Huvelle peppered them with skeptical questions about where the alleged harm to plaintiffs occurred and when.
“They can conspire until doomsday, but the guy has to have injuries,” she said
Oops.
She brought up that the plaintiffs attorneys were not representing the DNC — which appears to been the main target of the Russian hacking campaign — and also that the DNC had filed its lawsuit alleging a Trump-Russia conspiracy in New York.
“That doesn’t help you, does it?” she asked
Ouch.
The judge also took issue with the fact that the plaintiffs had not filed any examples of the hacked emails that had prompted the DNC employee to leave his job.
When Berwick offered to provide them to her after the hearing, she shot back, “It’s a little late, I would think.”
Mayday! Mayday!
Huvelle cautioned against a defense attorney arguing that his client didn’t commit the crime because if they had actually committed it they would have committed it better.
“I’m not sure that’s going to carry the day,” she said.
She carries the big clue stick.
A judge hasn’t had this much fun since Kris Kobach was last in court.