The City of Detroit has responded to Sidney Powell's longshot lawsuit trying to overturn the results of Michigan's presidential election. "A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies. Few lawsuits breathe more lies than this one."
Detroit noticed that Powell's complaint cited exhibits and claims that had already been made in a state court case in Michigan, but didn't mention that the judge rejected them and the appellate courts turned them down, too.
Detroit: "Even the Trump campaign lawsuits have avoided the off-the-walls claims included in this lawsuit."
Detroit: "The fact that the Complaint is frivolous does not mean the lawsuit is not dangerous to our democracy. Plaintiffs seek nothing less than a court-ordered coup d’état."
Detroit just seems pissed off at this point.
The city's brief is actually a quite-good debunking of some of some persistent, baseless claims about fraud -- including some claims currently being aired before the state legislature, by at least one of the same witnesses. They didn't understand the process and made assumptions.
Detroit's lawyers also read the testimony of Powell's expert witnesses, who "pepper their reports with speculation, innuendo and “facts” which are simply not true."
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Meanwhile in Wisconsin, the state Supreme Court won't allow a conservative group to file a new challenge to the results of the election Trump lost there.
There's a concurrence from Justice Hagedorn, a frequent swing vote, expressing dismay at overturning an election. "We are invited to invalidate the entire presidential election in Wisconsin by declaring it “null”—yes, the whole thing."
Hagedorn's concurrence probably doesn't bode well for President Trump's own state lawsuit in Wisconsin that also seeks to invalidate the results of the presidential election he lost.
A Nevada state court just shot down Trump's effort to overturn the election he lost there. The plaintiffs "failed to meet their burden to provide credible and relevant evidence to substantiate any" of their claims.
The judge said a lot of the Trump electors' evidence was inadmissible because it was hearsay and was submitted in the form of written declarations. But the judge considers it anyway and Trump still loses.
Trump's lawyer to a federal judge just now: "It's been a long time since my civil procedure class."
The judge asks why, if Trump's lawyers say only the legislature can redress violations of the Electors Clause, are we here at all? Why didn't you just ask them?
Judge: "I have a very, very hard time seeing how this is justiciable in the federal court."
Judge Ludwig: Trump's request to have the case remanded to the state legislature is "a little bizarre."
A new report to the FEC shows President Trump's campaign has dumped about $8.8 million into its flailing efforts to overturn the results of the November election he lost. That includes about $2.3 million for legal services.
That's obviously a lot less than the $207 million Trump raised after the election, as he launched a blizzard of messages to his supporters seeking their help to overturn its outcome.
The details are interesting:
Trump's campaign paid $30k to Jenna Ellis. There's no record of money going to Giuliani, who reportedly wanted to be paid quite a lot.
Sidney Powell's back with a new filing in Michigan. The election, she says, "is a lie." She has experts to prove it. Up first: The guy who confused Minnesota for Michigan, who clearly doesn't know how vote totals get reported.
Michigan: Results get reported in batches, after we've counted a bunch.
Powel: Aha! But you didn't say *these* results were in batches. Ergo, "289,866 ballots tabulated on November 4 must be disregarded."
Did I mention that some of Powell's witnesses now get cool codenames? Here's "Spider."
He worked on anti-aircraft systems, and with that experience he has proved that Iran AND China hacked Dominion's vote-counting machines (which aren't connected to the internet).