Liz DyeDecember 10, 2020 12:59 PM
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Pro Tip: Don t fabricate quotes in court filings. Just don t. Like . ever.
Check out this passage from US District Judge Pamela Pepper s order dismissing Sidney Powell s Wisconsin Krakenhead lawsuit.
The plaintiff also asserts that the cutoff for election-related challenges, at least in the Seventh Circuit, appears to be the date that the electors meet, rather than the date of certification. Dkt. No. 72 at 24. He cites Swaffer v. Deininger, No. 08-CV-208, 2008 WL 5246167 (E.D. Wis. Dec. 17, 2008). Swaffer is not a Seventh Circuit case, and the court is not aware of a Seventh Circuit case that establishes a cutoff for election-related challenges. And the plaintiff seems to have made up the quote in his brief that purports to be from Swaffer. The plaintiff asserts that these words appear on page 4 of the Swaffer decision: even though the election has passed, the meeting of electors obviously has not, so plaintiff s claim here is hardly
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The only limit on legal research is your imagination! And maybe Rule 11.
As the Elite Strike Force recovers from the COVID they gave themselves to own the libs, Team Kraken is busy filing lawsuits in battleground states alleging foreign interference, or nefarious tabulators, or broken voting machines, or whatever on behalf of people who aren’t their clients on the basis of doctored documents.
In yesterday’s order dismissing her star-crossed Wisconsin suit on behalf of Bill Feehan, Chief Judge Pamela Pepper had to insert a passage that she surely never expected she’d need to write at least not outside the context of a pro se matter:
Federal judge dismisses Sidney Powell lawsuit seeking to overturn Wisconsin election results
December 9, 2020 10:33 PM Brandon Arbuckle
Jacquelyn Martin
MADISON, Wis. A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed from President Donald Trump’s former attorney which sought to overturn election results in Wisconsin.
According to WisPolitics, the lawsuit was filed from Sidney Powell and attempted to declare Trump the winner of the state’s electoral votes.
The judge denied the request after stating she did not have the jurisdiction to appoint the nation’s president.
“One wonders why the plaintiffs came to federal court and asked a federal judge to do so,” U.S. District Judge Pamela Pepper wrote. “After a week of sometimes odd and often harried litigation, the court is no closer to answering the ‘why.’ But this federal court has no authority or jurisdiction to grant the relief the remaining plaintiff seeks.”