Trump election lawyers just got what was coming to them
Colorado Federal Judge N. Reid Neureiter has issued a scathing decision ordering the lawyers who filed a frivolous “copy and paste” Big Lie lawsuit to pay all court costs and legal fees in the case. The suit was fatally flawed from the outset, and only became more self-contradictory as the hapless attorneys contorted their arguments under the judge’s questioning.
The case relied on a stack of affidavits from voters saying they “believed” the election was compromised, but offering no actual evidence. Judge Neureiter correctly stated “the affidavits are notable only in demonstrating no firsthand knowledge by any Plaintiff of any election fraud, misconduct, or malfeasance.”
No effort was made to vet the deadly serious claims they were leveling as they copied and pasted entire pages from other failed Big Lie lawsuits without even consulting the attorneys in those cases. The judge skewered them for failing to ask critical questions before repeating such brash, debunked, and inflammatory claims in a court of law.
On the matter of jurisdiction, the Judge wrote “it should have been as obvious to Plaintiffs’ counsel as it would be to a first-year civil procedure student that there was no legal or factual basis to assert personal jurisdiction in Colorado for actions taken by sister states’ governors, secretaries of state, or other election officials, in those officials’ home states.”
The lawyers even cited a TIME Magazine article while saying “TIME Magazine doesn’t print conspiracy theories unless they’re true.” If they had bothered to read beyond the headline, they would have known that the article says: “Trump plotted to block a legitimate vote count” and “spent months following Nov. 3 trying to steal the election he’d lost – with lawsuits and conspiracy theories, pressure on state and local officials, and finally summoning his army of supporters to the Jan. 6 rally that ended in deadly violence at the Capitol.”
We knew they were crappy lawyers even before they copped to a deadly insurrection in federal court while simultaneously proving they have no evidence of voter fraud. We can only hope the bar association now does its job and ejects these idiots from the profession.
Ministry of Trvth is an IT professional, artist, and activist who believes that the greatest threat to our society is the rampant flow of disinformation. A lie is a virus that attacks the mind, and we need to develop herd immunity together.