Ticked Off Federal Judge Threatens Lawyer Behind Republicans’ Dumbest Election Lawsuit with ‘Potential Discipline’ https://lawandcrime.com/2020-electi...dumbest-election-lawsuit-may-face-discipline/ A federal judge was so dismayed by a Republican lawsuit that bizarrely attempted to sue the Electoral College and Vice President Mike Pence—among many others—that he wrote in a memorandum opinion on Monday that he’s considering referring the attorney behind it for “potential discipline.” We know that U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia James Boasberg doesn’t much like lengthy footnotes, so it should come as no surprise that he unequivocally dismantled what legal observers have dubbed Republicans’ “single dumbest election lawsuit” and the 310 footnotes therein. And, no, this was not the suit that Rep. Louie Gohmert filed (that was in a federal court in Texas). The judge summed up the case this way: Plaintiffs’ aims in this election challenge are bold indeed: they ask this Court to declare unconstitutional several decades-old federal statutes governing the appointment of electors and the counting of electoral votes for President of the United States; to invalidate multiple state statutes regulating the certification of Presidential votes; to ignore certain Supreme Court decisions; and, the coup de grace, to enjoin the U.S. Congress from counting the electoral votes on January 6, 2021, and declaring Joseph R. Biden the next President. From here, the judge counted the lawsuit’s failures and said these would be “risible” if the lawsuit’s aims weren’t “so grave” as they are. “In addition to being filed on behalf of Plaintiffs without standing and (at least as to the state Defendants) in the wrong court and with no effort to even serve their adversaries, the suit rests on a fundamental and obvious misreading of the Constitution. It would be risible were its target not so grave: the undermining of a democratic election for President of the United States. The Court will deny the Motion,” Judge Boasberg began. “To say that Plaintiffs’ 116-page Complaint, replete with 310 footnotes, is prolix would be a gross understatement,” the judge added. Judge Boasberg, an appointee of President Barack Obama, previously picked up on futility of serving the Electoral College, issuing an order stating that “as soon as Plaintiffs file proofs of service on all Defendants, a briefing schedule and hearing shall be set.” On Monday, the judge said the plaintiffs failed to “make any effort to serve or formally notify any Defendant — even after reminder by the Court in its Minute Order,” which, the judge said, “renders it difficult to believe that the suit is meant seriously.” The judge then threatened that, at the end of the case, he will decide “whether to issue an order to show cause why this matter should not be referred to its Committee on Grievances for potential discipline of Plaintiffs’ counsel.” That lawyer is Erick G. Kaardal, identified in the suit as Special Counsel for Amistad Project of Thomas More Society. Kardaal’s Twitter bio refers to him as a “Populist attorney who has made career suing the government.” He is a partner at Mohrman, Kaardal & Erickson, P.A., a firm whose offices are based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Law&Crime reached out Kaardal by email for comment. “Courts are not instruments through which parties engage in such gamesmanship or symbolic political gestures,” the judge concluded. “Plaintiffs have established no likelihood of success on the merits here, the Court will deny their Motion for Preliminary Injunction.” Read the filing below: (Filing document at above url)
Very readable decision which might be the most damning one so far. Includes: Standing issues. Failure to file in the correct courts. Failure to serve the defendants. Asking a district court to overturn two Supreme Court decisions. Nearly illiterate and outright wrong reading of the Constitution. Why are you bring this up weeks after the election? Saying they are not claiming election fraud followed by numerous claims of election fraud. Making clearly dis-proven claims. Court suspects this is not a serious lawsuit and is threatening to have the plaintiffs' lawyers sanctioned.
These business leaders can fix the entire problem if they just proclaimed "Any member of Congress who fails to uphold the certified results of the election will never get a penny in donations again from our corporations, ourselves, or our lobbyists. More than 170 business leaders sign letter urging Congress to accept Biden's win https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/04/business/business-leaders-letter-election/index.html More than 170 prominent business leaders signed a letter urging Congress to accept the Electoral College results that declared Joe Biden as the next President of the United States. "This presidential election has been decided and it is time for the country to move forward," the letter reads. "President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have won ... There should be no further delay in the orderly transfer of power." The letter was published Monday by the nonprofit Partnership for New York City, a major advocacy group for the business community. The group's CEO, Kathryn Wylde, says that in addition to theinitial signatories, other business leaders have requested to sign on to the letter. In addition to the letter, the Business Roundtable — a group of executives that run the largest corporations in America — said in a statement that it "opposes efforts to delay or overturn the clear outcome of the election." On Wednesday, Congress is set to meet to certify the election results in what is normally a routine process. But at least 140 House Republicans and a dozen Senate Republicans are preparing to vote against Biden's victory in a push to overturn the election results, despite no evidence of widespread voter fraud. The letter includes signatures from dozens of CEOs, founders and other leaders across multiple industries: (More at above url)
Absolutely! But this is what it's come to? Businesses begging our representatives to remain a democracy?
We are a nation of laws, not subjects of Trump https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/editorial-we-are-a-nation-of-laws-not-subjects-of-trump/19457123/ The U.S. Constitution’s directive for the U.S. Senate on Wednesday to affirm the results of the 2020 presidential election are simple and clear: “The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted; -- The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President,” says the 12th Amendment. That’s it. But, to any rational person who listened to Donald Trump’s Saturday telephone call with the Georgia Secretary of State or is following the machinations of Texans U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert or Sen. Ted Cruz, truth, fact and that plain language mean nothing when the nation is run by a mob boss and his “consigliere.” Trump was blunt and direct. “Find 11,780 votes” he said to Brad Raffensberger or risk “criminal offense.” Cruz is refusing to support certification of an election that Democrat Joe Biden factually won. Gohmert wants Vice President Mike Pence to assume powers he doesn’t have to change the electoral college voting results. He’s gone to court, being met with only rejection, to claim that the vice president is more than “the glorified envelope-opener in chief.” He contends, regardless of the Constitution’s silence, the vice president has “weighty and prudential powers … which unequivocally entrusts to him all the prerogatives and rights to determine what electoral votes to count or to disregard.” This is the same Louie Gomert who declared on March 15, 2016 – looking to block Merrick Garland’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court -- “the American people need to decide if they want to continue the onslaught on the plain language of the Constitution.” The rules that will be used Wednesday by Congress for counting of electoral college votes will be the same as those used in the past. Between 70% and 80% of Republicans don’t accept the election’s results. Fifty-two percent of Republicans contend Trump “rightfully won” the election and 68% say the election was “rigged.” A Pew survey last month found that among Republicans and those who lean Republican, 66% say Trump’s message that he won and that he is a victim of election fraud “has been completely or mostly right.” A Quinnipiac poll revealed that 77% of registered Republican voters say there was “widespread voter fraud.” All this based on the claims of a man who averages better than a dozen false claims daily. Trump’s disinformation storm hasn’t abated. He’s even started to claim – without a shred of evidence or fact -- the current Senate runoff election in Georgia “illegal and invalid.” We are very seriously perplexed by the mesmerizing powers of President Trump – so potent that Gohmert, other Republicans in Congress and other public office holders along with most GOP voters -- abandon long-held convictions and suspend adherence to truth and reality. North Carolina Republicans Madison Cawthorn and Ted Budd, who won election with the benefit of running in heavily GOP districts, say they’ll challenge the Electoral College results – again without evidence of any irregularities. CNN has reported there are at least 140 House Republicans ready to vote against counting the electoral college votes. The report did not list the specific house members. Cawthorn, Budd, Richard Hudson and David Rouzer have said they won't acknowledge Biden's win. Earlier, six North Carolina Republican House members: Dan Bishop, Budd, Virginia Foxx, Hudson, Rouzer and Gregory Murphy, signed onto an effort to get the Supreme Court to toss out election results in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The court rejected the ploy. Even after an hour of browbeating by the president and his advisers last Saturday we can be thankful that Georgia election officials didn’t wither. Last month, after the electors in the states affirmed Biden’s victory, North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis acknowledged on the Senate floor that Biden was, in fact, the winner. Burr has said he'll vote to uphold results showing Biden's the winner. While Trump may garner support from those who see him as a vehicle for their positions and beliefs (opposition to abortion for example) that shouldn’t require suspension of reality nor acceptance of falsehoods. It cannot be repeated enough. While there has been one of the most intensive investigations ever, there is NO evidence of widespread fraud. There is no evidence of any significant computer glitches or manipulations. The people the president had in charge of election security declared: “There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes or was in any way compromised,” and it was “the most secure in American history.” We are sure there won’t be a Republican representative or senator sitting in the Capitol Wednesday who, amid the baseless claims of election fraud, will give up their seat as result of those ill-gotten votes. Affirming the election of Joe Biden as president and Kamala Harris as vice president isn’t acquiescence to their views. Expressing concern over a president’s habitual distortion of the truth is not partisan infidelity. In America, loyalty to a political party is NOT fealty to a personality (Trump). We declared independence from, and fought a revolution, to get out from under royally divine rule and all that oppression 245 years ago. What needs to happen is for North Carolina’s elected representatives – and the rest of those assembled -- to affirm the election results. They should raise their voices, publicly offer sincere and heartfelt thanks to the thousands of election workers and volunteers – especially those in this state. They made sure that more qualified voters than ever, amid the most challenging circumstances imaginable (a deadly pandemic combined with unprecedented intimidation), were able to cast ballots and have them properly counted. They must display pride and confidence in the American voters who, quite literally, risked health and safety to turn out in record numbers and did their civic duty. Affirm the election results.
Lou Dobbs Complains ‘Actual Proof’ of Election Fraud Is Too Hard to Find https://www.thedailybeast.com/lou-dobbs-complains-actual-proof-of-election-fraud-is-too-hard-to-find
Maybe you can reach out to him and tell him your theory on how DeSantis is publishing fraudulent data. You might give him some suggestions.