Posted on 12/26/2022 12:52:24 PM PST by TigerClaws
The trial court judge in Kari Lake’s election lawsuit predictably threw out her case on Saturday, putting on a sham trial that on the surface looked fair to the general public that doesn't know any better, but to legal minds was a travesty of justice. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson only gave her two days for a trial and issued his ruling immediately afterwards, even though he could have taken several days, and it was one of the biggest, most important cases in the country. Legal experts believe his decision was ghostwritten, they suspect top left-wing attorneys like Marc Elias emailed him what to say.
The standard should have been whether voters were disenfranchised, not all the additional hoops Thompson added. If inner city blacks had been disenfranchised, Thompson would not have added all those extra requirements, he would have made the law fit. Robert Gouveia, a rare attorney who isn’t afraid to speak up and who describes himself as watching prosecutors, judges and politicians, said the standard should have been whether there was voter suppression.
Instead, Thompson said Lake had to show an extremely vague, high bar in order to prevail, that an election official intentionally caused the printer changes in order to change the results of the election, and that it did affect the outcome. He explained away many of the disturbing election anomalies as accidents or mere coincidences. He ignored the vast majority of them; in a show of arrogance, his opinion was less than eight pages long.
Thompson completely ignored all the voters who saw the long lines and gave up trying to vote, as if they didn’t count. Considering probably well over half of the voting locations in Maricopa County were affected, not to mention they were almost all in heavily Republican areas, this was no small disenfranchisement. Many voters have come forward and told how they were unable to vote for this reason or similar, such as a man who couldn’t find parking in time due to the overcrowded parking lot.
Even with the higher burden required by Thompson, well-known lawyer Viva Frei, whose real name is David Freheit, said Lake’s team showed there was intentionality and believed the case was a slam dunk.
It was clear early on Thompson was going to rule against Lake, throwing out eight of her 10 claims, which included observers’ testimony that 90% of mismatched signatures were accepted. In doing so, he trivialized important, good-faith arguments about constitutional and civil rights. The two whittled-down claims he kept allowed him to hold a trial to appear fair, then declare everything OK and the county in the right. Now the Arizona Supreme Court will be set up to uphold it all because these are fact-specific matters and they must defer to the fact-finding discretion of the Superior Court.
Thompson said in his opinion that it was unprecedented in history to set aside an election like that, but he was mincing words. It’s happened many times. In 2013, in Pembroke, North Carolina, a new election was ordered for town council after it came out that at least two candidates helped bring people to the town's early voting location who were ineligible to vote. In 2018, in Sharpsburg, North Carolina, a judge merely cited “an irregularity” as enough to order a new election. There, only 20-25 voters were alleged to have been disenfranchised.
In 2019, a judge ordered a new election for a Georgia House seat based on merely finding that four voters were ineligible. Also that year, in North Carolina, Democrats were all too happy to praise a judge ordering a new election where a contractor was accused of illegally collecting hundreds of ballots for the winning Republican candidate. He wasn’t even convicted yet, merely accused.
In 2020, after hundreds of mail-in ballots were discovered in a mailbox in Paterson, New Jersey, a judge ordered a new election in the city council race that was affected. Last year, in Surry County, North Carolina, a judge ordered a new election in the commissioners’ race over the mere action of a poll worker informing voters that one of the candidates was deceased. The courts in these cases did not set high bars for proof unlike Thompson.
In Berlin, Germany this year, the court ordered a new election for the exact same reason Lake requested one, long lines due to logistical issues. There was no requirement of intent or showing that the problems affected the outcome.
The left and its comrades in the MSM pretend that these cases don’t exist, and they pretend that there’s never been any evidence produced in the election lawsuits, when the reality is it’s a staggering amount, especially the witness testimony — one witness’s statements alone has been enough to send people to the death penalty.
Attorney Tom Renz analyzed the decision throwing out Arizona Secretary of State candidate Mark Finchem’s similar election lawsuit and came to a similar conclusion, calling the judge’s reasoning “absolute garbage.”
Compounding the problem, hardly any attorneys dare speak up about this, since they risk being targeted and disbarred. So they’re not writing about it or going on talk shows, and the best of the bunch have already been targeted so they’ve either already been disbarred or have to lie low. Nor are they taking on representation, leaving candidates like Lake to rely upon non-election attorneys. When the Cochise County Supervisors gutsily called for a hand count, they could find no attorney who dared represent them.
A friend described the situation, “We don't have a justice system and voting is becoming pointless. Only Democrat votes matter in our country now.” Voter fraud experts believe the Democrats started targeting states years ago, like Washington and California, then moved on to Colorado. Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania are their latest targets. They intend to move on to states like Florida next if not stopped. Voter disenfranchisement has become the most important issue facing Republicans today, and if not stopped, we will become a one-party nation.
Had it been more than half the, say, black voting districts in Georgia having Election Day “errors” any doubt they’d hold a new election? And indict those responsible?
Ballot box is now the ammo box. Voting doesn’t matter anymore. Just wait till the Uniparty pushes amnesty before 2024. There’s no other choice.
It doesn’t matter!
In fact, elections are, almost, a waste of time...
Soros-Bezos will determine who gets the votes and by what margin...
They have now perfected an election process that has culminated with the farcical 2020 and 2022 elections...
The communists/globalists are comfortably in total control of all future elections and the tyrannical path this country is on...
There has been, and will not be, any significant pushback from either the serfs or the GOP...
Democrats and RINOs are in complete control now.
Bill Gates from Phoenix, Chair of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, is cheering the win for The Deep State. He should be shunned.
It will definitely matter if it ever happens to a dem.
Real question for all of us is this. What are we willing to do about it?
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Just as I thought, nothing, substantial, they know that so it will continue.
My solution;
Locally - defund all patrol police. Leave only Detectives and Sheriffs/police chiefs. Keep all other parts of the “Justice” system intact.
Federally - defund all armed police.
Security for the Federal elite to be provided by Marines as embassies are done today.
Let the dice roll then.
We knew the courts were gutless cowards back in ‘20
Voter Disenfranchisement No Longer Matters
No, It will definitely matter if it ever happens to a dem.
just a little edit, since I was going to post similar.
The solution is straightforward, if a little uncomfortable to adjust to:
1) If they have created an elaborate system to defeat and disenfranchise the voters of one particular political party, and:
2) The leaders of the disenfranchised party don't especially mind or even take an active role in expanding the disenfranchisement, then...
3) Why don't conservative voters simply switch their label to the enfranchised party and run candidates in their primaries, instead?
What's the point of trying to fight a culture war under a party brand that is badly damaged and led by losers and traitors?
I guess that we should have heeded Franklin. We were not able to keep.
I’m surprised the “judge” didn’t require a confession from Katie Hobbs as the only acceptable burden of proof...
The cartels own the political system in Az. They own Hobbs and stopped Lake because she cannot be bought.
Agreed. The 'RATS have been doing this for years; can you say "Romney," "Collins," " Murkowski," et al?
Bkmk
“In doing so, he trivialized important, good-faith arguments about constitutional and civil rights”
It was brazen and arrogant language. He literally said people might feel bad about it but tuff tittys.
And it was obvious that his decision was pre-written. No way he would have had a decision like that in one day.
And yes, they are setting precedent to keep anyone from complaining from now on. See vote fraud? Too bad. Only if you catch them red handed...Oh wait, we did see that with Wanda Freeman. And she not only walked, she got a judgement against OAN for calling her out.
Pete Thompson is a Mormon good boy. The Church told him to go along with Elias because they don’t want the border closed, as they are converting a lot of Mexicans and Central Americans. If they can’t get them here legally they’ll get them here illegally.
If you go back through his precious decisions you’ll undoubtedly find he’s convicted people on serious charges with far less evidence.
It’s clear now that the whole thing was a sham.
flood their party with DINOs ...
Play by their rules. Someone should be cataloging the many ways the libs work the system and publish a manual of sorts so we have access to their means and methods. A complete work from A to Z, a how to of electioneering, from ballot harvesting to buying judges.
"The Dismissal of Kari Lake’s Election Lawsuit Shows Voter Disenfranchisement No Longer Matters"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Given the catch-all "or in any way abridged" wording of Section 2 of the 14th Amendment, that section a penalty for states where ballot box fraud has occurred, another way of looking at dismissal of Kari Lake lawsuit is the following.
Patriots are arguably witnessing an in-progress violation of Section 2 voting rights protections by organized activist state actors.
"14th Amendment, Section 2: Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State." [Apportionment of Representatives]
Consider that the post-Civil War congressional Republicans who drafted Section 2 made it to discourage southern Democrats (my word) from rigging the ballot boxes that Democrats are now alleged to have done for 2020, and now 2022 elections!
"Because slavery (except as punishment for crime) had been abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment, the freed slaves would henceforth be given full weight for purposes of apportionment. This situation was a concern to the Republican leadership of Congress, who worried that it would increase the political power of the former slave states, even as such states continued to deny freed slaves the right to vote." —Apportionment of Representatives
Democrats always win by more votes than voters.
A peaceful division of the former "United" States of America should be our final goal.
Bottom Line...
350 million hugely diverse people cannot be peacefully governed as one nation.
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