Posted on 04/25/2021 10:06:58 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The judge scheduled to oversee a legal challenge to Arizona Senate Republicans' 2020 election audit recused himself shortly before a planned hearing.
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Christopher Coury issued an order Sunday afternoon that said he was removing himself from the case after the court received filings at 4 p.m. that mentioned new attorneys for the first time, including Chris Viskovic, who worked in Coury's office as an extern within the last five years.
Viskovic is now a junior associate at Kolodin Law Group PLLC, which is representing Florida-based cybersecurity firm Cyber Ninjas in the case, according to 12 News.
"TO BE CLEAR This lawyer who once worked as judge’s extern (hence the recusal) is a junior associate at law firm representing Cyber Ninjas. Admitted to Bar a year ago. - Brahm Resnik (@brahmresnik) April 26, 2021"
The order said the case would be reassigned but did not lay out a timeline or name a different judge.
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(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Since the Dems appeared to be getting nowhere with Coury, I bet they scoured the records for anyone who worked with him and brought them on the case to force a recusal in hopes of getting a more pliant judge.
Gotta give it to the RATS, they fight
They know what this audit will expose & not pretty
What standing do the plaintiffs have?
Didn’t bother reading further, did you?
In this case, it was the *good guys* that brought in the lawyer that made Coury recuse himself.
They don’t need standing. They scream and stomp their feet until a liberal judge sides with them.
It would seem that the easiest solution would be if the junior associate at Kolodin Law Group just doesn’t get assigned to the case.
Even if not assigned, it leaves a biiiiig potential for both sides to appeal a ruling based on judge bias - the Dems could claim the judge favored the firm of his extern, the good guys could claim the judge went too far the other way to avoid looking like he was favoring the firm of his intern.
Either way, there is now a big delay in the case while they attempt to find another judge and reschedule, and the audit goes on while they do that.
er, ‘intern’ should be ‘extern’ in that last.
There is that.
Thanks for that clarification. It’s what I’ve been looking for in all of the 4 or 5 articles posted about this. The way journalists write is such a backhanded, unwinding forward, obtuse style that I can never figure out what the real story is.
Couldn’t they have just taken the lawyer and put him inside a small shed with a secure door with laches?
KarlInOhio’s instincts are in the right place. Marc Elias and his gang of thugs with law degrees will indeed wage lawfare in such manner to delay the audit only this time the good guys beat them using lawfare of their own.
Good clearing up by Spktyr of this battlefield fog of war. There will be more fog. Be sharp.
1. This benefits the *good guys*. It throws a big wrench in the works for the Dem plan to cut the audit short through lawfare.
2. Why would you do that to a poor innocent shed? What did the shed ever do to you to merit behind exposed to a young, enthusiastic lawyer?
Most people here are willingly blind to the situation, so once again I will clarify..
The Marcopia elections board, that has been fighting this from the beginning, is majority republiCAN’T...
The republiCAN’TS have been actively fighting this audit from the beginning...
Only recently, when it was certain the republiCAN’TS had lost all legal standing, did the democommies join in the fight.
This is about all the politicans that recieved suitcases stuffed with cash being caught.
What they don’t realize is that they got paid, now they are all on their own. Kinda like a mob hitman.
So, just to clarify, this is about the ruling class vs. the citizen class, and the republiCAN’TS are just as guilty as the democommies.
We have been betrayed by ALL of them.
Anyone have any doubts as to how this is going to turn out?
Didn’t think so.
A lawyer has the duty to stay out of cases in which he would have a conflict. The law firm should withdraw, not the judge.
And maybe it’s good that Coury recused himself. He was about to give a TRO to the democrats. And $1 million to delay the audit should be nothing for them.
Um, it’s absolutely a good thing that Coury was forced to recuse himself. There aren’t any downsides for the good guys.
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