January 6 Hearings Live

[blastula]

Three Thomas More Society, a wackaloon Christian group, filled another wackaloon election lawsuit. The many defendants include the Electoral College.

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/questauthority/status/1341541600221159424?s=20[/TWEET]

 

[Elixir]

Three Thomas More Society, a wackaloon Christian group, filled another wackaloon election lawsuit. The many defendants include the Electoral College.

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/questauthority/status/1341541600221159424?s=20[/TWEET]

OMFG.
Now, thanks to Trump, it is possible not only to sue frivolously and endlessly, but you can even sue non-existent entities for purely imagined harms.
What a tragicomic waste of judicial resources.

 

[Angry Floof]

Three Thomas More Society, a wackaloon Christian group, filled another wackaloon election lawsuit. The many defendants include the Electoral College.

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/questauthority/status/1341541600221159424?s=20[/TWEET]

OMFG.
Now, thanks to Trump, it is possible not only to sue frivolously and endlessly, but you can even sue non-existent entities for purely imagined harms.
What a tragicomic waste of judicial resources.

More accurately, seditious abuse of the judicial process.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Three Thomas More Society, a wackaloon Christian group, filled another wackaloon election lawsuit. The many defendants include the Electoral College.

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/questauthority/status/1341541600221159424?s=20[/TWEET]

These lawsuits feel like the lawsuits against the IRS about the Federal Income Tax.

C. Issue a declaratory judgment, applying to current and future elections, that the Plaintiff voters’ constitutionally-protected voting rights in Presidential elections are being violated byDefendants;

The states are violating the Defendants voting rights by not allowing the Legislature to overturn an election. We are back to Peter Sellers political satire here.

The DC Court of Appeals has a serious question to consider here. Shred it or use it for toilet paper.

 

[TomC]

.The DC Court of Appeals has a serious question to consider here. Shred it or use it for toilet paper.

Perhaps the court has another option.
Use the lawsuit to write a really clear and honest court opinion about seditious lawsuits.

Let the plaintiffs take that to SCOTUS.
Tom

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

.The DC Court of Appeals has a serious question to consider here. Shred it or use it for toilet paper.

Perhaps the court has another option.
Use the lawsuit to write a really clear and honest court opinion about seditious lawsuits.

Let the plaintiffs take that to SCOTUS.
Tom

CJ Roberts fucked up in not spanking Texas. They sent a message that was clear enough for normal people, but the Red Hats and the Fascist movement didn't quite get it.

 

[Shadowy Man]

.The DC Court of Appeals has a serious question to consider here. Shred it or use it for toilet paper.

Perhaps the court has another option.
Use the lawsuit to write a really clear and honest court opinion about seditious lawsuits.

Let the plaintiffs take that to SCOTUS.
Tom

CJ Roberts fucked up in not spanking Texas. They sent a message that was clear enough for normal people, but the Red Hats and the Fascist movement didn't quite get it.

“I said good day!”

 

[jab]

I think most movie studios would toss out that pitch for sounding too farcical.

Cast Rowan Atkinson, The Rock, Kevin Hart, and Anna Kendrick, first, then pitch the plot.

Anna Kendrick would be good as melania; for Sydney Powell, cast Leslie Jones--or, for her way with a funny phony voice and general spookiness, Nicole Kidman.

 

[Swammerdami]

Full doc is here.

I would have thought that text would have been boilerplate... and not needing to be typed every time. It is almost as if this entire thing is being orchestrated by Andy Kaufman.

I clicked and was surprised to see that the very first sentence, though starting with the usual boilerplate phrase, wasn't even a grammatical sentence! I'm no lawyer but I speak English like a native:

"She comes on Tuesday and washes my sheets."​

is correct, but

"She comes on Tuesday wash my sheets."​

is not.
Five-hundred dollars per hour and the very first sentence mangles the verb?? (I'd copy-paste but Firefox gives garbage when I attempt that on this pdf.)

Am I wrong? Does the archaic "Comes now" confuse a lot of law clerks and turn the first sentence of a filing into gibberish? I did Google "Comes now" "by and through counsel" and the hits all had the correct grammatical form as in the "... and washes ..." example.

 

[blastula]

Yeah, he got the verbs wrong ("and sue"). Also should have had an "and" or other word before "file/files." Not a lot proofreading going on at his firm. Here's another goof he made earlier.

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/questauthority/status/1337242852645097472[/TWEET]

He misspelled his own name as Woods and then treated the name as plural. Subject-verb agreement is a recurring issue.

 

[fromderinside]

 

[SLD]

Yeah, he got the verbs wrong ("and sue"). Also should have had an "and" or other word before "file/files." Not a lot proofreading going on at his firm. Here's another goof he made earlier.

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/questauthority/status/1337242852645097472[/TWEET]

He misspelled his own name as Woods and then treated the name as plural. Subject-verb agreement is a recurring issue.

Well as long as he signed that it’s full of plenty of perjury. . . .

 

[lpetrich]

Opinion: Trump is destroying his own party on the way out the door - CNN

This holiday season, President Donald Trump has wreaked havoc on Congress, our democracy and our judicial system by pardoning political associates and convicted murderers. But Trump has saved a special kind of Grinch-like behavior for the two Republican Senate candidates in Georgia who are headed for runoff elections in January and for Senator Mitch McConnell, whose fate as majority leader depends on the GOP winning at least one of those races.

These three are only the latest to realize that the return on investment for loyalty to Donald Trump is exactly zero. McConnell, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler all stood on the Senate floor in February and acquitted Trump on charges he abused his power in office and obstructed Congress. But now that it's time for Trump to return the favor, our self-absorbed President seems to be doing everything he can to make it harder for all three -- and perhaps giving the Democrats the gift of control of the Senate as he leaves office.

What a great own goal that would be.

But it says something about Republican politicians that they object to Trump only over a $2,000 payment to each American.

 

[blastula]

Is it too late to impeach the motherfucker again?

Trump pressures Georgia's Raffensperger to overturn his defeat in extraordinary call - The Washington Post

Audio is in the link so you can hear the tinfoiler mob boss at work. It's cheerful to imagine the depths of paranoia he's wallowing in right now that someone leaked the audio.

Or maybe he doesn't care because he does this right out in the open too.

Trump urges nearly 300 state legislators to decertify election results - The Washington Post

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

Is it too late to impeach the motherfucker again?

Trump pressures Georgia's Raffensperger to overturn his defeat in extraordinary call - The Washington Post

Audio is in the link so you can hear the tinfoiler mob boss at work. It's cheerful to imagine the depths of paranoia he's wallowing in right now that someone leaked the audio.

Or maybe he doesn't care because he does this right out in the open too.

Trump urges nearly 300 state legislators to decertify election results - The Washington Post

Trumpo is an aspiring demagogue but isn't smart enough to pull it off. His republican enablers are just as stupid. The High Plains Grifter is going into the unemployment line and not a jail cell only because lots of voters wish they were just as good at cheating.

 

[ZiprHead]

[YOUTUBE]https://youtu.be/o3hrN0cP58Y[/YOUTUBE]

 

[crazyfingers]

There has to be a federal law along the lines of conspiracy to pressure elections officials to commit election fraud that Trump and his lawyers could be prosecuted for.

I wonder who leaked the recording..

 

[Elixir]

There has to be a federal law along the lines of conspiracy to pressure elections officials to commit election fraud that Trump and his lawyers could be prosecuted for.

I wonder who leaked the recording..

Pressuring anyone to commit a crime, is a crime.
Trump can commit all the crimes he wants, as long as he can stay in office.
He is all in.
He will nuke Iran if he can.
He will have all the Democrats in Congress shot if he can.
He will do WHATEVER he can to stay in power.

 

[southernhybrid]

It looks as if he committed a crime but some experts don't believe he will be prosecuted.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/03/us/politics/trump-call-georgia.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

The call by President Trump on Saturday to Georgia’s secretary of state raised the prospect that Mr. Trump may have violated laws that prohibit interference in federal or state elections, but lawyers said on Sunday that it would be difficult to pursue such a charge.

The recording of the conversation between Mr. Trump and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger of Georgia, first reported by The Washington Post, led a number of election and criminal defense lawyers to conclude that by pressuring Mr. Raffensperger to “find” the votes he would need to reverse the election outcome in the state, Mr. Trump either broke the law or came close to it.

“It seems to me like what he did clearly violates Georgia statutes,” said Leigh Ann Webster, an Atlanta criminal defense lawyer, citing a state law that makes it illegal for anyone who “solicits, requests, commands, importunes or otherwise attempts to cause the other person to engage” in election fraud.

At the federal level, anyone who “knowingly and willfully deprives, defrauds or attempts to deprive or defraud the residents of a state of a fair and impartially conducted election process” is breaking the law.

That is because while Mr. Trump clearly implied that Mr. Raffensperger might suffer legal consequences if he did not find additional votes for the president in Georgia, Mr. Trump stopped short of saying he would deliver on the threat himself against Mr. Raffensperger and his legal counsel, Ryan Germany, Mr. Sanderson said.

In some ways, Trump isn't as dumb as he seems to be. He's always had a way of saying things that can be interpreted in different ways. So, while the implication was that he was threatening Raffensperger, it wasn't a direct threat.

In this case, he made it seem as if he seriously believes that he won the Georgia election, and was just asking the SOS to do the right thing because if he doesn't do what Trump claims is the right thing, there may be legal consequences. I can see how that might make it hard to charge or prosecute him, as he didn't make a direct threat.

On the other hand, I just heard that the Georgia DOJ wants to consider if anything that Trump said on the call was enough to charge him with a state crime.

I just hope we can get through the next 16 days without Trump doing a lot more serious damage.

 

[Shadowy Man]

Trump knows mob speak well.

“Your Honor, I was merely showing genuine concern when I said I hoped nothing happened to his family.”