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Whatthe_Firetruck

(555 posts)
Fri Jan 22, 2021, 04:51 PM Jan 2021

"Gondor has no King" cited in bonkers lawsuit.

Why yes, the Judicial Branch should be able to issue a TRO suspending the Biden Aministration and all of Congress on the basis of a few states not appropriately determining that people were voting for the first time, and should use the precedent set by the Right Honorable J. R. R. Tolkien and establish a group of Stewards over Goverment in the fashion of Trustees over a failed business, why did you ask?


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Whatthe_Firetruck

(555 posts)
6. The tweet thread breaks it down...
Fri Jan 22, 2021, 05:05 PM
Jan 2021

... in hillarious detail, down to the whining in the filer's title section that he was fired from his last job, and correcting the assertion that his co-litigant voted in North Carolina when he actually voted in Virginia.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,608 posts)
7. The lawyer behind this dog's breakfast is the lawyer who was fired
Fri Jan 22, 2021, 05:06 PM
Jan 2021

after he videoed himself at the 1/6 invasion of the Capitol. https://lawandcrime.com/u-s-capitol-siege/texas-lawyer-who-was-fired-after-filming-himself-at-capitol-files-lawsuit-declaring-trumps-impeachment-null-and-void/ The other one ran for Congress but was defeated in the GOP Texas primary. She's also the moron who shot the video of a guy carrying video equipment into the Detroit convention center and claimed it was boxes of stolen ballots.


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Jirel

(2,014 posts)
8. OMG, you guys - you have to read the document.
Fri Jan 22, 2021, 05:37 PM
Jan 2021

This is some of the best legal comedy I've seen in a long time.

TlalocW

(15,374 posts)
9. I understand the government lawyers have responded
Fri Jan 22, 2021, 06:34 PM
Jan 2021

By petitioning the courts that, "It isn't fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketsess."

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Gothmog

(144,939 posts)
11. Judge has issued an order to show cause asking why he shouldn't summarily discuss the case.
Wed Jan 27, 2021, 08:02 PM
Jan 2021

The court issues this order on its own motion


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