Posted on 12/07/2016 11:52:39 AM PST by bobsunshine
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From another story: “A federal judge won’t immediately stop a statewide recount of the Nov. 8 presidential election results Wednesday after hearing 90 minutes of argument following three days of court battles in two states.
U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith said he will issue a written order, possibly later Wednesday, after considering requests from the Michigan Republican Party and state officials that effectively would halt the recount in light of a lower-court ruling Tuesday. The recount started Monday”.
He should have not even held a hearing. Dissolve the restraining order and been done with it.
Liberal judges are a stain on the justice system.
I wonder if (while it would have been nice to have stopped it a great deal earlier) this is ultimately making the left look very bad. It would have been nice for the whole thing to have stopped that while back even at the Wisconsin Election Commission level, but we’ve now gotten to see hardly any change with the recount there soon to be finished (hopefully), therefore they look like they cried wolf in that instance at least. Not to mention some things not adding up in the heavily Democrat areas in terms of the integrity of the original recount.
Goldschmidt may very well rule that the "recount" -- which is now a legal nullity -- must continue, but neither he nor any other Federal Court can change the slate of electors under the US Constitution.
Case has not reached the MI supreme court. I suspect district court is waiting for all appeals from Stein to be exhausted.
I’m guessing Goldbrick is thinking about issuing his ruling around next Wednesday.
This is garbage and insanity defined.
The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled 3-0 yesterday that Stein is not “an aggrieved candidate” and therefore the recount SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN STARTED in the first place. They also ruled that the Board of Canvassers should halt the recount. Yet, here we are back in Federal (?!) court even after our State court that has the only jurisdiction has ruled.
The lib Fed judge ONLY decided on Sunday (after midnight, in a LOCKED COURTROOM) on the timing of the recount starting, NOT whether the recount COULD start.
Yet, today back before that same lib Fed judge, (following the tweets of a local reporter in the courtroom), there was all types of discussion about everything except the COA ruling yesterday. Discussion about cost. Discussion about potential for fraud and hacking. You name it. Basically obfuscating the entire issue.
This judge has ZERO jurisdiction over the recount and whether it should / should not happen - but, he has threatened (and stomped his feet while doing so) via a TRO that the recount “must continue until *I* say it will stop”.
WTF?!!
This type of stuff really tweaks me off. Can’t we get back to ANY kind of rule of law any more?! I feel like I’m living in some third world tin dictatorship where the powerful just make up the rules as they go, and not the USA where we at least USED to follow the law AS WRITTEN.
Only the MI Supreme Court could possibly change that fact.
makes sense. thanx !
Console yourself with this fact: no matter what he rules, the legal fact of the matter is that unless the MI Supreme Court steps in to reverse the MI appeals court, any result of this “recount” is a legal nullity.
What happens if Jill Stein’s deposit is not enough to cover the costs of the recount?
I she personally liable for any amount over what she has already paid?
Can she be forced into bankruptcy?
I imagine both sides have their appeals and oppositions already drafted and ready to file with the US Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. Just a guess.
From what I’m reading, WI charged her, and she advanced @ $3.5M of an adjusted estimated of $3.9M but in MI the cost is on the taxpayers. Poor, dummy MI never anticipated a Jill Stein/Green Party. Guess that’s a state law that will be changed pronto!
Right now conservatives are waiting anxiously “for the recount to end” while in smoky backrooms the most corrupt Democrats are screaming “End the darn recount before they figure out our vote-fraud was generating more reported votes than there were live voters casting ballots!”
I could get behind an amendment making any Federal Judge who orders a recount personally liable for the cost.
The election board failed in its duty to reject the recount request which is what the appeals ruling said. They should be replaced. I suspect if Goldstrom doesn’t end recount, he’ll be overruled.
Let the corrupt votes and fraud of Detroit be fully exposed. Commence with the recounts and charge Jilted Jill Stein for the costs
“I suspect if Goldstrom doesn’t end recount, he’ll be overruled.”
That’s my take as well, and Goldstein knows it. District Court judges do not like to be overturned so he may just do the right thing, tho that wouldn’t stop Stein’s lawyers. They get paid hourly, so wth.
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