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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHere is part of what the Georgia federal judge said yesterday when dismissing the Kraken conspiracy
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Marc E. Elias
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Here is part of what the Georgia federal judge said yesterday when dismissing the Kraken conspiracy case.🐙
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Here is part of what the Georgia federal judge said yesterday when dismissing the Kraken conspiracy (Original Post)
soothsayer
Dec 2020
OP
Cha
(297,074 posts)1. Rt.. TY!
TeamPooka
(24,218 posts)2. They only need to find a couple who are willing
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,313 posts)3. Georgia on my mind ...
crickets
(25,959 posts)4. Boom. Thank you, Judge Timothy Batten!
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Finally, in their complaint, the Plaintiffs essentially ask the Court for perhaps the most extraordinary relief ever sought in any Federal Court in connection with an election. They want this court to substitute its judgement for that of two-and-a-half- million Georgia voters who voted for Joe Biden, and this I am unwilling to do.
https://www.ajc.com/politics/breaking-judge-dismisses-lawsuit-challenging-bidens-win-in-georgia/UXSI5WUROJA4JHLTVTJ6UWNWOM/
U.S. District Judge Timothy Batten dismissed the lawsuit brought by former Trump attorney Sidney Powell in an attempt to decertify Georgias election. He said overturning the election would have amounted to judicial activism.
They want this court to substitute its judgment for the 2.5 million voters who voted for Biden, Batten, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, said in court in Atlanta. This Im unwilling to do.
The decision leaves Georgias results intact, supporting state elections officials statements that there was no evidence of widespread fraud. [snip]
Attorneys for the state said theres no justification to award Georgias electoral votes to Trump. State law requires the states 16 votes in the Electoral College to go to the candidate who won the popular vote, and Biden held a nearly 12,000-vote lead over Trump.
Their claims would be extraordinary if true, but they are not, according to a court brief by the states attorneys. Much like the mythological kraken monster after which plaintiffs have named this lawsuit, their claims of election fraud and malfeasance belong more to the krakens realm of mythos than they do to reality.
They want this court to substitute its judgment for the 2.5 million voters who voted for Biden, Batten, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, said in court in Atlanta. This Im unwilling to do.
The decision leaves Georgias results intact, supporting state elections officials statements that there was no evidence of widespread fraud. [snip]
Attorneys for the state said theres no justification to award Georgias electoral votes to Trump. State law requires the states 16 votes in the Electoral College to go to the candidate who won the popular vote, and Biden held a nearly 12,000-vote lead over Trump.
Their claims would be extraordinary if true, but they are not, according to a court brief by the states attorneys. Much like the mythological kraken monster after which plaintiffs have named this lawsuit, their claims of election fraud and malfeasance belong more to the krakens realm of mythos than they do to reality.