Rolling Stone: Colorado GOP Taps Trump Indictment Co-Conspirator to Help Change Election Rules

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Colorado GOP Taps Trump Indictment Co-Conspirator to Help Change Election Rules

John Eastman masterminded the alternate elector scheme to keep the former president in power. Colorado Republicans don't seem to care

AUGUST 3, 2023

Attorney John Eastman, the architect of a legal strategy aimed at keeping former President Donald Trump in power, listens to questions from reporters after a hearing in Los Angeles, Tuesday, June 20, 2023. Eastman faces 11 disciplinary charges in the State Bar Court of California stemming from his development of a dubious legal strategy aimed at having Vice President Mike Pence interfere with the certification of President Joe Biden's victory. AP PHOTO/JAE C. HONG

THE COLORADO REPUBLICAN Party is trying to prevent unaffiliated voters from casting ballots in the party’s primary elections, part of an effort to claw their way back to relevance in the state.

The state GOP filed a lawsuit on Monday and has tapped John Eastman to help represent the party. Eastman, you may remember, was one of the primary architects of the alternate elector scheme Trump and his allies tried to employ overturn the 2020 election results. He is also one of the six co-conspirators listed in the Justice Department’s new indictment of the former president for the scheme. The indictment describes him as having “devised and attempted to implement a strategy to leverage the Vice President’s ceremonial role overseeing the certification proceeding to obstruct the certification of the presidential election.”

The lawsuit alleges that last year’s GOP primaries for governor, secretary of state, and U.S. Senate may have turned out differently if unaffiliated voters weren’t allowed to cast ballots along with registered Republicans. Colorado’s governor, secretary of state, and both U.S. senators are currently Democrats. . ."  LINK: Rolling Stone