The Nation has taken a look a Georgia Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler and it is not pretty:
Last week, Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue endorsed a bizarre legal scheme by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to overturn the results from four battleground states that played a pivotal role in deciding the 2020 election for President-elect Joe Biden: Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Georgia.
That’s right, Loeffler, an appointed senator seeking to win a January 5 special-election runoff, and Perdue, an incumbent seeking to win a second term in a regular runoff on the same day, proposed to disenfranchise their constituents, all 5 million Georgians who voted for a presidential candidate in the November 3 election—the 2,475,141 who backed Biden and 2,462,857 who backed Trump, the roughly 62,000 who voted for Libertarian Jo Jorgensen and everyone who cast a write-in ballot for the Greens or another party or Mickey Mouse.
All of them.
As we know, the Supreme Court swiftly rejected that lawsuit, basically in a 9-0 decision. The most charitable explanation for Loeffler’s and Perdue’s support of the lawsuit was that they didn’t really mean it, but merely made a political decision not to lose Donald Trump’s support. While that would have been bad enough, the last few days made clear that they really rather would lose democracy than power. They signed on to equally frivolous lawsuits concerning the upcoming Georgia runoff election. As Trump is not on the ballot, he couldn’t care less about these, so this is all on Loeffler and Perdue themselves:
[Loeffler] and Perdue, who faces Democrat Jon Ossoff, embraced a new voter suppression strategy designed to make it harder to vote in the runoffs.
The senators called Republican lawsuits targeting runoff voting “reasonable and actionable steps we can take immediately to further ensure the integrity and accuracy of our January 5 elections.” In fact, the lawsuits sought to complicate the process of casting absentee ballots in an election where hundreds of thousands of Georgians have already voted. On Thursday, federal judges dismissed two of the lawsuits, rejecting unfounded GOP claims that difficult signature verification processes and restrictions on the use of drop boxes are needed to maintain election security.
Their battle against democracy has failed in the courts so far, but we really need to remove them from the levers of power on January 5. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock will always defend democracy, even if they are on the losing end. That’s why both Democrats and democrats need to support Ossoff and Warnock. If you can, please chip in a few bucks for Jon Ossoff, Raphael Warnock and some of their key allies in Georgia via ActBlue!
Do you want to know more about helping Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock win their runoff elections? Check out the diary This is how we are going to win the GA runoffs - a (nearly) complete guide, version 2.0.