Top 5 Weirdest Things in Carter Page's Latest Filing in Lawsuit Against DNC

[Gothmog]

Carter Page filed a lawsuit against the DNC, Marc Elias and the DNC's law firm back in October. Here is a link to the original petition filed in that case https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2179974

The DNC has moved to dismiss and Carter Page file a reply brief that is hilarious. Evidently Carter Page could not find a lawyer and wrote this brief himself. There is a maxim that a person who represents himself has a fool for a client. Here is a fun article with the five top dumb things in Carter Page's brief https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/top-5-weirdest-things-in-carter-pages-latest-filing-in-lawsuit-against-dnc/

The filing contains some cautionary tales for pro se litigants.

Carter Page has submitted this filing all by his lonesome–or, at least, without help from a named attorney. This is generally advised against in high-profile cases, especially those in federal court. While Page makes clear that he is currently studying the law, his inexperience shines through in ways large and small. References to legal standards are occasionally clumsy, rendered fancifully and off-base–or, as noted above, simply missing altogether–and Page repeats the same typo some 80-plus times.
There’s also several instances of languages atypical of federal court filings.

The Page filing makes the following broadside generalization: “During the months before the 2016 Presidential election, the Defendants committed torts previously unseen in the history of the United States and without precedent in the annals of American law.”

There’s also this:

The Defendants unluckily gambled in 2016 with high hopes that some of the defamatory dirt spread with their defamatory Dodgy Dossier deck might fertilize. Now, the [motion to dismiss] doubles down on their imprudent bets.

I have looked and I could not find any reference to any law school where Page is attending. Does anyone know if Page is actually in a law school?

[Gothmog]

1. Carter Page says he has been the victim of " torts previously unseen in the history of the United St

You can go to the link in this tweet and read the brief

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Have fun
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5668080-Response-in-Opposition-to-Motion.html

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. This is a prime example of why pro se litigants suck.

If his case had any merit he'd have been able to find a lawyer to represent him and wouldn't have to do it himself - although he could be one of those Dunning-Kruger exemplars who think they're so smart they don't need a lawyer.

[FreepFryer]

3. Please, please keep it up, Carter. (n/t)

[mahina]

4. Who said "Pro Se is Latin for 'you lose'?"

[underpants]

5. Too funny. Hey he's got a PhD.

I can't find anything about him going to law school though.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Sounds like his Ph.D. is kind of iffy:

Page received a PhD degree from SOAS, University of London in 2012, where he was supervised by Shirin Akiner. His doctoral dissertation on the transition of Asian countries from communism to capitalism was rejected twice before ultimately being accepted by new examiners. One of his original examiners later said Page "knew next to nothing" about the subject matter and was unfamiliar with "basic concepts" such as Marxism and state capitalism. He sought unsuccessfully to publish his dissertation as a book; a reviewer described it as "very analytically confused, just throwing a lot of stuff out there without any real kind of argument." Page blamed the rejection on anti-Russian and anti-American bias.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Page

[Gothmog]

10. Carter Page took three tries to get his PHD

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. One of his examiners said:

“Page seemed to think that if he talked enough, people would think he was well-informed. In fact it was the reverse.”

Yup.

[Gothmog]

17. We both know lawyers are are guilty of this sin

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. According to his brief he's attending an overseas law school part-time

and he's moving to Oklahoma. There are a lot of words. A nice crunchy word salad that makes no fucking sense at all.

[Gothmog]

15. Good luck truing to take the bar exm

Being accused being a Russian spy will not go over well with the bar examiners

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. RICO? Domestic Terrorism? Dodgy Dossier?

He's been mainlining Fox and Rush while consulting with Newt Moonbase Gingrich and Alex Demonic Possession Jones.

[Gothmog]

8. Carter Page accuses the DNC of 'domestic terrorism' in bonkers legal filing -- he apparently wrote wi

This will be fun to watch

Link to tweet

[Gothmog]

9. Carter Page is using the address of the Oklahoma office of a large law firm

I have done deals with Gordon & Rees.

Link to tweet

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. Maybe they are letting him use their law library.

No actual lawyer wrote that hot mess.

[Gothmog]

13. I did a deal with the Houston office of this firm a while back

The Oklahoma office only has one attorney listed

[Vinca]

16. Maybe this is really an insanity defense. LOL.

[Captain_New_York]

18. What's with the navy

As a former army officer I have to point out the predominance of weird Navy guys in this disaster of an administration. Page, Bannon, Spicer. I know we have “Benedict “ Flynn in the Army. Maybe since the navy ( with the exception of special ops and flyboys) haven’t fought a battle in almost 75 years ( Leyte Gulf in WW II)

Having had the misfortune to serve in combat, I know there is nothing that reveals character like being in fear for your life. Most of the Navy never have that opportunity

[Gothmog]

19. From my twitter feed

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