The Dec 7 order denying injunctive relief (google.com) is a steaming pile of abandonment of duty. Judge Parker (gannett-cdn.com) never reaches the merits of any of the allegations or even attempts to review newly discovered evidence after initial complaint filing; e.g. voter machine audits and error finding.
The denial order instead relies on procedural grounds only: lack of standing, lack of subject matter jurisdiction, mootness, and laches. Those items translate as "you can't bring this case, I couldn't hear it or decide it if you could, and even if I could it doesn't matter anyway because the time has passed for any relief to be granted."
It never mattered at all what the audit discovered with those machines. It was never going to be heard anyway. The only reason for the AG to now seek sanctions and ethical violations against the attorneys involved is to shut them up after the fact. This whole process has been sickening to watch since the beginning.
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