Lake filed an election lawsuit so egregiously bullshit that the judge decided that just telling her "you lose" and tossing the case wasn't nearly strong enough.
Well, to give you an idea of how unhappy they were, there were no concurrences or dissents.
Just a single unanimous opinion that not only threw out Cannon's order for a special master but ordered her to dismiss the entire case as her court doesn't have the jurisdiction to be involved in the first place.
As for the rest of the 21 pages, they were spent saying "here are all the reasons why even your argument was wrong, and here's all the reasons plaintiff's arguments were wrong, and do you have any idea how angry we are to see that your court made arguments for the plaintiffAT ALLrather than trying the case"
I don't read legal documents often but damn they tore this apart. 'There are four standards for this, it absolutely doesn't meet the first. But here is how the other three also fail' was good. And then wrapping it up with 'but explaining the failure is a sideshow because it doesn't matter!'
You WILL certify or every vote from your county is invalid, none of your new local or county officials can take office, and it's very much uncharted territory as to what the fuck to do about that
A few days before the deadline was set to expire, Plaintiff’s representatives produced an envelope wrapped in tape, which was consistent with an effort to comply with handling procedures for classified documents. Reading this CHOKING LOOOL
Judge Dearie is no longer going to be able to systematically tear down Trump Team's entire bullshit arguments piece by piece, after working on it for weeks
Just a single unanimous opinion that not only threw out Cannon's order for a special master but ordered her to dismiss the entire case as her court doesn't have the jurisdiction to be involved in the first place.
Seriously that last sentence and the corresponding citation is literally judicial speak for "why the fuck are you even here, get out"
And again, thedistrict court stepped in with its own reasoning.
A few days before the deadline was set to expire, Plaintiff’s representatives produced an envelope wrapped in tape, which was consistent with an effort to comply with handling procedures for classified documents.Reading this CHOKING LOOOL