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| To: locogringo who wrote (1276204) | 11/21/2020 9:12:21 PM | | From: Wharf Rat | 4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1290206 | | | Just wanted to make sure you saw this.
‘This is simply not how the Constitution works’: Federal judge eviscerates Trump lawsuit over Pennsylvania results
Politicoby Josh Gerstein, Kyle Cheney and Zach Montellaro
A federal judge in Pennsylvania eviscerated President Donald Trump’s attempt to throw out millions of votes Saturday, dismissing his campaign’s lawsuit with a withering opinion that described a dearth of proof to justify the drastic demand.
“This Court has been presented with strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations, unpled in the operative complaint and unsupported by evidence,” U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann wrote. “In the United States of America, this cannot justify the disenfranchisement of a single voter, let alone all the voters of its sixth most populated state. Our people, laws, and institutions demand more.”
The ruling is the latest rejection by federal and state court judges of Trump’s effort to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. And the judge’s stinging refutation of the campaign’s claims is yet another indication that Trump’s last-ditch effort to cling to power is slipping. Pennsylvania counties are due to certify their votes by Monday, leaving the final statewide certification in the hands of Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, a Democrat and a defendant in the lawsuit.
Trump has faced a series of legal and political setbacks in the last two days. Some of his allies on Capitol Hill have begun to publicly recognize Biden’s victory. Michigan state lawmakers, whom Trump summoned to the Oval Office on Friday, emerged insisting they would not intervene in their state’s election process to aid Trump. Georgia’s Republican governor and secretary of state certified a victory for Biden Friday, despite Trump’s objections. And a Republican-controlled board in Arizona’s largest county certified its results Friday evening and rejected any claims of fraud.
The sharply worded, 37-page opinion is a blow to the lawyer Trump picked just last weekend to spearhead his legal efforts to challenge the election, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani made an unexpected appearance in Brann’s courtroom in the small central Pennsylvania city of Williamsport on Tuesday.
Trump was counting on Giuliani’s presence to reverse the public narrative that the campaign’s legal drive to salvage the election was failing. Instead, Giuliani was mocked by legal commentators for being unprepared, unfamiliar with basic legal standards applicable to the case and even for forgetting the name of the judge.
Brann also expressed alarm at the draconian relief that Giuliani sought: The disenfranchisement of 7 million Pennsylvania voters — the state’s entire electorate — in the hopes of stripping its 20 electoral votes from Biden’s column.
“This Court has been unable to find any case in which a plaintiff has sought such a drastic remedy in the contest of an election, in terms of the sheer volume of votes asked to be invalidated,” he said, “One might expect that when seeking such a startling outcome, a plaintiff would come formidably armed with compelling legal arguments and factual proof of rampant corruption … That has not happened.”
In his opinion, Brann picked apart each argument offered by Giuliani.
The judge dismissed the Trump campaign’s argument that its observers were unfairly denied access to vote-counting operations in certain counties, noting that both Trump and Biden’s observers were subject to the same restrictions. He also said the Trump team’s lawyers misunderstood the lessons of Bush v. Gore — the Supreme Court ruling that delivered the 2000 election to George W. Bush — in their attempt to apply it to the current case.
And Brann rejected the notion that counties who offered voters an opportunity to “cure” defective mail-in ballots should have those votes thrown out because other counties — those with a larger proportion of Trump voters — did not. The decision not to offer voters a chance to cure ballots was not made by the parties the Trump campaign sued, namely Boockvar and seven heavily Democratic counties.
In rejecting this claim, Brann shredded the Trump legal team’s mix-and-match approach to their argument.
“This claim, like Frankenstein’s Monster, has been haphazardly stitched together from two distinct theories in an attempt to avoid controlling precedent,” Brann wrote.
Brann was appointed by President Barack Obama, but is regarded as a conservative judge and an atypical Obama nominee. Brann, who was selected by Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), served as a regional Republican Party chairman in Pennsylvania for about a decade before being nominated to the federal bench.
“Even assuming that they can establish that their right to vote has been denied, which they cannot, Plaintiffs seek to remedy the denial of their votes by invalidating the votes of millions of others. Rather than requesting that their votes be counted, they seek to discredit scores of other votes, but only for one race. This is simply not how the Constitution works,” the judge wrote.
In a statement signed by Giuliani and campaign legal adviser Jenna Ellis, the Trump campaign pledged to appeal Brann's ruling, adding: "Today’s decision turns out to help us in our strategy to get expeditiously to the U.S. Supreme Court. Although we fully disagree with this opinion, we’re thankful to the Obama-appointed judge for making this anticipated decision quickly, rather than simply trying to run out the clock."
The court also rejected an attempt from the Trump team to further amend its complaint.
“Given that: (1) Plaintiffs have already amended once as of right; (2) Plaintiffs seek to amend simply in order to effectively reinstate their initial complaint and claims; and (3) the deadline for counties in Pennsylvania to certify their election results to Secretary Boockvar is November 23, 2020, amendment would unduly delay resolution of the issues,” Brann wrote.
Brann also frowned on the merry-go-round of representation that marked the Trump campaign’s efforts throughout the suit.
“Although this case was initiated less than two weeks ago, it has already developed its own tortured procedural history,” Brann wrote. “Plaintiffs have made multiple attempts at amending the pleadings, and have had attorneys both appear and withdraw in a matter of seventy-two hours.”
Brann mentioned in passing a “rude and ill-conceived voicemail” one of the lawyers representing Trump received from a junior attorney at Kirkland & Ellis, saying it “distracted the Court’s attention from the significant issues at hand.” The judge said the message was inappropriate but he rejected a Trump lawyer’s request to impose sanctions on the firm, whose attorneys represented Boockvar.
The Trump campaign wasn’t the only party to the case to face some upheaval on its legal team. On Friday, the Kirkland lawyers moved to withdraw from the case, to be replaced by a team from the law firm, Kramer Levin, which included a key lawyer for Democrats during the impeachment of President Donald Trump, Barry Berke.
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| To: locogringo who wrote (1276204) | 12/3/2020 8:38:07 AM | | From: Celtictrader | 3 Recommendations Respond to of 1290206 | | | | LocoJoseMary >Please don't throw out your Drump Flags & banners, toilet paper shortage again. Use Trump banners & flags to wipe the Sh-t off your face & Arse! :-)))))))))) |
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| To: locogringo who wrote (1276204) | 12/10/2020 9:14:42 AM | | From: Wharf Rat | 2 Recommendations Respond to of 1290206 | | | Jobless claims rise more than expected after break from holiday
PUBLISHED THU, DEC 10 20208:30 AM EST
UPDATED THU, DEC 10 20209:00 AM EST
Jeff Cox @JEFF.COX.7528 @JEFFCOXCNBCCOM
CNBC.com
KEY POINTS
-- Weekly jobless claims increased by 853,000 last week vs. the Dow Jones estimate of 730,000.The total represented a sharp increase from the 716,000 a week ago.
-- This was the highest number since Sept. 19 and reflects ongoing issues in the jobs market.
The pace of weekly jobless claims jumped last week after filings caught up with a decline due in part to the Thanksgiving holiday.
First-time claims for unemployment insurance totaled 853,000, an increase from the upwardly revised 716,000 total a week before, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been expecting 730,000.
This was the highest weekly total since Sept. 19 and reflects the job market’s struggles lately as coronavirus cases have spiked and local and state governments have imposed restrictions on some activities.
Continuing claims increased by 230,000 to 5.76 million, the first time that number has gone up since late August.
Markets reacted little to the news, with Wall Street indicating a slightly lower open for stocks.
The rise in virus cases has put substantial pressure on the labor market, with nonfarm payrolls increasing just 245,000 in November after rising 610,000 in October.
Those difficulties were reflected further in unadjusted jobless claims, which totaled 947,504, a 31.9% increase from the previous week. Seasonal factors were pointing to a 12.9% increase, the Labor Department said.
“This recent surge suggests that claims are not just stagnating, they’re actively worsening,” said Daniel Zhao, senior economist at job placement site Glassdoor. “The surge in initial claims is especially concerning when claims are still above levels near the peak of the Great Recession.”
Claims filed under pandemic-related unemployment assistance programs declined sharply as the program comes to an end absent any action from Congress before the end of the year.
Claims under the pandemic program for those who normally wouldn’t be covered under the government insurance program declined by 313,739 to 8.6 million, for the week ended Nov. 21. Emergency claims for those whose benefits ran out fell by 36,140 to 614,517.
The total of those collecting under all programs declined by 1.12 million to just over 19 million.
A separate economic report Thursday indicated that inflation pressures remain tame.
The Consumer Price Index increased 0.2% in November after being unchanged in October. Wall Street had been expecting a monthly increase of 0.1%. For the 12-month period, CPI was up 1.2%, compared to the 1.1% estimate.
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| To: locogringo who wrote (1276204) | 12/29/2020 1:21:20 PM | | From: Heywood40 | 1 Recommendation Respond to of 1290206 | | | "Let your dark plans be formulated by Neo-Nazi Steven Miller and Agent of Chaos Steve Bannon, and when you move, fall like a piece of rotten pork sausage into an unflushed toilet full of LOW IQ FatRump Fast-Food shit."
-LOW IQ FatRump, in "The Art of Losing" |
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| To: locogringo who wrote (1276204) | 1/13/2021 1:58:50 AM | | From: Heywood40 | 2 Recommendations Respond to of 1290206 | | | My poll is closed.
I had asked how many had received, or were expecting to receive a $600 stimulus payment.
The reason I posted the poll, (contrary to remarks made by one of SI's total morons, whose name I can't post here, but you can probably ^^^ figure out...) was to get an idea of the income strata of SI's contributors.
Because the $600 stimulus payment is scaled back for anyone earning over $75K/year, the poll reveals that 11/14, or 78% of the poll's respondents do not earn over $75K/year.
Posted as a FWIW public service.
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| To: locogringo who wrote (1276204) | 1/14/2021 8:13:57 AM | | From: Mongo2116 | 2 Recommendations Respond to of 1290206 | | | how about an update on all that 'WINNING" ....cat got ur tongue or should I say BEE? LOL!!!
Hey we tried to tell ya boy!!! you were DUPED...you was HAD....you was BAMBOOZLED.....now go EDUCATE yourself BOY!!! BIDEN/HARRIS 2020-2028 HARRIS/AOC 2028-2036 |
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| To: locogringo who wrote (1276204) | 1/21/2021 1:48:38 PM | | From: Heywood40 | 2 Recommendations Respond to of 1290206 | | | locog, my understanding is that SI does not allow people to continually harass others on boards which those others are banned from.
You seem to have done this twice today in messages addressed to me on HB's sewer thread.
I'm the last person who would report something like this, so I'll just politely ask that if you have something to say to me, please do it here, or on another board where I am not prevented from responding.
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