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2021-09-10 at 6:25 AM UTC
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2021-09-10 at 6:25 AM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 Daily Mail
Trump's 'Kraken' lawyer Sidney Powell asked to pay $200K in legal fees
Rob Crilly, Senior U.S. Political Reporter For Dailymail.Com …
Michigan officials are demanding more than $200,000 in legal fees from pro-Trump lawyers led by Sidney Powell who unsuccessfully tried to overturn the 2020 election result with a lawsuit dismissed as full of conspiracies, it emerged on Thursday.
Last month, U.S. District Judge Linda Parker ruled that state and local election officials could claim reimbursement of their legal fees.
The judge will now review the $200,000 in requests submitted to the court on Wednesday.
In an August ruling, Parker laid bare her anger about what she said was a sham lawsuit intended to deceive the court and the public.
'Despite the haze of confusion, commotion and chaos counsel intentionally attempted to create by filing this lawsuit, one thing is perfectly clear: Plaintiffs´ attorneys have scorned their oath, flouted the rules, and attempted to undermine the integrity of the judiciary along the way,' Parker wrote in a blistering 110-page opinion.
'Sanctions are required to deter the filing of future frivolous lawsuits designed primarily to spread the narrative that our election processes are rigged and our democratic institutions cannot be trusted.'
It was brought to the court on behalf of six Republican voters who wanted Parker to decertify Michigan's results and impound voting machines. The judge declined in December, calling the request 'stunning in its scope and breathtaking in its reach.'
It was one of four legal actions by Powell collectively known as the 'Kraken' lawsuits, including allegations that George Soros, Venezuela and China among others tried to tamper with US voting machines.
Parker ordered that each of nine pro-Trump lawyers - including Powell, a former campaign lawyer for Trump, and prominent litigator Lin Wood - receive 12 hours of legal education, including six hours of election law.
They also face possible disciplinary action in the states where they are licensed.
Parker also ordered the attorneys - including Powell, a former campaign lawyer for Trump, and prominent litigator Lin Wood - to pay back the legal fees the city of Detroit and Michigan state officials spent while seeking sanctions.
Most of the $200,000 was requested by the City of Detroit, which said it spent about $180,000 on a private law firm - which charged $325 an hour for its senior partners - to help fight the case. The office of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel also for about $20,000.
L. Lin Wood, Donald Trump are posing for a picture: (© Provided by Daily Mail (
Powell made clear she would fight the costs.
'The fees sought against us by the City of Detroit were completely self-inflicted. The City was not a party in the case but intervened to create litigation,' she said in a statement to the Detroit Free Press.
'We will indeed appeal. The judge's opinion is riddled with error of fact and law.'
It is the latest blow to the rag tag band of lawyers who tried to overturn Trump's defeat.
Rudy Giuliani had his law license temporarily suspended in New York and Washington D.C. for his election fraud lawsuits.
Giuliani, Powell and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell are being sued by Dominion Voting Systems for 2020 fraud claims centering around their equipment.
Dominion is seeking $1.3 billion from each of them in separate lawsuits.
Last month, all three Trump allies lost a bid to dismiss those suits in a US district court.
'But it is simply not the law that provably false statements cannot be actionable if made in the context of an election,' Judge Carl Nichols said in a statement.
In America people are made pay for their own political suppression.
At least Stalin didn't ask the victims of his show trials to pay his legal expenses. -
2021-09-10 at 6:28 AM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-09-10 at 6:30 AM UTC
Like isn't this literally what you guys unironically believe?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-09-10 at 1:29 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 Daily Mail
Trump's 'Kraken' lawyer Sidney Powell asked to pay $200K in legal fees
Rob Crilly, Senior U.S. Political Reporter For Dailymail.Com …
Michigan officials are demanding more than $200,000 in legal fees from pro-Trump lawyers led by Sidney Powell who unsuccessfully tried to overturn the 2020 election result with a lawsuit dismissed as full of conspiracies, it emerged on Thursday.
Last month, U.S. District Judge Linda Parker ruled that state and local election officials could claim reimbursement of their legal fees.
The judge will now review the $200,000 in requests submitted to the court on Wednesday.
In an August ruling, Parker laid bare her anger about what she said was a sham lawsuit intended to deceive the court and the public.
'Despite the haze of confusion, commotion and chaos counsel intentionally attempted to create by filing this lawsuit, one thing is perfectly clear: Plaintiffs´ attorneys have scorned their oath, flouted the rules, and attempted to undermine the integrity of the judiciary along the way,' Parker wrote in a blistering 110-page opinion.
'Sanctions are required to deter the filing of future frivolous lawsuits designed primarily to spread the narrative that our election processes are rigged and our democratic institutions cannot be trusted.'
It was brought to the court on behalf of six Republican voters who wanted Parker to decertify Michigan's results and impound voting machines. The judge declined in December, calling the request 'stunning in its scope and breathtaking in its reach.'
It was one of four legal actions by Powell collectively known as the 'Kraken' lawsuits, including allegations that George Soros, Venezuela and China among others tried to tamper with US voting machines.
Parker ordered that each of nine pro-Trump lawyers - including Powell, a former campaign lawyer for Trump, and prominent litigator Lin Wood - receive 12 hours of legal education, including six hours of election law.
They also face possible disciplinary action in the states where they are licensed.
Parker also ordered the attorneys - including Powell, a former campaign lawyer for Trump, and prominent litigator Lin Wood - to pay back the legal fees the city of Detroit and Michigan state officials spent while seeking sanctions.
Most of the $200,000 was requested by the City of Detroit, which said it spent about $180,000 on a private law firm - which charged $325 an hour for its senior partners - to help fight the case. The office of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel also for about $20,000.
L. Lin Wood, Donald Trump are posing for a picture: (© Provided by Daily Mail (
Powell made clear she would fight the costs.
'The fees sought against us by the City of Detroit were completely self-inflicted. The City was not a party in the case but intervened to create litigation,' she said in a statement to the Detroit Free Press.
'We will indeed appeal. The judge's opinion is riddled with error of fact and law.'
It is the latest blow to the rag tag band of lawyers who tried to overturn Trump's defeat.
Rudy Giuliani had his law license temporarily suspended in New York and Washington D.C. for his election fraud lawsuits.
Giuliani, Powell and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell are being sued by Dominion Voting Systems for 2020 fraud claims centering around their equipment.
Dominion is seeking $1.3 billion from each of them in separate lawsuits.
Last month, all three Trump allies lost a bid to dismiss those suits in a US district court.
'But it is simply not the law that provably false statements cannot be actionable if made in the context of an election,' Judge Carl Nichols said in a statement.
U.S. District Judge Linda Parker, the same "judge" who inexplicably refused to hear or evaluate any evidence in the case, when it was before her. Nothing at all partisan or untoward about that, eh? -
2021-09-10 at 1:41 PM UTCShe probably is one of the people who claimed the 2016 election had been "hacked", now she's all about defending the reputation of the system.
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2021-09-10 at 1:50 PM UTCBUT BUT BUT THAT MAKES NO SENSE IT WAS HACKED NOW ITS SAFE THAT MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE
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2021-09-10 at 1:52 PM UTC
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2021-09-10 at 1:52 PM UTCI shouldn't do the whole "liberals are hypocrites" thing, cos they know and they don't give a fuck.
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2021-09-10 at 1:53 PM UTC
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2021-09-10 at 1:54 PM UTCYeah i'm a liberal I believe in LIFE AND LIBERTY FOR ALL
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2021-09-10 at 1:56 PM UTCdeath to commies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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2021-09-10 at 2:02 PM UTCDawrwinism is an economic concept. The stupid will starve and die. Communists engage in international trade and import export. WAIT YOU TRADED COMMUNIST IRON ORE FOR OIL THATS A FINANCIAL TRANSACTION YOU DIRTY CAPITALIST!!!
Communism is nothing but another trade regulation like anti drug laws. It's just another law to control people FOR THE SAKE OF THE ECONOMY you can't make cocaine legal because THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM THE CRIME WOULD COST SOCIETY TOO MUCH
You can't engage in private business because personal profit comes at the COST of society. -
2021-09-10 at 2:26 PM UTC
Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood Dawrwinism is an economic concept. The stupid will starve and die. Communists engage in international trade and import export. WAIT YOU TRADED COMMUNIST IRON ORE FOR OIL THATS A FINANCIAL TRANSACTION YOU DIRTY CAPITALIST!!!
Communism is nothing but another trade regulation like anti drug laws. It's just another law to control people FOR THE SAKE OF THE ECONOMY you can't make cocaine legal because THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM THE CRIME WOULD COST SOCIETY TOO MUCH
You can't engage in private business because personal profit comes at the COST of society.
how do you deal with the fact that any company that succeeds will immediately try to (and historically, have) use levers outside of the market to eliminate the even playing field?
companies like GM and Ford lobbied the US government for EPA regulations that made it too expensive for small manufacturers to enter the market at competitive rates. if no government power structure exists to take advantage of, they establish their own de-facto market control, often through the ability to pay for a monopoly on violence -
2021-09-10 at 2:48 PM UTCMaking
Another
Grift (and another Republican lie)
Again...and again...and again...
Newsweek
GOP Sends Out Fake Pence Email Calling 2020 Election 'Contested Takeover,' Then Apologizes
Jason Lemon
The National Republican Senate Committee (NRSC) sent out a fundraising email calling the 2020 election a "contested takeover," which it signed with former Vice President Mike Pence's name—but he didn't approve the message.
Pence refused to cave to former President Donald Trump's pressure to not formally certify the official election results on January 6, the day the U.S. Capitol was assaulted. The former vice president went on to attend President Joe Biden's inauguration on January 20. In June, Pence said he was "proud" to have certified the official election results early on the morning of January 7.
But on Thursday the NRSC, which works to elect Republicans to the Senate, sent out an email in which Pence appeared to be suggesting that he did not believe the 2020 election results were valid. "Since their contested takeover, the Biden-Harris administration has unleashed a tidal wave of Left-wing policies that threaten to wipe out the progress we made for a safer, more prosperous, more secure America," the email said. Punchbowl News first reported on the email.
The email message was a clear departure from Pence's previous position on the 2020 election. An NRSC spokesperson later admitted that the former vice president had not approved the email and apologized.
"We appreciate Vice President Pence's support in helping us win back the Senate. Our team made a mistake and a vendor sent the wrong version of an email. It was not approved by Vice President Pence's team and we regret the error," NRSC communications director Chris Hartline told Punchbowl News and Newsweek in a statement.
Hartline did not respond to a question about whether a clarification email was sent out to GOP supporters. Newsweek reached out to Pence's press representatives for further comment but did not immediately receive a response.
Trump continues to baselessly claim that the 2020 election was "rigged" or "stolen" in favor of Biden. "The 2020 Election was potentially the most corrupt in the history of our country. It's clear the nearly 75 MILLION patriots who voted for me agree," a Tuesday email sent by Trump's Save America PAC told supporters, requesting donations.
Ahead of the January 6 certification of November's election results, Trump repeatedly urged Pence to unconstitutionally refuse to certify them. The former vice president declined to support Trump's efforts.
"It is my considered judgment that my oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not," Pence said in a statement at the time.
Trump and his allies have not provided evidence to substantiate their claim that the election was fraudulent. Dozens of election challenge lawsuits filed by the former president and his supporters have failed in state and federal courts. Even judges appointed by Trump and other Republicans have rejected the allegations.
Former Attorney General William Barr, who was widely viewed as one of Trump's most loyal Cabinet members, said in December there was "no evidence" to show widespread voter fraud. Audits and recounts in key battleground states—including where the election was overseen by pro-Trump Republicans—have reaffirmed Biden's victory.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at the Department of Homeland Security described the 2020 election as the "most secure in American history." The federal agency, which was led by a Trump appointee at the time, asserted that there was "no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised." -
2021-09-10 at 2:51 PM UTC
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ U.S. District Judge Linda Parker, the same "judge" who inexplicably refused to hear or evaluate any evidence in the case, when it was before her. Nothing at all partisan or untoward about that, eh?
Don't you mean "Just like the other 60 judges who laughed at Trump's lawsuits did too?" -
2021-09-10 at 2:58 PM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-09-10 at 3:05 PM UTC
Originally posted by aldra companies like GM and Ford lobbied the US government for EPA regulations that made it too expensive for small manufacturers to enter the market at competitive rates.
Companies will always support regulations just like they will always register their company in Ireland and Delaware to pay less tax.
Regulations when faced against the market become just another problem that can be solved by money. This is why regulations are bad because the people making them will always be biased.
Originally posted by aldra how do you deal with the fact that any company that succeeds will immediately try to (and historically, have) use levers outside of the market to eliminate the even playing field?
The playing field was not even and someone will always try to exploit that. Laws and regulations push the balance of power in favor of those who already have it. There is no starting at an even playing field even through a violent communist uprising there will always be elites with more power.
There is no way to force people with power into making the market free. The market does not want to be free, it's like a wild beast that kicks. Regulations are a dominant global force and they will never be gone until the market decides so.
Once the market makes a decision society and the government become powerless to stop it. -
2021-09-10 at 6:18 PM UTC
Originally posted by aldra how do you deal with the fact that any company that succeeds will immediately try to (and historically, have) use levers outside of the market to eliminate the even playing field?
companies like GM and Ford lobbied the US government for EPA regulations that made it too expensive for small manufacturers to enter the market at competitive rates. if no government power structure exists to take advantage of, they establish their own de-facto market control, often through the ability to pay for a monopoly on violence
anti monopoly laws. -
2021-09-10 at 6:35 PM UTCMonopolies cannot exist without the hands of the government muddying the pure waters of unfettered capitalism. It's an ecosystem and as soon as the water gets a bit darker the bigger fish fill their bellies with anything too slow to survive.
When the water clears you can observe how things naturally happen. Even if the waters of capitalism are clear, the pool they are in is constructed and built to hold only a certain amount. It is not a natural source of water from nature so it will have a predictable outcome.
The concept of free market existed long before modern governments or monopolies. Monopolies are not simply a result of capitalism but one result of it in an artificial pool built by the hands of regulation and rule of law.
