Oops......the quality of Republican lawyers is really bad.

[Nevilledog]

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Sean Hecht
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This, from the Georgia federal district court order denying the request for a TRO in Lin Wood's election lawsuit, is not something any lawyer wants to see in a court order. @RMFifthCircuit @Popehat @rickhasen
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For non lawyers: The Plaintiff relied on ONE case to support standing to sue. The case they used was overturned over 13 years ago.

[StarfishSaver]

1. That's one of the most humiliating things that can happen to a lawyer

Being called out by a judge in a written opinion for citing bad law is the ultimate smackdown.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. And this is why you always, always cite-check...

It's one of the first things you learn in law school, and not doing it is an unforgivable fuck-up.

[Wounded Bear]

3. Trump's last "good" lawyers fled him last week in PA...

That's why they brought in the cavalry.

[Elwood P Dowd]

4. They're no different than republican politicians.

In fact, many republicans are both bad lawyers and bad politicians. They do, however, excel at messaging, lying, and brainwashing. Sad fact is that hundreds of these bad lawyers now have lifetime appointments as judges.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. You know what else is really juicy? The judge is a Trump appointee!

[Nevilledog]

7. *snort*

[central scrutinizer]

6. If the facts are on your side,

Pound the facts.
If the law is on your side,
Pound the law.
If neither is on your side,
Pound the table.

[rsdsharp]

8. In the old days when you were going to cite a case

you went to thick books published by Shepard’s to Shepardize a case. These books would tell you every case that had cited yours, and for what purpose. It would also tell you if the case was still good law. It was a slow and tedious process, but necessary.

Today, most research is done online with Westlaw. When you pull up a case, you can Shepardize online with a touch of a button. More to the point, the case will have one of three flags in the upper left hand corner of the first page. Green means it’s all good. Yellow means the case has been called into question on at least one point by other cases. RED MEANS IT’S NO LONGER GOOD LAW on at least one point.

You may still be able to cite it as “reversed on other grounds,” but you don’t cite it if it’s been reversed or abrogated on the very point of law you want to cite it for. You learn that in the first semester of law school if common sense alone wasn’t good enough to teach you that.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. I learned the old way, and it was kind of tedious, but

it wasn't that damned hard and it's even easier now, and there is absolutely no excuse for not doing it. The lawyer who cited that case deserved to get his ass reamed.

[rsdsharp]

11. I learned both ways. The then CEO of West was an alumnus

of my law school and we had one of, if not the first, Westlaw labs.

No it wasn’t hard, although it was a pain using the books if you did a deep dive and read all the citing cases for the key number at issue. Even if it had been hard, it beat the hell out of getting a judicial slap down, or getting fired as an associate who screwed up the research.

[Baked Potato]

10. The entire Order was quite a spanking.

https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.283580/gov.uscourts.gand.283580.54.0_2_1.pdf

These actions brought by Trump Toadies all share a common theme. They all sound just like an argument Trump himself would make. Immature and nonsensical.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. It certainly was.

These lawyers are embarrassing themselves every day. Slippin' Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman would have done a much better job.

[Cha]

15. Yeah, trump hired lawyers just like him..

Not the best or the winningest.

Where the hell did he find lawyers that Stupid.. oh yeah.. rudy for ONE.

[COLGATE4]

13. Never learned about Shepherdizing

[Cha]

14. omg.. the trump lawyers Keep Coming

Up with BAD FAITH Grossly Incompetent Law Suits.