Quinta Jurecic, the managing editor of Lawfare blog, writes at The Atlantic, There Aren’t Serious-Enough Consequences for Those Trying to Break American Democracy (excerpt): [T]rump and his team are doing lasting damage to American democracy as the president struggles to come to grips with the reality of his loss. And yet, these lawyers and officials … Read more
This is disheartening. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Randall Warner knows better, but apparently was more concerned about the unlikely possibility of being overturned on appeal than in enforcing the rules of procedure and the rule of law. A plaintiff must present some evidence in support of their request for extraordinary relief and cannot rely on mere speculation … Read more
As Laurie Roberts sarcastically wrote in her evening November 30 column: “Gee didn’t see that coming.” What she was referring to was the Wrath of Donald Trump descending on Governor Doug Ducey. Why is one of Arizona’s leading Trump sycophants now on the 2016 and 2020 Popular Vote Loser’s Fecal Matter List? Well, it probably … Read more
Outgoing Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA) has some advice for Arizona’s QAnon cult member Republican legislators searching for the elusive “massive” voter fraud that Donald Trump falsely claims to exist. What hunting Bigfoot taught a Republican congressman about politics: There was a time in Denver Riggleman’s life when he sat on the banks of a creek … Read more
The Trump campaign’s final act of desperation to overturn the election results in battleground states in a misguided belief that Republican state legislatures can substitute a slate of electors for Donald Trump over the popular vote winner Joe Biden – they cannot – is to file a series of copy and paste lawsuits in the … Read more