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.
Agreed.
Right, what it shows “some voters” disenfranchisement no longer matters. If this happened to black Dem voters Hobbs would be in jail..now.
A racist opinion ruled against **white** Republicans. Disenfranchisement? Who cares? /s
Given this new system where the person that controls the outcome of an election is the candidate, we can expect more elections along this line.
Its sort of like running unopposed, except for the proforma legal challenges with outcomes known before hand.
First in was the number of votes cast, then it was who counted to votes, then it was weighted average vote counting, then it was ballot harvesting, now none of that matters any longer.
kangaroo court. two days. should of had a jury and the judgement is a joke. that’s why they didn’t call hobbs, they didn’t have time i guess.
Present laws suck.
Will we get better laws? Who you vote for state legislature will determine that.
Tongue in cheek but a big kernel of truth in that quip.
Deny, deny, deny has been the donkey party’s single most effective and foolproof vehicle to success when it comes to electoral lawsuits and disputes. And judges never fail to facilitate and reinforce this morally repugnant tactic.
Can you imagine?
What horrific thing would not be done to a DINO once that unfortunate person were to be sniffed out/revealed?
Exactly. If this had happened in Fulton County, Georgia, a judge would have put a stop to it on election day. A judge would have ordered the polls to stay open for an extra day, for computer/printer experts to be brought in to fix the problem, and democrat voters only would be allowed an extended time to cast their ballot. Heck, if it rains hard they extend time allowed to vote in democrat precincts!
Why don’t conservative voters simply switch their label to the enfranchised party and run candidates in their primaries, instead?
Very novel approach. Say one thing as a candidate, then do another as an elected rep...
In essence thats what we have now anyway.
“Democrats and RINOs are in complete control now.”
I bet a few of them made some phone calls to the judge.
“I guess that we should have heeded Franklin. We were not able to keep.”
The illegals coming into the country have no clue as to whom Benjamin Franklin is.
Judge ruled after the initial argument and before the hearing that Hobbs didn’t have to testify.
The rural AZ counties need to stop reporting all their votes in a timely manner. Wait and have a 90% reporting in system until the Maricopa and Pima county crooks report 100% and then submit enough ballots to win. Election law at this point doesn’t mean anything in AZ. Apparently intentions are to be taken into consideration in crimes and trials. The GOP hasn’t the belly for this but all that’s left is the ammo box it would appear.
Once those DINOs start getting about 65% of the vote they wouldn't dare do anything. If said DINO throws them an occasional bone by voting for a spending package they want the Democrat leadership would start talking about him like Mitch McConnell talks about RINOs: "He's the only one who can win in that district."
The whole game is being played wrong. If they rig the system for their party's inevitability, just short-circuit their whole plot by joining their party. Let them try to explain to their zombie voters why some (D) candidates are OK and others have to be shunned.
Many candidates wouldn't have to say anything at first - just announce they are switching to (D) and accept the handshakes and backslapping on national news. Then start pushing conservative-populist ideas to liberal-populist voters. These voters will listen, because their leaders don't listen to them at all.
The courts have spoken from bottom to top, they aren’t touching election fraud.
Most Republicans decided “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” long ago.
Proceed with those facts in mind and be careful.
>>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?<<
The Founders were opposed to political parties.
It depends on who is supposedly being disenfranchised.
thx for the info. not the original report.
No Freeper who advocated the ammo box ever addressed the aftermath.
What say you?
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