Posted on 11/05/2020 11:24:23 AM PST by CassieL
state judge on Thursday dismissed the Trump campaign's lawsuit seeking to halt the counting of absentee ballots in Michigan.
Court of Claims Judge Cynthia Stephens said during a hearing she would be rejecting the campaign's lawsuit, filed the previous day, that alleged Republican officials had been denied access to video of ballot drop boxes.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
This all ties in nicely with the way they blocked Republican poll watchers from getting in. So they can’t observe the count in Michigan nor can they stop the count in Michigan.
Unbelievable
Take it to the USSC now!
She is the same far-left judge that upheld all of our lovely Governor Whitmer’s illegal exec orders.
I’m right about everything all the time. ...and when I’m not, I admit it and apologize.
TIME.COM
EXCERPT The Justice Department told federal prosecutors early Wednesday they can send armed federal law enforcement agents to polling sites where votes were still being counted to “prevent potential federal crimes,” according to an email obtained by TIME.
The advisory came in an overnight memo sent to United States attorneys nationwide after 1 a.m. on Wednesday, hours after polls had closed on Election Day. With President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr raising unsubstantiated charges for months about widespread election fraud, the memo raised immediate worries about the prospect of the Justice Department trying to help Trump by using federal agents to intervene in ballot-counting efforts.
Armed federal agents at the FBI, the Marshals Service, or other agencies are generally restricted from conducting investigations at election sites because of the prospect of intimidation. Justice Department policy guidelines note that a federal statute makes it a felony for any federal official to send troops or “armed men” to open polling places except under specific circumstances, including to repel “armed enemies” or to respond to bomb threats or active shooters.
The Justice Department email, which was also reported by the New York Times, made it clear there had been questions raised within the department about the guidance, specifically over whether polls were still considered “open” if voting had ended but counting was under way inside the polling stations. It said that “based upon further legal analysis,” officials concluded that the criminal statute “does not prevent armed federal law enforcement from responding to investigate or to prevent potential federal crimes at closed polling places or at other locations where votes are being counted or tabulated.” The email underlined the word “closed.”
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TIME.COM
EXCERPT The Justice Department told federal prosecutors early Wednesday they can send armed federal law enforcement agents to polling sites where votes were still being counted to “prevent potential federal crimes,” according to an email obtained by TIME.
The advisory came in an overnight memo sent to United States attorneys nationwide after 1 a.m. on Wednesday, hours after polls had closed on Election Day. With President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr raising unsubstantiated charges for months about widespread election fraud, the memo raised immediate worries about the prospect of the Justice Department trying to help Trump by using federal agents to intervene in ballot-counting efforts.
Armed federal agents at the FBI, the Marshals Service, or other agencies are generally restricted from conducting investigations at election sites because of the prospect of intimidation. Justice Department policy guidelines note that a federal statute makes it a felony for any federal official to send troops or “armed men” to open polling places except under specific circumstances, including to repel “armed enemies” or to respond to bomb threats or active shooters.
The Justice Department email, which was also reported by the New York Times, made it clear there had been questions raised within the department about the guidance, specifically over whether polls were still considered “open” if voting had ended but counting was under way inside the polling stations. It said that “based upon further legal analysis,” officials concluded that the criminal statute “does not prevent armed federal law enforcement from responding to investigate or to prevent potential federal crimes at closed polling places or at other locations where votes are being counted or tabulated.” The email underlined the word “closed.”
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There’s your problem right there
Conspiracy is a crime
Appointed by Jennifer Granholm in 2008.
I hope we aren’t going to let the Swamp steal this election and let our Liberty be tossed aside to please China.
The swamp has learned that you can spy on the republican campaign in 2016 and nothing happens to you by the current DOJ, AG, FBI director so obviously nothing would happen in 2020 if you attempt to steal an election.
Same thing.
That picture explains EVERYTHING!!! You can smell the corruption with this judge.
since when does a local judge change election law?
This opinion was later overturned by the Michigan Supreme Court.
What John Roberts needs is hung upside down by his ankles and disemboweled in the public square.
Please Lord forgive for the thoughts I’ve had for 4 years.
(They involves rifles, sawed-off shotguns, huge knives, and other bad things.)
so now federal courts?
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
says it all.
GOD hear our prayer... we need a DIVINE MOMENT displaying YOUR POWER... in Jesus’ Name.
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