Wow, the Trump losses are coming so fast it’s tough to keep up with them.
And, in similar news:
They should have paid attention in 4th grade.
It’s almost like the Republicans are getting what they voted for, namely people who are all hat and no cowboy, and don’t actually DO the work, just yell about all the work they did (even if they didn’t).
You’ve been SPYING on management at my past workplaces, you sly lil emu, you!
their cult didn’t though, so they buy all the bullshit
Oh no, total jerk might not get confirmed.
I’ve been looking forward to getting out of the government by trolling mode.
Some downballot Republican shenanigans:
Disgraced Republican lawmaker planted no-party candidate in key Senate race, sources say
Artiles boasted that he planted a no-party candidate in the Miami-Dade Senate race, which Garcia won after a three-day recount by just 32 votes out of more than 215,000 cast. Artiles recruited Alexis (Alex) Rodriguez, a longtime acquaintance and Facebook friend.
The no-party candidate with the same surname as the incumbent Democrat had been a registered Republican until just before his qualifying papers were filed to make him a candidate for the Florida Senate. He received 6,382 votes in the election.
A few months after Rodriguez was recruited and his candidacy was made official, a mystery donor popped up in early October and gave his name a boost in the Senate race to represent half a million Floridians.
Rodriguez was not the only one to benefit.
No-party candidates in three key Senate districts who did no independent campaigning were featured in political mail advertisements to woo Democrat voters by advertising progressive ideals. The mailers did not feature photos of any of the candidates and in one case, misled voters using stock images of a Black woman when the no-party candidate was white.Floridians who would vote for candidates in Senate Districts 9, 37 and 39 were pinpointed for living in “battleground” districts, or seats into which Democrats were pouring extra resources in hopes of keeping or flipping them blue. The seats were important to Democrats who were hoping to erode the narrow GOP majority in the chamber to have more influence over the “redistricting” process that will happen over the next two years.
Republicans won all three Senate races. Sanford Sen. Jason Brodeur and Doral Sen. Ana Maria Rodriguez defended Senate Districts 9 and 39, respectively, and Garcia flipped Senate District 37.
So … is this real? Did Biden really get 5% fewer votes than he should have in MI? Or is the whole thing made up, in addition to the lack of ability to do addition?
This is in GA, don’t know about MI. 
Filing’s real. Names are screwed up by drunken/insane lawyers. Numbers are clearly made up, because if the software actually flipped votes that would have been caught in Georgia’s hand recount.
Anyone actually talking about Dominion flipping votes in GA at this point (in the most recent election, at least) is an absolute idiot. If there were actually a conspiracy in a position to cover that up in the hand count, then they would have been in a position to do everything themselves and wouldn’t need the software company in the first place. And they would almost definitely be Republicans…
And some information about the snippet of the Fulton County, GA video that Trump and Guiliani are frantically trying to push far and wide:
I think I’m channeling an extremely early draft of the Dragnet intro here.
Isn’t knowingly filing false claims like a crime? Though I guess they could just say it’s a mistavfefe. But there’s been a pattern nationwide of basically lying to judges.
IANALfefe.
From what I understand, that is a pretty complicated question, and it’s made more complicated by the number of different jurisdictions this is happening in and by most of the cases being dismissed very early in the process, very often for failure to state a claim. If you’re not really making a legally recognizable claim in the first place, it’s tough to call it out as a false claim.
If they really manage to get on a judge’s bad side it might trigger a fight over sanctions, but that could actually play into their hands by fueling the “poor persecuted Trump” act they have going on.
I could be wrong, but I feel like the more likely result is for any of several state bars to take action, but that’s also a whole process in itself. There are attempts being made, though…
A statistic from that link:
The threshold for disbarring a lawyer is high — reserved for only the most heinous instances of misconduct — and happens infrequently. In 2018, the American Bar Association’s Survey on Lawyer Discipline estimated that among the roughly 1.3 million active and licensed lawyers in the United States, 378 were involuntarily disbarred that year.
They look out for their own. I guess we don’t have to worry about further fueling the flames of “poor persecuted Trump,” though how that could possibly get worse in the bitty brains of the MAGAts is beyond me.
Keep in mind that 1) that’s only the strongest possible punishment, there are other sanctions that can happen first, and 2) lawyers are supposed to be fighting for their clients (within the confines of the law), and sometimes doing things that draw the ire of judges, so you don’t want a very low standard for that kind of thing. It usually takes quite a fight and some very well-documented legal facts… the Prenda Law saga comes to mind as a good example that ended up in a disbarment but took years to finally conclude.
Also, Trump’s team has tried to distance themselves from some of the lawyers in question, so there’s no telling how well that will work out.
With the frankly amazing amount of legal malpractice that has been on display both by Trump’s official and unofficial team in the last few weeks, however… you never know.
Elsewhere in 2020 election news:
This morning, Trump was at 42 court losses (based on Elias’ count, numbers may vary depending on how you count individual cases, etc.).
Now serving loss 46…