Right now, MAGA Republicans across the country are claiming there’s a “two-tiered justice system” in America, all because their orangey-white nationalist messiah has been drowning in criminal indictments for months. It’s ironic because Black people have been talking about how there are “two Americas” for generations based on generations of demonstrably being treated more harshly in the justice system only for those same white conservatives to dismiss it as a false anti-American narrative every time.
Meanwhile, a judge has found that a GOP official who has been a fierce promoter of Donald Trump’s thoroughly debunked claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, Brian Pritchard, voted illegally not once, not twice, but nine times.
From NBC News:
Brian Pritchard, first vice chairman of the Georgia Republican Party and a conservative talk show host, was fined $5,000 for voting illegally and registering to vote while serving a sentence for a felony conviction. Pritchard was also ordered not to commit further violations, to face public reprimand for his conduct and to pay the State Election Board’s investigative costs.
In a 25-page ruling Wednesday, Administrative Law Judge Lisa Boggs affirmed the board’s finding that Pritchard had voted illegally nine times in defiance of his extended probation in connection with a pair of felony convictions dating back nearly 30 years.
Waaaait a minute, let’s back up a bit. Prichard’s penalty for voting illegally nine times as a felon was—*double checks notes just to make sure*—a $5,000 fine? Y’all already know where I’m going with this right?
Remember Crystal Mason?
In 2018, Mason, a Black woman from Texas, cast a provisional ballot in 2016 while on supervised release for a federal conviction, which, unbeknownst to her, made her ineligible to vote. She was sentenced to five years in prison. That’s five years up against Prichard’s $5,000. Mason’s attorneys had…
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