Thread by @AkivaMCohen

I see @questauthority already did an excellent thread on the Gohmertian reply brief the krak(en) team filed. As it's Friday afternoon, I don't have time for my own. But let's just briefly touch on the "motion to intervene" filed by the Republican Michigan Cosplay Electors

https://twitter.com/questauthority/status/1345039740387651585

Here's what you need to know about a "motion to intervene" - it mainly exists so that parties who will be impacted by the outcome of a lawsuit can have a chance to influence that outcome if they aren't named as parties. For example - if I'm suing Bob Co. to invalidate a contract

And some third party will get paid 100K if the contract is held valid, or $0 if I win, the third party gets to intervene.

Unless, of course, Bob Co. is already going to do a good enough job fighting for the contract's validity that there's really no need for third party to join

Hence, here's the rule.

Makes sense, right?

If you're already adequately protected by the litigating party, we don't need you gumming up the works by adding another party to the caption, scheduling, service lists, etc.

OK, with that background in mind, I present to you the totality of the Michigan Electors' motion to intervene, in its full glory

I'm not exaggerating. It's 3 paragraphs. A "we are the Michigan Cosplayers" intro. That "we're moving to intervene because it's completely unnecessary" substantive paragraph. And "for these reasons, grant our motion to intervene"

courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

These guys ran out of rakes to step on so they got to work building new ones.

/fin