This is garbage and insanity defined.
The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled 3-0 yesterday that Stein is not “an aggrieved candidate” and therefore the recount SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN STARTED in the first place. They also ruled that the Board of Canvassers should halt the recount. Yet, here we are back in Federal (?!) court even after our State court that has the only jurisdiction has ruled.
The lib Fed judge ONLY decided on Sunday (after midnight, in a LOCKED COURTROOM) on the timing of the recount starting, NOT whether the recount COULD start.
Yet, today back before that same lib Fed judge, (following the tweets of a local reporter in the courtroom), there was all types of discussion about everything except the COA ruling yesterday. Discussion about cost. Discussion about potential for fraud and hacking. You name it. Basically obfuscating the entire issue.
This judge has ZERO jurisdiction over the recount and whether it should / should not happen - but, he has threatened (and stomped his feet while doing so) via a TRO that the recount “must continue until *I* say it will stop”.
WTF?!!
This type of stuff really tweaks me off. Can’t we get back to ANY kind of rule of law any more?! I feel like I’m living in some third world tin dictatorship where the powerful just make up the rules as they go, and not the USA where we at least USED to follow the law AS WRITTEN.
Console yourself with this fact: no matter what he rules, the legal fact of the matter is that unless the MI Supreme Court steps in to reverse the MI appeals court, any result of this “recount” is a legal nullity.
Thanks. People here are strapped beyond belief to get this done in the judge-ordered time frame. I have been extremely angry about this
Oh. I see you are a fellow Michigander. Now I get your anger...
It is why judges shpuld not have life tenure.