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posted ago by merf ago by merf +202 / -0

I recently came upon a question I had never personally dug on:

"What is 'State Secrets' and how upheld in the SC?"

Well shit, I wish I had done this sooner as it is enormously relevant to just about everything going on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_secrets_privilege

Imagine you have a court case--a voting fraud case. You assemble your slam dunk evidence and head to court. All of a sudden, the executive branch swoops in and claims "state secrets" on some of your evidence.

What happens? Well the court traditionally defers to the executive on such matters, and if the court finds that your evidence qualifies as a state secret, the evidence is removed from litigation.

Check out this Pennsylvania decision, around line 8.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.pamd.127057/gov.uscourts.pamd.127057.202.0_1.pdf

The first attorneys hired by Giuliani quit, they hired a new set and ended up dropping claims. Does that sound normal? What explains that behavior? State secrets invocation or threat thereof?

It is plausible that white hats are nuking these voter fraud cases. Don't buy that? Well how about this:

"...in 2001, George W. Bush issued Executive Order 13233 extending the accessibility of the state secrets privilege to also allow former presidents, their designated representatives, or representatives designated by their families, to invoke it to bar records from their tenure."

So under this EO, state secrets became a permanent privilege that can be exercised at any point by the elected executive, their representatives, and representatives designated by families.

And thus we reach the TLDR:

What if Obama, Bush, Clinton, or any of their "representatives" is invoking State Secrets privileges on the voting fraud cases?