I posted another story today that basically said the Special Counsel into Trump's attempted coup and armed violent deadly institution and the stolen documents investigation was nothing like the Mueller investigation into Trump/Russian collusion. Mueller essentially had to start from scratch. But the DOJ investigation into Trump's attempted coup and armed violent deadly insurrection began as soon as Merck Garland took office. With the added help of the J6 committee doing their own investigation. And the investigation into Trump stealing government documents including top secret material has been going on since February 9, 2021 when the National Archives referred the case to the DOJ. So this Special Counsel actually inherited a huge number of investigators and large amount of evidence already assembled.

But it goes even further pointing out that Special Counsel Jack Smith is no Robert Mueller either. Mueller had to pussyfoot around walking on egg shells because Trump was president and could fire him anytime he wanted and in fact tried to do just that. Smith has no such problem. But then just as far as investigators go Smith is no Mueller. Smith is a career prosecutor with International Criminal Court experience and was chef of the Public Integrity Section of the Justice Department, where he oversaw litigation of public corruption cases. So Smith has lots of experience in cases like Trump's and is known as a no nonsense no bullshit prosecutor who hits the ground running and let's no grass grow beneath his feet.

And there is more and more evidence all that is true.


And this could be very interesting. For one many legal experts believe Trump faces more legal peril from Fulton County DA Fannis Willis than the other investigations because Georgia election laws are fairly straight forward and well used. But also because of early reports that the phone conversation Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger recorded of Trump trying to extort him to find him 11,780 votes is not Trump's only call to Georgia officials and not the only one that was recorded. So there are probably more witnesses and maybe even recordings Smith could uncover.

Trump probe subpoena for Georgia secretary of state from DOJ

FILE - Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger speaks during a news conference in Atlanta, Dec. 14, 2020. The office of Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has received a subpoena related to special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of former President Donald Trump. Smith was appointed last month to oversee the Justice Department investigation into the presence of classified documents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida and aspects of a separate probe involving the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
KATE BRUMBACK
Mon, December 12, 2022 at 11:36 AM




ATLANTA (AP) — The office of Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has received a subpoena related to special counsel Jack Smith's investigation of former President Donald Trump.

Smith was appointed last month to oversee the Justice Department investigation into the presence of classified documents at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida as well as aspects of a separate probe involving the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and Trump’s scramble to remain in power.

In a Jan. 2 phone call, Trump had suggested that Raffensperger “find” the votes needed to give him a win in the state.

The subpoena, which is dated Friday and was received by Raffensperger's office Monday, follows others served last week in several states and counties. Like those other locations, Georgia was a target of Trump and his allies as they sought to overturn his loss in the 2020 election.


The special counsel is seeking “any and all communications in any form” between June 1, 2020, and Jan. 20, 2021, “to, from or involving” Trump, his campaign, lawyers and aides, including former campaign officials such as Bill Stepien and Justin Clark and lawyers John Eastman, Boris Epshteyn, L. Lin Wood, Sidney Powell and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, according to the subpoena, which was obtained by The Associated Press.

Efforts by Trump and his associates to reverse his loss in Georgia are currently the subject of a separate investigation led by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in Atlanta. A special grand jury seated to aid that investigation has heard from dozens of witnesses, including a number of high-profile Trump allies, over the past six months and is expected to wrap up its work soon.

Among other things, Willis is investigating the Jan. 2, 2021, phone call between Trump and Raffensperger.

It was not immediately clear whether any counties in Georgia had also received subpoenas from the special counsel.

In the weeks following the 2020 election, Trump focused in part on Fulton County, which includes most of the city of Atlanta, making unsupported allegations of election fraud. But the county had not received a subpoena by Monday morning, a spokesperson said.



https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-probe-subpoena-georgia-secretary-183627634.html

 

No wonder Trump his chief of staff Mark Meadows were constantly screaming voter fraud. They should know since they were the ones committing it.


Investigators give evidence to North Carolina AG in alleged voter fraud case against Mark Meadows

WSOCTV.com News Staff
Tue, December 13, 2022 at 11:59 AM



The North Carolina Attorney General’s Office is reviewing evidence and could soon make a decision whether or not to charge former President Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, for allegations of voter fraud.

According to the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, the case file “concerning Mark Meadows and allegations of voter fraud” was submitted to the AG’s Office. SBI says the final case file documentation was given to the AG’s office in early November, and prosecutors “will determine if criminal charges are appropriate.”

The Associated Press reported earlier this year when state investigators started looking into Meadows’ voter registration in the 2020 election. According to public records, Meadows is registered to vote in two states, including North Carolina.

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Meadows cast an absentee ballot by mail for the election.

Channel 9 reached out to the AG’s office for information, but a spokesperson said the office won’t comment on the pending case.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/investigators-evidence-north-carolina-ag-185940059.html

 

Trump ally vowed 'high ranking' source would prove fraud -- then delivered a Romanian YouTube channel: texts

Brad Reed
December 13, 2022



Rep. Rick Allen (R-GA) (Official photo)


More text messages revealed by Talking Points Memo on Tuesday show that Rep. Rick Allen (R-GA) promised former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows that he had a "source" who would conclusively prove that the 2020 election had been stolen from former President Donald Trump.

However, in follow-up text messages, Allen was only able to deliver a video posted by a Romanian YouTube channel.

In an early text between Allen and Meadows, the Georgia congressman said that he just "got of the phone with a high ranking government official and decorated JAG Officer" who "confirmed that there is wide spread fraud in multiple states!"

As time went by, however, Allen's "source" seemed to become reluctant to meet him in person to make these claims public.

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"Mark, just heard from my source," Allen wrote to Meadows. "Something is up? He asked for a couple of days before he can talk at the highest level. I know time is short but I have the highest respect for this man and I am certain he wants to be prepared to talk at the appropriate time."

However, Allen did not leave Meadows totally emptyhanded, as he sent the Trump chief of staff a link to a Romanian YouTube channel featuring an anti-vaccination activist who interviewed a man who pushed a theory that the election was stolen from Trump as part of a "a '$100 billion' plot involving illegal immigrants, blackmail and Romanian officials."



https://www.rawstory.com/mark-meadows-text-messages-2658960843/

 

This is very surprising to me and I don't think the Georgia legislature will be willing to make the change ever thought it makes sense and would be the right thing to do. But it could be an advantage to Democrats. I need to research this to be sure but if what I read recently is correct the runoffs go back to shortly after the civil war as a way to keep Black people from getting elected because if a Black person got the most votes in the general election but less than 50% it gave them a second shot at regrouping and turning out the White vote. That could be wrong but its something a read recently.

Secretary Raffensperger calls on the General Assembly to end general election runoffs

ActionNewsJax.com News Staff
Wed, December 14, 2022 at 7:29 AM



Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is calling on the Georgia General Assembly to eliminate general election runoffs in the state.

“Georgia is one of the only states in the country with a General Election Runoff,” Raffensperger said in a news release. “We’re also one of the only states that always seems to have a runoff. I’m calling on the General Assembly to visit the topic of the General Election Runoff and consider reforms.”

Under current Georgia law, a candidate must receive more than 50% + 1 vote in the general election to avoid a runoff. If no candidate meets that criteria, the race goes to a runoff between the top two vote-getters.


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Georgia lawmakers reduced the time between the general election and runoff from nine weeks to four during the last legislative session. Several county elections offices expressed concerns over the shortened time frame, saying it made it more difficult for them to do their jobs.

It is something that Raffensperger acknowledged in his statement.

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“No one wants to be dealing with politics in the middle of their family holiday,” he said. “It’s even tougher on the counties who had a difficult time completing all of their deadlines, an election audit and executing a runoff in a four-week time period.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/secretary-raffensperger-calls-general-assembly-142914959.html

 

I don't know how other states handle it, but in my neighborhood, there's no limit on how many people can be a candidate for an office. I've seen Governor's elections that started with 12 candidates. When we had closed primaries, there was a primary runoff, followed by a general election and there could be a general run off if there were more than 2 candidates.

If not 50%+1, what's the magic number? Do we really want a Governor or Senator to take office with 32% of the vote?

 

Where I live we have close primaries which mostly are Democratic and Republican but also sometimes include Libertarians and/or Independents. Then when you show up at the primary you have to declare a party and those are the only ones you can vote for. Then when the primary votes are counted the highest voter getters for each party move on to the general election. Which is fun for the Libertarians Dependents and a few other registered parties that got on the ballot. Because if there is only one candidate for some of these other parties and they got one vote they are on the general election ballot. But the real contests are between Republicans and Democrats if you can call it a contest beaus where I live is blood red and the Republican that wins the primary is all but guaranteed to win the general.

Now that is not to say the system can't be manipulated because you can change party affiliation at the polls. And back in the 80's there were about a dozen Republicans running for Governor so a bunch of us Democrats switched parties at the primary polls and voted for the Republican we hated the least. Knowing that was the same candidate Republicans hated the most. Which is how we managed to elect the best Democratic governor we had in decades to two fuol terms.

And all of us Democrats in the state also got together and did the same for Liz Cheney in the primary last August. Which as you might have noticed is were those additional five votes came from.

 

Prosecutors in Georgia are fast approaching a decision on whether to charge Trump. Here's how it would go down.
Jacob Shamsian
Sun, December 18, 2022 at 7:00 AM MST



Former President Donald Trump at a rally at the Banks County Dragway on March 26, 2022, in Commerce, Georgia.Megan Varner/Getty Images

• Donald Trump's efforts to overturn Georgia's 2020 election results are under investigation.
  
  
• If Atlanta's DA charges Trump, he'd be extradited from Florida unless he goes to Atlanta willingly.
  
  
• But he'd probably get a heads-up about an indictment and wouldn't have to stay in jail, experts say.
  

There's a long list of criminal investigations surrounding former President Donald Trump. The one closest to completion may be in Atlanta.

Fulton County's district attorney, Fani Willis, launched her investigation shortly after Trump made an infamous call to Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state, asking him to "find" enough votes to reverse Trump's 2020 electoral loss to now-President Joe Biden.

Court filings indicate the DA's investigation expanded to include Trump's allies who plotted to send fake electors to Congress on January 6, 2021, and hand Trump a second term.

Willis has swiftly moved the investigation forward. Over the past year, she empaneled a grand jury and fought court battles to ensure testimony from Gov. Brian Kemp; the state's Republican Party chairman, David Shafer; Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina; and more than a dozen others who spoke with Trump at the time. Two other high-profile witnesses who fought grand jury subpoenas, Mark Meadows and Newt Gingrich, have their cases before appeals courts.

Trump and the fake electors could face charges of election fraud, improperly trying to influence government officials, and criminal solicitation, according to an analysis from the Brookings Institution.

As of December, Willis has gotten testimony from most of the main players in Trump's plot to overturn election results in Georgia. According to CNN, her office has been negotiating plea deals with participants in the fake-elector scheme.

If she's going to bring indictments, they could come soon.

If Trump is getting indicted, he'll almost definitely know first
A high-profile, lawyered-up person like Trump will almost definitely be aware an indictment is coming ahead of time.

Right now, a special grand jury — which is set to sit until May — is hearing evidence and testimony in the case. Once its work is concluded, it will prepare a report either referring or not referring the case to a regular grand jury, according to Ronald L. Carlson, a professor at the University of Georgia School of Law.

A regular grand jury, which sits for two months, would probably move swiftly, Carlson said, since it would have all the evidence painstakingly compiled by the special grand jury.

"The reason it'll go very fast is the regular grand jury will have a transcript from the testimony of a laundry list of witnesses that have already testified to the special grand jury," Carlson said. "Witnesses like the Georgia secretary of state, the Georgia governor, Senator Lindsey Graham, Michael Flynn, Rudy Giuliani, and others."


Fani Willis, the district attorney of Georgia's Fulton County, in her office on January 4, 2022.AP Photo/Ben Gray
If the regular grand jury returns an indictment, the Fulton County district attorney's office would typically file it to court under seal. At that point, Carlson said, they'd tell Trump's lawyers it was filed and give him an opportunity to turn himself in.

The prosecutor's office might give Trump a few days to make arrangements and fly from his home in Florida to Georgia, according to Dmitriy Shakhnevich, a criminal-defense lawyer in New York who is a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Unlike with some other people charged with crimes, there isn't an immediate risk that Trump would try to overturn election results again anytime soon.

"If you have a crime of violence, then there's a real risk — then they're not going to be very flexible," Shakhnevich told Insider. "They will tend to be flexible in a case like this. I can't imagine they'd be too flexible. Maybe they'd give him a week to come in."

If Trump is criminally charged and refuses to surrender, then he could be arrested. One way or another, he'd be required to travel from his home in Mar-a-Lago to a courthouse in Atlanta.

Trump could be extradited
If Trump is charged with a felony anywhere in the US, he can be arrested and extradited to wherever he is charged.

There's been some speculation that Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida might block extradition, but he doesn't have any power to intervene. The extradition process is laid out clearly in Article 4, Section 2, of the US Constitution and clarified by federal laws.

"Assuming hypothetically that the president might be indicted on felony charges, he can't escape justice by simply saying, 'I'm not going to go to Atlanta,'" Carlson told Insider.


A law-enforcement department in Atlanta — most likely the deputy sheriff's office, Carlson said — would ask counterparts in Florida, like the Palm Beach sheriff's office, to execute an arrest. Secret Service agents would probably come along with him, as Insider previously reported, but are unlikely to be involved in the arrest process.

Though Trump has repeatedly derided the investigation into his activities as politically motivated, he would have little success fighting an arrest and extradition, according to Shakhnevich.

"That kind of political stuff won't fly," Shakhnevich said. "If there's an enforceable court order that allows for the execution of an arrest, he won't play those games."

He probably wouldn't have to await trial in jail
Upon arriving at the courthouse in Atlanta — whether by force or voluntarily — Trump would have an arraignment hearing, in which a judge sets the conditions of his release ahead of trial.

The Fulton County district attorney's office could ask to keep him in custody or to have a high bail set to ensure his return.

The risk that Trump would flee the United States, however, is remote, according to Carlson.

"He's such a high-profile figure. He's not going to be able to disappear into the beaches of Thailand or something like that," Carlson said. "So the risk of flight is, in my view, nonexistent here."


Trump at a rally in Perry, Georgia, in 2021.REUTERS/Dustin Chambers
The judge may also take away his passport, according to Shakhnevich, to keep him from fleeing. But in practicality, it doesn't mean much, Shakhnevich said.

"All that means is he'll have to check in with the courts if he ever wants to go anywhere, and the courts can always grant him permission to go," Shakhnevich said.

One option Trump would have is to waive his appearance and allow his lawyers to represent him throughout "some of the preliminary stages," Carlson said.

Assuming Trump doesn't plead guilty, the case would move into criminal discovery and then a trial.

Trump's schedule is expected to be packed. He's running for president in 2024 and has other legal cases to worry about as well.

A trial for a lawsuit from a group of plaintiffs who alleged he hawked a multilevel-marketing scam is expected to move forward in 2023 or early 2024. He also has a pending lawsuit from E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of rape, and from the New York attorney general's office over his business practices.

And then there are the other ongoing criminal investigations, most notably from the Justice Department and Manhattan district attorney's office.

If Trump is charged in multiple jurisdictions, Georgia would have the edge
US attorneys working for the Justice Department have an obligation to give the higher-ups in Washington, DC, a heads-up when they intend to bring an indictment against a high-profile figure.

Individual district attorneys — working for local districts rather than the federal government — have no such obligation. But Willis would most likely give US Attorney General Merrick Garland some notice anyway, Carlson said. Garland recently appointed a special counsel, Jack Smith, to investigate the fake-elector scheme as well, along with Trump's possession of government documents held at Mar-a-Lago after he left public office.


Attorney General Merrick Garland delivering remarks on the verdict in the trial of Oath Keepers leaders and members during a news conference at the Justice Department on November 30, 2022.REUTERS/Jim Bourg
That doesn't mean Willis has to defer to the Justice Department, though. If Smith were to bring charges against Trump related to possessing government documents, or the Manhattan district attorney's office were to bring an indictment because of his company's finances, Willis' case could still move full steam ahead if she filed the indictment first.

"If the Georgia authorities are ready for trial, they do not have to wait to see what comes out of the Mar-a-Lago search," Carlson said.

The judges overseeing each case would have to do a multi-jurisdictional dance to make sure Trump has time to put up a proper defense for each trial. The case in Georgia, Carlson pointed out, is especially potent because of how uniquely strong the evidence is and how reliable the witnesses would be.

"So far as I know, in none of these other investigations do they have a recording of former President Trump trying to persuade officials to take certain actions," Carlson said. "The secretary of state of Georgia is responsible for that. He's the one that recorded the phone call, which said, 'Brad, I want you to find me 11,780 new votes.'"

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/prosecutors-georgia-fast-approaching-decision-140000578.html

 

How embarrassing it would be if they don't get their Trump perp walk this time.

 

And if we do get it, what's your reaction going to be?

"Witch-hunt!"

 

Trump's lawyers keep getting slammed for filing conspiratorial lawsuits. Here are the 16 sanctioned so far.
Jacob Shamsian
Tue, December 27, 2022 at 7:00 AM MST



Howard Kleinhendler, Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, and Alina Habba are all among the 16 lawyers who have been sanctioned for lawsuits supporting former President Donald Trump.AP; AP; Reuters; Getty Images

• Lawyers representing Trump keep getting sanctioned by courts.
  
  
• At least 16 of them have been slapped by judges, mostly for litigation challenging elections.
  
  
• Alina Habba, Rudy Giuliani, and Sidney Powell are all among those who have been sanctioned.
  

When lawyers try to help Donald Trump with his problems, they often end up with problems of their own.

Sixteen different lawyers have been sanctioned over failed lawsuits brought on the former president's behalf. Their attempts include litigation seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and pushing a conspiracy theory blaming the Russia investigation on a smattering of Democratic party operatives.

The risks of working as a lawyer for Trump, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen previously told Insider, comes from the mogul's refusal to take a loss.

"For Donald, the only option is victory at any cost," Cohen, who was disbarred following a criminal conviction based on actions he took on Trump's behalf, told Insider. "This even includes having counsel act in ways detrimental to their reputation and career."

Many of Trump's lawyers, even if they are not sanctioned, end up needing lawyers of their own to ward off the worst consequences. Christina Bobb, for example, has now been entangled in the Justice Department's investigation into Trump taking classified documents to Mar-a-Lago and has hired a defense attorney of her own.

It's not just Trump, either. Lawyers for MyPillow mogul Mike Lindell and failed Arizona governor nominee Kari Lake have also been sanctioned for failed litigation seeking to cancel votes.

Still, as many 16 lawyers have been personally sanctioned because of their work for Trump, and Insider has compiled a list.

Alina Habba
What does Trump do when he wants to sue his perceived enemies? He turns to Alina Habba.

She began representing him in September 2021, completing the settlement of a sexual misconduct lawsuit Summer Zervos filed against him. More recently, she settled a lawsuit brought by protesters who alleged his security guards beat them up.

But she's more prominently represented him on the offense, filing lawsuits against the Pulitzer Prize board for awarding newspapers that dug into Trump's ties with Russia, his niece Mary Trump for providing the New York Times his tax returns, and the New York attorney general's office for investigating his business practices.

Those lawsuits have not been successful. The least successful, however, was a sprawling lawsuit Trump filed against Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee, and several other figures linked to Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. The lawsuit alleged they worked in cahoots to spin a false narrative about Trump's links to Russia, which harmed him in the 2016 election (which he won) and dogged him during his presidency with the Mueller investigation (which resulted in no charges against him).


Former U.S. President Donald Trump's lawyer Alina Habba leaves Trump Tower to meet with New York Attorney General Letitia James for a civil investigation on August 10, 2022 in New York City.James Devaney/GC Images
Donald M. Middlebrooks, the Florida-based federal judge overseeing the case, tossed Trump's lawsuit in September, describing it as "a two-hundred-page political manifesto outlining his grievances against those that have opposed him." Even before then, a defendant in the case named Charles Dolan filed a motion for sanctions against Habba and her colleagues, pointing out that he was incorrectly described as a Clinton campaign official and a chairman of a national Democratic party organization in the lawsuit.

The judge granted Dolan's motion in October. His role in Clinton's 2016 campaign, the judge found, was limited to being a door-knocking volunteer and certainly had nothing to do with convincing the FBI to investigate Trump.

"The rule of law is undermined by the toxic combination of political fundraising with legal fees paid by political action committees, reckless and factually untrue statements by lawyers at rallies and in the media, and efforts to advance a political narrative through lawsuits without factual basis or any cognizable legal theory," Middlebrooks wrote.

Habba has appealed the sanctions ruling. Clinton and other people named in the lawsuit who are actually in her circle separately filed their own motion for sanctions against Habba in October, which remains pending.

Michael T. Madaio
Habba's lower-profile law partner at Habba Madaio & Associates was also sanctioned by the Florida judge over the Clinton lawsuit.

Peter Ticktin
Habba and Madaio are based in New Jersey. To file their lawsuit against Clinton and the Democratic National Committee in Florida, they needed to recruit a Florida-based lawyer to vouch for them. They ended up working with Ticktin, who has his own law firm in the town of Deerfield Beach. He was sanctioned, too.

Jamie Alan Sasson
Sassoon, a partner at The Ticktin Law Group involved in the case, bore the brunt of Middlebrooks's sanctions ruling as well.

Habba, Madaio, Ticktin, and Sasson were collectively required to pay more than $66,000 in fines and fees for the failed lawsuit.

Rudy Giuliani
More than any other issue, Trump's quest to overturn the 2020 election results has brought much grief to his lawyers.

Rudy Giuliani — once a leading Republican presidential candidate, mayor of New York City, and US Attorney for the Southern District of New York — took up the mantle of election conspiracy theorist in the waning days of Trump's presidency.

He was part of Trump's "Elite Strike Force" of lawyers trying to convince judges to cancel votes and have Trump declared the victor. Things got really bad for Giuliani through a lawsuit in Pennsylvania where he represented the Trump campaign and asked a judge to toss out 700,000 mail-in ballots and block the certification of election results.


Former Mayor of New York and attorney to Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani.Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
The case was tossed, and Biden's victory certified. In New York, a state appeals court suspended Giuliani's law license in 2021 after finding he made "demonstrably false and misleading" statements about voter fraud.

Washington, DC, temporarily suspended his license soon afterward. Giuliani is currently engaged in a contentious battle over whether he will be able to continue practicing law in the nation's capital city.

A DC bar organization has also filed an ethics charge against Jeffrey Clark, a former Trump Administration Justice Department official who tried to overturn the election results, which remains pending.

Sidney Powell
Sidney Powell's time on Trump's "Elite Strike Force" was brief. Trump dropped her only days after announcing the team.

Undeterred, Powell struck it out on her own — on Trump's behalf. She filed lawsuits in Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin, and Georgia alleging that rival election technology companies, in cahoots with each other, manipulated vote results to hand Biden his victories in those states.

Each and every lawsuit was dismissed. They later spurred defamation lawsuits from the election technology companies, Dominion and Smartmatic, which are ongoing.


Sidney Powell, attorney for President Donald Trump, conducts a news conference at the Republican National Committee on lawsuits regarding the outcome of the 2020 presidential election on Thursday, November 19, 2020.Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
In Michigan, attorneys for the city of Detroit went an extra step and filed for sanctions, which were granted by US District Court Judge Linda V. Parker in August 2021.

Powell has appealed the sanctions. The state of Wisconsin is also pursuing sanctions against Powell for her lawsuit in that state.

Lin Wood
The rabble-rousing Georgia-based lawyer was sanctioned alongside Powell in the Michigan case. Though he said he wasn't aware his name was on Powell's lawsuit, Parker found him "not credible" in her ruling, pointing out that he took credit for filing the lawsuit ahead of the sanctions hearing.

Emily Newman
Yet another attorney who signed off on Powell's Michigan lawsuit, Newman was sanctioned as well.

Gregory Rohl
Rohl played the role of local counsel to help Powell file her Michigan lawsuit. In a sanctions hearing, he said he played only a minimal part in the preparation of the lawsuit and spent a short time reading it. Parker didn't find his claims persuasive.

Scott Hagerstrom
Hagerstrom was another Michigan-based lawyer in Powell's suit, also sanctioned.

Stefanie Lynn Junttila
Another player in Powell's Michigan lawsuit, Junttila filed a grammatically challenged appeal to the judge's decision not to overturn the state's election results. Parker found her argument that her briefs were protected by the First Amendment to be made in an "illogical and incoherent fashion."

Julia Z. Haller
Haller was also a member of Powell's legal team in the Michigan sanctioned in the case.

Brandon Johnson
Johnson, too, was sanctioned in the Michigan case for signing onto the failed lawsuit.

Howard Kleinhendler
Parker repeatedly hammered Kleinhendler as "dishonest" in her sanctions order. In particular, she said he didn't tell the truth about Joshua Merritt, an IT consultant who falsely represented himself as a former US military intelligence official and claimed to have evidence of election fraud in an affidavit supporting Powell's lawsuit.


Howard Kleinhendler outside a Manhattan courthouse in 2021.AP Photo/Mary Altaffer
Kleinhendler had also argued in a hearing that the judge should suspend the ratification of Michigan's votes merely because he suspected wrongdoing.

"Litigants and attorneys cannot come to federal court asserting that certain acts violate the law based only upon an opportunity for — or counsel and the litigant's suspicions of — a violation," Parker wrote.

Ernest J. Walker
In Colorado, a pair of Trump-supporting lawyers, Walker and Gary D. Fielder, filed a lawsuit seeking $160 billion in damages because Biden won the 2020 election.

The judge overseeing the case rejected it, calling the suit's conspiratorial claims "the stuff of which violent insurrections are made," and sanctioned the two.

"This lawsuit was filed with a woeful lack of investigation into the law and (under the circumstances) the facts," US Magistrate Judge N. Reid Neureiter wrote. "The lawsuit put into or repeated into the public record highly inflammatory and damaging allegations that could have put individuals' safety in danger. Doing so without a valid legal basis or serious independent personal investigation into the facts was the height of recklessness."

Gary D. Fielder
Like Walker, Fielder was sanctioned for the Colorado lawsuit. Neureiter called it a "cut-and-paste job" that recycled elements of other failed lawsuits seeking to overturn election results. The two attorneys weren't able to independently defend the lawsuit's false claims in court, the judge said.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-lawyers-keep-getting-slammed-140000084.html

 

The only people surprised by this are the lawyers in question.

Donald Trump has been using lawsuits, threats of lawsuits, and the taunt of "so sue me", all of his adult life. This is easy to do when facing a small business or individual. It's always been his schoolyard bully tactic and it's worked quite well, most of the time.

The problem he faces now is he's not the biggest kid in the school yard anymore. Instead of facing down contractors or small businesses, he is suing the Government. As Earl Long said, "How you gonna fight the Feds? They got the atom bomb." This is compounded by a liar's greatest weakness, which is thinking other people will believe a lie, if told earnestly enough.

If that weren't enough, he has to find lawyers stupid enough to go into court and repeat his lies. There seems to be an endless supply of them, which is good, because becoming a Trump lawyer seems to be the short cut to becoming a former lawyer.

 

Its funny to watch because so far at least the courts have not been able to get their hands on Trump.But every lawyer is considered an officer of the court. Which means no matter which side they are on the are bound by rules of procedure. Which means they can't lie and present phony evidence. And Trump's lawyers had to know that. But thought since they were representing Trump they could get away with it. But then any other lawyer can look at the court and go hey these people are breaking the rules. And then the courts have to enforce their own rules of become meaningless. So they drop the hammer.

 

It's obvious Trump's lawyers go into court unprepared for the job. Over the past couple centuries, US courts have developed a very strict set of rules to manage civil suits, mainly to deal with people like Trump. The Trump team has been a pattern of disregarding the rules and they're going to pay, one way or the other.

The funny thing is, Trump has a history of not paying unsuccessful lawyers and getting sanctioned by the judge and disbarred is pretty much the hallmark of failure. So they end up working for free to be out of a job.

 

And there is no better example of this than Rudy Giuliani. No one brought the cray for Trump more than he did. No one stuck his neck out further. And no one has paid a bigger price for that than Rudy. But Giuliani failed to make Trump president again so Trump refused to pay him. And to add injury to insult Rudy really needs the money.

 

And here again what did Raffensperger tell the Fulton County grand jury?


Lindsey Graham wanted to use credit card company 'technology' to throw out absentee ballots in Georgia

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December 27, 2022



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In testimony given to the Jan. 6 committee this Tuesday, Georgia's secretary of state. Brad Raffensperger was questioned over Sen. Lindsey Graham's phone call to him back in November of 2020, where he suggested rejecting mail-in votes in the presidential election from counties with high rates of questionable signatures.

Graham’s phone calls to Raffensperger were followed weeks later by Donald Trump, who asked Raffensperger to “find” 11,780 votes to secure the 2020 election for him.

Raffensperger told the committee that Graham thought credit card companies had technology that Georgia could use to assist with signature matching on ballots in Fulton County, saying that Graham suggested using the technology to go through "all 150,000 absentee ballots very quickly using a machine process."

Raffensperger testified that the call made him "uncomfortable" because he "didn't know where this was going to lead."

"...my concern was, would you be disenfranchising voters when the ballots had already been accepted" by the county voting process.

Raffensperger also testified that he took Trump's shakedown phone call as a "threat."

See the excerpt from lawyer Anthony Michael Kreis below or the link here:





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We now know a little about why Lindsey Graham called Brad Raffensperger: according to the Secretary, Graham wanted to discuss signature matching in Fulton County. #gapol












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Brad Raffensperger's testimony to the January 6th Committee is now available. #gapol https://january6th.house.gov/sites/...use.gov/files/20211130_Brad Raffensperger.pdf











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Apparently, Senator Graham was under the impression that credit card companies had technology that Georgia could use to assist with signature matching on ballots in Fulton County.



2:01 PM · Dec 27, 2022



https://www.rawstory.com/lindsey-graham-credit-cards/

 

Psst Repukes, listen up!

 

Yeah Eisenhower as well

"In the long perspective of history, the right to vote has been one of the strongest pillars of a free society. Our first duty is to protect this right against all encroachment." State of the Union Message, Washington, DC, 1/7/1960

 

All anyone has to do is just scroll through this thread and you will see three things for yourself. One there is never enough voter fraud to change the outcome of a federal election. Two, when someone does commit voter fraud they are almost always caught. And three when they are caught its almost always a treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republican committing the fraud.

GOP elections commissioner will plead guilty in federal voter fraud case

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December 29, 2022



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A New York county Republican elections commissioner will plead guilty to federal criminal charges in regards to a voter fraud case being investigated by the Department of Justice, the Times Union reports.

Jason T. Schofield, who was the GOP election commissioner for Rensselaer County, resigned from his position and will plead guilty on Jan. 11.

His guilty plea will mark the second conviction in the federal investigation focusing on the harvesting of absentee ballots in elections since 2020. Schofield reportedly will now be cooperating in the investigation.

"It's unclear whether Schofield's cooperation deal will be made public in his plea agreement when it's filed next month," the Times Union's report stated.

"Schofield was arrested in September outside his residence by the FBI on charges detailed in a nine-page indictment accusing him of fraudulently obtaining and filing absentee ballots using the personal information of at least eight voters without their permission."

IN OTHER NEWS: Trump channels his inner liberal as he warns of 'Democrat traps' in Breitbart interview


https://www.rawstory.com/gop-elections-commissioner-will-plead-guilty-in-federal-voter-fraud-case/

 

Democrat wins Arizona attorney general race after recount

PHOENIX (AP) — A recount of votes has confirmed Democrat Kris Mayes narrowly defeated Republican Abraham Hamadeh in the Arizona attorney general’s race

With Hamadeh's defeat, Republicans running statewide in battleground states who spread former President Donald Trump's false claim that the 2020 election was stolen have all lost their races.

 

Oooops.... tsk tsk Republicans