Alan Dershowitz is seeking special master for My Pillow guy

[LetMyPeopleVote]

This will be fun to watch

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[iscooterliberally]

1. Oh great... pillow talk with the underpants guy.....

[C_U_L8R]

2. I suggest Judge Raymond Dearie

he'll be available in a few days.

[MLAA]

15. +1

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. Here is Lindell's newly filed motion for a temporary restraining order.

This is a better brief compared to the piece of crap filed by TFG's attorneys, but I doubt that this will work. Lindell is part of a plan to steal information from voting machines and theft of confidential information and protected data is not protected by the First Amendment

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Here is a direct link to the filing
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.203171/gov.uscourts.mnd.203171.10.0_1.pdf

[yankee87]

9. No surprise

Everyone gets a special master now.

[C_U_L8R]

21. Next time, don't make your hearing aid a crime scene

Geez.

[FreeState]

28. Actually any Judge with a brain would read

That his hearing aids are attached to a smart phone and know he doesn’t need his phone back. Get a new phone, restore from cloud/backup and your good.

[Emile]

4. When will the clown show ever end? I'm ready

for real entertainment!

[Harker]

5. If everyone gets one, they're no longer special. n/t

[central scrutinizer]

11. If I get a ticket for a busted taillight

I’m going this route

[Harker]

18. There you have it.

A special master to leisurely sift through the contents of your glove compartment.

[Beetwasher.]

6. I Called It!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=17177632

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. You were right

Do you any numbers for Friday's mega millions lottery

[getagrip_already]

8. the floodgates are open.....

As so many pointed out, this will now become a standard motion.

But I doubt it will go far. But I'm not a lawyer nor scholar.

I'm not sure what they hope to achieve though. There are no complicated issues here. The filter team can quickly isolate any atty client issues. No other priv would apply unless comms with his wife or doctor are protected and the fbi can determine that.

Pillow talk with his private special master doesn't count here.

[SWBTATTReg]

10. The Appeals Court (the 3 judges) clearly said that this attempt to declare a special master for

a defendant would be a tactic employed by every single defendant before long. They shot this down and I suspect that any competent prosecutor would go and use their verbiage to refute future attempts by others to use this tactic.

I suspect that this won't go anywhere, and if anything, will be thrown out of court as soon as Lindell opens his damn mouth.

[Volaris]

27. That's apparently exactly what happened to pillow guy today,

and for exactly the reason you stated.

[Walleye]

12. Give it a shot Dersch. Gotta figure out how to get it in front of Judge Cannon

[magicarpet]

13. Oh Douchie,.. are you for real ?

Is it any wonder why the people of Hyannis Port, Martha's Vineyard, and Greater Cape Cod told you to get your sorry ass the fuck outta town.

You are a sickening and repulsive opportunistic evil man. And it remains a mystery to you why everyone shuns and intentionally avoids you like the plague ?

Get a clue - you fucking creepy moron.

[Irish_Dem]

14. If I get a traffic ticket I am going to ask for a special master.

[allegorical oracle]

16. If he's too broke to buy another phone so that he can hear the Dersh, just wait until the

voting machine companies get finished with him.

[Princess Turandot]

17. In keeping with the best tradition of Trump-in-court, the docket in this case, which was opened...

.. just two days ago, shows 4 entries labeled as "DOCUMENT FILED IN ERROR". (Docket: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65363253/lindell-v-united-states-of-america/ )

As to Mr Dershowitz, an entry reads:

(Text-Only): Notice re: Non-Admitted Attorney: We have received documents listing Kurt Olsen, Patrick M. McSweeney, Alan Dershowitz as counsel of record. If he or she wishes to be listed as an attorney of record in this case, he or she must be admitted to the bar of the U.S. District Court of Minnesota in accordance with Local Rule 83.5 (a), (b) and (c) or temporarily admitted pro hac vice in accordance with Local Rule 83.5 (d) or (e).For more admissions information and forms, please see the Attorney Forms Section of the courts website at www.mnd.uscourts.gov/forms/all-forms. (MKB) (Entered: 09/21/2022)

Some of them have now filed their request for temporary admission.

[Harker]

19. Dershbag. It figures. n/t

[LetMyPeopleVote]

20. A judge has already *denied* Mike Lindell's motion for a temporary restraining order to reclaim his

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[MOMFUDSKI]

22. Does HIS special master

have to keep his underpants on or not?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

23. Mike Lindell's motion to get his phone back and have a special master appointed was just denied

The court cited the 11th Circuit opinion in the denial/rejection of the motion for a special master. After the ruling last night by the 11th Circuit, Dershowitz and Lindel were stupid to file this motion/ This makes me smile

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

24. Mike Lindell sues U.S., Att'y General and FBI head over cell phone seizure

Here is an article about this silly lawsuit

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https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/mike-lindell-sues-u-s-ag-and-fbi-head-over-cell-phone-seizure/

- MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has filed a lawsuit after FBI agents seized his cell phone while he was sitting at the drive-thru window of a Hardee's in Mankato.

The suit, filed Tuesday names FBI director Christopher Wray as defendant, alongside U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and the United States of America.

The suit alleges that the federal agents "had no authority to detain and question Mr. Lindell against his will," and that Lindell's First Amendment rights were violated because of "his efforts to inform the public about alleged fraud and alleged irregularities he believes occurred in order to bring an end to the dependence on computerized voting and tabulating machines in elections."

It also claims that authorities were tracking Lindell using location services in violation of Lindell's Fourth Amendment rights in the stop and seizure, as well as his Fifth Amendment rights to due process, as well as the Sixth Amendment......

Dominion and Smartmatic, two companies that produce electronic voting machines, are suing Lindell for defamation; his own countersuits against them have been dismissed, as have dozens of other claims of alleged election fraud across the country

[LetMyPeopleVote]

25. Trump-Appointed Judge Rejects Mike Lindell TRO Request

This makes me smile

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https://lawandcrime.com/awkward/federal-judge-citing-11th-circuit-ruling-against-trump-immediately-rejects-alan-dershowitzs-request-for-tro-in-mike-lindell-case/

Federal Judge, Citing 11th Circuit Ruling Against Trump, Immediately Rejects Alan Dershowitz’s Request for TRO in Mike Lindell Case

A federal judge in Minnesota appointed by Donald Trump on Thursday rejected a motion for a temporary restraining order which was filed just yesterday by local counsel and self-described constitutional consultant Alan Dershowitz on behalf of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.

U.S. District Judge Eric C. Tostrud noticeably cited a Wednesday ruling by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals that significantly tailored another Trump-appointed district judge’s special master order in the ongoing Mar-a-Lago clash between the former president and the DOJ.

Like the Trump case, the judge noted, plaintiff Lindell is seeking return of property as DOJ conducts an active criminal investigation (Lindell has not been accused of a crime and is considered a “subject”):

“[W]hen the owner of seized property seeks injunctive relief for the return of property while the case remains in the investigative stage (i.e. before criminal charges are brought), the district court must also balance the government’s interest in retaining the property against the owner’s right to get it back.” Id. at 1240; see also Trump v. United States, No. 22-13005, 2022 WL 4366684, at **7–9 (11th Cir. Sept. 21, 2022) (applying like factors in adjudicating motion for partial stay of district court order).

The judge did not stop here, adding the following blockquote to illustrate his point:

“It is a familiar rule that courts of equity do not ordinarily restrain criminal prosecutions.” Douglas v. City of Jeannette, 319 U.S. 157, 163 (1943); see also Deaver v. Seymour, 822 F.2d 66, 71 (D.C. Cir. 1987) (Silberman, J.) (rejecting civil suit to enjoin government from indicting plaintiff and explaining that “[p]rospective defendants cannot, by bringing ancillary equitable proceedings, circumvent federal criminal procedure.”); United States v. McIntosh, 833 F.3d 1163, 1172 (9th Cir. 2016) (“In almost all federal criminal prosecutions, injunctive relief … will not be appropriate. Federal courts traditionally have refused, except in rare instances, to enjoin federal criminal prosecutions.”).

Lindell filed suit against Attorney General Merrick Garland and the U.S. as recently as Tuesday, Sept. 20, in a bid to get his cell phone back following a search at a Hardee’s.

[yellowcanine]

26. Somehow it is fitting that Mr."I kept my underwear on" is the lawyer for the My Pillow guy.

Just sayin.' You really can't make up this shit.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

29. A judge has already *denied* Mike Lindell's motion for a temporary restraining order to reclaim hi

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[DFW]

30. A special master for a special bastard

The bumper stickers practically write themselves.