#Will Wooten

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The Fulton county district attorney investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia in recent weeks has weighed several potential statutes under which to charge, including solicitation to commit election fraud and conspiracy to commit election fraud, according to two people briefed on the matter.

The move by the Fulton county district attorney, Fani Willis, to identify a list of potential charges marks a major juncture in the criminal investigation and suggests prosecutors are on course to ask a grand jury to return indictments next month.

Among the state election law charges that prosecutors were examining: criminal solicitation to commit election fraud and conspiracy to commit election fraud, as well as solicitation of a public or political officer to fail to perform their duties and solicitation to destroy, deface or remove ballots, the people said.

The district attorney is also seeking to charge at least some of the Trump operatives who were involved in accessing voting machines and copying sensitive election data in Coffee county, Georgia, in January 2021 with computer trespass crimes, the two people said.

The outcome of deliberations, as well as the manner in which the statutes might be enforced, remains unknown. For instance, prosecutors could charge under certain statutes individually, fold them into a wider racketeering case of the kind that The Guardian has previously reported, or do a combination.

Prosecutors are expected to bring charges stemming from the Trump investigation at the start of August, a timeline inferred from the district attorney’s instructions to her staff in May to work remotely during that period because of potential security concerns.

The grand jury that would decide whether to return an indictment against Trump or others was selected in mid-July. The selection process was attended by Willis and two prosecutors known to be on the Trump case: the deputy district attorney Will Wooten and special prosecutor Nathan Wade.

A spokesperson for Willis did not respond to requests for comment.

For a criminal solicitation charge, prosecutors would have to show that Trump persistently requested another person to engage in certain illegal conduct that are “likely and imminent” as a result of the solicitation. The fact that the solicited acts were not carried out is not considered a defense.

The statute for soliciting a public officer to fail to perform duties could apply to Trump when he pressured the Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger to “find 11,780 votes”, as well as his phone calls to chief investigator Frances Watson and House speaker David Ralston.

The threshold question there is whether Raffensperger would have failed to perform his duty as the state’s top election official if he had done what Trump wanted, according to the Brookings Institution – for instance, if he actually went and “found” 11,780 votes to reverse Trump’s loss.

The statute for soliciting the tampering of ballots, meanwhile, could apply to Trump when he pressed Watson to go beyond protocol to go back “two years, as opposed to just checking, you know, one against the other” in conducting signature checks during ballot audits.

The critical issue in that call would come down to whether Trump was effectively asking Watson to use a non-standard method to invalidate legitimate ballots that he hoped would benefit him because it would whittle down the number of legitimate votes for Joe Biden, Brookings found.

Prosecutors are also expected to seek a criminal conspiracy charge, the people said. The conspiracy statute in Georgia is interpreted broadly, and the district attorney’s office would only need to show that two or more people tacitly came to a mutual understanding to further a crime.

Trump could have wide legal exposure under the conspiracy statute with prosecutors for months investigating whether Trump, his top lawyers and his campaign aides took steps they knew were illegal in replacing the legitimate slates of electors in Georgia with 16 fake Trump electors.

The district attorney’s office has spent more than two years investigating whether Trump and his allies interfered in the 2020 election in Georgia, while prosecutors at the federal level are scrutinizing Trump’s efforts to reverse his defeat that culminated in the January 6 Capitol attack.

A special grand jury in Atlanta that heard evidence for roughly seven months recommended charges for more than a dozen people including the former president himself, its forewoman strongly suggested in interviews, though Willis will have to seek indictments from a regular grand jury.

Willis originally suggested charging decisions were “imminent” in January, but the timetable has been repeatedly delayed after a number of Republicans who sought to help Trump stay in power as so-called fake electors accepted immunity deals as the investigation neared its end.

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KNIGHT SQUAD FIFTH ANNIVERSARY ☆ texts posts | part two

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Run Away Together by Ben Wooten

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Song Review: Béla Fleck - “Unidentified Piece for Banjo”

The Library of Congress found it and Béla Fleck got the first crack at George Gershwin’s “Unidentified Piece for Banjo.”

A solo piece, it finds Fleck demonstrating his peerless playing style - three distinct parts are audible from this one guy - while allow the composer’s personality and environment to shine through the decades-old music.

It’s out to announce Fleck’s Rhapsody in Blue, which arrives Feb. 12, 2024, the 100th anniversary of the title piece premiering in New York City. It contains three versions, “Rhapsody in Blue(grass),” recorded with My Bluegrass Heart; “Rhapsody in Blue(s)” with Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas and Victor Wooten; and a traditional performance with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra and Fleck handling the piano parts on banjo.

“I had never heard anything like it – it was love at first listen,” Fleck says of his first exposure to “Rhapsody.”

Fans might feel the same way about “Unidentified Piece for Banjo,” which rounds out the LP alongside “Rialto Ripples.”

Grade card: Béla Fleck - “Unidentified Piece for Banjo” - A

12/15/23

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Wooten

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still fighting with my hand a bit

Week 4 ft. Huntlow, Bryn, Scarlette, Adeline, Adela, Elijah, and Ellen!

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@jendoe tagged me to make some of my ships in this picrew, thank you aj!! this was so cute!!

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Modern day Fancast for Henry V

Part 1 ( other parts in reblogs)

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Redwoods - yesterday

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Garrett Wooten | Pacific Northwest Ballet

[iamabuddha]

"Women carry negative imprints about themselevs as inferior spiritual beings that date back several thousand years. Many male theologians have interpreted the creation story in Genisis to blame the origins of human suffering on Eve, the primordial mother. [...] All the nuances of this famous story - its connections to aspects of Goddess worship from those times, the symbolic meaning of the development of human consciousness, and completely different interpretations by feminist theologians and Hebrew scholars - were buried until the last few decades when new interpretations were offered by feminist Christian and Hebrew scholars.

In the modern secular world, psychology has placed most responisibilty for children's emotional ills at the feet of the mother. The Buddhist tradition, since its early beginnings, has included the idea that women were unworthy or incapable of attaining enlightenment. The Tibetan language reflects this belief: the literal translation of the word for woman, kye-men, means "of low birth." Societal views of women as lesser beings have caused insurmountable obstacles for all but the most dedicated and extraordinary women to develop in their spiritual efforts or their daily lives.

In many Asian countries, the old beliefs prevail and continue to negatively affect women's lives. In Western cultures, women have been exposed to very few images of the Feminine Divine and have had to search for models of serious women practiotioners or spiritual leaders. Stories of remarkable women often remained untold until feminist scholarship unearthed them from the shadows."

- PhD Rachael Wooten, Tara - The Liberating Power of the Female Buddha

[zackmartin]

KNIGHT SQUAD FIFTH ANNIVERSARY ☆ texts posts | part one

[breserker]

one of the reasons i'm pushing so hard on voting is because my position is considered "safe" by those around me. i'm biracial with a white parent and a legal immigrant and though first generation on the nonwhite side i was born here so i'm the safest a bipoc could potentially be, right.

i remember in 2017 that fucking senator from texas challenged daca, and i was immediately terrified, because in his challenging of daca it was clear he was trying to spear the 14th amendment which held 'citizenship by birthright'. the thing is, i am going to be a target. i am a target, and by the time they get around to targeting people like me they will step over towering mounds of people less "legal", less white, more bipoc than me to do it. that, which is unacceptable.

and i know they'll pile up the bodies because in 2020 Dawn Wooten whistleblew that the US govt under Trump's watch was ripping uteruses out of immigrant women so they wouldn't birth children here and have that 'citizenship birthright'. if they can't take the 14th amendment away they'll just not have it apply at all.

yeah i get the anger. truly i do. but i cannot go through another 4, 5, infinite amount of years of this terror again, of this wrenching feeling that people like me, or my dad, or unlike me, are being treated worse than cattle on our soil with more and more rights chipped away. sure dude. sure. yes. biden isn't good either. no i'm not happy, but it's a good thing i'm not happy. not being happy is better than being in utter despair and terror, with plans in my back pocket to flee the country. christ. please fucking vote for the greatest chance we have to not have trump again, there are people who depend on you, real human lives that depend on you. VOTE.