A month before the 2020 election, Republican Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) tweeted, “Democracy isn’t the objective; liberty, peace, and prospefity [sic] are. We want the human condition to flourish. Rank democracy can thwart that.”
If Lee isn’t a big fan of democracy, then his recently released texts with Mark Meadows, chief of staff to former president Donald Trump, show he isn’t a good judge of legal talent either.
Yet, among the craziness of his exchanges is a text that demonstrates that even a conservative with doubts about democracy can embrace voting rights when his candidate has lost an election.
On Nov. 10, 2020, Lee texted Meadows: “I have a simple question: how many [vote by mail] ballots were tossed in PA and WI for not meeting the requirements of state law? I can't find the stats anywhere. But in the primaries it was above the current margin of victory with much lower turnout. If they played games with that Trump has a really strong case.”
In my latest, I respond to this question. Read “Answering Senator Mike Lee’s Question” on Democracy Docket now.
Let’s keep up the fight,
Marc
