Legal machine grinds to a halt

[struggle4progress]

By MARC CAPUTO
11/13/2020 07:03 PM EST

A Michigan lawyer for Donald Trump’s campaign filed a case in the wrong court. Lawsuits in Arizona and Nevada were dropped. A Georgia challenge was quickly rejected for lack of evidence. His Pennsylvania legal team just threw in the towel ...

... so many lawsuits have been filed in so many state and federal courts that no one has an exact number. But one thing is certain: the Trump campaign has an almost perfect record, having won only one case and lost at least a dozen.

Along the way, Trump lawyers have abruptly dropped core claims, been admonished in court for lack of candor and even been forced to admit they had no evidence of fraud, while their client inaccurately rails to the contrary on Twitter ...

“They’re throwing the kitchen sink against the wall to see what sticks — a mixed metaphor that’s deserving of this legal strategy. And ‘legal strategy’ should be in quotes,” said Ben Ginsberg, a veteran Republican election law attorney who headed the famed Florida recount team that ultimately led to George W. Bush becoming president ...

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/13/trump-legal-team-cases-dropped-436492

[Raven]

1. Amazing that these incompetent people could do so much damage.

[Newest Reality]

2. All the...

All the lifeboats on the Titanic leak badly now.

[unblock]

3. I wonder, maybe the lawyers actually do know what they're doing.

They have an impossible, insane client. They can't tell him no outright. So they file motions and cases they know will fail but they can tell their client, we tried

[HDSam]

5. I'm tending

to believe the attorneys know these suits aren’t going anywhere but if they do the bare minimum they grab some easy billable hours.

[dchill]

4. Trump has always been a lawsuit bush-leaguer...

...but this is sub-par for the course.