before Trump could launch into a winding, military-themed speech at the August 8 campaign rally.

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Rogues’ Gallery? Nine More Atlanta Mugshots — Now Out on (Blog) Bond

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Mark Meadows

Mark Meadows was on the infamous call — detailed in the indictment — in which Trump urged state election officials to find the votes he’d need to win. Meadows, a former North Carolina congressman, also traveled to Georgia at one point to try and gain access to a state audit of absentee ballot envelopes. Meadows faces two felony counts in the indictment. Meadows is charged with racketeering and soliciting a violation of an oath by a public officer.

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Jamelle Bouie Nails the GOP’s Criminality & Contempt for Law & the Constitution

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New York Times, June 13, 2023

50 Years of Republican history in a convincing, chilling thumbnail

Why have only a few elected Republican officials rejected Trump? Columnist Jamelle Bouie highlights scholarly views that “strong loyalty to an institution like a political party might lead a dissenting or disapproving individual to hold on to his or her membership even more tightly, for fear that exit might open the door to even worse outcomes.”

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