Billie Winner-Davis, Reality Winner's mother, told Business Insider on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, is attempting legal representation to aid the former Air Force language analyst contractor and Kingsville native Reality Winner with her case.
Winner pleaded guilty in 2018 to leaking classified National Security Agency information on Russia's alleged efforts to interfere with the 2016 election. She was found guilty of violating the U.S. Espionage Act and sentenced to five years in prison at the Federal Medical Center-Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas.
In 2016 following her separation from six years of active duty, Winner was hired by Pluribus International Corporation under an NSA contract to work out of Fort Gordon, Georgia.
According to ABC News, Winner printed a classified report detailing how Russian hackers allegedly “executed cyber espionage operations” on local election systems and mailed the documents to The Intercept.
She was arrested on June 3, 2017.
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Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty to campaign violations and tax fraud in 2018, began serving his sentence in May 2019 at the federal penitentiary in Otisville, New York.
He has been under house arrest since July over coronavirus concerns.
Military.com stated that Reality’s mother sent a Twitter message that said “Cohen has asked another attorney to look at the case and for opportunities to help.”
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Connecticut is taking steps to make 17-year-olds eligible to vote. Rhode Island and New Hampshire also took up the issue Wednesday.
Supporters of the measure say it is critical to get the youngest voters excited about the process, but opponents are concerned that one bend in the rules could lead to a break in the system.
It's an idea that would fold an eager population into New Hampshire's first in the nation primary process:
“To permit 17-year-olds to vote in a primary election, if by the time of the general election, they will have turned 18-years-old.”
17-year-olds can cast a primary ballot or take part in a party caucus in 18 states. Vermont is one of several others considering the possibility:
“If a 17-year-old is going to be 18 by the time of a general election, and they're going to be voting on a candidate, then they should have some say in who that candidate is.”
The bill has already made it through the Senate, but not without objection:
“This is a bill that never should have passed the Senate. It was unconstitutional from the get go.”
New Hampshire's state constitution sets the voting age at 18. Because of that, the House on Wednesday asked the state Supreme Court to issue an opinion on this bill.
“The discussion becomes even more complicated when you look at how New Hampshire defines a primary.
In New Hampshire, a primary is an election.”
If 17-year-olds cannot just winnow away options, but rather elect official delegates at a primary level, what will prevent their participation in a general election:
“You don't expand rights for 17-year-olds. You have to be 18 to vote in the state of New Hampshire. We need to maintain that tradition.”
But representative David Pierce, who took up the bill in the House, doesn't interpret the rules as exclusionary: “The constitution guarantees anyone 18 and up to be able to vote. It doesn't prohibit 17-year-olds from voting.”
The State Supreme Court is expected to take up the matter in the next few weeks.
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Hmmm this is obviously so we can get more socialists into the system even faster.