Sunday, November 15, 2020

The Court Cases of November

Trump et al went to court to contest election results.

A Notebook


Thursday November 19, 2020

Rudy Giuliani ridiculed for bonkers press conference: ‘Not sure Trump got his $20,000 worth’

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/rudy-giuliani-ridiculed-for-bonkers-press-conference-not-sure-trump-got-his-20000-worth/

This story has some great embeds.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1329479319090032641 includes videos of Rudy doing his thing.  Aaron Rupar

https://twitter.com/RubinReport   

https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1329495964529278977 Your Internet video of the day ladles and jellyspoons...  (Rudy laughing at a reporter)

Fox Airs Giuliani Presser in Full Then Reports It Was All a Lie
“That was certainly a colorful news conference from Rudy Giuliani, but it was light on facts,” Fox News’ Kristin Fisher said
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/fox-news-rudy-giuliani-lied-during-press-conference-1092796/ 
Fisher went on to say that Giuliani is telling one story to the American people and another when he’s in a courtroom.


Very light blogging Wednesday November 18, 2020

Chores, then out to dinner in the evening. 

Top posting beginning Monday November 16, 2020


Lawsuits that tried to disrupt Biden's wins in four states are withdrawn
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/16/politics/lawsuits-michigan-pennsylvania-wisconsin-georgia/
The cases were short-lived in Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania federal courts, and fed into a pro-Trump legal strategy that's almost certain to fail to block Biden's presidential win before the Electoral College formalized it.
The suits mirrored one another and were all backed by the law firm of a nationally known conservative attorney, James Bopp Jr. In Michigan and Pennsylvania, the cases had also gone hand in hand with ones brought by the Trump campaign.
The announcement that the voters are dropping their suits comes three days after a federal appellate court said voters couldn't bring some constitutional claims, essentially shutting down the path the Pennsylvania voters wanted to take in their suit.
blaze
Pro-Trump Wisconsin Lawyers Spike Election Lawsuit on Morning of Court Hearing
When filing their federal lawsuit in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Republican lawyers hoping to block certification of the vote in a state that outgoing President Donald Trump lost wrote in their complaint that “evidence will be shortly forthcoming.” That never happened. Their legal team voluntarily dismissed their baseless voter fraud allegations hours before oral arguments had been scheduled to occur on Monday morning.






A Careful Voter-Fraud Review (National Review)

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/a-careful-voter-fraud-review/


Here Are All the Lawsuits the Trump Campaign Has Filed Since Election Day—And Why Most Are Unlikely to Go Anywhere


https://time.com/5908505/trump-lawsuits-biden-wins/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lawsuits_relating_to_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election


Lawyers Litigating for Trump Suddenly Remember Their Licenses Are on the Line If They Lie to a Judge

https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/lawyers-litigating-for-trump-suddenly-remember-their-licenses-are-on-the-line-if-they-lie-to-a-judge/ 


TRUMP v. MONTGOMERY COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS

https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2020/11/Transcript.pdf

Trump lawyers suffer embarrassing rebukes from judges over voter fraud claims

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/11/trump-lawyers-suffer-embarrassing-rebukes-judges-over-voter-fraud-claims/

https://twitter.com/kadhim/status/1324501187215958016 Trump has gone to federal court seeking an injunction against Philadelphia to stop the counting of "any ballots so long as Republican observers are not present".

The dispute is about how close observers can be to the workers counting ballots  (November 5)

https://pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/146/577781/153119149920.pdf

153119149920.pdf  Case 20-5533 DONALD J. TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT, INC. PHILADELPHIA COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS

Ronald L. Hicks, Jr. (PA #49520)

Carolyn B. McGee (PA #208815)

Six PPG Place, Third Floor

Pittsburgh, PA 15222

(412) 235-4500 (Telephone)

(412) 235-4510 (Fax)

rhicks@porterwright.com

cmcgee@porterwright.com

and

Jerome M. Marcus

P.A. Bar No. 50708

P.O. Box 212

Merion Station, PA 19066

(610) 246 6584

jmarcus@marcuslaw.us


https://twitter.com/carlquintanilla/status/1326695142716284928 (Reuters) - The largest law firm representing the Trump campaign or its allies in post-election litigation challenging votes in key states has withdrawn from an election lawsuit in Maricopa County, Arizona.  Snell & Wilmer withdraws from election lawsuit as Trump contests Arizona results

https://www.reuters.com/article/snell-maricopa-idUSL1N2HY005 The largest law firm representing the Trump campaign or its allies in post-election litigation challenging votes in key states has withdrawn from an election lawsuit in Maricopa County, Arizona. Associate Presiding Civil Judge Daniel Kiley on Tuesday granted Snell & Wilmer’s request to withdraw as counsel of record for the Republican National Committee. The RNC had teamed-up with the Trump campaign and the Arizona Republican Party in the case, which alleges that Maricopa County incorrectly rejected some votes cast on Election Day.

https://twitter.com/LarryStCroix/status/1326717093346123776 Snell & Wilmer received more than $770,000 from the RNC, the National Republican Congressional Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee for legal services and legal consulting btwn January 2019 & September 2020, according to Federal Elections Commission records

https://twitter.com/LarryStCroix 


Lawyers Litigating for Trump Suddenly Remember Their Licenses Are on the Line If They Lie to a Judge

Wednesday Nov 11

https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/lawyers-litigating-for-trump-suddenly-remember-their-licenses-are-on-the-line-if-they-lie-to-a-judge/


Trump Lawyer Who Gave ‘Non-Zero Number of People’ Answer to Judge Penned Story in The Federalist That Failed to Allege Fraud

Wednesday Nov 11 2020

https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/trump-lawyer-who-gave-non-zero-number-of-people-answer-to-judge-penned-story-in-the-federalist-that-failed-to-allege-fraud/?utm_source=mostpopular

Writing Wednesday in the far-right publication The Federalist, Philadelphia attorney Jerome M. Marcus claims to have personally witnessed fraud occurring that was detrimental to the 45th president’s reelection chances against Joe Biden.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/10/i-was-in-philadelphia-watching-fraud-happen-heres-how-it-went-down/ 

Titled, “I Was In Philadelphia Watching Fraud Happen. Here’s How It Went Down,” the piece itself doesn’t support the headline.

Marcus recently argued a case in federal court asserting that Trump’s campaign observers were prohibited from observing ballot-counting. That wasn’t actually true and the court confirmed as much by eventually dismissing the case as moot.


White House attorney dispatched to agency blocking Biden transition

https://news.yahoo.com/white-house-attorney-dispatched-to-agency-blocking-biden-transition-173301811.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=tw

How Biden’s transition team will work around Trump’s blockade of the government

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-transition-team-trump/2020/11/11/d32eacfa-2436-11eb-8672-c281c7a2c96e_story.html 


https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/11/politics/james-lankford-biden-intelligence-briefings/

To my family who chose Trump over me: Was it worth it?

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/10/opinions/trump-tore-my-family-apart-eldredge/?hpt=ob_blogfooterold


https://twitter.com/i/events/1324106841723269122 Ballots received and counted after Election Day are legitimate as long as they were mailed on or before November 3, depending on state-specific rules

 

Arizona election updates: Biden holds lead in state as Trump picks up more votes in Maricopa County

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/11/arizona-election-live-updates-2020-presidential-election/6243778002/ 

https://azsos.gov/ 

https://results.arizona.vote/#/featured/18/0



https://www.theblaze.com/news/sandra-smith-hot-mic-mitchell

 

The Blaze supplied a compilation  doc of the affidavits in the michigan case

https://roar-assets-auto.rbl.ms/documents/7487/3.%20EXHIBIT%201%20(affidavits)%20(compressed).pdf

The Trump campaign has released 234 pages of affidavits regarding alleged voting irregularities in Michigan. Here's what they say.

They mostly concern an alleged 'atmosphere of intimidation' at a major Detroit counting location

https://www.theblaze.com/news/affidavits-alleged-voting-regularities-in-michigan 

https://fetlife.com/groups/109863/posts/17312875  "The evidence"


https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/11/trump-lawsuit-affidavits-allege-misconduct-do-not-show-widespread-fraud/6247949002/



Sunday November 15, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oa2GSyQSIw Televangelist On Trump's Loss: Turn That Frown Upside-Down

Kenneth Copeland has an odd way of coping with Trump’s election loss. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. Keep Hope (and TYT) Alive: http://tyt.com/go



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Uf0KbO6Jl0 'Frankly embarrassing': Tapper breaks down Trump's lawsuits alleging voter fraud

The gang who couldn’t sue straight



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8-hcg9VHdg Donny Deutsch: ‘Donald Trump Is In Pre-Production Right Now’ | Deadline | MSNBC

Telerallies trademarked, subscription model

Donny Deutsch predicts Donald Trump’s next act will be in television, and says if you were pre-producing Trump’s next move, you’d rather the president act aggrieved than accept his loss. Aired on 11/10/2020.


https://fusion.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania-election-trump-lawsuits-porter-wright-court-linda-kerns-biden-20201113.html 

This Philadelphia Inquirer article has info on Ms. Kerns, who took over a case from Porter Wright

https://www.media.pa.gov/Pages/State-details.aspx?newsid=432  Department Of State Provides Update On Election Results

 

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/13/business/stop-the-steal-disinformation-campaign-invs/ 

Also on November 5, Bannon started his own "Stop the Steal" Facebook group; he changed the name to "Own Your Vote" the following day. It was not removed by Facebook, but the social media company did later remove several other pages affiliated with Bannon.


Giuliani wrecks Trump campaign's well-laid legal plans

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/14/giuliani-trump-legal-plans-436475



How Trump’s Voter Fraud War Room Became a Fart-Infused ‘Room From Hell’

The president’s campaign built a tip line that left its own staff feeling traumatized, then hung out to dry by Team Trump.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-trumps-voter-fraud-war-room-became-a-fart-infused-room-from-hell?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4 

Going to the bathroom to cray - caller after caller heaping abuse on them, etc


Trump team persists in Pa. court fights despite COVID quarantine, quitting lawyers, and courtroom losses

A day of setbacks in and out of court left the president's legal strategy to reverse the results teetering on the edge of collapse.

https://fusion.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania-election-trump-lawsuits-porter-wright-court-linda-kerns-biden-20201113.html 

The law firm leading Trump’s battles in the state, Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, abruptly withdrew its representation — a decision a campaign spokesperson dismissed as the lawyers “buckling” under attacks from “liberal mobs.”

That left Linda Kerns, a solo practitioner in Philadelphia, as the primary attorney now representing the campaign on multiple legal fronts. But her in-person appearance in a courtroom in the city was scuttled Friday after the judge announced Trump’s legal team had been exposed to the coronavirus through meetings with campaign staff.

https://www.inquirer.com/health/coronavirus/trump-secret-service-coronavirus-covid-19-infected-quarantine-20201113.html 


 

Giuliani wrecks Trump campaign's well-laid legal plans

The campaign spent months building a legal apparatus to contest close elections. Then along came the former New York City mayor.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/14/giuliani-trump-legal-plans-436475 

 

No, Dominion voting machines did not delete Trump votes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/technology/no-dominion-voting-machines-did-not-delete-trump-votes.html

https://www.osetfoundation.org/


It goes from bad to worse for the Trump legal team

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/13/it-goes-bad-worse-trump-legal-team/ 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/opinion/trump-prosecution-lawsuits.html   lawsuits after jan 21


Thursday November 12, 2020


Refuse Fascism will be non-violently protesting the Million MAGA March from about 11:30 a.m. on Saturday 11/14 at Freedom Plaza, in Washington DC. As a reminder, World Kindness Day falls on 11/13. Mass Protest Nationwide Saturday, November 14 Trump Is Still Trying to Steal the Election! Trump/Pence OUT NOW! We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America! https://refusefascism.org/

https://www.mediamatters.org/infowars/militia-leader-stewart-rhodes-says-he-has-men-stationed-outside-dc-ready-engage-violence


Oath Keepers militia leader Stewart Rhodes said that he has armed men on standby outside of Washington, D.C., to supposedly prevent the 2020 presidential election from being stolen from President Donald Trump. Echoing elements of the QAnon conspiracy theory during an appearance on far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ program, Rhodes said the only way to prevent his men from engaging in a “bloody fight” would be Trump declassifying information to supposedly expose pedophiles in the “deep state” and allow the president to stay in power.

 

Rhodes also indicated his militia will be involved in a rally to support Trump planned for this weekend in the nation's capital.

 

Rhodes’ Oath Keepers militia, which comprises “former law enforcement officials and military veterans,” is described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as “one of the largest radical antigovernment groups in the U.S. today.” But, as Rhodes recent public comments have made clear, the organization’s purpose has shifted from opposing the government to instead act as a pro-Trump vigilante group that is willing to violently support Trump’s unjust attempts to stay in power after losing the 2020 election.


https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-elections/arizona-president-results

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/upshot/election-arizona-georgia-results.html

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/12/us/joe-biden-trump 

 

9:15 p.m.: More votes for Biden mathematically eliminate Trump 

President-elect Joe Biden's lead over President Donald Trump grew mathematically insurmountable in Arizona on Thursday evening as Maricopa County posted more results.

 

Biden stretched his lead in Maricopa County by 400 votes, which expanded his margin statewide to 11,434 votes.

 

The Secretary of State's Office reports 10,315 ballots are left to be counted in Arizona, with 990 of them in Maricopa County.

 

With the results, CNN, NBC, The Washington Post and The New York Times joined The Associated Press and Fox News in projecting Biden the winner in the Grand Canyon State.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/12/arizona-election-live-updates-2020-presidential-election/6258023002/ 



Arizona's Republican attorney general rejects election fraud claims, predicts Biden win in state

Nov 11

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/11/arizona-attorney-general-mark-brnovich-dismisses-election-fraud-claims/6258889002/

Pa. GOP lawmakers to probe unverified fraud claims in election they largely won
Nov 10
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/spl/pennsylvania-election-2020-investigation-republicans-audits-20201110.html#loaded

Rudy Giuliani: Trump campaign has enough evidence to change Pennsylvania election results
November 8
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/rudy-giuliani-trump-campaign-has-enough-evidence-to-change-pennsylvania-election-results

November 8
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1325486459516805125.html Long thread but I need everyone to read this and absorb. Dick Morris points out what should he blaring my obvious to most but deliberately ignored by the left.




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