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Christian Science Monitor

Peter Grier
Tue, August 31, 2021, 10:06 AM

The “Kraken” lawsuits, named after a mythical giant sea creature, pushed baseless claims of v***r f***d in an effort to overturn 2020 p**********l e******n results in four key states. All were quickly rejected by courts.

Now the pro-Trump lawyers who filed them following November’s v**e are starting to face legal consequences for their actions. Last week, a federal judge in Michigan ordered sanctions against Sidney Powell, L. Lin Wood, and seven other attorneys for what she called an “historic and profound abuse of the judicial process.”

U.S. District Judge Linda Parker excoriated the “Kraken” legal team for its Michigan suit, which she described as a mélange of faulty reasoning, unsupported claims, and fantastical conspiracy theories.

The suit was filed in bad faith, the judge concluded.

Peter Grier
Tue, August 31, 2021, 10:06 AM

The “Kraken” lawsuits, named after a mythical giant sea creature, pushed baseless claims of v***r f***d in an effort to overturn 2020 p**********l e******n results in four key states. All were quickly rejected by courts.

Now the pro-Trump lawyers who filed them following November’s v**e are starting to face legal consequences for their actions. Last week, a federal judge in Michigan ordered sanctions against Sidney Powell, L. Lin Wood, and seven other attorneys for what she called an “historic and profound abuse of the judicial process.”

U.S. District Judge Linda Parker excoriated the “Kraken” legal team for its Michigan suit, which she described as a mélange of faulty reasoning, unsupported claims, and fantastical conspiracy theories.

The suit was filed in bad faith, the judge concluded.
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“This case was never about fraud,” she wrote in her 110-page ruling. “It was about undermining the people’s faith in democracy and debasing the judicial process to do so.”
What did the Michigan “Kraken” case allege?

Former President Donald Trump and his political allies filed more than 60 lawsuits challenging e******n results last year. Nearly all of them were quickly dismissed or collapsed in the courtroom.

Ms. Powell was involved in the wildest of these cases, which held, without evidence, that a conspiracy of international intelligence agents and foreign leaders hacked into U.S. v****g machines and threw the e******n to Joe Biden. She talked publicly of “releasing the Kraken,” comparing the baseless suits to a powerful force that would supposedly reverse the v**e results.

The Michigan “Kraken” was filed on Nov. 15 on behalf of a group of state v**ers and GOP nominees to be p**********l e*****rs. It was signed by Ms. Powell and two other lawyers and listed a number of supporting attorneys.

It charged Michigan e******n officials with violating state e******n laws in the manner in which they held the November e******n, and made allegations of widespread v***r f***d in the state. The latter were contained in numerous affidavits from individuals, some lifted from separate lawsuits already dismissed by the courts.

The suit also charged that absentee v**er counts in some Michigan counties were likely manipulated by a computer algorithm installed after 2016, shifting v**es from Mr. Trump to Mr. Biden. It stated falsely that v****g equipment companies D******n and Smartmatic were “founded by foreign oligarchs and dictators to ensure computerized b****t stuffing ... to make certain Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez never lost another e******n.”

The “Kraken” suit asked that as a remedy the court decertify the Michigan v**e and “t***smit certified e******n results that state that President Donald Trump is the winner of the e******n.”

Judge Parker dismissed the case on Dec. 7, finding it legally flawed in a number of ways, likely to fail on the merits in its charges of e******n law violations, and full of baseless fraud claims.

Lawyers for entities named as defendants in the case, including the city of Detroit and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, then asked the judge to sanction the lawyers who filed the suit.
Why did the judge sanction the “Kraken” lawyers?

Courts are bound by rules of evidence and procedure, and attorneys are supposed to follow ethical rules. It is one thing to spin a false tale of conspiracy on a cable news show; it’s quite another to do it in front of a judge.

On July 12, Judge Parker held a lengthy public hearing on possible sanctions for Ms. Powell, Mr. Wood, and other lawyers involved in the case. She questioned in particular whether the “Kraken” group had put any effort into checking the individual affidavits contained in the lawsuit.

She found they had not. They didn’t ask for further explanations from any of the people charging fraud – and had not even checked to see whether what they described were in fact state law violations.

Many of their allegations were “based on nothing more than belief, conjecture and speculation rather than fact,” Judge Parker wrote in last week’s ruling.

One individual, for instance, said she saw two vans pull into the garage of a counting room, one in the morning and one at night. She was told they were delivering food, but she never saw any food, so she surmised it was possible they were delivering illegal b****ts.

Another, out for a walk with his dog after the e******n, saw a young couple take three or four clear plastic bags out of their van and put them in the back of a Postal Service truck, which appeared to be waiting for them. “It was as if the postal worker was told to meet and stand by until these large bags arrived. ... What could be in those bags could be b****ts,” said the affidavit.

Judge Parker called this man’s account “a masterclass on making conjectural leaps.”

Overall, the judge determined that the “Kraken” lawyers wasted the court’s time by “d**gging out” the case long after it was too late to change anything. They asked for remedies far beyond what the court could provide, and presented information as fact without vetting it. Even cursory investigation would have revealed “wild inaccuracies” in some of the case’s expert testimony, including that related to conspiracy claims, Judge Parker wrote.

“This lawsuit should never have been filed. The [state and city defendants] should never have had to defend against it,” the judge concluded.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pro-trump-lawyers-pushed-fraud-160654193.html

DaWg44

[quote=rumitoid]Christian Science Monitor

Go back to sleep Rumi.

Weewillynobeerspilly Loc: North central Texas

Hey...... who cares? Your v**e and stupid leaders are burning down this country........ i would be deflecting to Trump too, you should be embarrassed. ..... and culled.

nonalien1 Loc: Mojave Desert

It's hard to get a fair trial when the cards are stacked against you
anyone can find a couple of cases of conjecture when you have a stack of over 100 affidavits There is more merit to. t his case then the court is willing to admit

TexaCan Loc: Homeward Bound!

Just another IH**eTrump story from Yahoo! Another Judge was acting as the lawyer, Judge, and executioner!

Now this is a court decision that accomplished something!………….Saving the lives of our most precious gift of life!

BREAKING: Texas “Heartbeat” Law Takes Effect; A******ns After 6 Weeks ARE NOW ILLEGAL After SCOTUS Ignores Emergency Request to Block Law

TommyRadd Loc: Midwest USA

If I was a betting man, which I’m not, I’d bet you will be one of the first in line to enlist in the Antichrist’s complete and open takeover of the world systems you so vigorously and consistently support. This isn’t to mean anything other than how shocking it is to me that a “Christian” (as you claim yourself to be) would be so infatuated with what the Bible calls “the principalities… the powers… the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and… the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places” Ephesians 6:12.

Now, I don’t by any means consider Trump to be a true disciple of Christ, and he is quite fallible, and no “hero” of mine. But anyone who makes such enemies with the evil “rulers of darkness of this age”, by exposing them as he certainly does, is a whole lot better than siding directly with, and defending, those “rulers of darkness”, as you appear to do time after time after time.

Real Christians must have, develop and display discernment.

“But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.” 1 Corinthians 2:15

Looking at Trump’s shortcomings under a microscope like you do, along with those of his supporters, and not even recognizing the huge evil of those in power who h**e him, is what Jesus was talking about when he said you strain out a gnat and swallow a camel (referring to the smallest and largest of the unclean).

Where then is your discernment, camel-swallower?

rumitoid

Agreed, but the first was factual...or prove otherwise.

rumitoid

Microscope? His shortcomings are too big for a macroscope.

TexaCan Loc: Homeward Bound!

Yep! Another Judge with a bad case of TDS! 🤒

rumitoid

Again, prove it. But it appears you do not have a search engine or else you would not look so foolish. If you knew how or looked, the article I used for this thread is well-documented and true. A little click on Google Search asking, "Do Trump lawyers who pushed fraud cases face serious consequences," and you have maybe ten sites that prove my point. Yet you guys avoid such simple verification of the t***h of what I say because your stance is indefensible and foolish. Stop being a coward.