Quoting from the NYT (probably paywalled, but worth reading if not):
On Monday, the Republican president of the State Senate, Karen Fann, announced that the Cyber Ninjas, the Florida-based firm overseeing the recount, had not yet completed a full draft report after all. It seems the firm’s chief executive and two other members of the “audit team” had come down with Covid-19.
In view of the symptoms I don’t get the prefix micro. Macro- or Mega- seem more apt. Though there may yet be a completely harmless explanation, of course, like neurosyphilis.
I assume these guys count as Trump enablers
They set up robocalls telling people that if they voted by mail in law enforcement would use that to track down old warrants and many other lies.
FCC and the New York AG are after them to the tune of 5 million.
The comical lying is also a common factor
We’ve never done any robocalls," Wohl said at the time. "We are categorically uninvolved
From the article “The 1,141 calls had been placed on Aug. 26 and Sept. 14, 2020, identified Wohl and Burkman by name and used Burkman’s phone number for the caller ID, the FCC added.”
The Michigan judgement dropped today. The judge is imposing sanctions on Powell, Wood, et al., and is referring them for suspension/disbarment. One of the sanctions is mandatory continuing legal education cancels, minimum of 6 hours each on rules of filing suits and election law.
Mike Dunford is currently doing a live reading/commentary on Twitch. He’s about 45 minutes in and we’re still on page 9 of a 110-page opinion and it is hot. The judge is clearly, clearly, clearly pissed off at these bozos.
I am enjoying this a completely reasonably amount.
I need to find a transcript somewhere. Apparently one of the attorneys yelled at some pointed during their hearing, “I am not a potted plant. I am not potted plant.” I want to witness this behavior.
Every attorney with even one particle of self-respect has to applaud this.
For all these months, the general public has been given the impression that to be admitted to the bar means, fundamentally, to be a Lying Clown.
And furthermore, the public has come to realize, the extravagant deliberate deception and buffoonery an attorney practices will lead to absolutely NO negative consequences. At all.
So maybe we’re going to see some push back on this “fact” we’ve all come to believe about those who call themselves attorneys. We saw a bit of push back with the recent news about Giuliani. And with this new Michigan decision, perhaps the ‘attorneys may lie freely and without fear of accountability’ impression is about to be corrected.