For Real Republicans, There Is No Justice

 In case you weren't paying attention, what with the press of Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays Kari Lake lost her lawsuit to either overtun the election results or have a new elections ordered up.  She had good reason to believe that the election between herself and Ms. Hobbs had been rigged in Hobbs favor.   Fortunately, Rachel Alexander has done an analysis for us, and you can find at Townhall.com entitled The Dismissal of Kari Lake's Election Lawsuit Shows Voter Disenfranchisement No Longer Matters.

The trial court judge in Kari Lake’s election lawsuit predictably threw out her case on Saturday, putting on a sham trial that on the surface looked fair to the general public that doesn't know any better, but to legal minds was a travesty of justice. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson only gave her two days for a trial and issued his ruling immediately afterwards, even though he could have taken several days, and it was one of the biggest, most important cases in the country. Legal experts believe his decision was ghostwritten, they suspect top left-wing attorneys like Marc Elias emailed him what to say.

The standard should have been whether voters were disenfranchised, not all the additional hoops Thompson added. If inner city blacks had been disenfranchised, Thompson would not have added all those extra requirements, he would have made the law fit. Robert Gouveia, a rare attorney who isn’t afraid to speak up and who describes himself as watching prosecutors, judges and politicians, said the standard should have been whether there was voter suppression.

Instead, Thompson said Lake had to show an extremely vague, high bar in order to prevail, that an election official intentionally caused the printer changes in order to change the results of the election, and that it did affect the outcome. He explained away many of the disturbing election anomalies as accidents or mere coincidences. He ignored the vast majority of them; in a show of arrogance, his opinion was less than eight pages long.

She points out that the media routinely claim that successful election lawsuits are as rare as hen's teeth. But as it turns out, there are a lot of precedents the judge could have looked at in making his decision. One example is cited below, but Alexander cites other cases as well.

Thompson said in his opinion that it was unprecedented in history to set aside an election like that, but he was mincing words. It’s happened many times. In 2013, in Pembroke, North Carolina, a new election was ordered for town council after it came out that at least two candidates helped bring people to the town's early voting location who were ineligible to vote. In 2018, in Sharpsburg, North Carolina, a judge merely cited “an irregularity” as enough to order a new election. There, only 20-25 voters were alleged to have been disenfranchised.

Attorney Tom Renz analyzed the decision throwing out Arizona Secretary of State candidate Mark Finchem’s similar election lawsuit and came to a similar conclusion, calling the judge’s reasoning “absolute garbage.”

You will want to read Rachel Alexander's analysis. What she has turned up is that Lake's election rigging was a a result of a concerted effort by the Arizona Democrat party and its many tentacles including the media and the lawyers and judges in Arizona. And it is not just Arizona. What Kari Lake's lawsuit has revealed is that for Republicans, there is no justice any more. If we don't stop them, we are becoming a one party nation.  At what point to we become Stalinist?