Gotta love it! Dude sues the county, and the case promptly gets drop-kicked out of court. It was a conspiracy theorist still obsessed with the 2020 election. Trump still talks about ‘stollen’. Conspirators are wasting the court’s time. Dude is not the only one pulling this nonsense. It’s 2026. The votes have been counted and verified. But people still file suits. Why bother? (You were told about the FBI raid here.) With appreciation for Raw Story:
A ballot inspection lawsuit in Fulton County, Georgia, that formed part of the basis for the Trump administration’s raid on ballots from the 2020 election has been tossed out of a superior court in Atlanta. The suit in question was filed by Garland Favorito, an election conspiracy theorist who has tried to litigate the results of the 2020 election for years. Central to his argument in the case is a claim from Republican Party activist Suzi Voyles that there were over a hundred “pristine” ballots for former President Joe Biden that had suspiciously identical markings, as though it was the same ballot duplicated over and over. Audits of the election did not back up this claim.
Over a hundred. Who cares? It’s not going to matter now. Trump needed more than 11,000 votes to win. A hundred here or there is not going to make one damn bit of difference. Honestly, what the HELL does he want with the files? It’s a Revenge Tour item. He’ll want to get back at the people who charged him with RICO. But the votes are going to change that, either. They better damn well give us the reason before my brain melts.
The judge in Fulton County Superior Court had a blunt assessment of this lawsuit in an order dismissing the case, saying that even if any of these claims were true, it’s moot. “Here, Petitioners face none of the future uncertainty necessary to maintain their declaratory judgment actions,” said the order. “The 2020 election is over. The due process and equal rights violations supposedly visited upon Petitioners by Respondents’ allegedly flawed execution of election processes have already accrued. A declaratory judgment is never a remedy for a past wrong.
Yup, get out of here and stop wasting my time. Federal judges are not backing down. We have them for a reason; the judges know what’s going on, and they don’t want to waste time on this stuff. It’s done, finito (see me mangle another language), ended, terminated, concluded voting. There is no point. That was slightly over 5 years ago, and what’s done is done.
The order also stated: There is nothing for this Court to declare that would enable Petitioners to make better, more informed decisions about future actions. Because Petitioners do not present any actual or justiciable controversies in their various demands and prayers for declaratory relief, those claims must be dismissed.” The order further commanded Favorito to cover $29,285 in legal expenses for Fulton County. This comes as Fulton County has filed a motion demanding that the FBI return the ballots seized as part of the Trump administration’s new investigation. Experts are alarmed at the seizure, warning it is a sign that Trump plans to look for any pretext to meddle in state elections in 2026.
We knew Trump was going to try something to fiddle with midterms. We ‘just’ have to block him and his sycophants from *actually* interfering. Is this even possible? We won’t know til they try. But! We can plan, and we can prepare. It isn’t so far as to cause us to run for the hills. It is We the People. We can overcome. This includes ICE and CBP, who can be driven out. But first we need to plan to get to midterms, flip Congress, and get some order back in6o us to climb out of the hole Trump has dug for us. Don’t give up. Another NO KINGS protest is planned for March. Keep the faith. Just Do This.
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if i’m not mistaken, he only has a week to pay the attorney’s fees.
Only a week? Good! That makes my mean little heart happy. H0 h0 h0.