Thread by @firedtxlawyer

#InReGondor is just a fond memory now and this account is all but wound down.

Just in case Paul M. Davis, Treasonweasel, ever becomes relevant again (or if you are hearing about Gondor or the first time), here's a🧵collecting the hilarious journey of America's most inept lawyer.

"Firedtxattorney, why make this thread now?"

Because Paul Davis is a terrible attorney and he ought to be disbarred. I'd like to leave behind some record about why no one should ever, ever hire him again.

The original mega-thread starts here. Settle in, it's a looong read to go through all at once.

The gist is this: Paul M. Davis, Texas attorney, recorded himself at the events of Jan. 6. He got himself fired, so he filed an LOL suit against the US. govt.

https://twitter.com/firedtxlawyer/status/1402667594218344448?s=20

This suit, filed Jan. 22, became known as "In re Gondor" because, in filing to the court, Paul requests that the court appoint a Steward for the United States of America, replacing Biden, citing as authority the Steward of Gondor in the Lord of the Rings.

Having become an international laughingstock for being a terrible attorney, Paul proceeded to redeem himself by blowing up his own case - facing an unprompted order to show cause from the judge, getting into petty fights with his own co-counsel and clients.

On Feb. 22 he withdraws as counsel in the first case and refiles in the same court - this case becomes known as "Gondor II."

https://twitter.com/firedtxlawyer/status/1402690452588011523?s=20

Paul proceeds to hilariously botch that case too.

His exploits, particularly his staggering incompetence in getting the defendants he sued served (ordinarily one of the easiest parts of the case) starts here:

https://twitter.com/firedtxlawyer/status/1403122598821699590?s=20

By June he had served just a handful of defendants, but those he had served had already started to file damning and conclusive Motions to Dismiss.

Davis was wildly outgunned by far superior attorneys.

https://twitter.com/firedtxlawyer/status/1403140223798812674?s=20

By mid June even Paul had figured out that he was toast if he didn't do something, so he swung for the fences and tried to amend his complaint again.

https://twitter.com/firedtxlawyer/status/1403313597061664775?s=20

This doesn't stop the onslaught of Motions to Dismiss.

https://twitter.com/firedtxlawyer/status/1403491455369453569?s=20

Another perspective on Paul's useless Second Amended Complaint.

https://twitter.com/questauthority/status/1403339412147261445?s=20

Around this same time Paul is improperly requesting default judgments against defendants he improperly served. These default judgments get overturned almost as quickly as he can get them.

https://twitter.com/firedtxlawyer/status/1404567382987886592?s=20

This gets underlined on June 24, when the US attorney writes to the court to alert them that Paul has incorrectly served literally every single sitting US senator and representative. He has botched things on a truly epic scale.

https://twitter.com/firedtxlawyer/status/1408174177044021254?s=20

Facing an increasing number of Motions to Dismiss and the consequences of his own hilariously inept case management, Davis decides to make another "Steward of Gondor" level move ...

- he claims that a conspiracy exists against him in his own camp, that his evidence was destroyed by his own expert. He asks the court to suspend deadlines until he can find his own evidence.

https://twitter.com/firedtxlawyer/status/1408236750632329219?s=20

Perhaps realizing that "suspend all of my deadlines while I unstick my head from my ass" is not a proper pleading in federal court, Paul Davis finally starts pulling the plug and agreeing to dismiss defendants.

https://twitter.com/questauthority/status/1409296912893743104?s=20

By July 1st Paul starts taking to right-wing media to grouse about flopping on his face and to bemoan that other lawyers didn't join his suit. He hopes at the time that other would file similar suits in their own states (they didn't.)

https://twitter.com/firedtxlawyer/status/1410660980372221952?s=20

Gondor II takes until July 27 before Paul finally, actually dismisses the case outright.

https://twitter.com/firedtxlawyer/status/1420161963678650369?s=20

Davis is still out there, lurking around the fringes of the right wing, arguing over vaccines and mask mandates.

https://twitter.com/firedtxlawyer/status/1433123601402765319?s=20

I think that's enough housekeeping for one thread, should anyone ever need to find any of this again.

Just in case anyone doing due diligence on Paul M. Davis ever strays across this account some day:

Paul is incompetent. He is an international disgrace as an attorney for the reason that he repeatedly beclowned himself in his own filings, which you can read above.

Even if you buy his far-right politics, he is bad at the core functions of being an attorney. That is all.

A final addendum: Paul has been accused by his former employer of what amounts to extortion - using information he gained during his employment as an attorney to demand millions of dollars for a phony settlement.

https://twitter.com/MithradatesVI/status/1445802476385546242?s=20

That case is likely to be sent to arbitration, so we may never know the truth of that complaint, but it isn't an accusation one would expect from an insurance company and Paul has demonstrated himself to be exactly the sort of person who would make that kind of improper demand.