Such a stark disconnect between the lawsuits the Trump campaign has filed and the absolutely wild fraud claims being passed around the Trumposphere.
At some point, you'd think they'd wonder why the Trump campaign isn't suing under the "a computer did it!" theory.
So far none of the Trump campaign lawsuits would lead to Trump taking the electoral vote lead.
And the only two claims that could even come close to changing the EV are the supposed "a computer did it" and "we saw Democrats drive up with new ballots" theories.
Nobody has sued under those theories, and I know why and you know why. But what do they think the excuse is?
The reason is these theories are utterly lacking in evidence.
But lots of Trump chatterers seem to actually believe these things are real. So what's the excuse they believe for why Trump isn't suing on either basis?
It doesn't make sense. If you truly believed that a computer has changed votes in states all across the country, aren't you headed to court immediately?
Even an individual voter could seek to vindicate their own vote under this theory, if they believed the computer changed it.
I have to concede that this is true. PACER would definitely ally itself with an evil AI. That's PACER's nature.
Lawgeeks, check out the new Trump campaign lawsuit seeking to prevent Pennsylvania from certifying the vote. (Still nothing about the computer or the claim that Dems drove up with new ballots after election day.)
Among the other remedies the Trump campaign is asking for, they want the federal court to order Pennsylvania not to count valid votes that were cured before Election Day on the theory that it is unfair to voters who did not get a chance to cure their ballots.
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This new lawsuit is against the PA secretary of the commonwealth and four election boards in heavily-Democratic counties.
It raises due process, equal protection, and electors clause claims and is premised on two specific complaints about procedures in PA.
The Trump camp. alleges that:
(1) Trump camp. observers were prevented from meaningfully observing pre-canvassing, counting, and mail-in counting.
(2) The Democratic election boards allowed voters to cure bad ballots prior to election day, whereas other counties did not.
There is some pre-buttal in here about what "meaningfully observe" means and its importance to election integrity, since even the Trump campaign is grudgingly admitting that GOP observers were actually present in the room.
Okay, switching gears . . . there was an important RFRA decision in D.C. last night.
Fed. judge rules D.C. violated RFRA (which applies to fed. gov't, but also the gov't of D.C.) when it refused to allow a church to hold outdoor, masked, socially-distanced services with more than 100 congregants.
Collecting recent decisions in which Republicans argued that restrictions on voting are necessary to prevent fraud.
"the State (Texas) did not provide any actual examples of voter fraud"
"it is a speculative and 'generalized grievance' in this case"
"Plaintiffs have not introduced even an ounce of evidence supporting the assertion that . . . use of mail ballots will inundate the election with fraud."
Lawgeeks, you can read the affidavit in support of the criminal complaint against militia members who plotted to kidnap Gov. Whitmer courtesy of Detroit News --> detroitnews.com/story/news/loc…
Entrance to the plot, according to the affidavit:
•Croft and Fox met through social media.
•CHS-1 comes in at June 6 right-wing Ohio meet-up.
•Garbin (militia leadership)and CHS-2 come in at the June 18 Second Amendment rally in Lansing.
•Franks, Caserta come in at a tactical training camp June 28.
•Harris is at a meet-up in Ohio in July 18 where they talk about shooting up Whitmer's vacation home.
Huh, that's a little weird. The McCloskey's have been charged with unlawful use of a weapon and evidence tampering.
But no details yet as the indictment isn't available (ugh, stone age courts). kmov.com/news/mccloskey…
I would imagine the GJ was told that the gun wasn't actually disabled at the time of the confrontation outside their house, and was subsequently tampered with before the police seized it.
But recall the McCloskey's said it had previously been disabled for use during a trial.