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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,837 posts)
Fri Oct 1, 2021, 03:37 PM Oct 2021

Mr. "I Kept My Underwear On" & 'Stop the Steal' Lawyer Team Up for New Dominion Lawsuit

A key “Stop the Steal” attorney who tried, on Donald Trump’s behalf, to convince former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to help execute a coup and overturn the 2020 election is helping a group of Michigan poll challengers sue voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems.

And according to newly filed court documents, that Trumpist attorney, Kurt Olsen, is teaming up with celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz, a longtime Democrat who served on former President Trump’s legal defense for the 2020 impeachment trial. Dershowitz said in a brief interview on Friday afternoon that though he is not the lead attorney on this new class-action lawsuit, he described himself as an “adviser and consultant on the First Amendment issues of this case.”

“I consider this a part of the bigger-picture efforts, that includes my consulting on Mike Lindell and MyPillow’s cases,” he added. “I believe the election was absolutely fair, I believe President Biden is the legitimately elected president. But I think the issue should be debated and should not be censored. I believe Dominion is trying to suppress free speech.”

Dershowitz also said he has had “no contact with Mr. Olsen at all,” and that “I disagree with him fundamentally on many of the substantive issues, but that’s always true with the First Amendment.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/dershowitz-stop-steal-lawyer-team-172312393.html

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Mr. "I Kept My Underwear On" & 'Stop the Steal' Lawyer Team Up for New Dominion Lawsuit (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2021 OP
He always threatens to sue... lame54 Oct 2021 #1
I probably would too if I were him ... Giuffre is the most vocal and litigious Epstein victim Hugh_Lebowski Oct 2021 #2
Would you while simultaneously... lame54 Oct 2021 #4
I would probably not ... however note that this was a case of him counter-suing her Hugh_Lebowski Oct 2021 #6
That is a Pushmi-Pullyu of a statement blogslug Oct 2021 #3
They are suing because some GOP asshole poll watchers feelings were hurt by a C&D letter LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2021 #5
He claims that he's just a legal advisor on 1st Amendment issues and not a lead attorney Hugh_Lebowski Oct 2021 #7
 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
2. I probably would too if I were him ... Giuffre is the most vocal and litigious Epstein victim
Fri Oct 1, 2021, 03:57 PM
Oct 2021

Note that Giuffre was asking a reporter she'd talked to previously to refresh her memory on what she'd said years earlier to the reporter, because Giuffre couldn't remember her own account. She's then prompted by said reporter to finger Dershowitz, just because.

But Dershowitz claims one document in particular also poses a problem for Giuffre: a 2011 email exchange between her and a British tabloid reporter who had interviewed her about her years under Epstein’s sway.

In the email, Giuffre told the Mail on Sunday reporter, Sharon Churcher, she was racing to meet a deadline for a draft of what she would later describe as a “fictionalized account” of what happened to her.

“Just wondering if you have any information on you from when you and I were doing interviews about the J.E. story,” Giuffre wrote Churcher.

“I wanted to put the names of some of the assholes, oops, I meant to say, pedo’s, that J.E. sent me to. With everything going on, my brain feels like mush and it would be a great deal of help!” Giuffre added.

The emails in the court file shows Churcher responded: “Don’t forget Alan Dershowitz… J.E.’s buddy and lawyer...good name for your pitch as he repped Claus von Bulow and a movie was made about that case… title was Reversal of Fortune. We all suspect Alan is a pedo and tho no proof of that, you probably met him when he was hanging out with JE.”

Giuffre’s reply contained no reference to Dershowitz, just a simple, “Thanks again Shazza, I’m bringing down the house with this book!!”


https://www.thedailybeast.com/alan-dershowitz-on-new-epstein-docs-virginia-giuffres-email-and-manuscript-show-she-lied-about-sex-with-me
 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
6. I would probably not ... however note that this was a case of him counter-suing her
Fri Oct 1, 2021, 05:12 PM
Oct 2021

after she sued HIM for Defamation ... first.

Just a small point of fact.

LetMyPeopleVote

(145,046 posts)
5. They are suing because some GOP asshole poll watchers feelings were hurt by a C&D letter
Fri Oct 1, 2021, 04:43 PM
Oct 2021

These poor assholes' feelings were hurt by a Cease and desist letter




The Daily Beast reports that the lawsuit claims that the poll challengers were damaged by Dominion when the company sent them cease and desist letters.

"Each of the plaintiffs say they filled out affidavits with concerns about the voting process in November 2020 and that none of them mentioned Dominion," explains the Daily Beast. "Nonetheless, the challengers say they still received cease and desist letters."

Interestingly, the poll challengers say that they've been grievously harmed by Dominion despite the fact that the company took no further action against them.

These assholes are babies and want everyone to be nice to them.

Dersh is really taking bad cases. This case is so stupid that it is funny
 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
7. He claims that he's just a legal advisor on 1st Amendment issues and not a lead attorney
Fri Oct 1, 2021, 05:17 PM
Oct 2021

and disagrees with the lead attorney about most issues, and says he's never even spoken to said lead attorney regarding this case.

So there's that.

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