Two words: State. Charges.
Yes, but Paxton’s currently the subject of an entirely separate FBI investigation relating to obstructing justice on behalf of a campaign donor. A pardon isn’t worthless to him.
We haven’t been the world’s best functioning democracy for decades. These days it’s just something the flag wavers actually believe.
MAGA diehard: It is beginning to look like our lawsuits are just going around in circles, makin a lot of noise, but ultimately accomplishing nothing.
Evangelical Christians: Hold our beer.
Didn’t work for the Yuppies and the Pentagon.
Sez who?
I think you meant the Yippies. Though Yuppies trying to levitate the Pentagon is pretty hilarious.
Although the Yippies may not have levitated the Pentagon, Abbie sure levitated that courtroom in Chicago!
Getting high != levitating.
Whoops, yes!
If nothing else, this whole thing is providing some great quotes from judges. Here is the federal district court judge dismissing the Arizona lawsuit brought by Sidney Powell & company: “Allegations that find favor in the public sphere of gossip and innuendo cannot be a substitute for earnest pleadings and procedure in federal court. They most certainly cannot be the basis for upending Arizona’s 2020 General Election.”
BOOM goes the jurisprudential dynamite.
Federal Wisconsin case (Feehan v WEC) dismissed.
GOP are now 1-55
Brian
I have a new respect for judges at all levels, even though many are far from perfect, and too many are ideologues. But complete morons like Trump and the lunatics who enable him are no match for the calm reasoning that generally characterizes the justice system.
The following two sentences are also worth quoting, as they characterize most of the lawsuits filed on behalf of the Trump administration:
Or in layman’s terms. . . WTF?!
I’m personally saddened by all this, particularly the TX lawsuit. If any person did this, they’d be thrown in jail long before this. I’m glad the courts are holding up, but this is an embarrassment of the system.
On a slightly better note, 60% of people polled don’t want Trump to run in 2024. Only 32% want him to run again. I know that polls are suspect, particularly in regards to Trump, but I hope there’s some truth to this.
I like this part too. What a way to lose credibility.
The plaintiff also asserts that the “cutoff for election-related challenges, at least in the Seventh Circuit, appears to be the date that the electors meet, rather than the date of certification.” Dkt. No. 72 at 24. He cites Swaffer v. Deininger, No. 08-CV-208, 2008 WL 5246167 (E.D. Wis. Dec. 17, 2008). Swaffer is not a Seventh Circuit case, and the court is not aware of a Seventh Circuit case that establishes a “cutoff for election-related challenges.” And the plaintiff seems to have made up the “quote” in his brief that purports to be from Swaffer. The plaintiff asserts that these words appear on page 4 of the Swaffer decision: “even though the election has passed, the meeting of electors obviously has not, so plaintiff’s claim here is hardly moot.” Dkt. No. 72 at 24-25. The court has read page 4 of Swaffer—a decision by this court’s colleague, Judge J.P. Stadtmueller—three times and cannot find these words.
Who would have thought that of all the lawyers swimming through the chum that Trump is tossing into the water not one appears to rise to the level of legal genius of Michael Cohen?
It’s as if these doofuses think these judges are just going to rubber-stamp their suits like some kind of cartoon judge without even reading them. As it turns out, the judges (or their assistants) read them very carefully, which results in some major-league unintended comedy. I like it.
I’ll bet some yuk-yuks go on in the sanctuary of the judges’ coffee-break room.
“Can you believe what this joker tried to get past me?? 
Does he think I fell off the gavel truck yesterday?”
It’s hardly surprising. The chair of the Arizona Republican party is Kelli Ward who, to be charitable, is trying to outdo Michelle Bachman.
Some gems from Wiki:
On July 11, 2016, Ward published an ad on her Facebook page saying that John McCain, her primary opponent for the 2016 Republican primary Senate election, was too friendly with Secretary Hillary Clinton. The ad said that they were nearly identical in their political beliefs, stating that “they agree” on issues such as “amnesty for illegal immigrants,” opposing President George W. Bush’s tax cuts, a gasoline tax, and “blocking conservative judges.”[15] The ad was an identical copy of a 2008 ad published by then-presidential candidate Mitt Romney, except that Ward replaced Romney’s approval message at the end of the video with her own.[16] Romney’s lawyers contacted Ward and her campaign ordering her to cease any further use of the ad, stating Romney for President did not authorize any use of the ad.[17]
In the [2016 GOP Senate] primary, Ward faced U.S. Rep. Martha McSally and former Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio.[21] Arpaio and Ward were considered in contention for the same group of primary voters, as they are both highly conservative and staunchly pro-Trump, whereas McSally has a more moderate record.[22]
In October 2017, Ward was formally endorsed by former Senior Counselor to the President Steve Bannon in her 2018 campaign. Ward appeared together with Bannon to announce the endorsement.[30] She was also endorsed by Great America PAC, which has been described as “an arm of Team Bannon.” Bannon has said he believes Ward will help build a wall on the southern border of the US and repeal the Affordable Care Act.[31] Ward later attempted to distance herself from Bannon in the aftermath of Bannon’s public falling-out with Trump, whose endorsement Ward also sought, according to The Arizona Republic .[30] In January 2018, Ward said: “Steve Bannon, I don’t know that I actually really got a full endorsement from Steve … He’s not somebody that I’ve reached out and talked to in any way, shape, or form … I am distancing myself from Steve Bannon.”[32] Ward was also endorsed by Sean Hannity,[33] Laura Ingraham,[34] Rep. Steve King,[35] and Sen. Rand Paul.[36]
In June 2018, The Arizona Republic reported that Ward’s ties to controversial and fringe conservative figures were undermining her campaign.[34] During the campaign, Ward disavowed Paul Nehlen, an anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim commentator whom she had previously praised and described as a “friend”.[38][39]
On August 24, 2018, the day of the announcement that Senator John McCain was ceasing medical treatment for terminal brain cancer, one of Ward’s campaign staffers questioned on Facebook if the announcement “was a plan to take media attention off [Ward’s] campaign” on “the kickoff day of Kelli Ward’s bus tour”.[43] In response, Ward wrote: “I think they wanted to have a particular narrative that they hope is negative to me.” McCain died hours after Ward’s initial comment, which was deleted or removed from public viewing.