Sidney Powell's team 'Kraken' appeared to have "made up" a "quote" in a legal brief, and the judge noted it because the fabricated quote was from her colleague in the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
The 'Kraken' crew wanted the Wisconsin federal judge to order the disclosure of 48 hours of surveillance footage from the TCF Center, a convention center that the ruling notes is in Detroit, Michigan.
"The plaintiff wants Donald J. Trump to be certified as the winner of the Wisconsin election **as a result of the plaintiff’s vote.** But what he asks is for Donald J. Trump to be certified the winner **as a result of judicial fiat.**"
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At least 7 Trump appointees rejected his or his allies’ post-election cases:
* USDJ Brett Ludwig (Wisconsin, Trump)
* USDJ Steven Grimberg (Georgia, Lin Wood)
* USCJ Stephanos Bibas (Third Circ., Trump campaign)
* USCJ Barbara Lagoa (11th Circ., Lin Wood)
3 SCOTUS (Paxton)
None have ruled in his favor, and it remains unknown how many of his appointees rejected Mike Kelly’s SCOTUS bid, where the votes are unknown but there were no public dissents.
There may be others that I am forgetting or missing. If so, please let me know.
Karofsky: "A lot of voters in the state of Wisconsin use this form."
She says that she's looking at it right now, and it's a very detailed form.
She asks him whether voters filling out a form that says application on it are somehow committing fraud.
Karofsky: How would they not be complying with the statute?
Troupis doesn't have a ready answer to that question, pauses, and hazards an answer before the judge interrupts to point out it says "application" on it.
She spells out the word for him.
Correction: Troupis is referring to "WEC" forms, short for Wisconsin Election Commissions.
The accent made it sound as if he was characterizing them as "wack" forms.
E. Jean Carroll goes to court against outgoing Pres. Trump this morning, in a lawsuit accusing the lame duck of defaming her by denying that he raped her.
Trump wants to pause proceedings to appeal the ruling kicking DOJ out, but for now, it's still on. lawandcrime.com/awkward/federa…
Today is an initial telephone conference following Judge Kaplan's ruling that the DOJ can't represent Trump and ordering his personal lawyer Marc Kasowitz back on the docket.
This is a roll call of the GOP reps who signed a brief supporting Texas AG Ken Paxton's bid to topple elections in their own states, with their names highlighted in yellow.