Timeline for If Trump's legal challenges to the 2020 elections are so bad, why haven't the courts ruled them as frivolous?
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| Nov 26, 2020 at 1:19 | vote | accept | Allure | ||
| Nov 23, 2020 at 17:55 | history | edited | feetwet♦ |
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| Nov 23, 2020 at 14:40 | comment | added | Comic Sans Seraphim | @Allure Fair point- that explains why they migrated it. | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 13:07 | comment | added | Allure | Heh, I'm sure Trump supporters would look at the question title and say it's Trump bashing. "Trump's legal challenges aren't bad!", etc. | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 12:58 | comment | added | Comic Sans Seraphim | I think that Law doesn't want this question. It's Trump support- send it back to Politics where that stuff usually is. | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 12:49 | answer | added | hszmv | timeline score: 8 | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 11:10 | history | edited | MWB |
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| Nov 23, 2020 at 9:38 | answer | added | Mozibur Ullah | timeline score: -4 | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 9:33 | history | migrated | from politics.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Nov 23, 2020 at 9:33 | comment | added | CDJB | I've migrated this to Law.SE - I think on the balance of things that while this is clearly related to politics, an answer would seem to require an understanding of the legal system and the behavior of the courts, and the users of Law.SE are probably better equipped for that. | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 7:13 | comment | added | phoog | @Fizz Cohen was disbarred because the NY State bar automatically disbars convicted felons (and Cohen was not convicted of perjury but under 18 USC 1001). But there are other grounds for disbarment than having been convicted of a crime. | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 7:04 | comment | added | phoog | @Fizz practically all what cases? The majority of the cases filed by the Trump campaign that I've read about have been filed in federal court, for example the one that was recently decided in Pennsylvania. | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 4:58 | comment | added | Looking for loopholes | And appanretly that kind of standard won't be met by Trump's meritless lawsuits law.com/njlawjournal/2020/11/11/… | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 4:39 | comment | added | Looking for loopholes | Note for instance that en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cohen_(lawyer) was disbarred, but for the (greater presumably) offence of perjury to Congress. | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 4:31 | comment | added | Looking for loopholes | Do note that there have been some attempts to have Trump's lawyers disbarred hudsonreporter.com/2020/11/20/… however such proceedings are not adjudicated off the cuff when a silly lawsuit is rejected, i.e. there's some due process, and presumably there's some benefit of the doubt accorded to lawyers. | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 4:27 | comment | added | Looking for loopholes | You link to some Federal statues (mostly targeting tax evasion), but practically all cases were in state courts. I don't know if US states have equivalent "frivolous lawsuit" standards. The q is better suited to law.SE as from a political point of view it doesn't matter much if Trump's lawyers get disbarred thereafter. Most Trump election lawsuits have been dismissed quickly. | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 1:11 | comment | added | Allure | @NumberFile right, but as far as I can tell, there've been no penalties for the plaintiffs (which ought to apply if the cases are frivolous). | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 0:58 | comment | added | Number File | Haven't they tossed them out? | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 0:32 | history | asked | Allure | CC BY-SA 4.0 |