Sidney Powell is ‘in a whole lot of trouble’ after her latest legal maneuver: attorney https://www.rawstory.com/sidney-powell-defamation/
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/22/politics/sidney-powell-dominion-lawsuit-election-fraud/index.html Sidney Powell claiming that no reasonable person should listen to her.
Now the states are starting to demand money for these frivolous "election fraud" lawsuits. Wisconsin Demands Trump And Sidney Powell Cough Up Legal Fees In BS Election Suits https://abovethelaw.com/2021/04/wis...ell-cough-up-legal-fees-in-bs-election-suits/ In the continuing fallout from the “Kraken” election suits, Wisconsin is seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in attorneys’ fees from Donald Trump and Sidney Powell for their attempts to overturn the state’s election results via lawsuits that were “frivolous, dilatory, and without merit.” That’s one expensive plate of calamari. The state asks U.S. District Judge Brett Ludwig to hold the former president and his attorneys jointly and severally liable for $145,000 to reimburse the state for the costs of defending against a suit that was barred by laches, incompetently pleaded, and all but identical to one the campaign had already lost in state court. “From this case’s inception through the staggeringly expedited subsequent proceedings, there is no doubt that Trump and his attorneys brought and litigated this lawsuit in bad faith,” the state argues. “Unconscionably, they did so for the purpose of sowing doubt about the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election, with a goal of disenfranchising nearly 3.3 million Wisconsin voters in order to secure the presidency contrary to majority will.” And noting that the plaintiff continued to prosecute his claim after it was clearly moot, while using the specter of litigation to raise $250 million from his rube supporters, the state demands sanctions because “Trump did not pursue this case, or any other post-election litigation, in good faith; instead he used the courts—as well as the defendants, all of whom were government actors—as tools to assist him in raising funds to aid future political endeavors.” Graded on the 2020 Batshit Litigation curve, it sounds pretty tame, really. But the motion for sanctions against Sidney Powell and her hapless client William Feehan is a hilarious catalog of self owns and stepped on rakes. How do you file in the name of a plaintiff who never consented to be part of the case; demand injunctive relief without asking for a TRO or expedited briefing; screw up the entry of appearance; copypasta a demand for evidence from the Michigan Kraken tentacle into the Wisconsin filing; fabricate a quote from a case in the very circuit where you’re arguing; cite a case which has been overturned; misrepresent the qualifications of your expert witnesses; appeal before a final judgment is entered; race off to the Supreme Court before the Seventh Circuit has un-f*cked the procedural mess caused by your first untimely appeal; then botch that filing as well, and write a snotty letter blaming the SCOTUS clerk for it — ALL IN THE SAME CASE? Dunno. But Sidney Powell does. “Plaintiff’s complaint did not outline coherent legal claims so much as it flitted among a variety of fringe conspiracy theories, sourced to anonymous declarations submitted by ostensible experts who were later identified and revealed to be extreme partisans with neither experience nor qualifications to provide any type of opinion on the subject matter,” the state argues. But wait, there’s more! Even more egregious than the slapdash way Plaintiff’s attorneys handled the proceedings, was their request that this Court overturn Wisconsin’s certified election results, disenfranchising nearly 3.3 million voters, and counterfactually declare by fiat that Donald Trump had won the state’s electoral votes. This would be completely unprecedented, but for the fact that Plaintiff’s counsel had filed similar cases seeking similar relief—all ending with similar failure—in several other states before filing in Wisconsin. Instead of evidence and legal argument, Plaintiff offered a tangled web of irrelevant (and inaccurate) conspiracy theories, ultimately suggesting that Dominion voting machines had altered individual votes to favor Joseph R. Biden, Jr. And so Wisconsin is demanding $106,000 in fees, since it had to waste time defending against this rancid cowpie of a lawsuit. Good thing the plaintiff and his attorney didn’t already piss off U.S. District Judge Pamela Pepper with their antics this winter. (More at above url)
Michigan AG Says Sidney Powell’s Claim that ‘No Reasonable Person’ Would Believe Her Kraken Theories Is Exactly Why She Should Be Sanctioned https://lawandcrime.com/2020-electi...aken-theories-against-her-in-sanctions-fight/https://lawandcrime.com/2020-electi...aken-theories-against-her-in-sanctions-fight/
Rudy Giuliani under oath: Yeah, we made that vote machine BS up. Rudy Giuliani, under oath, reveals baseless origins of Trump Big Lie claims https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow...-origins-of-trump-big-lie-claims-122458181721
Now it is OAN's turn to feel the legal wrath for peddling fabricated election fraud crap and sharing a spreadsheet of stolen Smartmatic employee passwords. Pro-Trump OAN accused of possible 'criminal activities' by Smartmatic lawyers https://www.rawstory.com/oan-smartmatic-lawsuit/ Executives at One America News, the pro-Trump cable network that became infamous for peddling bogus conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, potentially engaged in "criminal activities," according to attorneys representing electronic voting systems company Smartmatic. CNN reports that Smartmatic's lawyers are claiming that OAN President Charles Herring sent an email to Trump lawyer Sidney Powell on January 8th, 2021 that purportedly contained passwords for Smartmatic employees. This exchange, according to Smartmatic lawyers, shows the president of OAN "may have engaged in criminal activities," as his actions “appear to have violated state and federal laws regarding data privacy.” "The court records don’t say how OAN obtained the spreadsheet, or whether the supposed Smartmatic passwords were authentic," notes CNN. "Nobody from OAN has been charged with any crimes. But it came at a time when OAN, Powell and others in their orbit were aggressively peddling false claims that there was massive voter fraud in 2020, and that Smartmatic was to blame." In the wake of the 2020 election, Powell began pushing conspiracy theories about Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems after receiving an email about the two companies from a woman who claims she can speak with the wind. CNN also reports that a separate court filing suggests that a similar spreadsheet of passwords was sent to Mike Lindell, the Trump-loving pillow monger who is also being sued for his allegedly defamatory statements about Dominion.
Let's catch up with the latest regarding OAN and the stolen Smartmatic passwords. Pro-Trump network OAN’s president solicited more info after receiving ‘stolen’ Smartmatic passwords, court documents allege https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/07/media/oan-president-smartmatic-passwords/index.html
This behavior by Newsmax should not surprise anyone. Voting machine firm Smartmatic alleges Newsmax has deleted evidence in lawsuit over false vote-rigging claims Smartmatic is suing Fox News, Newsmax, Rudy Giuliani and others over false claims of vote-rigging and fraud in the 2020 election. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/el...d-evidence-lawsuit-vote-rig-claims-rcna153231