Now that the regular season is over, it's time for the politicking season to begin in college football, and Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian is off to a strong start.

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In his post-game comments, Ohio State head coach Ryan Day said he wanted to win with "humility." And he proved that in a big way.

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Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul’s office twice asserted that a slate of alternate electors contesting the 2020 election was legal before bringing criminal charges on the matter in the heat of a presidential election in 2024, based on memos referenced in court filings.

Earlier this month, President Donald Trump pardoned the alternate electors among more than 70 people involved in challenging the 2020 election. However, Kaul—and other Democrat prosecutors—vowed to continue the state prosecutions. 

The two assertions from Kaul’s office undermine the forgery and fraud case brought by the Wisconsin Department of Justice, according to defense filings by Jim Troupis, a former state judge and veteran Republican election lawyer who was charged last year with forgery for advising the alternate electors. Troupis settled the case in 2024 with no admission of wrongdoing.

The change, of course, from the state came after U.S. Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith secured a grand jury indictment against Trump in the federal election case in August 2023 and additional charges a year later. The indictment alleged in part that Trump was engaged in a conspiracy to assemble “fraudulent slates of electors.”

First, on Dec. 1, 2020, Kaul said alternate Republican electors could meet and vote. The point of his argument was that the Wisconsin Supreme Court did not have to rush a decision on the election challenge before Dec. 14 when the state electors met to count votes. 

So, the attorney general argued in a filing that also included the names of three assistant attorneys general, a ruling after Dec. 14 meant there was “zero risk” a separate slate of pro-Trump electors wouldn’t be counted if a recount or court rulings reversed the election outcome.

“There is no reason to invalidate the existing certificate of ascertainment or to enjoin the commissioner or the governor from certifying electors, because the issuance of a certificate of ascertainment does not impair the petitioners’ ability to obtain a meaningful recount appeal,” the memo from Kaul and assistants said.

The attorney general added, “There is also no necessity for their recount appeal to bypass the procedural requirements … because, contrary to their suggestion, neither federal nor state law requires their recount appeal to be completed before December 14, 2020.”

“As long as the Court does not interfere in the way requested by the petitioners, there is zero risk that Wisconsin will have no electoral votes on December 14,” the attorney general memo added. “The procedure prescribed by Congress accommodates petitioners’ right to a meaningful recount appeal.”

More than a year later, Feb. 9, 2022, the attorney general’s office advised the Wisconsin Election Commission that the alternate slate of electors meeting and voting didn’t violate the law.

Law Forward, a liberal legal group, alleged to the Wisconsin Election Commission, that the alternate electors violated the law. The commission solicited an opinion from the Wisconsin Department of Justice on the matter. In response, the attorney general’s office issued a memo rejecting those complaints.

“Nothing in either statute prohibits or otherwise limits a party from meeting or otherwise casting electoral votes during a challenge to an election tabulation,” the February 2022 memo to the commission said. 

The complaint alleged the Wisconsin pro-Trump alternate electors “met in a concerted effort to ensure that they would be mistaken, as a result of their deliberate forgery and fraud, for Wisconsin’s legitimate presidential electors.”

On that point, the attorney general’s office asserted: “The record does not support this allegation. Before and after the December 14 meeting, the respondents publicly stated, including in court pleadings, that they were meeting to preserve legal options while litigation was pending.” 

Kaul’s office did not respond to requests for comment. 

Although legal experts have argued the Trump pardon on state charges were symbolic, Troupis argued the Justice Department should intervene in the case. 

“The United States Department of Justice must take action—civil rights investigation and intervention—to stop these ongoing prosecutions of those who worked with President Trump,” Troupis wrote in an op-ed published on ConservativeHQ. 

Because of his pending legal case, he referred questions to the opinion piece. 

“On December 1, 2020 the Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, in writing, explicitly advised us and the Wisconsin Supreme Court that Trump should use them,” Troupis wrote. 

Troupis added: “It gets worse. Kaul’s own office wrote an official letter in 2022 noting that use of Alternate Electors has a long history and it was certainly not “fraud or forgery” (the charges he now makes).”

In May 2022, Law Forward led a lawsuit against Troupis claiming that the meeting of Republican electors in 2020 was a public nuisance and a conspiracy. In March 2024, to avoid more legal costs, Troupis and legal adviser Kenneth Chesebro settled the civil case with no admission of wrongdoing, but an agreement from both not to participate in alternate elections in future presidential elections. 

Separately, in December 2023, the Wisconsin alternate Trump electors settled a case, admitting their vote was “part of an attempt to improperly overturn the 2020 presidential election results” and agreed they would not be presidential electors in future elections with Trump.

In June 2024, in the lead up to the presidential election, Kaul held a press conference to announce he filed a criminal complaint for forgery against Troupis and other Trump supporters in Dane County Circuit Court. 

“The criminal complaint in this case alleges that the defendants were part of a conspiracy to present a certificate of purported electoral votes from individuals who were not Wisconsin’s duly appointed electors,” Kaul said when announcing the criminal complaint. “The Wisconsin Department of Justice is committed to protecting the integrity of our electoral process.”

Law Forward defended the charges. The defendants’ assertion that the Wisconsin attorney general blessed the use of alternate electors “distorts the facts,” argued Jeff Mandell, president and general counsel at Law Forward.

“The [Wisconin] DOJ opinion letter referenced here expressed a line-attorney’s opinion that the scheme did not clearly violate either of two specific statutes administered by the Wisconsin Elections Commission,” Mendell told The Daily Signal in a statement.

“But the letter also expressly allows that the scheme might violate other Wisconsin laws, including other Wisconsin election laws.”

Law Forward specifically referenced a paragraph from the February 2022 attorney general letter that says the attorney general was not addressing every aspect of Wisconsin law.

“This memorandum does not address other potential violations of law, such as election fraud under Wis. Stat. § 12.13 or matters that the Complainants have raised to other authorities or discussed in the media, such as forgery under Wis. Stat. § 943.38, false swearing under Wis. Stat. § 946.32, falsely assuming to act as a public officer under Wis. Stat. § 946.69, simulating legal process under Wis. Stat. § 946.68, misconduct in public office under Wis. Stat. § 946.12, conspiracy, aiding, or attempt to commit such acts, or any other matter outside the scope of the complaint,” the portion of the attorney general’s 2022 memo highlighted by Law Forward says.

The the first paragraph of the attorney general’s letter says, “this memorandum concludes that the
complaint does not raise a reasonable suspicion that respondents violated Wisconsin election law.”

Also in December 2020, alternate slates of Republicans electors voted in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania. Democrat prosecutors in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, and Nevada also brought charges.

Presidential pardons typically can only come for federal offenses. Nevertheless, in the pardon statement, U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin argues presidential election functions are federal even if the charges came under state law.

“Notwithstanding that fact, these prosecutions are attempts by partisan state actors to shoehorn fanciful and concocted state law violations onto what are clearly federal constitutional obligations of the 2020 Trump campaign: the establishment of the contingent electors, the actions attendant to their roles as presidential electors, and their duties under established historical and legal precedent to exercise their responsibilities as electors—all of which are functions of federal—not state—law,” Martin argued. 

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President Trump and his advisers say mass migration changes cultures and societies, but Democrat partisans insist that all would-be migrants must be viewed as individuals, complete with all the legal protections granted to Americans facing court trials.

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Trever Nehls, a former Fort Bend County Constable and identical twin brother of outgoing Congressman Troy Nehls, has officially announced his candidacy to represent Texas’s 22nd Congressional District with the backing of his brother.

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In Part One of “Congress’ Week of Crazy,” we laid out the wild happenings last week on the Democrat side of the aisle, from a congresswoman indicted for stealing $5 million to a congresswoman who was texting with Jeffrey Epstein like they were teenagers to six Democrats who skated up to the edge of sedition. But it wasn’t just Democrats who were mischief-plotters and tabloid fodder. Republicans had plenty of their own drama.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: Sudden Exit Stage Left

That peach of a Georgia representative, Marjorie Taylor Greene stunned the political world Friday night by announcing she was quitting Congress, effective Jan. 5, 2026. Her decision came days after President Donald Trump withdrew his endorsement of the controversial congresswoman in the wake of a series of erratic moves challenging the president, including over the Epstein files. Greene’s also recently been sucking up to hostile media, including the ladies of “The View.”

In her resignation letter Greene compared herself to a “battered wife” and complained that she felt unwelcomed in Washington and disliked by both sides of the political aisle. As President Harry Truman famously said, “If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.” In the case of the Georgia representative, I suppose it would be “dawg.”

Adding to the campy flavor of it all: Trump responded to the news by saying Greene “went bad” and her resignation was “good for the country.” He then spent the weekend insisting Greene is a “nice person.”

Now the question remains: Does Greene become a John Bolton who turns and makes a mint as an anti-Trump commentator? (Which will now mostly go to lawyers.) Or is she an Elon Musk: an emotional, colorful, controversial figure who soon enough finds herself back in the Trump camp?

In the biz, they call this a cliffhanger.

Rep. Cory Mills: Ethically Challenged

Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., is facing an investigation by the House Ethics Committee. Why? Apparently to avoid a censure vote, The Daily Signal’s Jacob Adams reported. Rep. Kat Cammack, also of Florida, colorfully complained House leadership tabled a censure vote on Del. Stacey Plaskett to protect Mills from a censure vote. “This backroom deal s— is swampy, wrong and always deserves to be called out.”

According to a statement from the Ethics Committee, their investigation into Mills will look into:

“allegations that [Mills] may have: (1) failed to properly disclose required information on statements required to be filed with the House; (2) violated campaign finance laws and regulations in connection with his 2022 and 2024 election campaigns; (3) improperly solicited and/or received gifts, including in connection with privately sponsored officially-connected travel; (4) received special favors by virtue of his position; (5) engaged in misconduct with respect to allegations of sexual misconduct and/or dating violence; and/or (6) misused congressional resources or status.”  

Wait. “Sexual misconduct and/or dating violence”? How’s that get ranked #5? Jimmy Hoffa wasn’t buried like that little tidbit.

Mills denies any wrongdoing.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw: What Happened in Mexico Didn’t Stay in Mexico

Also denying wrongdoing: Texas Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw. Crenshaw is denying a report by Punchbowl News that House Republicans revoked his traveling privileges for three-months after an “alcohol-related incident” during an official trip to Mexico. No, he did not trash a hotel room or run naked through the streets. Or even butcher “Yellow Rose of Texas” at a Tijuana karaoke bar. Crenshaw says the incident was “literally me doing a toast with the Mexican generals.” According to the story, a Mexican official made a “crude joke” that made a woman present uncomfortable. Crenshaw then toasted the comment.

Crenshaw insists he wasn’t banned from travel, saying a planned trip was nixed by the government shutdown.

Why We Can’t Mock

From booze to bye-byes, criminal busts to buddying up with Jeffrey Epstein, it was a week for the books on Capitol Hill.

It’s tempting to mock, but millions of us are about to head off to see family for Thanksgiving. Though it is a good bet our families won’t be stealing $5 million bucks or texting pedophiles, can we honestly say we won’t have our own dramas, downfalls, and delicious gossip? Overindulgence? A family mutiny? Battles over relationships with the wrong people? I didn’t think so.

May your Thanksgiving be as blessed as Nancy Pelosi’s bank account.

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Several protesters were arrested on Saturday after forming a barricade and blocking agents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in New York City.

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