At one point, Kleinhendler said that the “Kraken” team had “talked to experts,” which led them to believe that the affidavits didn’t need checking. “What they were telling us confirmed what these affiants were telling us, so there was nothing surprising about what these affiants were saying,” he added.
“We received an affidavit from one ‘Spyder’ and we talked with an intelligence expert, Mr. Joshua Merritt, who confirmed our preconceived notions about the contents of the affidavit.”
Yup. Sydney was voted on by her peers back in high school as the most like to be a martyr. Her class was anticipating a greater hill to die on, though. I share in their disappointment.
This is special . . . and you just can’t make this stuff up.
I am. It is.
Just remember. If Trump’s January 6 coup had succeeded, this would be Solicitor General Sydney Powell. Or Attorney General Lin Wood. They weren’t totally crazy to do what they did: monumentally stupid, maybe, but not crazy.
That’s the most important part. Someone with deep pockets is on their side. They should be disbarred and made to pay the fines. The highest the better. This has to come to a head to stop their fever dreams.
Republican sphincters?
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Where I am, I don’t know, I’ll never know, in the silence you don’t know, you must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.
– Samuel Becket
“We would file the same complaints again,” lead “Kraken” attorney Sidney Powell told U.S. District Judge Linda Parker for the Eastern District of Michigan. “We would welcome the opportunity to actually prove our case; no court has ever given us the opportunity. Instead we have been met with proceedings like this.”
“I did it! And I’m glad. Do you hear me? I’m glad, I tell you. Glad! Ah ha ha ha ha.”
And then the police lead the crazy lady away in cuffs while the detective sadly shakes his head. That’s the scene, right?
That’s the point. Their submissions did consume time before real judges, and were found to be crapola. They’ve already had their evidentiary hearing (in effect), and went down in flames. Now the court is asking why they shouldn’t be punished for having wasted the court’s time.
On several occasions, Judge Parker did tell them, in no uncertain terms, to put a plug in it.
Signing on with this Klown Kar of Kraken shysters should be the first tipoff that the dude is not an honest player.
Apparently, the proverbial attorney who represents him- or herself is not the only one who has a fool for a client.
Very, very scary thought. Brings to mind reliving The Nuremberg Trials.
Apparently the court founders on the requirement that attorneys’ representations be taken seriously even when they are not serious but absurd. Sarcasm is rarely allowed; irony is not to be encouraged. It seems as if the court has to rule ultimately that the attorneys have not submitted serious evidence in good faith and have not engaged in a serious defense. Or their defense is offered merely for its political propaganda value. I am reminded of the trial of the Chicago Seven, though in that case I sympathized with the defendants.
The problem was that the judge was asking who among them did at least a minimal vetting of affidavit A, then B, then C, etc. No one could raise their hand as no one had done any vetting, even minimal. Being exposed for the posers they are made them sullen.
O/T but “there they go again” (h/t Ronnie) with their “defunding the police”.
I think that’s more that it is better to play stupid than to admit you did check it out but submitted it anyways.
Why not sacked? Still appropriate.
They’re being paid to be shameless, even before a federal judge, even at the risk of losing their case, sanctions, and disbarment. But by who? Surely not Trump!