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Indiana Republicans Move To Let Democrats Kick Any Republican AG Off The Ballot
The Federalist ^ | 2/26/24 | JOY PULLMANN

Posted on 02/26/2024 7:10:31 AM PST by cotton1706

An amendment to an Indiana bill would allow an unelected, Democrat-stacked committee that works in secret to control whom Hoosiers are allowed to vote for as state attorney general.

The amendment would bar from appearing on Hoosier ballots any candidate for attorney general who, within one year of the election, has been disbarred or suspended from his law license without an automatic reinstatement. Law license challenges have since 2020 become a political tool for Democrats to deny their political opponents legal representation.

Multiple Democrat pressure groups such as The 65 Project and Lawyers Defending Democracy now exist specifically to harass, intimidate, and force potentially tens of thousands of dollars of representation costs on their political opponents for constitutionally protected free speech. This means any Republican attorney general is at high risk of an ethics complaint unless he represents no challenge to Democrat priorities.

Multiple Indiana attorneys, and hundreds of attorneys nationally, have already faced ethics challenges simply for representing Democrat opponents in court. Half of sitting Republican attorneys general, including Indiana AG Todd Rokita, have faced such charges.

Rokita, who competes with U.S. Sen. Mike Braun for Indiana’s most conservative statewide-elected official, is part of a phalanx of state attorneys general taking on President Joe Biden in major constitutional cases. The lawyer representing Rokita in his ethics complaint also recently faced an ethics complaint, from the same person who filed the complaint against Rokita, said Rokita spokesman Benjamin Fearnow.

The Indiana amendment would give an unelected, abortion-friendly state commission the power to determine whom Hoosiers can select as attorney general, taking that power away from voters. The chairman of the Senate Elections Committee that added the amendment to House Bill 1265, Republican Sen. Mike Gaskill, wouldn’t disclose who authored the amendment. His spokeswoman did not return Federalist requests for comment.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: elections
Mike Pence-type pantywaist Republicans in Indiana.
1 posted on 02/26/2024 7:10:31 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

WTF!?!?!?


2 posted on 02/26/2024 7:14:33 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: cotton1706

Politics-reality:

—Democrats are raping you
—Republicans are filming it, laughing and making money off it selling it to the Democrats.

We’re left with the illusion of choice.


3 posted on 02/26/2024 7:23:24 AM PST by mikelets456
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To: cotton1706

The GOP manages to find a loophole that allows them to lose.

Now they can feign outrage when their candidate gets canned and run to constituents to ask for money.


4 posted on 02/26/2024 7:23:54 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: cotton1706

The enemies within America. They hate you and they hate anything having to do with putting America first. Power, money, and greed have become their substance of food for these POS anti-American bastards. We have to win this war or we are done in. I cannot believe those pieces of crap are willing to sacrifice their children and grandchildren’s future for the sake of money. I am beginning to despise the globalist elitist RINOS Republicans. They must be defeated at all cost. We cannot be silent no more …those days are behind us. IF There is a primary around the corner in your state, please, I implore you take as many people as you can to vote For patriots who love America candidates . Those who put America first. Please For the sake of our children’s future.


5 posted on 02/26/2024 7:25:07 AM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: V_TWIN
WTF!?!?!?

Totalitarian government at work.

6 posted on 02/26/2024 7:27:09 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: cotton1706

Some Republicans are good at grabbing their ankles.


7 posted on 02/26/2024 8:33:15 AM PST by Daveinyork
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To: Daveinyork

“Some Republicans are good at grabbing their ankles.”


Notice how often the GOP pulls defeat out of the mouth of victory anytime that conservatives are close to winning on an issue. They preemptively set the right up for failure.


8 posted on 02/26/2024 8:52:44 AM PST by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: cotton1706

The chairman of the Senate Elections Committee that added the amendment to House Bill 1265, Republican Sen. Mike Gaskill, wouldn’t disclose who authored the amendment.


Or disclose how much money came from China.


9 posted on 02/26/2024 8:58:57 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: cotton1706
Law license challenges have since 2020 become a political tool for Democrats to deny their political opponents legal representation.

10 posted on 02/26/2024 11:11:18 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: cotton1706

RINOs in Indiana out to help the Dims takeover Indiana completely.


11 posted on 02/26/2024 1:03:17 PM PST by Wuli
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To: cotton1706

Pence is a sick, evil, useless piece of human scum without one redeeming quality.


12 posted on 02/26/2024 1:07:14 PM PST by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: cotton1706

There are no limits to tyranny...

Particularly in a one-party political system...

Also, when few serfs even realize that those things hanging around their shoulders are the chains of communist tyranny...

Most Americans and 100% of the 60-million migrant invader vermin (MIVs) now inside the country are satisfied with serfdom...


13 posted on 02/26/2024 1:57:50 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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