‘Beyond an embarrassment,’ legal experts say of Trump and Giuliani’s floundering efforts in court
On Monday, the campaign filed its appeal of a federal judge’s ruling dismissing the campaign’s lawsuit in Pennsylvania challenging some mail-in votes.
The appeal complained the judge in the case, Matthew Brann, “misconstrued the remedy sought. The Campaign is not seeking to disenfranchise 6.8 million Pennsylvanians,” as the judge wrote in his scathing decision and Giuliani acknowledged in a court hearing last week.
The appeal says the campaign just wanted to set aside some ballots that they believe may be defective and then notes that one of the remedies they’re seeking is “an order that the results of the 2020 Presidential general election are defective, which would allow the Pennsylvania General Assembly to choose Pennsylvania’s electors” in other words, which would disenfranchise 6.8 million Pennsylvanians by dismissing their votes.
The filing at one point refers to ballots as “ballets,” and another of the campaign’s filings earlier in the day referred to “Presidential Donald J. Trump” instead of president.
That earlier filing which said the campaign was only appealing part of Brann’s order but then added it might appeal other parts of the order led to confusion from other defendants in the case, who said it was improper and they couldn’t understand what exactly the campaign was seeking.
It also wasn’t the first such filing since Trump named Giuliani his lead lawyer. Earlier in the same Pennsylvania case, Giuliani was seeking to add back in arguments his predecessors had dropped, presumably because they didn’t have the evidence to back their claims. “The lawyers thought they were losers,” Sanderson said.
Also Monday, the campaign lost another lawsuit in Pennsylvania state court the latest in a string of dozens of court losses in six swing states since the election, most of which were started by Giuliani’s predecessors.
via www.nbcnews.com
Filing a case in federal court is a serious business. You have to know what you’re doing. Giuliani has long since forgotten how to do it, and the people he has working for him are not any good. Sad commentary on Trump’s legal team. Query how things would have turned out if he had any decent lawyers working for him, and if the decent lawyers he had working for him were not scared off the case. So in this case, I guess you have to know what you are doing and to have a lot of courage. A rare combination as it happens.