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> One of the most well-known of those efforts was a series of emails that Virginia Thomas, wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and a supporter of
by EMM_386 4y ago
> One of the most well-known of those efforts was a series of emails that Virginia Thomas, wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and a supporter of former President Donald Trump, sent to a host of state Republican House and Senate members just days after Biden won the election. She urged members to throw out Biden's delegates to the Electoral College and replace them with a GOP slate.
This is serious stuff and the "solution" in this case is to prevent people from getting the emails via FOIA?
Isn't the entire point of the FOIA to allow for more transparency in government?
- bluGill 4y agoTransparency needs to be balanced with the need for some conversations to be easy and transident. If you can get my email, that means i have to spend several days writing them - following the full process I learned in 3rd grade: rough draft, review, final draft... These have to be on different days (just look at anything I write here - they often look great when I write them, but a day latter I see all the stupid mistakes in grammar and spelling). What I didn't learn in 3rd grade but is required is a separate lawyer to review everything as well. The above process needs to apply even for the simple "are you free for lunch today". Or instead I can just quit using email and drop back to phone calls (which few people ever record), or face to face conversations - which again are never recorded. Just because we can save emails forever doesn't mean we should.