Lawyers Organize To Protect Elections Officials Threatened With Violence

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson talks with Rachel Maddow about how Donald Trump's Big Lie has led to some elections officials being targeted with threats, and the launch of the Election Official Legal Defense Network to offer free legal advice or assistance to election workers. 

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[diggorypat]

No matter what side you are on. No one should be threatening anyones family. Anyone who leaves a threatening message should be charged

[joy]

i thought it was a crime to threaten someones life and to harness them on the phone.

[berthabridges]

The worst nightmare scenario for a bully is when their intended victims are willing to fight back. Exposure in court with heavy fines and even jail time for the habitual offender will discourage them.

[neeper]

As part of the voting rights bills congress should make threatening an election official a federal felony with minimum 5 years

[bridgetsmyth]

Make it a federal crime to threaten a poll worker or an elected official punishable by jail time

[marceechristensen]

Awesome!!! Good News is so very welcome!! Thank You upstanding American Lawyers and Officials putting together a tremendous effort to defend Democracy 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[helenpatterson]

Why do these officials need lawyers ?!
The people who should be lawyering up should be those who are threatening them. By allowing these thugs to threaten and terrorize like it's their "free speech " is outrageous. There should be no margin here.

[KpepperL]

Hey DOJ... Do your job... Time to put these insurrectionists and the politicians who incite violence in jail

[LardGreystoke]

Texas should pass a law allowing anyone to sue Trump for instigating this violence. $10, 000 bounty.

[AmunRa]

If I call a friend and threaten them, I would be charged with making Terroristic threats and Go str8 to jail without passing Go....Privileged is REAL🤗

[porkchopsandpotatoes]

I love how this wasn’t an ongoing problem in 2016. Really puts into perspective who the real snowflakes are.
Trump Republicans are a joke.

[kazibbo]

Gives comfort to see good people step up to defend democracy.

[TheEvertw]

"When the police do nothing, Democracy ends".
-- myself, just now

[hifinsword]

The election officials not only need law enforcement to step up and do their jobs, they need the district attorneys in those districts, to prosecute the LE officials that have failed to protect and go after people trying to subvert our election system.

[topgrain]

One of the things that I felt sure would break down when the "law and order" president took over in 2017 was law and order. What I felt is now being lived by our country.

[sandralewis]

All this violence and threatening violence because the self confessed chosen one couldn't accept he'd been unchosen.

[tomg]

We need laws to not only protect election officials but laws to stop this kind of terrorism. Hold accountable for death threats, violence, harassment on anyone.

[wesgerela]

time to put trump in jail. with all the lies and bs it's time to throw away the key. for a country that prides themselves on law and order wtf is it?

[vonniebench]

Thank you Jocelyn! We really do appreciate you!

[lindsaytewhare]

Hey USA, people of the USA you'll need to rise up, take a stand against these Republican Ex former president #45 Trumpet, his loy followers