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Ginni's CNP pal is Kelly Shackelford. Shackelford is CEO of First Liberty Institute. First Liberty this month successfully won two key lawsuits to the US Supreme Court: Carson v Makin (Maine religious school) and Kennedy v Bremerton Schl Dist. (Coach Joe can pray at school during school). It's the Thomas Court.

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An irony: the now Clarence Thomas-led Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will cause a surge of Democratic voting in November that helps the Dems retain control of the Senate and the House, thus insuring that Ginni Thomas soon won’t be able to hide.

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Seth, not sure how this fits in, but before DOJ, ken Klukowski worked as "special counsel" at OMB reporting to GC Mark Paoletta. Before Mark was OMB GC he was counsel to Mike Pence. Mark, who just published a book on Justice Thomas, is very close to the Thomases, has Thanksgiving dinner with them each year, and Clarence is godparent to one of his kids. Paoletta was responsible for executing the hold on Ukrainian aid at OMB. On Twitter Mark has been a ferocious defender of Ginni (perhaps he doth protest too much). Ken K now at Schaerr Jaffe where Paoletta went too after Trump admin.

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Damn. Just. Damn. If she isn’t subpoenaed now. We are just screwed. She will keep on doing what she’s doing and drag us further and further into a christofascist state. I am sick reading this.

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We need Presidential advisors, legal scholars, etc…from both parties to sign a petition to expand the court and implore Biden do so. The Dems can run on that in the midterms.

Thanks for connecting the dots! Looking forward to tomorrow and remaining hopeful!

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Thanks, Seth. Again. Question: Why does one almost never hear the names Ginni Thomas or Ali Alexander on CNN or MSNBC?

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It should be noted that Pence recently joined CNP. Per the membership list released through documented earlier this year.

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Ye Gods! No wonder this column was slightly delayed! Mr. Abramson, this is amazing. You must have wondered if the news cycle would ever stop long enough for you to finish this.

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Eastman's comments on hypothetical SCOTUS verdicts has me thinking the arrogant pr** Alito probably was informed about the coup plot by CThomas ... and was sympathetic to it.

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Seth - after reading this article I realize you must have a very large whiteboard or pinboard or post-its stuck to a wall with all these names and the connections between all of them! Every time I read one of these articles I am amazed/impressed but this latest one connecting yet more "dots" makes me curious if this is all truly in your head of on a visual aide somewhere !

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I'm intrigued by MTG, still an outsider in December 2020, and her ability to directly call the President on a weekend (Dec 19 or 20) to organize a Monday Dec 21 meeting with many R Congressmen. How did she become so integral, so fast? Was it because she's from Georgia and so many parts of coup plots centered on Georgia? Or, much more?

Secondly, someone had to lead the briefing at the Dec 21 meeting with R Congressmen, before discussion began. Who was the briefer? Who knew enough about the many coup plots to brief that audience?

Finally, and correct me if I'm wrong here, Ken Klukowski was moved from Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to report to Jeffrey Clark at DOJ on Dec 15, 2020. OMB was headed by Russ Vought. And then very recently, on June 23, 2022, Russ Vought quickly and publicly condemned the FBI search of Jeffrey Clark home and stood up for Clark. Jeffrey Clark currently works for Russ Vought at an NGO called Center for Renewing America. Russ Vought's name hasn't surfaced much, but I bet he knows a lot about the Klukowski transfer to DOJ.

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With sufficient cause, could John Roberts “ask” Clarence to “take an indefinite sabbatical”, and would Thomas tell him to go pound sand? Ginni sure does resemble toast. Thank you Seth for trying to make their miserable lives miserable.

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Every lawyer involved with the scheme to overthrow the govt needs to be disbarred and everyone named in this article needs to go to jail. Clarence needs to be impeached. I think until that happens justice will be denied. In closing, Ginnie’s powerful positions and being the architect behind the coup is absolutely stunning, then you add Clarence into the mix, well it’ll take a bit to wrap my mind around it all.

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You never disappoint. Thanks for all your had work.

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Jun 28, 2022·edited Jun 28, 2022

Incredible research, absolutely flabbergasting stuff, this is so huge I must admit having serious doubts all this will ever come to light (main media) or/and the (most important) related criminals ever be indicted and prosecuted, hope glen kirschner is a subscriber too Seth!

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Thank you for all your hard work in the service of our democracy. These religious zealots are just as bad as any Puritan even at the height of their witch-hanging activities. You know these lunatics would be happy to bring back death by hanging for those not in line with their cult "program". We already saw this with the chants of "Hang Mike Pence!".

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