Below is my column in The Hill on the successful campaign that has forced firms to drop Donald Trump or the Republican Party as clients in the ongoing litigation over the 2020 election. Notably, this campaign started soon after the election was called for President-Elect Joe Biden.
Here is the column:
Less than a week after the election being called for President-elect Biden, supporters are turning to Shakespeare’s “Henry VI” for their first priority: “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” That lawless fantasy of the character “Dick the Butcher” appears to have found acceptance not only among some of the public but some lawyers themselves.
Within 24 hours of the election being called, the media and an array of legal analysts declared no evidence of voter fraud to change the outcome. The problem was that we had not even seen the Trump campaign’s filings or evidence. As Trump lawyers began to file cases, alleging everything from deceased voters to biased authentication, the solution became clear: Get rid of the lawyers. No lawyers, no cases, no Trump.
What is most unsettling is that this effort is led or cheered on by lawyers. Take Washington Post columnist Randall Eliason, who gained notoriety supporting an array of theories on impeachment or criminal claims against Trump, including a bribery interpretation long rejected by the Supreme Court and not adopted even by the impeachment-eager House Judiciary Committee. Eliason wrote a column, “Yes, going after Trump’s law firms is fair game.” (Everything seems fair game if the ultimate target is Trump.) Eliason shrugged off the notion that attacking a person’s lawyers, rather than his positions, is beyond the pale: “Law is a profession, but these mega-law firms are also big businesses. Like any business, they can be held accountable by the public — and by their other customers.”
The law is not like any other business, however. Lawyers speak for others, including some of the least popular among us. I have represented clients ranging from judges, members of Congress and whistleblowers to spies, terrorists and polygamists. Many were hated by the public, who demanded that I be fired from my law school — but I have never seen such a campaign led by lawyers against lawyers.
Our legal system works best when competent lawyers present cases to dispassionate judges. In this case, some 72 million Americans voted for Trump, and many believe changes in the process — particularly the massive increase of mail-in voting — undermined the election’s integrity. That is why these cases are important: Faith in our legal and political systems depends on fair access to and representation in the courts.
As in the past, there is a disturbing symbiosis of the media and activists feeding off each other. When Biden was viewed as the likely winner, theories of voting irregularities instantly became “conspiracy theories.” Groups like the Lincoln Project targeted law firms and launched a campaign to force lawyers to abandon Trump as a client.
This effort resulted in Twitter blocking the Lincoln Project for targeting individual Trump lawyers in a tweet (accompanied by a skull-and-crossbones emoji) that was deemed threatening and abusive. That only seemed to thrill the Lincoln Project. It reportedly joined Democrats in targeting law firms like Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur and threatening its lawyers with professional ruin. It claimed that any firm working for Trump on election litigation was part of a “dangerous attack on our democracy.” Trying to strip people of their counsel, of course, is the real attack on our democracy — and it worked: The firm buckled and withdrew, saying the pressure caused internal struggles and at least one lawyer’s resignation.
Other campaigns have targeted individual lawyers and what used to be called “fellow travelers” during the McCarthy period. After the election, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) called for liberals to assemble enemies lists of those “complicit” in the Trump administration. (Ironically, the first entry by a Bernie Sanders surrogate were the Republicans who founded the Lincoln Project). Former Obama spokesman Hari Sevugan proudly tweeted: “WH staff are starting to look for jobs. Employers considering them should know there are consequences for hiring anyone who helped Trump attack American values.”
However, the effort to intimidate lawyers representing Trump or his campaign is not about vengeance. It is about insurance. Even though the success of these challenges is small and shrinking, opponents do not want to risk any judicial scrutiny of the vote. Social media campaigns targeted the clients of firms like Jones Day, while the Lincoln Project pledged $500,000 to make the lives of these lawyers a living hell. It is the kind of tactic used by Antifa and other activists to “deplatform” speakers or harass individuals at their homes.
Trump is highly unpopular with many Americans — and virtually all of the media — so it is popular to harass anyone who supports or represents him. It is mob justice targeting the justice system itself. Yet, lawyers like Eliason are applauding the effort.
Eliason justifies such harassment by saying the Trump campaign and Republican groups “have filed lawsuits that appear to contain baseless allegations of fraud and that seek to have lawful votes rejected.” Note the word “appear.” Eliason did not know when he wrote the column because he has not seen the evidence. Neither have I. We only began to see underlying evidence (or the lack thereof) this week as courts held hearings into pending motions. It is the difference between wanting something to be true and knowing something to be true. That is generally what courts determine.
Yet, there is little patience for discussing, let alone litigating, these legal issues. On Friday, I discussed these challenges, including a Michigan district where thousands of Trump votes were initially tallied as Biden votes; the district used the same voting software that has been the subject of much national debate. While I explained that the mistaken tally resulted from human error and nothing “nefarious,” the question remains whether such new systems or software might be vulnerable to human errors. Despite my stating there was no evidence of systemic problems, Colorado Law Professor Paul Campos denounced me as akin to a “Holocaust denier” who should be fired. I was accused of “both sideism” for discussing the claims of the Trump campaign, even when noting that Biden appears the duly elected president.
Notably, the person most undermined by these efforts is Joe Biden. Rather than call for a transparent review of these cases to affirm his legitimacy as president-elect, his supporters are harassing lawyers and running a hysterical campaign of retaliation. It is an ironic twist: For years, many of us marveled at how guilty Trump looked in his efforts to bully accusers and scuttle the Russia investigation. The best thing for Trump would have been to support a full, open investigation. Likewise, there is no compelling evidence of systemic election fraud now, and the best thing for Biden would be to support a full, open investigation. Threats and biased media coverage only deepen the suspicions of Trump voters.
There is an alternative. We can all agree that every vote should be counted and every voting case be heard. Our political and legal systems both require a leap of faith — and this crisis of faith has now moved from the political to the legal system. Courts are supposed to be where reason transcends the rage that reigns outside the courthouse. However, it still requires lawyers.
Come on Hurley you can’t be serious or lucid. I guess you are unaware of what nuclear weapons can do to the planet as you now know it. Understand, that imbecile Trump can ruin the planet and all life it contains, who really cares if he is liked or not. An attorney you said you were, now your writings make perfect sense, all you need to do is pass two exams (i.e.LSAT and Bar) to become a lawyer, that’s why all the politicians are lawyers, the rest of the exams is just a History test. I lived in NY when that guy lived there and all he did was bully seniors to give up their homes so he could go in partnership with the Mob to build some grotesque building.
As a constitutional lawyer you should also know that the media does not call elections. There are states have been called at a 65% completion and those that are under litigation and recounting confirms that Biden is not President-elect. No one is yet. The people make that choice and no one should interfere with that.
Fair enough, Anonymous, it goes to a possible motive for the possible filing of frivolous lawsuits on Trump’s part.
Also with Amy Goodman:
https://www.democracynow.org/2005/11/4/was_the_2004_election_stolen_a
https://www.democracynow.org/2016/2/23/could_the_2016_election_be_stolen
It violate a lawyer’s professional responsibility to file a case merely to harass or delay.
Now, Trump is something like 1 for 25 in these election cases decided so far. He currently does not have enough votes challenged to overturn the election in any state, and he needs three. Every time these lawyers go to court their evidence is lacking or laughable. At this point, these cases are frivolous, and these lawyers and their client should be sanctioned for filing them.
It should be noted that throughout his life Trump has used the courts to harass and delay. He just tries to make it too expensive for the other side to exercise their rights. Michael Cohen used to be his lawyer, and admits this.
Dominion Voting Systems
“Dominion entered a 2009 contract with Smartmatic, which builds and implements electronic voting systems, and provided it with optical scanners used in the 2010 election in the Philippines, Accesswire reported.”
“Lawsuits in the Philippines ensued over glitches and allegations of fraud. An independent review of the source codes used in the machines found numerous problems.”
“The software inventory provided by Smartmatic is inadequate, … which brings into question the software credibility.”
“The chairman of Smartmatic is Mark Malloch-Brown, a member of the British House of Lords, who also is a member of the Global Board of the Soros-founded Open Society Foundations, The Associated Press reported.”
“The company hired the lobbying and law firm of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP, which employs House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s former chief of staff, Nadeam Elshami, according to Bloomberg News.”
“The company donated between $25,000 and $50,000 to the Clinton Foundation in 2014, according to a Washington Post donor database.”
“The Clinton Foundation, run by former President Bill Clinton; his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; and his daughter, Chelsea Clinton, includes a laudatory post about Dominion on its website:
‘In 2014, Dominion Voting [Systems] committed to providing emerging and post-conflict democracies with access to voting technology through its philanthropic support to the DELIAN Project, as many emerging democracies suffer from post-electoral violence due to the delay in the publishing of election results,’ the Clinton Foundation post says.”
– The Daily Signal
“But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.”
– Matthew 13:25, King James Version
“It’s the [algorithm], stupid!”
– James Carville
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The algorithm provided the precise number of votes which needed to be switched from Trump to Biden.
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Merriam-Webster
algorithm noun
al·go·rithm | \ ˈal-gə-ˌri-t͟həm
\
Definition of algorithm
: a procedure for solving a mathematical problem (as of finding the greatest common divisor) in a finite number of steps that frequently involves repetition of an operation broadly :
a step-by-step procedure for solving a problem or accomplishing some end
Pro-Trump Wisconsin Lawyers Spike Election Lawsuit on Morning of Court Hearing
https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/pro-trump-wisconsin-lawyers-spike-election-lawsuit-on-morning-of-court-hearing/
Good times.
By the way, the vote total in Milwaukee was almost exactly what it was in 2016.
In Philadelphia, Biden did 3.5% worse than Hillary in 2016, even though on average across the state, both blue and red counties, he did 3-4% better than her.
Hard to rig elections that way.
‘Sidney Powell: “I would warn any state right now that thinks they’re going to certify this election to re-think it VERY SERIOUSLY, because what they’re certifying is their own fraud, and their own complicity in fraud. I might even mount a class action suit later to sue them themselves for their own participation in it. It’s ridiculous. The legislatures in the states need to take control right now & reject the certifications, of especially the swing states, that were so heavily influenced by these 100’s of thousands of vote changes.”
‘Here is a suggested course of action for GA Governor @BrianKempGA:
1. Order a special session of GA legislature.
2. Resign.
3. Admit guilt.
4. Go to prison.
5. Ask for cell near @GaSecofState.
Accountability for wrongdoing is called JUSTICE.
#FightBack for Justice’ @LLinWood
‘How they did it:
NV: zero signature verification
PA: counting late ballots for three full days
Wi, MI, PA, GA: stoppage of count/100 to 0 ballot dumps
AZ, NV, WI, MI, GA, VA, NH: electronic flipping of totals
The evidence is being organized & about to reign down.’
@KMCRadio
“If the question is are the Democrats stealing votes in Philadelphia, my answer is, ‘Is the Pope Catholic?’ It’s a time-honored tradition,” Blagojevich emphasized. “Big Democrat-controlled cities like Chicago, my hometown, Philadelphia, to do precisely what they’re doing now I’ve never seen such a magnitude because this I think is an indication of just how widespread it is, how deep it is. And I don’t think it’s just confined to Philadelphia. My instincts, again coming out of Chicago Democratic politics, my instincts tell me it’s going on in Atlanta, it’s going on in Detroit, it’s going on in Milwaukee, it’s going on in Las Vegas. It’s like what Justice Powell said about pornography: You can’t define it, but you know when you see it. And coming out of the Democratic Chicago political establishment, I know how they operate. They control polling places, they stop votes when their candidate’s behind, and then in the wee hours of the morning, in the dark of night, the stealing starts.”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/11/06/rod-blagojevich-dems-stealing-elections-a-time-honored-tradition/
PS You know who got his start in Chicago politics and learned how to ‘win’ elections in the ‘time-honored tradition’? That’s right, Barack Hussein Obama.
“It’s the [algorithm], stupid!”
– James Carville
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The algorithm provided the precise number of votes which needed to be switched from Trump to Biden.
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Merriam-Webster
algorithm noun
al·go·rithm | \ ˈal-gə-ˌri-t͟həm
\
Definition of algorithm
: a procedure for solving a mathematical problem (as of finding the greatest common divisor) in a finite number of steps that frequently involves repetition of an operation broadly :
a step-by-step procedure for solving a problem or accomplishing some end
“But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.”
– Matthew 13:25, King James Version
So they wish to keep going down this street, some of us see exactly how this will likely roll out.
So the Commie/Fascist Authoritarian types have long been attacking Pro Americans with Mentally & Physically attacks, their Vote/Voting Theft, Vaccines/Medical Tyranny ( Destroying Biz & Livelihoods & Murdering People, Bio Weapons!) & attacking Pro American Legal Represention, etc….
So the Pro American Freedom/Liberty people will likely go out & buy some fluorescent paint, a red paint for example, & they go around & paint circle with a line through it on the street in front of the the places where the Anti-American Trash hang out at. Where ever.
Just like the Cone of Shame on a dog it will mark those Commie/Fascist Authoritarian types for who they are so everyone around them can see them for who they are.
And then what do you think will happen next if those American Hating Aholes if their bum rush to tyranny isn’t collapsed?
While I agree with most of Turley’s opinions here, this article is 100% a case of bothsidesism. It’s as if Turley is unaware that Trump has tweeted “I won the election!” twice in the last 24 hours. These legal challenges from Trump’s team amount to a PR campaign to discredit our electoral process. That’s the top line here. It’s mystifying why someone would instead choose to focus on some unsavory tweets from Lincoln Project and an opinion column from the Washington Post. Should the legal challenges play out in court? Yes. Should people target the lawyers bringing the cases? Obviously not. But none of this would even be an issue were Trump not attempting to claim that he won against all apparent evidence.
Kevin:
“These legal challenges from Trump’s team amount to a PR campaign to discredit our electoral process.”
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And “Russia, Russia, Russia” was an attempt to bolster it. It’s a laughable hypocrisy going on here.
I wish it were laughable. In a first world country, I would expect legal challenges to the validity of our electoral process to be met with legal defenses. But we apparently aren’t living in a first world country, because the legal defense is using third world tactics of threats, intimidation and violence to shutdown legal challenges. Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic are going to be the epicenter of this legal fight and interestingly enough, it was Democrats that had sounded the alarm about the threats of these systems.
Today’s podcast by Dan Bondino lays out exactly why Democrats and the Left are doing everything (3rd world) imaginable to keep these legal challenges from getting their day in court.
https://bongino.com/ep-1394-the-left-is-terrified-of-this-question-about-the-2020-election
Good summation, Kevin.
“These legal challenges from Trump’s team amount to a PR campaign to discredit our electoral process. That’s the top line here.”
Maybe. It tends to look that way now.
But, as Turley writes: “Within 24 hours of the election being called, the media and an array of legal analysts declared no evidence of voter fraud to change the outcome. The problem was that we had not even seen the Trump campaign’s filings or evidence.”
“As in the past, there is a disturbing symbiosis of the media and activists feeding off each other. When Biden was viewed as the likely winner, theories of voting irregularities instantly became “conspiracy theories.””
Giuliani and Powell have made some astonishing claims. If they don’t put proportionately significant evidence on the table soon, you may be proven right.
In the meantime, doesn’t the judiciary need to give Trump the benefit of the doubt with respect to the sincerity of his filings? Do you have any evidence, in other words, that Trump doesn’t genuinely believe the election was stolen from him, and that he is instead willfully lying with a goal of discrediting our electoral process?
Jonathan, no. Trump is a known compulsive and promiscuous liar and he set up his followers for this ruse starting months ago. He is also on record saying that he couldn’t lose unless there was cheating.
The preponderance of evidence available not only to judges but to citizens is that Trump is a man of low moral character with no integrity. His actions since the elction make that even more clear, and anyone still believing him lacks normal human capacity to detect a BSer, or likes eating BS.
Don’t you know? Joe friday has a Doctors degree in both psychiatry and psychology. He is too modest his ID name should be Doctor Joe Friday educated at I’ll Declare It And It Will Be So Scientific University Of Watever I Make Up Is True. Ivy league I’m sure. Top of his class.
“The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President”
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NL1NHCR/
“The Elephant in the Room: It’s time we talked openly about Donald Trump’s mental health”
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-time-cure/201702/the-elephant-in-the-room
Did you see Joe Biden’s performance in his ‘controlled’ press conference today? Y’all gonna miss Trump when he’s gone.
Just finished watching it, Anonymous.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?478136-1/president-elect-biden-warns-more-people-die-smooth-transition
Biden seems fit for purpose.
He was not asked about Trump’s battle with McConnell and the MIC to get US troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq, which might have been a harder ball to play than one or two of the other questions thrown his way:
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/16/mcconnell-trump-afghan-troop-reduction-436821
“Congressional Republicans on Monday slammed President Donald Trump’s plan for a swift reduction of U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan, warning that it would be a gift to America’s enemies and would undermine progress already made in the region.”
“A rapid withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan now would hurt our allies and delight the people who wish us harm,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said bluntly.
“The Kentucky Republican’s remarks came as POLITICO reported that the White House has instructed the Pentagon to begin planning for a significant drawdown of U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. A defense official told POLITICO that under the proposal, just 2,500 American troops would remain in each country by Jan. 15, just five days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office. Currently, there are between 4,500 and 5,000 troops in Afghanistan and around 3,000 in Iraq.”
“The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President”
And speaking of professional malpractice. What those 37 did is unethical, and a serious breach of APA standards. To publicize their malpractice is to repeat the crime.
“The Goldwater Rule embodies these concepts and makes it unethical for a psychiatrist to render a professional opinion to the media about a public figure unless the psychiatrist has examined the person and has proper authorization to provide the statement,” said APA CEO and Medical Director Saul Levin, M.D., M.P.A. “APA stands behind this rule.”
https://www.psychiatry.org/newsroom/news-releases/apa-calls-for-end-to-armchair-psychiatry
“The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President” ” It’s time we talked openly about Donald Trump’s mental health”
JM, why are you posting such cr-p? You can do better.
It isn’t crap.
Tell us why it isn’t cr-p? Are you able? Probably not.
Would you be able to understand an explanation? Probably not.
Stalin won every election.
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“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”
– Joseph Stalin
Anon. You use this forum to tell us your political position. Redundancy is a kind word. Take all your posts and replace the nouns and you will read the same thing. The Turley article is about the demonization of the Trump Administration lawyers. You do not address the subject and you will not tell us if you condemn this demonization. With you it’s always “See I’m right”. You condemn Turley but you don’t rebut the premise of his column. Will you condemn the revenge seekers or not?
King Donald the Mad belongs in a nut house, not The White House.
Such a display of nuanced intelligence.
Anon. Turley’s column is not about wether the law suits are justified but if trump has a right to file them. His major point is about the demonization and threatening of the Trump lawyers and his administration and the questioned morality of those who do so. It is a much more important question than a petty “See there’s nothing to see here”. What Iam waiting for from you is a condemnation of the viscous actions of the revenge seakers. AOC sayes we need to make a list. If you are not in their camp you need to let us know. No condemnation will give us a mountain of evidence as to who you really are. A condemnation will provide a great deal of heightened respect.
Thinkthrough, if the suits have no merit, then they’re simply destructive. All they’re doing is undermining faith in U.S. elections while making the U.S. look Third Worldish.
See Democrats Stacy Abrams suit in Georgia. Vox magazine Nov. 20, 2018. She lost by 50,000 votes and claimed voter fruad. Was she undermining the electorial process. Hypocracy thinks his hiding place is so undetectable.
Thinkthrough, that’s just a What About. Abrams wasn’t running for president. And one should note that Abrams opponent was the Secretary of State who saw no conflict in supervising his own election.
She didn’t claim voter fraud. She claimed voter suppression — carried out by Kemp as SoS while he was also a candidate — and she presented evidence of voter suppression in the suit. Learn the difference between voter fraud and voter suppression.
The suit has merit, which is why it is still progressing through the courts and may soon result in summary judgement:
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/8286682/ebenezer-baptist-church-of-atlanta-georgia-inc-v-raffensperger/?page=4
You still won’t address the premis of Tutley’s column. Do you condemn the encouragement of attacks on the Trump lawyers. Your commenting on a column about these attacks but you wont address the points proffered by the articles author. I am interesting in reading your viewpoint on the subject of the column. Instead it’s pick a subject any subject to voice your opinion about. I can read it now. Why I hate needle point!!
You don’t know the suits have no merit. They obviously do since many things do not add up. That doesn’t mean Trump wins, but it means investigation needs to take place. This is why our discussions likely weren’t productive to you. You draw conclusions before you have the facts. That is the foolish way of coming to a decision.
Thinkit, we are not talking about attorneys taking on the defense of an unpopular defendant, we are talking about attorneys taking on an obviously baseless assault on our democratic institutions. How Turley doesn’t understand the difference is pretty telling for a law professor and suggests he does but doesn’t care.
“But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.”
– Matthew 13:25, King James Version
So you’re saying the lying, cheating unconstitutional, anti-American communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs) are winning in their bald-faced effort to employ algorithms to steal the 2020 election from actual Americans?
No, that’s not what he’s saying.
Simply brilliant!
Yes, that IS what he’s saying.
No, you’re just a troll.
Turley writes: “Our legal system works best when competent lawyers present cases to dispassionate judges. In this case, some 72 million Americans voted for Trump, and many believe changes in the process — particularly the massive increase of mail-in voting — undermined the election’s integrity. That is why these cases are important: Faith in our legal and political systems depends on fair access to and representation in the courts.”
Popular vote review:
2008: Obama 69.5 million McCain 60 million
2012: Obama 65.9 million Romney 60.9 million
2016: Clinton 65.9 million Trump 63 million
2020: Biden 78.7 million Trump 73.1 million
2020 Turnout for Biden and Trump was unprecedented. Support for Trump is unprecedented.
Trump will continue to be the President, absent impeachment or resignation, until 20 January 2021. His lawsuits warrant fair and impartial consideration.
This said, many or even most on the left believe Trump is a white supremacist. Is this true, or is it an unfair smear, and does anything Turley has written about Trump make him an apologist for white supremacism?
Turley writes:
“I have been deluged by relatives and friends blasting out social media confessions of being racists. Several professors have read or signed statements declaring themselves racists. The acting dean of Northwestern University Law School began a diversity event by declaring, “I am James Speta and I am a racist.” He was followed by Emily Mullin, executive director of major gifts, who said, “I am a racist and a gatekeeper of white supremacy. I will work to be better.” These kind recitations are now expected of anyone claiming to oppose racism.”
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/516127-the-real-conversation-on-racism-is-much-more-difficult-but-necessary
Should Biden issue a similar confession in his first inaugural?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden said Wednesday that President Donald Trump was the country’s “first” racist president.
ATLANTA (AP) — Joe Biden declared he “should not have been so cavalier” on Friday after he told a prominent black radio host that African Americans who back President Donald Trump “ain’t black.”
ATLANTA (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden faces new scrutiny over how he discusses race and ethnicity after drawing distinctions between Black and Hispanic populations in the United States. “By the way, what you all know but most people don’t know, unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things,” Biden said to a Latina reporter from National Public Radio in an interview released Thursday.
“Abraham Lincoln here is one of the most racist presidents we’ve had in modern history,” Biden said. “He pours fuel on every single racist fire. Every single one.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/22/biden-trumps-dog-whistle-foghorn-431524
Jonathan, no.
Why not?
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/19/biden-apology-segregation-race-1372576
Jon Swaine (Washington Post):
“New filing from four PA counties: Trump campaign has now admitted that “whole swaths” of its lawsuit “are meritless” & has “struck entirely” its ballot observer claims. Revised lawsuit removes “ALL claims related to the purported denial of Republican election observers’ access.””
https://twitter.com/jonswaine/status/1328392373336989696 (copy of the first page of the filing attached, confirming the quotes)
In other election-related news from the New York Times:
“Republicans Drop Election Lawsuits in Four States
“The plaintiffs in four federal lawsuits around the country challenging the integrity of the presidential election all filed notice Monday morning that they were dropping their cases. In a coordinated move, the filings — in Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — came in rapid succession within less than an hour.
“The cases were similarly structured: All had been filed by ordinary voters who claimed that the certification of the vote in key counties in their states should be halted because of election improprieties. Each of them was overseen by James Bopp Jr., a conservative lawyer and former top official at the Republican National Committee. In a brief interview on Monday, Mr. Bopp declined to comment on the suits, saying that he did not want to telegraph his strategy if he ultimately chose to file more cases. The notices of dismissal were brief and perfunctory, giving no reasons for dropping the cases. …”
https://web.archive.org/web/20201116183054/https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/16/us/joe-biden-trump?smid=nytcore-ios-share
It is so dishonest when sentences are made with short quotes taken out of context.
Committed. So what. The Democrats bring politic lawsuits all the time that go nowhere. An example is Stacey Abrams lawsuit in Georgia. You can see the story at Vox, Nov. 20, 2018. She claimed election fraud after losing by 50,000 votes. Claims of election fruad by a Democratic darlene was alright then for her, but its HAIR ON FIRE for you if Trump claims it now. I worry for you. All this vitriol will result in a terrible stomach ulcer. I think I saw a coupon for 20% off on Pepto Bismol through MSNBC good at all Walmart stores. Just a tip to save you a lot of cash.
See the response I posted to you elsewhere: https://jonathanturley.org/2020/11/16/the-first-thing-we-do-the-lawless-campaign-to-harass-lawyers-representing-the-trump-campaign/comment-page-3/#comment-2025988
You’re wrong to claim that the suit has gone nowhere.
As for your snide comment, if you think Pepto Bismol is useful, take it yourself. I consider your snide comments as a form of trolling, and I’ve almost reached the point of simply ignoring all of your comments as a waste of time.
Yet another attempt in Turley’s effort to normalize Trump and his mental illness: “We can all agree that every vote should be counted and every voting case be heard.” No, Turley, WE can’t all agree for the simple reason that there is no equivalence. No one disputes that every vote should be counted, but no one, including lawyers, should conscience the filing of lawsuits based on nothing more than a malignant narcissist’s emotional problems. There is absolutely NO evidence of voter fraud. There are always glitches and irregularities, but none of these were the result of fraud, or a conspiracy to steal the election from Trump. There aren’t enough of these minor glitches to change the outcome. Trump has never even captured a 50% approval rating, he was predicted in the polls to lose, and he did lose. It would be worth investigating if he hadn’t lost.
Trump lies about Dominion software, he lies about vote counting not being observed–there were both Republicans and Democrats present from the time the votes were cast, when they were transported, when they arrived at the counting facilities in each state, and while they were being counted. This was the most heavily-monitored election in U.S. History. That’s not enough for Trump, because he has emotional problems–he has to have multiple people standing over the shoulders of the vote-counters, some of whom were Republicans. There is NO fraud, except in Trump’s ongoing lies, litigation and refusal to cooperate in the peaceful transfer of power. Like he has always done, he comes first and foremost. He’s trying to sabotage Biden’s presidency already by denying Biden and Harris access to the Presidential Daily Briefings. He doesn’t even make a facade of caring about the daily COVID infections and deaths.
Every time one of Trump’s lawyers is asked for proof of the allegations he has to admit there isn’t any. But, the lawyers file anyway, to humor Trump, just like the Republicans in Congress–they won’t speak truth to power because, as they have always been, they are loyal Republicans first and Americans second. Lawyers using their credentials, education and licensing to keep going the delusions of someone whose fragile ego cannot handle defeat is WRONG, and a violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct, because there is no good-faith basis for any of the allegations, no facts. The lawsuits are filed to keep the argument going, and to try to prevent the results form being certified, so as to defeat the will of the American people. No, we can’t all agree that courts should be encumbered with the delusions of someone with emotional problems who cannot handle defeat.
There was no ‘blue wave’
Republicans have now flipped 11 House seats:
CA-39 Young Kim
CA-48 Michelle Steel
FL-27 Maria Elvira Salazar
FL-26 Carlos Gimenez
IA-01 Ashley Hinson
MI-03 Peter Meijer
MN-07 Michelle Fischbach
NY-11 Nicole Malliotakis
NM-02 Yvette Herrell
OK-05 Stephanie Bice
SC-01 Nancy Mace
“He’s trying to sabotage Biden’s presidency…”
You mean like Obama and Biden did to Trump’s transition team?
“There is NO fraud, except in Trump’s ongoing lies, litigation and refusal to cooperate in the peaceful transfer of power.”
Wow. That might be the lie of the century, right behind “if you like your plan you can keep your plan.”
The American Founders refused to lay down for inordinate taxation.
Modern Americans allow their country to be stolen right before their very eyes.
It’s a wonder America was ever establsihed.