With lawsuit, AG Slattery shames Volunteer State
Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery shames Tennessee. Joining Texas to sue Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan in the U.S. Supreme Court is a blatant attempt to overturn the will of the people. There is zero evidence of any voting fraud impacting the outcome of this election in any state; so say all election officials, Democrat and Republican. Nevertheless, the suit by Texas and the actions of our attorney general and others perpetuate the lies about voter fraud and encourage the death threats received by our nation's election officials and even volunteer poll workers
When Donald Trump was impeached, the Republican line was, "We shouldn't convict him. Let the voters decide his fate." Well, the voters have decided and Trump lost! It is time for him and his minions to move from the state of alternate facts to the state of reality.
While thousands of people are dying in Tennessee and over 200,000 more are out of work, our attorney general is wasting precious tax dollars on a frivolous lawsuit. It is a sad day when the person charged with protecting the rule of law in our state chooses instead to protect a man incapable of accepting reality.
Sandra McCrea
Signal Mountain
Top court should decide election outcome
The American people must ask and answer the question when does a certain major quantum of fraud, intentional recklessness and gross negligence in the election process call for a complete negation of the results?
What is the exact level of fraud, recklessness and gross negligence that calls for a different resolution of the election under the Constitution?
These are important questions that must be answered particularly under the conditions experienced in the 2020 election. Integrity of the election process under U.S. democratic dictates is of an essential nature and cannot be compromised or undermined by the overall number of votes counted.
To accept a grossly defective election process as the arbiter of the final election outcome is unacceptable and would amount to "throwing the baby out with the bathwater."
In such a major event, the Supreme Court should enter a judgment about the final methodology for determination of the election in the interests of the constitutional guarantees that exist.
Bob Jack
Harrison
Georgia Senate races force hard choices
I do not take at face value the claims by Republican Georgia Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue that they did not knowingly profit by confidential information they received in the early reporting given to senators about COVID-19. I believed them and now it appears they are lying. They should be administered public polygraph tests on the subject.
There is a problem for me, however. I am very worried about what would happen if Democrats took control of the U.S. Senate. I agree with the televised spot that claims extreme results could occur, like illegal residents being able to vote and law enforcement being defunded. And what if Joe Biden decides that he really plans to pack the U.S. Supreme Court after all?
If I were a Georgia voter, I would be quite conflicted.
Harry Geller
Trump trampling on our democracy
Whether one is a Democrat or Republican, Donald Trump's efforts to "overturn" the presidential election - notwithstanding all 50 states have certified the count - and disrupt the bedrock of our democracy (our vote), are, as the Pulitzer winning journalist Eugene Robinson said, "Unforgivable."
Jay Paty