Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) has been evading efforts to serve him a complaint in Rep. Eric Swalwell’s lawsuit against the Alabama Republican over his role in inciting the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, according to Swalwell’s lawyer.
So much of the impetus for Jan 6 and Chump trying to steal an election by use of force, military, etc. was so he could avoid a legal reckoning for his many crimes. It wasn’t because he loved presidenting or had so many other great plans for our future that he still had left unfinished.
So letting Chump especially, or any of his treason-pals off the hook and not having to pay the price is going to be the ultimate shame and waste of the last 5 years. I know it isn’t over yet, and a reckoning still may come…but from what I can see the efforts to reel these people in is half-hearted and if anything is meted out, likely to be slaps on the wrist. For Chump, Giuliani, Barr, Brooks, Gosar, etc. C’mon America.
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Well, I’m not a lawyer like Brooks, but certainly when I want to be an adult about something and help clear the air about a situation in which questions are being asked about my precise role and actions, I always clownishly dodge being served the formal papers involved as if I were in some corny-ass comedy routine from a Mack Sennett film. It’s how you know I simply have nothing to hide.
Mo is one dumb son of a bitch.
The cowardly behavior is the hallmark. The absolute bedrock. Rile up crowds from behind twitter and facebook. Steal campaign funds to pay for your lawyers. Yell “fight like hell” from behind microphones, then retreat to your bunker. Wrap yourself in a flag if all else fails. Bear-spray and pole-axe cops doing security guard duty. Shoot up classrooms and workplaces and churches of unarmed people with their backs to you. Lob rounds into unarmed crowds from your moving vehicle or sniper nest. Hatch kidnapping and murder plots with fellow cowards. Call yourselves patriots while you do it all. Vote to take away constitutional rights of the citizens which have stood since the country’s founding so you don’t have to be answerable on your own two feet in front of voters.
And the RW base cheers and laps it all up and finds ways to commend the behavior. Not one shred of decency or strength or forthrightness unless you want to count once-a-decade minor spasms from Murkowski, Romney, Cheney…and they are quickly punished.
Those that have nothing to hide, hide nothing.
And he’s hiding.
All very true. And of course while you do all this cowardly stuff you talk about yourself as if you and your team are the brave ones, the realists, the pickup-driving “real Americans” who definitely aren’t “snowflakes” who whine and complain about every little thing and cry like the Cowardly Lion when you get slapped for being a bully.
The Party of Responsibility strikes out again. Sad. Pathetic. Criminal. UnConstitutional. Crypto-Fascist.
So, can this all be brought up in court, during the trial? The fact that it took months to serve him?
Can’t they just serve him when he’s in the hall or is that not allowed?
I suspect they are just showing more respect for his office than he is.
It’s what you do when you have a shyster lawyer (or I suppose, if you are yourself a shyster), you know?
When I finally figured out that my first marriage was o#v#e#r and I filed for divorce, my ex-to-be had to be served. She was halfway across the continent teaching at another university. My lawyer wanted to send the process server to her office, unannounced.
I said, “No. I want to handle this like adults. Have the process server call her and let her figure out where and when they should meet.” I was told in no uncertain terms that I was making a mistake, but I insisted.
She didn’t get served that day: she made an appointment to meet the server but she no-showed. Meanwhile, her lawyer cobbled up a divorce complaint under emergency provisions (she had not established the residency requirement to file there), claiming that she feared for her physical safety. (I was living 1300 miles away, so clearly I was a huge physical threat.)
I was served in my university office two days later by a county sheriff’s deputy. So I called my lawyer, who asked me to bring the complaint down to his office. His paralegal called the private process server they used, and asked if my ex-to-be had been served yet. Nope. The paralegal said, “I want her served now, today. I don’t care if you have to do it in front of her class or chase her into the toilet. Get her served.”
She ended up being served that evening, at home, in front of our two sons. They put two-and-two together quickly and figured out that Mommy had been lying to them about Daddy moving there soon (that was the plan). Oh, and it was my fault she was served in front of the boys.
Karma does work, sometimes. But she sleeps a lot, too.
Candygram.
Jeeze. Sometimes just knowing that you tried to handle a thing in the most dignified way possible has to be its own reward.
Knock, knock!!
Who’s there??
Karma, the Bitch!!
Run, Moey, run
I’m sure the judge will also find it very amusing and congratulate Brooks on his attempts to avoid accountability. Or, you know, maybe not.
Mo Brooks is a coward. He wants to play the game of being OUTRAGED DAMMIT about ‘something’ without paying the price.
Bruck Fooks.
Meh, it’s pretty meaningless. The process servers just need to get a little creative.