Ticked Off Federal Judge Threatens Lawyer Behind Republicans' Dumbest Election Lawsuit

[brooklynite]

Source: Law & Crime

A federal judge was so dismayed by a Republican lawsuit that bizarrely attempted to sue the Electoral College and Vice President Mike Pence—among many others—that he wrote in a memorandum opinion on Monday that he’s considering referring the attorney behind it for “potential discipline.”

We know that U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia James Boasberg doesn’t much like lengthy footnotes, so it should come as no surprise that he unequivocally dismantled what legal observers have dubbed Republicans’ “single dumbest election lawsuit” and the 310 footnotes therein. And, no, this was not the suit that Rep. Louie Gohmert filed (that was in a federal court in Texas).

The judge summed up the case this way:

Plaintiffs’ aims in this election challenge are bold indeed: they ask this Court to declare unconstitutional several decades-old federal statutes governing the appointment of electors and the counting of electoral votes for President of the United States; to invalidate multiple state statutes regulating the certification of Presidential votes; to ignore certain Supreme Court decisions; and, the coup de grace, to enjoin the U.S. Congress from counting the electoral votes on January 6, 2021, and declaring Joseph R. Biden the next President.

Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/ticked-off-federal-judge-says-lawyer-behind-republicans-dumbest-election-lawsuit-may-face-discipline/

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[Princess Turandot]

1. Here's the document. It's only 7 pages long, but it's entertaining..

https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.225330/gov.uscourts.dcd.225330.10.0_2.pdf

On potential sanctions:

Yet even that may be letting Plaintiffs off the hook too lightly. Their failure to make any effort to serve or formally notify any Defendant—even after reminder by the Court in its Minute Order—renders it difficult to believe that the suit is meant seriously. Courts are not instruments through which parties engage in such gamesmanship or symbolic political gestures. As a result, at the conclusion of this litigation, the Court will determine whether to issue an order to show cause why this matter should not be referred to its Committee on Grievances for potential discipline of Plaintiffs’ counsel

[rpannier]

2. K&R

[KY_EnviroGuy]

3. This could be called "taking one for the Grifter".

I hope he runs them plum out of the courthouse.....

[Maxheader]

4. I couldn't do it..

Keep my shit together in the judges position...refrain from

calling the lowlife ambulance chaser a publicity hound... #@**!wipe