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Longreads Jun 4, 2025

"Waldrip began poking around, tugging on threads that had been untouched for years and unearthing new ones. Over a series of months, an alternate theory of what happened to Keith King began to form."

Stephen Lemons‬ for Phoenix New Times: https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/septic-tank-in-tiny-arizona-town-could-crack-cold-case-21798677

#Longreads #TrueCrime #ColdCase #Disappearance #Mystery #Seligman #Arizona

A septic tank in this tiny Arizona town could crack a 2006 cold case

Keith King vanished 19 years ago in Seligman. A private detective thinks he knows where King’s body is — and who killed him.

Phoenix New Times

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Chuck Darwin Apr 2, 2024

Lessig and Seligman laid out ways to resolve this months ago.

One option is that Congress could pass a law declaring that any change a state legislature makes to its results after the popular vote would render the electoral votes not “regularly given,”
which under the ECRA would open them to congressional challenge.

Another option: States could affirm that electors are required to carry out the will of the voters.

Or a legislature could pass a new law before the election granting itself authority to direct electors to vote for the legislature’s choice regardless of the popular vote
—so there would be time for the Supreme Court to strike down that bill (assuming it would).

NONE OF THIS IS LIKELY to occur in time.

Election deniers are already preparing to start the steal.

When I asked Lessig what was his worry level
—about what Trump would try
—on a scale from 1 to 10, he said
“If it’s close, then I’m at 10."

To [Trump], it’s existential. . . . There’s no reason he would hesitate at all to do whatever he can.

#Lessig #Seligman #Chiafolo #Washington

Chuck Darwin Apr 2, 2024

In their new book, 🔹How to Steal a Presidential Election, 🔹Lawrence #Lessig and Matthew #Seligman describe a troubling scenario.
A 2020 Supreme Court decision in a “faithless electors” case (#Chiafolo v. #Washington) held that
🥺state legislatures have the power to direct electors how to cast their votes.
That ruling, Lessig and Seligman argue, could be interpreted by Republican state legislatures as allowing them to pass a law
👉directing electors to vote for the candidate the legislature chooses, rather than based on the popular vote in the state.
“There are plenty of mechanisms to ensure that the election selects the right slate of electors
—recounts, contest proceedings and so on,” they write.
“But ♦️there are no protections against a state legislature simply ordering whichever electors are appointed to vote for the candidate that the legislature, and not the people of the state, choose♦️.”
In an interview with The Bulwark, Lessig said that an unintended consequence of the Electoral Count Reform Act (ECRA) enacted in 2022 was to shrink the window in which an attempted election subversion could be blocked.
Under the new law, no errors in the electoral vote can be corrected after electors vote on December 17, 2024. 💥If corrupt electors vote for someone other than their states’ popular vote winner, Congress will certify that result on January 6, 2025.💥
Republican-controlled legislatures in several key swing states
—Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin
—could throw the election.
“If they wanted to do it in the safest way possible, meaning in a way to guarantee that they were to succeed,” Lessig said, “they would do it immediately after the election, because the time frame for the Court to intervene would be so short, it’s not clear the Court would have time to intervene.”