Posted on 12/05/2016 11:03:00 AM PST by xzins
LANSING – Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette today issued the following statement after the Michigan Court of Appeals granted a Tuesday, December 6th hearing on Schuette's lawsuit against former Green Party candidate Jill Stein's request for a statewide presidential recount:
"I am pleased the Michigan Court of Appeals has chosen to take up the issue of the frivolous recount being demanded by Jill Stein. Her insistence on a recount despite only getting 1% of the vote has created chaos for our county clerks and will cost Michigan taxpayers millions of dollars. I am asking the Court of Appeals to rule on the side of Michigan voters and end this frivolous recount."
It is frivolous. There is not any chance at all that a 1% candidate will win the election.
I am surprised that it has gotten this far.
The Green Party had better step in and put a stop this this crap or their name will be forever linked to this silly crap!............
The ultimate goal is for Hillary SoroStein to delay or even stop the electoral college vote on Dec. 13th. This is the ONLY option left for the leftists to stop Trump from taking office.
States should have iron-clad laws on who can and who can’t demand a recall.
The idea Jill Stein can demand one from here position, is just nutty.
Hillary is using her for cover. Look what it is doing to Stein. Her own party has disowned here. Her political career is over.
If this isn’t a great example of how the Clintons have operated for the last 30 years, I don’t know what would be.
People who do things for the Clintons, wind up financiall destroyed or dead, sometimes both.
We cannot AFFORD this. The Dems have been killing our state for 40 years.
I think it can be stopped at any time by the courts.
My understanding is that anyone meeting the requirements for the presidency can run for the presidency, and that they can run as candidates from their own freshly minted political party. So, the Xzins Party can run Xzins.
Apparently, that gives me the right to demand a recount of an election. And if the interpretation that it can disenfranchise a state of its electoral votes is correct, then that means anyone with a beef can pretty much try to prevent a state from certifying its electors on time.
That is a crazy system.
Looks like the recount is happeneing
Sure, the recount is frivolous, but that`s what Socialists do - waste other people`s money.
I agree.
Our involvement is in the voting booth.
Only people with a vested interest as a candidate should be able to challenge a count.
If Clinton wanted to, I wouldn’t be happy, but I could at least see a reason. Jill Stein had no vested interest in the outcome. She was statistically eliminated, beyond a doubt.
So what we were (are being) subjected to is a sham, another smoke and mirrors effort.
I’m so sick of that.
We need a Federal Sore Loser Law to prevent single-digit candidates from mucking-up the certification process.
I've wondered why the Trump legal team isn't a more active participant, but maybe they are sitting it out to avoid the specter of political interference.
I'm sure that it would take a Constitutional Amendment, due to the doctrine of separation of powers, but I would love to see some sort of "Judicial Accountability Act".
If a federal judge is overturned on appeal more than a certain percentage of the time, he/she is automatically removed. US District and Circuit Court judges would be subject to the same criteria.
The 9th Circuit is probably the worst offender:
But in 2010, perhaps seeking to reclaim its position at the top of the heap, the Ninth Circuit was reversed a startling 19 times (79 percent), three times as many reversals as most circuits had cases before the Supreme Court. The same pattern continued in the 2011 (71 percent) and 2012 terms (86 percent), when the Ninth Circuit was reversed more than twice as many times as most circuits had cases before the Court.
Actually the Fed Judge only agreed to start the recount early versus waiting the two days per MI Law. I guess Fed can overrule state law when they want. The MI SC of Appeals will hear the separate issues filed to Stop the Recount all together.
Stein started out asking for $5-6 Million...then it went to $7 million....now it’s up to $9-10 million...she seems to be stuck around $7 million mark...raised funds are only creeping up now.
She’s complaining about having to pay WI $3.5 million up front...Why isn’t she complaining about the lawyers, who will make upwards of $3 million so far?
If this is such a noble cause, why aren’t the lawyers doing it pro-bono?
The delay is apparently intended to give the state time to made an appeal. The order simply says: start now, while the appeal is in progress.
This article says the hearing for the appeal is tomorrow. If they rule against it, the recount stops.
Thanks for the clarification.
I still feel haunted by Bush-Gore 2000 and Florida. And other recounts where - surprise - a tons of votes materialize for the Dem. As in Al Franken in Minnesota.
Dittos my comment on #18.
I’m in Michigan, and it makes me sick it’s gotten this far. I do trust AG Schuette will do his best to stop this nonsense. Just heard a Stein blip on FOX - that chick is bat-sh!t crazy.
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