Sidney Powell's lawsuit trying to undo Wisconsin's election results has hit a number of bumps since it was filed in federal court two days ago. New filings today underscore what's been going on. A brief thread:
Powell and her team filed an amended complaint that removed @derrickvanorden as a plaintiff after he made clear he was included without permission — the docket entry explains the change, but there's nothing else filed to explain what happened there
@derrickvanorden Powell's team also made another attempt today at trying to get a speedy court order after the judge ID'd lots of problems with the previous attempts, see: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7334…
@derrickvanorden After the judge dinged Powell's team for using words like "expedited" and "emergency" without actually filing a motion asking for expedited review, they've filed that: 
assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7334…
@derrickvanorden Speaking of Wisconsin, another filing of note today — counsel for WI gov. moved to "relate" Sidney Powell's case w/ the Trump campaign case, arguing they involve similar issues/parties — if granted, the Trump case would be reassigned to the Powell case judge, since it came first

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5 Dec
New: Another GOP election challenge loss — 11th Circuit rejected L. Lin Wood's effort to stop Georgia from certifying. The 3-0 opinion, written by Judge Bill Pryor, agreed with the district judge that Wood lacked standing, and concluded it was moot assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7334… Image
Pryor: "The Constitution makes clear that federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction, U.S. Const. art. III; we may not entertain post-election contests about garden-variety issues of vote counting and misconduct that may properly be filed in state courts."
"Wood’s arguments reflect a basic misunderstanding of what mootness is. He argues that the certification does not moot anything “because this litigation is ongoing” and he remains injured. But mootness concerns the availability of relief, not the existence of a lawsuit..." Image
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4 Dec
New: The Michigan Court of Appeals has rejected Trump's election challenge re: observer access in Wayne County, finding it's moot because Michigan certified the results — if Trump wanted to press fraud claims, MI law says seek a recount, which he didn't do assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7334… ImageImage
Meanwhile — a judge in Nevada dismissed a challenge filed by Trump electors.

"Contestants failed to meet their burden to provide credible and relevant evidence to substantiate any of the grounds ... to contest the November 2020 General Election"
democracydocket.com/wp-content/upl… Image
Meanwhile — Trump has filed a new election contest in Georgia: cdn.donaldjtrump.com/public-files/p…

The campaign is asking for all the results in Georgia to be tossed out and for the court to order a new presidential election in the state, among other things Image
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2 Dec
Back on the beat after a few days offline — just in time for this new filing from Rep. Mike Kelly et al. asking to stay the PA Supreme Court decision rejecting their election challenge pending them taking this to SCOTUS: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7333…
This is the case filed last month that challenged a PA law expanding mail-in voting that was passed in the fall of 2019 — the PA Supreme Court tossed it on the grounds that they waited far too long to go to court, given the timing -->
The PA Supreme Court has denied Rep. Mike Kelly et al.'s request to stay the decision against them while they try to take the case to SCOTUS (doesn't look like they've filed something yet, per the docket online)
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28 Nov
NEW: A big loss in the GOP case seeking to invalidate the PA election results (the one where Rep. Mike Kelly is a plaintiff) — the PA Supreme Court has dismissed it outright, finding the challengers waited too long to bring it for it to survive scribd.com/document/48620…
This case, filed weeks *after* Election Day this month, challenged a law passed in *October 2019* that expanded mail-in voting in PA. The PA Supreme Court concluded the GOP challengers violated what's known as the doctrine of laches by waiting so long to sue
PA Supreme Court: "Thus, it is beyond cavil that Petitioners failed to act with due diligence in presenting the instant claim."
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27 Nov
NEW: The Trump campaign has lost again in its Pennsylvania case — the 3rd Circuit rejected its appeal.

Judge Stephanos Bibas, a Trump nominee, eviscerates Trump's case from top to bottom: "The Campaign’s claims have no merit."
buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Campaign lawyers Jenna Ellis and Rudy Giuliani called today's 3rd Circuit loss an example of "activist judicial machinery" in PA — the opinion was written by one of Trump's 3rd Circuit nominees, and joined by two W Bush appointees buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Bibas on the Trump campaign's arguments:
- "calling an election unfair does not make it so"
- "offers nothing more"
- "vague and conclusory"
- "grossly disproportionate"
- " alchemy cannot transmute lead into gold"
- "futile"
buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
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25 Nov
New: Trump has pardoned Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. It's Trump's first post-election clemency action, and fuels speculation that he'll use his final months in office to reward allies still under the cloud of criminal prosecution. buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Trump's pardon announcement came while Flynn was still waiting for Judge Emmet Sullivan to rule on DOJ's motion to drop the criminal case against him — Sullivan heard arguments in late September buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Bringing everything full circle is the fact that Flynn's lawyer is Sidney Powell, who in recent weeks has been a very public voice pushing conspiracy theories that the election was tainted by widespread fraud and that Trump was actually the winner buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
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