He's rested now, and I don't think
he put on a prima facie case. But Bush's lawyers did not move to strike and are putting
on their witnesses.
Smart. If he moved to strike, and it was granted, that would start the appeal process a day earlier, and he wouldn't have his facts to support him on appeal. This way he gets all his witnesses in, and delays the trial into Sunday and maybe into Monday, and makes the judge take the time to make a ruling, which might not come immediately at the close of closing arguments, but the judge might want to sleep on it. Every day now is a day closer to the 12th, when Bush's victory is cemented either by no overturn in the courts, or if he loses here by delay in appeals and ballot counting, and by the legislature stepping in.
So even if he thought he had a slam dunk motion to strike, it was smart not to do it. |
