Jan 11, 2022 · Last week, Donald Trump filed a lawsuit demanding that a federal judge tell New York State Attorney General Letitia James to stop being so mean to him. Among the many categories of relief sought ...
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Jul 12, 2021 · U.S. District Judge Linda Parker in Detroit held a six-hour hearing Monday by video conference. She said she plans to make a decision about sanctions at a …
Former president Donald Trump, and former First Lady Melania Trump prepare to depart a farewell ceremony at Joint Base Andrews, January 20, 2021. Stefani Reynolds/AP
Former president Donald Trump, and former First Lady Melania Trump prepare to depart a farewell ceremony at Joint Base Andrews, January 20, 2021. Stefani Reynolds/AP
Parker asked lawyers representing Trump's allies about how they put the original complaint together and to name a legal precedent that would have given her authority decertify an election result.
U.S. District Judge Linda Parker in Detroit held a six-hour hearing Monday by video conference. She said she plans to make a decision about sanctions at a later date. The judge said that the court is "concerned" that affidavits included in the lawsuit "were submitted in bad faith.".
Parker repeatedly admonished the lawyers for not investigating and fact-checking the affidavits they used in their complaint.
In New York, Rudy Giuliani has been suspended from practicing law because he made false statements while trying to get courts to overturn Trump’s election loss.
The case appeared to be mostly handled by Detroit-area attorneys. But the lawsuit also carried the names of Powell, Wood and four more lawyers from outside Michigan. The roles of Powell and Wood are unclear; they never filed a formal appearance in the case, according to the docket.
There is no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election. Indeed, election officials from both political parties have stated publicly that the election went well, and international observers confirmed there were no serious irregularities.
Heather Meingast, an attorney for in the Michigan attorney general office, said that Bush v. Gore was "not even applicable."
5 alleging “criminal voter fraud” in Nevada. But lawyers representing Trump never made that allegation in court filings. Instead, as in many of the other Trump campaign election cases, the Nevada filings focus on much smaller claims, including questions about the use of a scanning machine to verify signatures and whether observers had proper access to observe vote counting.
While Trump has repeatedly claimed that glitches in voting machines were evidence of foul play, Langhofer also threw cold water on that idea, saying instead the case concerned “a limited number of cases” of “good-faith errors in operating machines.” The Trump campaign has since dropped this case.
On Thursday, a judge rejected the Trump campaign’s attempt to throw out absentee ballots in the Bucks County case, noting, “The parties specifically stipulated in their comprehensive stipulation of facts that there exists no evidence of any fraud, misconduct, or any impropriety with respect to the challenged ballots. There is nothing in the record and nothing alleged that would lead to the conclusion that any of the challenged ballots were submitted by someone not qualified or entitled to vote in this election.”
In yet another state case in Bucks County, Pa., Trump’s attorneys signed a joint stipulation of facts that explicitly admits that they are not alleging fraud, despite the President and his lawyers’ repeated public claims, according to Marc Elias, a lawyer working for Democrats on election-related cases. The stipulation of facts reads in part: “Petitioners do not allege, and there is no evidence of, any fraud in connection with the challenged ballots.” The stipulation also says they don’t allege or have evidence of “misconduct” or “impropriety” in connection with the challenged ballots.
“Based on what I’ve read in their filings, when Trump campaign lawyers have stood before courts under oath, they have repeatedly refused to actually allege grand fraud — because there are legal consequences for lying to judges,” Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse said in part.
In a state case concerning votes in Maricopa County, Ariz., Trump lawyers again dodged and weaved. On Nov. 12, the same day that the President himself was tweeting about hundreds of thousands of votes being stolen from him, a Trump campaign attorney Kory Langhofer told a judge, “We are not alleging fraud in this lawsuit. We are not alleging anyone stealing the election.”
The president's 3,500 lawsuits were first reported back when Trump was just a presidential candidate in 2016. An investigation by USA Today analysed legal filings across the U.S. and concluded that the number of cases was "unprecedented" for a presidential nominee. USA Today also found that Trump had been involved in more litigation than five other top American real-estate developers combined.
However, numerous businesses and individuals have shared their stories with USA Today and other media outlets, highlighting how Trump refused to pay after their services were complete. When they pressed for payment, representatives of the Trump Organization allegedly threatened legal action, forcing individuals or businesses to accept less money than they had been promised.
As Zirin claimed, hundreds of individuals who have done work for Trump have said that he refused to pay after their services were rendered, according to a separate investigation by USA Today.
Deadbeat Trump Can’t Get A Lawyer Because He Doesn’t Pay His Bills. The real reason why lawyers refuse to work for Donald Trump is that he has a long his history of stealing their services by not paying his bills.
Not paying his bills is a major turnoff for most law firms because defending Trump in the Mueller investigation is going to cost millions of dollars. The Whitewater and Lewinsky scandals ran up $11.3 million in legal fees, which is almost $16 million in 2018 dollars, so this is far from a small sum of money that Trump is going to spend on legal defense for the Mueller investigation. No law firm is going to take Trump on as a client and risk not being paid.
No decent lawyer will work for Trump because he is a deadbeat who doesn't pay his bills. https://t.co/LNznMPXe22 #TheBeat pic.twitter.com/MCgwNBT7iM
The Presidential Records Act of 1978 outlines the ways official records should be maintained during a presidency and turned over at the end of an administration.
This issue arose in court during Trump's presidency, when news organizations pursued classified records related to the Russia investigation after the White House or Trump had publicly talked about declassifying them.
The law has no criminal enforcement mechanism, so in effect the act is "toothless," said George Clarke, a Washington-based attorney who brought two lawsuits over the Trump White House's records retention practices in recent years.