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Leimonis

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Now... what the fuck does that mean!?

Perry
A defendant in a criminal case is not going to be chastised by the court for defending it with zero evidence. Nor will be his lawyer.
 

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A defendant in a criminal case is not going to be chastised by the court for defending it with zero evidence. Nor will be his lawyer.
But in this case the trump team was not defending but bringing forth the accusations and taking up the time of the court with no good reason to do so.
 
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Leimonis

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But in this case the trump team was not defending but bringing forth the accusations and taking up the time of the court with no good reason to do so.
Well yeah that’s what was meant by “litigant”. I suppose plaintiff would be a better word to use.
 
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I suppose plaintiff would be a better word to use.
Well, yes... no doubt about it! All parties in a lawsuit are "litigants" (except the judge/s)... saying someone is a litigant says nothing except that she/he is party to a lawsuit...

And, if you don't know what a word means -- particularly a legal term -- don't use it... especially when it generates bullshit! 🤨

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The recounts in Milwaukee and Dane counties Trump paid $3 million for in Wisconsin have been completed. Biden received net 87 votes. Trump said the recounts were not to discover irregularities but to unearth people who voted fraudulently. So he will launch a lawsuit Monday or Tuesday. He is going to ask all 238,000 ballots cast early in those two counties, including several from prominent Republicans and his own Wisconsin lead attorney James Troupis, to be thrown out. The thing is several early ballots were also cast in Republican strongholds but Trump is not asking any of those to be thrown out. How such a despicable human being received 74 million votes is what boggles the mind.
Two reasons, some vote Republican no matter who is on the ticket and there are a lot of losers that are allowed to vote.
 
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Well, yes... no doubt about it! All parties in a lawsuit are "litigants" (except the judge/s)... saying someone is a litigant says nothing except that she/he is party to a lawsuit...

And, if you don't know what a word means -- particularly a legal term -- don't use it... especially when it generates bullshit! 🤨

Perry
You lawyer talking types!!!!

Yes, I meant plaintiff, not litigant.
 

Dutch Oven

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Hearing with Arizona legislators streaming now:

 

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This is amusing.
Looks like nobody in the Oval Office was brave enough to tell Trump he lost the election, which is why he keeps going on and on.
Maybe someone should brave it and tell him the news, and maybe tell dutch oven at the same time.

Trump was ‘muttering, I won, I won, like ‘Mad King George’ after election defeat, report says

President ‘scrambled for an escape hatch from reality’ according to The Washington Post
Donald Trump on election night was like "Mad King George, muttering, 'I won. I won. I won,' " according to one close adviser, who spoke to The Washington Post for a remarkable recap of the 20 days since the election.
More than 30 senior administration officials, members of his legal team, campaign aides and advisers told the paper of his increasingly unhinged attempts to overturn the election result, and how those left within the White House humoured him.
Those around the president after 3 November were "happy to scratch his itch," the close adviser said.

"If he thinks he won, it’s like, 'Shh, we won’t tell him.'"

Of the ensuing legal strategy, a senior administration told the paper that the theory was: "Just roll everybody up who is willing to do it into a clown car, and when it’s time for a press conference, roll them out."
 

Dutch Oven

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This is amusing.
Looks like nobody in the Oval Office was brave enough to tell Trump he lost the election, which is why he keeps going on and on.
Maybe someone should brave it and tell him the news, and maybe tell dutch oven at the same time.

Trump was ‘muttering, I won, I won, like ‘Mad King George’ after election defeat, report says

President ‘scrambled for an escape hatch from reality’ according to The Washington Post
Sources familiar with the thinking of Frankfooter tell the Washington Post that he has all the open minded intellectual curiousity of an FSB agent.
 

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Sources familiar with the thinking of Frankfooter tell the Washington Post that he has all the open minded intellectual curiousity of an FSB agent.
Your paranoia is very special if you think the WP caters articles just to me.
No wonder you believe Rudy, Powell and Trump.
 

Dutch Oven

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Your paranoia is very special if you think the WP caters articles just to me.
No wonder you believe Rudy, Powell and Trump.
Frank how can you be so consistently wrong? Either you are trolling me, or you have a woefully inadequate ability to comprehend what you read.

Unlike you, I don't "believe" anything that hasn't been proven to me. Why do you "believe" Biden won? Did you count the votes yourself? Do you trust that the news media have audited the integrity of the process? The issue before the courts at this point is whether they are going to receive and objectively consider the evidence that a number of these recent cases seek to present about fraud and/or the unreliability of election results.

Where we differ is that I'd like this evidence to be fully considered, along with any other relevant informant which proves or disproves the contention that election results are unreliable. Your approach, which appears to motivated solely by the result you prefer, is "nothing to see here". A democratic system of government can't sustain that kind of approach.
 

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The issue before the courts at this point is whether they are going to receive and objectively consider the evidence that a number of these recent cases seek to present about fraud and/or the unreliability of election results.
Sure, bud, sure.
36 cases presented to the courts this far with Rudy personally saying the cases 'aren't about fraud' in court and you're still claiming there is evidence yet to be revealed.

You're totally nuts to even believe the Rudy/Powell lines that there is evidence that they either didn't or couldn't present at court.
Total Charlie Brown football moment for you, bud, this time Rudy is really telling you the truth and will hold the ball.

Giuliani and Powell Could Not Give Evidence of ‘Explosive’ Fraud Claims When Asked by Others on Trump Team: Report

 

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Sure, bud, sure.
36 cases presented to the courts this far with Rudy personally saying the cases 'aren't about fraud' in court and you're still claiming there is evidence yet to be revealed.

You're totally nuts to even believe the Rudy/Powell lines that there is evidence that they either didn't or couldn't present at court.
Total Charlie Brown football moment for you, bud, this time Rudy is really telling you the truth and will hold the ball.

Giuliani and Powell Could Not Give Evidence of ‘Explosive’ Fraud Claims When Asked by Others on Trump Team: Report

I know I am wasting keystrokes exchanging with you. I'll return to my shorthand soon enough.

The existing evidence is already disclosed in affidavits to recent suits, all of which I previously linked. These affidavits were filed in support of specific suits, not all suits. Therefore, it is not about "revealing" evidence. The purported evidence (to date) is already "revealed". It's about subjecting that evidence to the scrutiny of cross examination and rebuttal by those opposing the suits.

Clearly, you don't understand even one of the cases, can't distinguish between any of them, or understand the nature of rulings made in relation to any of them. That's the media's strategy - to pretend it's all one big case and that somehow a minor procedural ruling in one of them is dispositive of the merits of all the other cases. Obviously, with you, their strategy has succeeded.

An interesting strategic consideration occured to me as I am watching the Arizona hearing. Politicians are generally cowards. They would love the courts to decide these issues so that they won't have to. It may actually help persuade state legislatures to take this decision into their own hands that so many courts seem so determined not to hear the issues on their merits (at least not in time to avoid a constitutional crisis).
 

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I know I am wasting keystrokes exchanging with you. I'll return to my shorthand soon enough.

The existing evidence is already disclosed in affidavits to recent suits, all of which I previously linked. These affidavits were filed in support of specific suits, not all suits. Therefore, it is not about "revealing" evidence. The purported evidence (to date) is already "revealed". It's about subjecting that evidence to the scrutiny of cross examination and rebuttal by those opposing the suits.
Done, if that's your final argument.

The courts all looked at the evidence submitted, including the 'affidavits', and every time the judges found it lacking and dismissed the case.
Where on earth do you think people will take it more seriously than in court?


 

Dutch Oven

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Done, if that's your final argument.

The courts all looked at the evidence submitted, including the 'affidavits', and every time the judges found it lacking and dismissed the case.
Where on earth do you think people will take it more seriously than in court?
Frank, you're just wrong, but since I doubt that you are sincerely trying to understand, you're on your own.
 

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Hearing with Arizona legislators streaming now:

Hahahahaha. The Secretary of State for Arizona just certified the vote. 11 EC votes go to Biden. Another guaranteed Red state that trump managed to get flipped. Hahahahaha.

Keep that evidence and those affidavits coming. Hahahaha. Are you tired of winning yet? Hahahahaha.

BTW, every key stroke you make is a waste. Hahahahaha.
 

Dutch Oven

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Hahahahaha. The Secretary of State for Arizona just certified the vote. 11 EC votes go to Biden.

Another guaranteed Red state that trump managed to get flipped.
No sense hearing the arguments being made to legislators to de-certify then, right?
 
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