The Kraken Lawsuit, As The French Would Say, Le Fails
The much hyped and epically flawed “Release the Kraken” lawsuit from Sidney Powell has been laughed out of court:
A federal judge in Georgia has dismissed the so-called “Kraken” lawsuit filed by lawyer Sidney Powell over election results, according to Politico. It was called the “kraken” lawsuit after Powell said she would be releasing the “kraken” in a suit in Georgia.
The lawsuit was dismissed for lack of standing and the federal judge overseeing the case saying, “They want this court to substitute its judgment for two and a half million voters who voted for Joe Biden. And this, I am unwilling to do.”
Powell, who filed the suit on behalf of some voters, is best known for at one time representing the Trump Campaign. The campaign then distanced itself from her after a rambling press conference from the campaign that saw Powell talking about international conspiracies even involving dead Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez.
Or, to use a pop culture reference:
2020's most on-brand sentence: Judge Batten slaughtered "the kraken" in less time than it took to watch a Quibi. https://t.co/oMCBUuLIFn
— Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd) December 7, 2020
Less a Kraken, more a calamari.Report
So collectively they are what 1-32? 1-40? That’s so much winning I don’t know where to start.Report
With the Michigan loss, it’s like…1-50, at least.
I believe their sole win was to adjust downward a curing period in PA from 9 to 6 days.
These aren’t even good lawsuits. They’re literally just conspiracy theories slapped to paper. Even the ones Powell isn’t involved with, they’re working with…nothing, and making outrageous demands.
It’s like complaining you feel your big mac isn’t made with 100% pure beef (lab report pending, this is just how you feel) and the remedy you want is you now get to own McDonalds. And all your evidence is people claiming they once heard a guy saying Big Macs are made with chicken or pork or people or sometimes there’s tomatoes in there.
You have a lab report, but it’s from Bob’s basement lab and the author is redacted, and all his data, because he fears the Burger King will kill him.Report
There’s also the requests to only throw out the votes for president, but leave the rest of us votes alone, specifically the ballots that went for Biden, but we’re otherwise GOP down ballot.
Judges are quite reasonably saying no to that.Report
They successfully got an order to allow observers to sit closer than 20 feet some place.Report
COVID has rights.Report
No, that was one of their two wins, back when they had two, but it got thrown out later, bringing them down to one win, the one JS mentioned.Report
I have noticed that the large firms that normally handle this kind of thing for the RNC (and sometimes for campaigns) have completely vanished. Withdrew when some of the suits were still pending and nowhere in sight for the new ones. I assume some combination of salvaging their reputation and not being in range if a judge or bar association comes down on Rudy and Sidney over frivolous lawsuits.Report
Further support for the theory that this is all fundraising theater.
Oral Roberts would be so proud.Report
I think its more insidious then that – the short term goal is fund raising. The long term goal is to get ALEC to write a bunch of voting laws for states to pass to smack a lot of this down so its even harder next time. Even without court wins the mere suggestion of impropriety in court filings is probably enough to give state legislators cover to “address the irregularities” but making it harder to vote, especially absentee.Report
Release the Crackfiend!Report
I’m a little shocked George hasn’t written out how this is playing into Trumps eventual triumph and the utter ruin of liberalism’s nefarious plots.Report
You realize what’s going to happen now that you’ve said this right?Report
Is it like saying Bloody Mary to a mirror three times?Report
I’ve been assuming George was banned, or ill, or got tired of it/us. His last comment was Nov 23.Report
I saw some of his more enthusiastic comments had been moved to “spam” back a couple of weeks ago.Report
Oh dear, I hope he’s ok.Report