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2 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
... And the lawsuit filed by Rep. Gohmert and others trying to give Vice President Mike Pence the power to singlehandedly select the next president has been dismissed because, to nobody's great surprise, they didn't have standing to bring this kind of case.
The opinion is quite straightforward, cites to the controlling cases, and in this way illuminates just how flimsy a lot of the legal arguments in support of this nonsense actually were.
Link: courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
For those keeping score, this is another overturn-the-election-and-basic-mechanics-of-democracy-to-keep-Trump-as-president lawsuit that was tossed b a judge nominated by President Trump.

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1 Jan
People pretending to be electors from Michigan continue to mislead federal courts that they cast the state's electoral votes for President Trump "with the permission and endorsement" of the state legislature - in spite of the fact they couldn't even get into the capitol building.
The purported Republican electors say they cast their votes for Trump "with the knowledge and permission" of the legislature, which in no way voted to give its permission. And they claim that they cast them in the way state law requires, at the capitol, albeit outside.
Michigan actually has a law on this. It says electors have to be elected, which the Republican electors weren't. And it says they are to vote in the Senate chamber, not outside. So even the ridiculous claim that they voted for Trump in accordance with state law is false.
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22 Dec 20
The only really notable feature of the absurd new election lawsuit in D.C. is that the plaintiffs sued Mike Pence in his official capacity, meaning I suppose that the Justice Department will now be obliged to defend him from the many pages of absurdity.

electionlawblog.org/wp-content/upl…
Also, good luck attempting service on the Electoral College, which isn't really an organization or a thing. This is like suing "the states."

Prison inmates who represent themselves generally avoid goofy stuff like this.
This is a real lawsuit that's really trying to invalidate the results of the 2020 election in *every* state, based on a legal theory that would invalidate every modern presidential election.

It won't go anywhere for Many Reasons but somebody really did file it in federal court.
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21 Dec 20
These people are banking on your being an idiot. The counties Biden won are home to about 60% of the U.S. population, almost 200 million people.
Also the numbers are wrong. Biden won more than 477 counties.
It's like every day the people peddling the election-was-stolen fiction have to fall back on an argument that's even stupider.
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18 Dec 20
So the elite Kraken team tried to file four cases at the Supreme Court and seems to have managed to mess up two of them and is blaming the clerk.
Sidney Powell and her Kraken team told the Supreme Court again today that slates of Trump electors "have received the endorsement of the legislatures" in four states.

This is obviously, baldly false. No legislature has endorsed a competing slate of electors. This is a lie.
I spoke to the lawyer who signed the brief. His view is that the legislatures gave "implied consent" in that "the electors were allowed into the capitol" to vote. (Except in Michigan, where they were not let in, but voted on the grounds and this was close enough.)
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15 Dec 20
Kraken lawyer Sidney Powell says she has "4 cases with massive evidence of fraud pending" at the Supreme Court.

Not one of them is currently listed on the court's public docket.
Trump lawyer @JennaEllisEsq also said the court could still take up the case Rep. @MikeKellyPA lost there last week. It can't unless he files a cert petition, and I don't see one of those on the public docket, either.
Powell is still soliciting donations for this stuff, though.
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13 Dec 20
Sidney Powell - the lawyer behind the fantastical Kraken election lawsuits - has indicated that she will ask the Supreme Court whether it really meant that all of this election-conspiracy stuff should stay off of its lawn.
(It did. The court very clearly indicated that this stuff is not welcome on its lawn.)
Always cool to try to sell the Supreme Court on your anonymous witness even though he was identified in the press yesterday and some of the stuff you're saying about his credentials is demonstrably false and you knew it before you filed this.
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