Texas lawyer fired after Capitol riot files ambitious suit: Dissolve Congress, don't arrest him

[DonViejo]

"This is not a Sidney Powell lawsuit," Paul Davis assures court. True! Powell didn't argue for abolishing Congress

By ROGER SOLLENBERGER

JANUARY 22, 2021 10:00AM (UTC)

Texas attorney Paul Davis, who was fired earlier this month after posting several Instagram videos of himself on the front lines at the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, filed an impressively grandiose lawsuit in federal court on Monday, requesting that Congress disappear entirely and that nearly everyone who holds high office in the United States, along with Mark Zuckerberg, be barred from ever seeking election or voting again. He also asked the court to tell the Justice Department and FBI not to arrest him.

The complaint, filed in the Waco Division of the Western District of Texas by Davis and co-counsel Kellye SoRelle, a failed Republican candidate for state office, claims that every vote cast in the 2020 general election was illegal, and therefore that "entire 117th Congress is illegitimate." Consequently, Davis argues, every action this Congress has taken, including impeaching former President Trump and certifying President Joe Biden's victory, is "null and void."

The lawsuit was filed in the name of a few small conservative minority groups, including Latinos for Trump and Blacks for Trump, along with a number of related but unspecified individuals. The only plaintiff whose full name appears in the document is Joshua Macias, a Navy veteran and the founder of Vets for Trump, who was arrested in November after he and a friend brought a semiautomatic rifle and samurai sword from Virginia Beach to a Philadelphia ballot processing center. Macias also submitted, under penalty of perjury, a false sworn affidavit in Davis' lawsuit, upon which hinged the suit's sole claim of actual injury.

The 54-page complaint opens by stating plainly that it is "not a 2020 presidential election fraud lawsuit," and doesn't seek to change the declared winner of any elections. (Based on the subsequent arguments, that appears blatantly false.) A footnote on the first page reads: "This is not a Sidney Powell lawsuit. This is not a Rudy Giuliani lawsuit. This is not a Lin Wood lawsuit. This is not a Team Trump lawsuit. This is not a Republican lawsuit. This is not a Democrat lawsuit."

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[Squinch]

1. I like that this was filed in Waco. We should make a new town called Wacko, and have all

these cases adjudicated there.

[malaise]

3. how are these lunatiscs allowed to practice law?

Damn!

[walkingman]

4. Simple - Just go to Liberty University Law School and move to the Bible Belt.

[Gothmog]

14. This lawyer went to UT Law and started at Andrews/Kurth

My son was in law school with this person and this person went to a good law firm out of law school. My son and another classmate met this person a while back and he tried to get them in a pyramid vitamin supplement scam which they passed on.

UT Law is one of the top 15 law schools in the country.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. UT Law is usually ranked in top 15 law schools

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

2. The long held legal principal of "I you are but what am I!"

Good lord, every lawyer who holds the same degree as this guy should either be outraged or ask for their money back from their respective law schools. There's a not so fine line between avoiding censorship of novel legal claims and punishing frivolous tripe. The sheer number of fraudulent actions filed after this election is mind-boggling.

[BrightKnight]

8. I think there in precedence for invoking the neener neener clause in cases like this. - nt

[MiniMe]

5. So this lawyer is all for getting rid of the Constitution

Wacko is the right name for him

[area51]

6. What is this guy smoking?

[nykym]

7. This...

"This is not a Sidney Powell lawsuit. This is not a Rudy Giuliani lawsuit. This is not a Lin Wood lawsuit. This is not a Team Trump lawsuit. This is not a Republican lawsuit. This is not a Democrat lawsuit."

In fact this is not a lawsuit period.

[Takket]

9. Just some advice for everyone...

If you ever find yourself in court, let’s say for a traffic ticket... try a reasonable excuse.

“The speed limit sign was blocked”

“The Radar Gun wasn’t calibrated “

Dont try “Traffic laws shouldn’t exist and those that made them should be arrested”. It won’t work.

[Hotler]

10. Have you ever been to night traffic court in Denver.

About ten years ago I had to go. I wish I would have brought a bucket of popcorn and a extra large soda. The things that came out of peoples mouth in front of a judge was head shaking stuff. The judge gave a women three chances to go home and come back with her drivers license to show him proof and he would let her off or, she was going to jail. She went to jail. gezzz.

[Tommymac]

11. Hope they print lots of copies...never know when another shortage will occur.

[LeftInTX]

12. Latinos for Trump is not a small group...

Now if they are legal entity, they may be small, but I saw their signs all over.

ETA: That is the craziest lawsuit ever. Cough up your legal fees cray-cray...
And Enrique Tarrio stole $1.2 million in diabetes testing strips?

[Gothmog]

13. This idiot is asking for the court to establish the Stewardship of Gondor in the absence of Aragorn.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Gothmog]

15. This idiot has lost it and may be a danger to himself

Salon has a good article on this lawsuit https://www.salon.com/2021/01/22/texas-lawyer-fired-after-capitol-riot-files-ambitious-suit-dissolve-congress-dont-arrest-him/

Davis has genuine legal credentials, surprisingly enough. He graduated from the University of Texas School of Law, ranked 14th nationwide at the time. He gained civil litigation experience at Andrews Kurth, a large Houston-based firm that has since grown into Hunton Andrews Kurth. He later took a position as associate general counsel at Goosehead Insurance, a job he held until the morning of Jan. 7, when he was fired after an internal company investigation into his involvement in the assault on the U.S. Capitol, which Davis documented on his public Instagram account and was first widely shared by this Salon reporter via his personal Twitter account.

[Gothmog]

16. Judge has issued an order to show cause asking why he shouldn't summarily discuss the case.

The court issues this order on its own motion

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