Posted on 12/23/2020 10:26:09 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I have been under bizarre “gag” order issued by Atlanta judge prohibiting me from responding to accusations in lawsuit filed by lawyers with whom I formerly shared office space. Lawsuit used to attack me in left wing rags. Mother Jones, AJC & soon NY Times.
Connect the dots. https://t.co/lpOGHUYw7R
— Lin Wood (@LLinWood) December 23, 2020
PDJT had two top-tier firms. But due to political pressure, they files motions to be relieved as counsel. Giuliani did not oppose the motions, probably because he wanted the publicity himself.
Stupid mistake.
Generally, a retained attorney cannot seek to be relieved if it causes harm to the client. I would submit to you that if you are in the middle of heated litigation with “sudden death” looming two months away, withdrawal of counsel would cause irreparable harm.
Giuliani should have OPPOSED the motions to be relieved filed by the top-tier counsel. Instead, he stipulated, then he stepped in, and made a fool of himself.
At this point, it is likely too late to fight many of these cases in court. In law, there is something called “res judicata” which is Latin for “the matter has been decided.” Basically, if one party prevails on the merits and the other party can’t overturn on appeal, the issue is decided, and you can’t get a second bite at the apple by filing another lawsuit or going to another court.
Election law is a highly-specialized area, with overlap between Constitutional issues and state law issues. This is a job for a large, specialized law firm, not a solo-practitioner celebrity who hasn’t filed any court pleadings in 30 years (Giuliani) or a defamation lawyer (Wood) or an attorney with zero Federal experience (Ellis).
Here is another loss handed to PDJT. In an opinion penned by a judge appointed by PDJT, The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the trial court’s denial of PDJT’s challenge to WI electors.
The lead attorney in the ill-fated trial court and subsequent appeals court was a “William Bock” whose experience is “sports and drug testing law.” Not exactly relevant to Constitutional questions.
Giuliani is PDJT’s personal attorney. As such, he should recognize limitations of his own expertise, and interview and recommend specialized counsel. It’s like a General Counsel for a Fortune 500 company. You are not expected to know everything, but you are expected to interview and recommend specialized counsel. From lease negotiations to labor disputes to trademark infringement to slip and fall cases, the CEO looks to you to pick the right team for the occasion.
The links below will take you to the published opinion, and to Mr. Bock’s bio.
https://www.kgrlaw.com/william-bock-iii/
Lawyers in the top law firms could be owned by the deep state. The president may only want lawyers he can trust that are patriots. Look what happened with Barr for example.
All I see is our president’s legal team getting slaughtered. It’s like the Egyptian Air Force in 1967 getting utterly annihilated by Israeli Air Force. Or like Saddam’s Republican Guards getting butchered on the famous “highway of death.”
They are picking off these lawsuits one at a time, with the greatest of ease. It’s like a sniper laughing as he easily takes out infantry one at a time. And the infantry is defenseless. It can’t find cover or shoot back.
It’s pathetic and I’m getting tired of these losses, including one that came on Christmas eve.
PDJT’s personal lawyer should have picked top tier firms, and then acted as liaison with PDJT, and in doing so, he should have ensured that the best case possible is being presented.
BTW, any competent and experienced lawyer has known tough and challenging cases, including cases where the lawyer does not sympathize with his client, yet does his job as an advocate and zealously represents him. Take Alan Dershowitz, who is an unquestionable pro-Israel Zionist. Yet, he has represented anti-semites, competently.
Lawyers have a fiduciary obligation to their clients. They want to win. They particularly want to win the tough cases. And they care about their reputation.
I refuse to believe that a top-tier firm would betray its client. When all is said and done and when the smoke clears, other lawyers, peers, and academics will look at the court pleadings, and if there is even a hint that a lawyer threw his client under the bus, the negative repercussions will haunt the lawyer forever.
Some on the Presidents own White House staff lawyers want him to concede and not fight the voter fraud. Pat Cipollone the current White House Counsel is dead set against fighting the fraud. Listen to this Patrick Byrne interview to get an inside view of what President Trump is up against.
Dark To Light: A Meeting With The President - UncoverDC
Would you rather have a slick lawyer with you in a foxhole or a patriot that makes typo's? This is a glimpse of what real patriots look like:
1777 December 19 George Washington leads troops into winter quarters at Valley Forge
Things could hardly have looked bleaker for Washington and the Continental Army as 1777 came to a close. The British had successfully occupied Philadelphia, leading some members of Congress to question Washington's leadership abilities. No one knew better than Washington that the army was on the brink of collapse–in fact, he had defied Congress’ demand that he launch a mid-winter attack against the British at Philadelphia and instead fell back to Valley Forge to rest and refit his troops. Though he had hoped to provide his weary men with more nutritious food and badly needed winter clothing, Congress had been unable to provide money for fresh supplies. That Christmas Eve, the troops dined on a meal of rice and vinegar, and were forced to bind their bleeding frost-bitten feet with rags. “We have experienced little less than a famine in camp,” Washington wrote to Patrick Henry the following February.
I’m sorry, I know it’s Christmas eve, but I’ve had a glass of scotch and I no longer feel like sugar coating things.
I am sick and tired of excuses. I am tired of the whining. I’m tired of these cry babies.
When you lose one case, maybe you blame the judge.
But when you lose 60 cases, in trial courts, appeal courts, and Supreme Courts in Federal and state systems, in five different states, you can’t blame the judges anymore.
It’s not just the typos. It’s cases filed in wrong courts. It’s not understanding the ABCs of your own motion. It’s mistaking MN counties for MI counties. It’s judges giving you a chance to submit depo transcripts, and instead you submit inadmissible hearsay affidavits. It’s telling PDJT and his supporters that you have evidence of fraud, then walking into a courtroom and saying “we are not alleging fraud.” It’s telling PDJT and his supporters that you are getting shot down on standing, when in at least half the cases the court rejected you on the merits.
Lose one case? Sure, could be a bad judge. But 60 cases? Including most recently, an opinion penned by a Trump-appointed judge?
No! There are lots and lots of patriot judges out there. Federal judges serve for life, and are accountable only to their conscience and their oath to the Constitution. When even Trump-appointed judges are shooting you down, you just come across as a whiny cry baby if you blame the judge.
No more excuses. No more lying. No more pointing fingers. No more blame game. No more cry-baby whining.
If they don’t have the balls to tell it like it is, then we should call it as it is.
These guys not patriots. They are publicity-hungry, incompetent bozo celebrities dusting off their law degrees to put on one final dog and pony show at the nation’s expense.
Byrne is not a lawyer, but he confirmed that PDJT has been badly served by his advisors. I think at this point, all litigation channels have been exhausted. But don’t lose faith in the power of prayer.
But when you lose 60 cases, in trial courts, appeal courts, and Supreme Courts in Federal and state systems, in five different states, you can’t blame the judges anymore.
Sure you can. Every judge can see even Trump’s own party isn’t supporting him against the steal. Given that why would they ever stick their neck in The Resistance meat grinder? We’ve seen this judicial corruption movie over and over the past 4 years. The steal is just the latest chapter in the now 4 year long coup.
The lead attorney in the ill-fated trial court and subsequent appeals court was a “William Bock” whose experience is “sports and drug testing law.” Not exactly relevant to Constitutional questions.
Jones Day refused to represent POTUS against the steal. However, they’re happily working with the GOPe in GA to prevent election fraud in the Senate races. After near 5 years of Never Trump blacklists you can’t really be surprised Trump doesn’t have the A Team fighting this.
Bryne was talking about President Trumps White House lawyer staff, he recommended Sidney Powell be appointed as Special Counsel. Do you really think someone like Alan Derchowitz who was on the flight log to Epstein Island would have done a better job than Powell and Wood?
I have faith in God and our US Military Tribunal Court.
There will be justice.
But when you lose 60 cases ... you can’t blame the judges anymore.
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Sure you can.
OK, well, we can agree to disagree. But let me justify my position:
1- Most judges are hard-working Americans trying their best. They have their biases, sure. But most try to hand down a just ruling. Federal judges in particular have no reason to be corrupt. They sit for life, and are guaranteed their compensation. Handing down a controversial ruling in no way affects them personally.
2- I’ve read many of the pleadings and many of the rulings. The pleadings have generally been garbage, and the rulings have generally been well-reasoned.
4- PDJT’s legal team have lied to us. They told us they were pursuing fraud, and they told us judges are not allowing evidence, and they told us they were being shot down on standing issues. But the court pleadings indicate otherwise.
Dershowitz is an excellent lawyer. But to my knowledge, he never expressed a willingness to litigate any of these cases.
BTW, don’t judge a lawyer based on his clients. A good lawyer is not afraid to represent an unpopular client.
A final note: I have mentioned repeatedly right here on FR, that much of the blame lies with McConnell, who sat on 3 or 4 election fraud bills, and never allowed a debate much less a vote.
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas to you.
I have no knowledge of threats having been made to judges. But Federal judges are well-protected. I’ve been to Bar functions attended by active Federal judges, and on-duty Federal Marshalls provided protection.
Anyway, TBH, I think the rulings were well-reasoned.
Here is another thought.
There are pre-determined and established procedures for Federal courts to issue an order to stop broadcast of music that infringes a copyright. Or issue an order to stop sales of a device that infringes a patent. Or issue an order to wipe out debt (a bankruptcy discharge.)
But there are no such procedures for a Federal judge to issue an order to reverse an election.
Moreover, as you know, we have presumptions in law. For example, we are all presumed innocent, and if the state wants to convict us, they have to overcome that presumption. Similarly, there is a presumption that official executive acts done in official capacity and in observance of official procedure are VALID.
So a party coming to court seeking an order to reverse official election results better present a very good case.
That simply was not done here.
Thanks for the Christmas wish. I will be signing off. The latest loss in the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, penned by a Trump appointee, right on Christmas eve, was a particularly bitter pill to swallow for me.
Lin Wood has been publicly attacked on blogs looking to discredit him in order to support Dominion and Smartmatic. He ought to be able to defend himself publicly in a similar manner. The news media is not going to do it for him no matter what the facts are because their sympathies are entirely against the defamation lawyer who has hammered their profession in two high profile controversies. It is as if Wood is a police misconduct plaintiffs' lawyer who is getting mugged on the street while the cops do nothing to rescue him and a magistrate on the scene is forbidding him to defend himself.
Please re-read Lin Wood’s original tweet:
“I have been under bizarre “gag” order issued by Atlanta judge prohibiting me from responding to accusations in lawsuit filed by lawyers with whom I formerly shared office space.”
The gag order is for a lawsuit filed in Fulton County, GA in which three former partners of Wood are suing him for breaching the terms of a settlement agreement which covered payment of legal fees due to them following their withdrawal as partners with him. The gag order has nothing to do with any of the election fraud cases.
The case between Lin Wood and other lawyers has attracted public interest because of his association with Trump and the 2020 election controversy. Wood’s professional reputation is under attack as a way to diminish the credibility of the effort to expose and remedy the election fraud.
The case between Lin Wood and other lawyers has attracted public interest because of his association with Trump and the 2020 election controversy. Wood’s professional reputation is under attack as a way to diminish the credibility of the effort to expose and remedy the election fraud.
I guess we’ll just have to disagree on this one. Merry Christmas to you, too.
You are simply wrong on this issue. Anytime you challenge a state act on Constitutional grounds, you have to identify which test applies, and then show that the act fails the test. If the state act does not fail the test, then it is Constitutional, and cannot be overturned by a Fed Court.
That was the thrust of the judge’s questions, which Giuliani failed, because he did not know the ABCs of Constitutional challenges to state acts.
Wood is a publicity-hungry conman celebrity lawyer whose expertise is state court litigation - particularly, defamation. He accomplished NOTHING for PDJT. It is becoming apparent that his allegations regarding Dominion were inflated, if not outright false. Wait and see.
Nobody is stopping Wood from “defending” himself. He is free to litigate the case in court. When the case is over (which will likely happen quickly, he is about to lose the case) he can say whatever he wants. The case where the gag order was imposed has noting to do with election fraud. It has to do with him stealing partner money, then signing a settlement agreement and then breaching the settlement agreement (NONE of which he DENIES!) and sending belligerent, border-line extortion emails.
He will go down in flames, which is what he deserves. I am done wasting my mental energy on this vain loser and conman, so I will let you have the last word.
Merry Christmas.
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