T. Belman. Whatever. I maintain that there is evidence of massive election fraud sufficient to have overturned the election victory for Biden. It is disappointing that this is all there is left of the cases.
Remember Forbes is anti-Trump.
By Alison Durkee, FORBES
GOP attorney Sidney Powell withdrew her lawsuit in the U.S. Supreme Court challenging Georgia’s election results Tuesday, her second to be voluntarily dismissed, as the legal campaign to overturn President Donald Trump’s election loss has petered out in the waning days of his term.
Powell and the other attorneys on the case submitted a stipulation of dismissal to the U.S. Supreme Court, saying the plaintiffs “respectfully request that this case be dismissed.”
The lawsuit sought to overturn Georgia’s election results and made baseless claims about election fraud involving Dominion voting machines; it was struck down in district court for lack of standing and being brought too late.
It was one of eight GOP post-election cases the Supreme Court declined to expedite consideration of, effectively killing the cases by ensuring they would not be decided before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.
Powell’s case in Michigan was voluntarily dismissed in federal district court but appears to still be pending before the Supreme Court, though it also was not expedited ahead of the inauguration.
Powell also filed lawsuits in Arizona and Wisconsin, which were rejected by the lower courts.
The Trump campaign also voluntarily withdrew its own post-election lawsuit in Georgia on Jan. 7, though the campaign cited an “out of court settlement agreement” that Georgia officials said in their response was “demonstrably false” and does not exist.
BIG NUMBER
64. That’s how many post-election lawsuits the Trump and GOP lost or withdrew in its campaign to overturn the election results, according to a tally kept by Democratic Party attorney Marc Elias. They only netted one minor win, which struck down an extended deadline to correct mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania that were missing proof of identification and did not have a substantial impact on the election results.
WHAT TO WATCH FOR
There are no pending lawsuits that pose any threat to Biden’s inauguration, though the U.S. Supreme Court could still take up a case concerning Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting deadline that could affect future elections. Powell may face consequences for the baseless election fraud conspiracy theories she has spread in and out of court: Dominion Voting Systems has filed a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against her for her claims involving the company’s voting machines. The city of Detroit is also attempting to sanction Powell and other attorneys involved in her Michigan case, filing a motion for sanctions in early January before the case was voluntarily withdrawn.
KEY BACKGROUND
The lawsuits over the election results were broadly decried by legal experts, who viewed the GOP’s legal arguments as meritless and nearly certain to fail—as they ultimately did, being struck down by even Trump-appointed judges. Many of the lawsuits sought to stop states from certifying their election results or invalidate the results after they had already been certified, an argument that largely became moot once Congress counted the electoral votes and formalized Biden’s win.
FURTHER READING
Supreme Court Refuses To Consider GOP Post-Election Cases Before Biden Takes Office (Forbes)
Sidney Powell’s Georgia Lawsuit Gets Thrown Out In Court (Forbes)
Dominion Voting Sues Sidney Powell For Defamation Over Election Conspiracy—And Others May Be Next (Forbes)
Detroit Files Request To Sanction, Potentially Disbar Sidney Powell And Other ‘Kraken’ Lawyers (Forbes)
Of course Sidney Powell dropped the case – the issues were rendered moot by the SC delay! It is worth noting the deceitful political spin put on the withdrawal by the complicit media, including Alison Durkee of Forbes. I am relieved to hear that Sidney Powell will persevere in exposing the massive 2020 election fraud committed against the American people. She is a woman of valor.
The scurrilous Supreme Court decided with full knowledge to not hear this case before its decision would be rendered moot. Consequently, if Powell and Co. had continued in the case, additional funds would be spent and the case would have been summarily dismissed for “lack of standing” since its decision was necessarily of a timely nature, i.e. before 1/20. She dropped the case but as she has state on her telegram acct. :
For those inquiring about us dropping our lawsuit in Georgia, the delay by the Supreme Court in addressing the issues we raised rendered the issues moot on behalf of the specific clients we represented [Electors]. We are by no means finished with what needs to be done to get to the bottom of this fraudulent election. Sidney
And she confirmed in an interview recently that this is her acct. (as an aside, we need some bright entrepreneurial spirit who is not a committed communist to develop an official phone book for social media accounts…so many fakery today it is dis-unifying and detrimental to all)