Attorney Lin Wood lodges lawsuit
seeking to block certification
of Georgia election results
Just the News,
by
Alex Nitzberg
Original Article
Posted By: Hermoine,
11/16/2020 7:47:09 AM
Lin Wood, an attorney known for defending Richard Jewell in a case about an Atlanta bombing, lodged a lawsuit in federal court on Friday against Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and the four other members of the state's Election Board.(snip)"I filed a lawsuit today in federal court in Atlanta to establish that the March 6, 2020 Consent Agreement by the GA Secretary of State rendered UNLAWFUL the 11/3 GA general election," Wood tweeted on Friday. "I am right under established law."
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Daisymay 11/16/2020 7:57:05 AM (No. 607390)
My take on this is the State Legislature makes all Election Rules. Their Rules said the votes needed to arrive by 8 pm on Nov. 3rd. No other votes would be counted. Then the Sec. of State and the Election Board decided to change those Rules themselves. THEY allowed all of those Extra Mail in Ballots to be counted. This went against the State constitution. I think this is what the Attorney wants to be thrown out. Anyway, that's my understanding on what is happening in Georgia!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Hermoine 11/16/2020 8:02:47 AM (No. 607397)
Thanks, #1, that was the clarification I was looking for.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Wizard of is 11/16/2020 8:22:10 AM (No. 607416)
To expand on #. There is language in the US Constitution and some Federal court precedent clearly stating that only the state legislatures can write election law regarding Federal elections. The Georgia Secretary of State and Board of Elections appear to have used the “sue and settle” tactic to get the Georgia courts to make substantive changes to the state election law. This, Trumps legal team believes is contrary to the US Constitution. “Sue and Settle” was a tactic used during the Obama administration to bypass the need to enact actually laws. The tactic involves having a “friendly” outside interest group sue the government over some grievance or policy they didn’t like or wanted to change but couldn’t get enacted in law. The conspiring parties filed a lawsuit with a pre-negotiated outcome and then “settled” the lawsuit asking the courts to enter a consent decree essentially forcing the government to adopt policies the actual law doesn’t provide for or allow. In the case of election law, during the last couple of years, democrat interest groups filed something like 300 lawsuits in various states complaining of alleged discriminatory election laws and then settling on expanded mail-in voting, longer early voting periods, etc. All these settlements created the environment for the fraudulent election we just had.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
BarryNo 11/16/2020 8:39:40 AM (No. 607432)
I suggest Georgia voters physically go 'see' the Election Board members and persuade them to stand down. Let the investigation proceed.
And be prepared for armed Antifa/BLM counter protesters. Give as good as you get. The police will likely be ordered to harm you as well. If the Swamp realizes we're serious, they might back down, for now. They are very careful of their own tender hides.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 11/16/2020 9:04:47 AM (No. 607468)
Good luck, but I suspect that there will be judges to toss out almost all (or all) cases without any consideration of the facts of the situation at all. For political reasons, they will stop the cases from being considered before any facts can be litigated.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 11/16/2020 9:07:42 AM (No. 607473)
This case is not about late arriving ballots.
It's about Georgia's Sec. of State (not part of the Legislature) entering into a "Litigation Settlement Agreement" with only Democrats, to water-down ballot approval/rejection requirements mandated by Georgia's Legislature (e.g., the elector's signature and other ID information - specific to that elector - required to be on that ballot) which SHALL be compared with information in the state's files regarding that elector.
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#7 is correct. It is intended to show that the SOS and other powers outside of the Georgia Legislative Branch does not have the power to Arbitrarily change GA election law. It is also a case of disparate treatment of voters, because some were allowed to “cure” their ballots while others were not.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
swarfer 11/16/2020 10:00:17 AM (No. 607544)
#3 explains this perfectly. “Sue and settle” is the main tactic for Democrats especially for elections and discrimination cases. Unless an election case makes it to SCOTUS and you can prove the outcome will change, that’s the end of it. The Constitution gives each Legislature control of elections, Article II Section I, not any individual or group. My guess is TRUMP’s is using the statistical approach to show outcomes would change if state election commission changes to procedures practices did not occur. This allows for the suits to move forward. Additionally, statistics is also being used to show voting anomalies related to outright fraud would also change the election outcome in the case of Dominion machines.
This is a long way from being resolved in court. TRUMP may not win, but he will likely win lawsuits concerning votes counted as a result of unauthorized changes to election law. Get ready for wailing and gnashing of teeth. Let’s all be thankful we finally have a president who will fight to the last inch for what is right and Constitutional and not roll over saying it’s for the good of the country to give in and lose.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MDConservative 11/16/2020 10:04:07 AM (No. 607551)
Simply put, the argument is that "Federal" election law is the state's law, as enacted by the state legislature. Bureaucrats cannot alter the law as written. Nor can the courts.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
judy 11/17/2020 2:27:33 AM (No. 608207)
Pa & Georgia allowed the courts to change election rules in mid stream ...the law states only legislative can make or change laws. ...this should be the deciding factor for the SC to rule.
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Someone smarter than me needs to explain this to me. Sounds hopeful, I just don't understand exactly what he is challenging regarding the Absentee ballots.