Trunp loses again in Court

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Thursday, November 19, 2020 3:41 PM

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Thursday, November 19, 2020 4:27 PM

Rudy Giuliani Isn’t Even Trying to Make Coherent Legal Arguments Anymore

On Wednesday, a federal judge in Pennsylvania rejected the Trump campaign’s request for an additional evidentiary hearing over its effort to invalidate the vote in the state over a set of technicalities. The rejection didn’t deter the Trump campaign, though, which a few hours later requested to file an amendment to its already amended complaint, asking the judge in the case to throw out the entire election in Pennsylvania and declare Donald Trump the winner, an argument that already failed in state court. The new request was signed by Rudy Giuliani, who just one day earlier had appeared on behalf of a client as a lawyer in court for the first time in nearly three decades.

You may have heard that Giuliani’s appearance before the court on Tuesday did not go well. “I’ve never seen worse lawyering in an election law case in my life,” University of California–Irvine School of Law professor and Slate contributor Richard Hasen tweeted.

Since the election, Trump campaign attorneys have been arguing similarly thin cases in courts all over the country (and judges are trashing them for it). But Giuliani’s appearance on Tuesday was distinctly terrible. He treated the entire affair as though it were a Fox News appearance, raising baseless conspiracy theories unrelated to the case, failing to understand or answer basic questions of law, and contradicting himself on whether or not the campaign was actually alleging any “fraud.”

Giuliani’s appearance might have been amusing, if not for his goal: to invalidate the ballots of hundreds of thousands of mostly Black voters in Pennsylvania as part of a plan to overturn an election the president lost by about 6 million votes and functionally end American democracy. (It’s worth noting that Giuliani was reportedly only placed in charge of Trump’s legal strategy a few days ago, after multiple law firms withdrew from the president’s team.)

Below are some of the most dumbfounding lowlights of Giuliani’s legal presentation, which now appears doomed to fail.

Giuliani spent most of his time on a claim that was deleted from the lawsuit.

The lawsuit concerns Pennsylvania voters who claim they were disenfranchised because their Republican-leaning counties did not allow for cures of absentee ballot problems while some Democratic counties did. As U.S. District Judge Matthew W. Brann pointed out, these voters should be asking the counties that didn’t accept their votes for relief. Instead, they and the Trump campaign are asking that voters in the Democratic-leaning counties have their ballots thrown out, alleging a violation of the Equal Protection Clause based on an incredibly stretched interpretation of Bush v. Gore. Even if the court went along with this ridiculous argument, it would still only net President Donald Trump a small number of votes, far fewer than he needs to overturn Biden’s current 82,127 vote lead in the state.

More at https://web.archive.org/web/20201119062157/https://slate.com/news-and-
politics/2020/11/trump-rudy-giuliani-pennsylvania-lawsuits-not-coherent.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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THG

Thursday, November 19, 2020 5:17 PM

Giuliani is panicked. He colluded with Russians in an attempt to alter US elections. He attempted to frame a presidential candidate. He knows what's coming and he is trying to delay, and in desperation, change the outcome.

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