I missed this lunacy from Jenna Ellis

[pat_k]

I don't know the law, but it seems to me to be totally bonkers to think any court would halt certification because a plaintiff claimed they'd be following up with actual evidence real soon now.

Link to tweet

[struggle4progress]

1. Any day now

[pat_k]

5. Wonderful!

[Princess Turandot]

2. I'm guessing this is largely about the benjamins at this point...

Apparently, their latest fundraising messages indicate that the share of donations going Trump related PACs is now 75%! You can't fund raise for challenges if you're not doing them.

It should also be noted that SCOTUS has had a suit related to PA's late-arriving mail ballots in their in-box for nearly two weeks and has done ugatz with it. (These are the several hundred ballots that were set aside and not included in the tallies.) They've yet to even put it on the schedule for their weekly discussion conference.

Not to mention, the federal appellate courts as well as SCOTUS do not generally hear cases that are presenting evidence for the first time. You know, the evidence that Trump was holding back at the circuit court level, where it's supposed to be presented!

[pat_k]

4. Makes sense.

They have to pretend filing without evidence is somehow effective as long as you promise "We'll have evidence, just wait!"

Sure, there are cases where discovery is necessary, but you need to provide evidence to support the notion that there is some "there, there" that you are looking for. They aren't doing anything like that. Just claiming they "know" there was massive fraud, and just haven't actually gathered the evidence of it yet. The only thing close to a request for discovery is asking to count the ballots themselves, with absolutely no justification for what they would "learn" that is not already known or discoverable based on the normal processes.

[captain queeg]

3. In two weeks. It's always in two weeks...

You’d think that would be getting old even in the trumposphere. Certainly not going to fly in court.

[peggysue2]

6. Four years ago

Jenna Ellis called Trump a dirtbag. Amazing what money can do to twist your head and ethics 180 degrees.

Disgusting!

[pat_k]

7. Just another example of the rampant unscrupulous perfidy

We say we are a government of laws, but the truth is we are a government of people. When our government is overrun with people who don't have a modicum of decency, we are in deep shit.

Biden has a monumental job ahead.