• Arrested Democracy, Pt .1

  • Nov 14 2024
  • Length: 53 mins
  • Podcast

Arrested Democracy, Pt .1

  • Summary

  • In 2010, conspiracy theorists around the country were convinced that Barack Obama was not the rightful president. Some of them filed lawsuits. Some of them tried to have the President indicted. And when none of that worked, some of them took matters into their own hands and tried to arrest the county court employees they thought were standing in their way. In the first half of this story, Walter Fitzpatrick unsuccessfully storms the courtroom in Madisonville, Tennessee. The outcry over his arrest would motivate Oath Keeper Darren Huff to rally supporters for a second attempt.

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    Josh Pasek, Tobias H. Stark, Jon A. Krosnick, Trevor Tompson, What motivates a conspiracy theory? Birther beliefs, partisanship, liberal-conservative ideology, and anti-Black attitudes, Electoral Studies, Volume 40, 2015

    Hughey, M.W. Show Me Your Papers! Obama’s Birth and the Whiteness of Belonging. Qual Sociol 35, 163–181 (2012).

    https://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/birther-movement-founder-trump-clinton-228304

    https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna33388485

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    https://cases.justia.com/federal/district-courts/district-of-columbia/dcdce/1:2009mc00346/137380/2/0.pdf

    https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/25/judge-lamberth-jan-6-trump-00137960

    https://www.tncourts.gov/rules/rules-criminal-procedure/6

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