DC bar recommends disbarment for election conspiracy theorist Jeff Clark 

• The Washington D.C. Bar’s Professional Responsibility Board today recommended that Jeffrey Clark be disbarred. Clark, a longtime lawyer, was one of 18 people indicted in the prosecution tied to efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. 
  
  
• Clark served in the U.S. Department of Justice during President Donald Trump’s first term, and Trump briefly made Clark acting attorney general after Clark made clear he was willing to go along with false claims of mass voter fraud in the 2020 elections.
  
  
• Clark can appeal today’s recommendation. But a disciplinary panel previously recommended he lose his law license for two years, so this disbarment recommendation is a significant escalation. 

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Speaking of Georgia 2020

• The far-right majority on Georgia’s election board wants Trump’s Justice Department to help it obtain voting records and documents related to the 2020 elections from the state’s largest county.

Trump appeals ruling that blocked parts of his extreme anti-voting order

• Trump appealed a federal court order that blocked core provisions of his executive order that voting rights advocates say could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters.
  
  
• Trump asked the First Circuit Court of Appeals to review a preliminary injunction order from June that temporarily stopped enforcement of several voting-related mandates. At issue are provisions of the anti-voting order requiring proof of citizenship and targeting mail ballots that arrive after Election Day. 

What the DOJ is doing behind the scenes

• The DOJ is already laying the groundwork to interfere in the midterm elections — requesting state voter rolls and asking to investigate election machines.
  
  
• Yet, under the spectacle of the Epstein Files and the horror of migrants being disappeared to foreign gulags, the bureaucratic assault on democracy is all too easy to miss. And even when we do see the attacks, they are often too mundane to capture our undivided attention, Marc writes.

‘Republicans hate me because I fight, they fear me because I win’

• Marc joined Symone Sanders and Michael Steele on MSNBC’s The Weeknight to discuss the Trump administration’s ongoing struggle to contain the Epstein Files fallout, Texas Republicans’ anti-democratic scheme to solidify a House majority next year, and why Democrats must level the playing field. 

Coming up tomorrow

• The First Circuit will hear arguments in the government's appeal of a preliminary injunction against Trump's birthright citizenship order.
  
  
• A Georgia court will hear a lawsuit challenging Fulton County’s refusal to seat two election conspiracists on the election board.