Why the Texas Election Suit Was Doomed (And Why They Filed It Anyway)
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This was one of my favorite thumbnails of the year.
@@LegalEagle same. Can't wait till January. Lot of good things coming then.
@@LegalEagle Non fact-bound legal argument is my favorite 2020 quote.
@@rickwalker8241 none zero is mine lol
@@LegalEagle 😂😂😂🤘
I love living in Texas. Born and raised here. But you know how sometimes even though you love your family you kinda don't like them?
Same here. But I don't love OR like our slimy Attorney General.
As a Tennessean I totally feel you on that.
Yeah just stick to the cities and you’ll be fine, and don’t worry one day we’ll be blue at this rate
@45Kimber1911A1 damn that’s a BIG downgrade
You mean like when a family member says, "I'll forgive you for not liking Trump, because you're family." And then it turns out they've been stealing thousands of dollars from the family, and using their dead mother's credit cards? ...Or is that only the hypocrites my in my family?
If a lawyer can argue "the fraud is so well hidden that you can't even see it" well damn, i can be a laywer too
Think of all the stuff you could apply this reasoning to XD
If it's hidden so well that even the most powerful tools can't uncover it, then it didn't happen.
It's a bit like God, really. Totally undetectable, therefore more "real". Bizarre thinking - I will not call it logic.
Yes, your legal education was so good that it prevented you from passing any of the required exams, making you even more qualified than anyone with an Ivy League law degree.
Bigfoot is so well hidden, it has to be real
The majority dismissal: "This lawsuit is stupid, we won't hear it."
Justices Alito and Thomas: "In our opinion, we should hear it, but only so we can smack it in the dirt."
The supreme court do enjoy reminding people how dumb they are.
@@ethanscully3455 Or made a CZcams video reacting to it.
@@Ostentatiousnessness What? this lawsuit was insane. I have no clue what you are talking about.
@@Jartran72 Read what the OP wrote. That’s what I’m referring to.
I mean those two justices subscibe to the idea that they must take the case if it's a state v state claim. If that were true, it could mean a state (or multiple states) could grind the US Supreme Court to a halt to hear every problem one state has with another.
Huge question here: why the hell does anyone have a thousand dollar pen, pens are literally the most frequently stolen item, you shouldn’t spend too much money on them
Not even stolen, they get lost all the time. The number of pens that I've bought far outnumber the number of pens I've thrown away.
@@lisahenry20 true, but that is because they are seen as disposable and numerous, so you don’t keep track of them. It’s because you don’t care and it is really only a minor inconvenience if you lose one but actually need it in the moment. Now, if you are some fancy lawyer or banker and have a $1000 pen as some status symbol, you are much more likely to keep track of that specific pen.
Apparently it was a gift from the lawyer's wife. Note to self: Terrible gift idea.
@@LV_223 Reminds me of the American psycho business card scene
Some people like me tend to hyperfixate on novelty items
I can’t explain why but I’m order to do my creative writing, I need one of my novelty notebooks
So maybe you’d want a novelty pen for you to specifically use for a creative or important purpose
Especially when you struggle with art block and need weird special motivation
How to sum up SCOTUS response
7 Justices: Lol, no.
2 Justices: Nah, let's hear them out, then laugh them out.
more like:
7 Justices: Lol, no.
2 Justices: Nah, let's give them oportunity to ridicule themselves, then have the people laugh them out.
@@PacMonster0 Alito and Thomas in their statement specified that they would have granted no other relief. Yes, they're ultra-conservative, but they're not completely mentally deranged like Trump and his "legal team".
The 2 justices don't have any sort of scheme or motive about this suit in particular. They literally just say the same thing to every state brought case against another state. They would have said the same thing if the suit was a recipe for chocolate chip cookies. It's a longstanding beef with original jurisdiction interpretations itself and nothing to do with the case, hence "We have no opinions on anything else"
@@PacMonster0 Well let me put it this way, those two are pretty big states rights justices as well. This Texas case would have demolished the concept of states rights’ to run their own elections. Trump and Paxton might not see past their own petty moment but Alito and Thomas are smart enough to know that what Texas was demanding would have led to all sorts of consequences for red states like California suing Texas for having overly strict requirements on voting registration and early voting or various red states being too strict on ex-felons not being able to vote or Maine suing states because they’re not using ranked choice, etc. Not to mention once you allow a State to sue another State over how they run elections you open the door to things like California suing Texas because they think its abortion restrictions are too cumbersome or states with strong labor laws suing “right to work” states. Alito and Thomas are ideologues but they’re not legal morons like Trump.
And don’t get me wrong, I totally think Thomas is the worst justice on the court. There’s a reason he’s been in the minority so many times. So I do think it’s telling that even Thomas and Alito didn’t actually dissent in the order on the standing issue. They could easily have added in, for instance, if they felt they were correct that they did believe Texas had standing. Their silence on that is a pretty deafening rebuke of the suit considering how often they favor “conservative” cases (and shows just how un-conservative this case actually is.)
@@gavinjenkins899 state regulated chocolate chip cookies recipe, now with 30% more minimum sentencing!
"pardon me I'm here to deliver a lawsuit" - "oh, that's no problem" - "no I mean, pardon me"
LOL
😂🤣
genius
Hah!
Bingo.
Looking back at this suit, the most baffling thing about it is is still the claim that the "fraud" was so good that it was undetectable. I would really like to hear the reasoning of how they would differentiate between fraud that is undetectable and fraud that didn't happen.
Also if it's undetectable how did they detect it?😂
"...how they would differentiate between fraud that is undetectable and fraud that didn't happen."
Oh, that's easy! Fraud that didn't happen results in their preferred candidate being elected. Fraud that's undetectable results in their preferred candidate being defeated. (Yes, I'm being sarcastic.)
@@calamityjean1525 You're being sarcastic, but you nailed their 'reasoning' 100%.
@@IstasPumaNevada That was the idea. Thank you for noticing. I'm glad you liked it.
@@IstasPumaNevada Thanks!
I'm abroad and I heard people say:
"America is amazing. They can feed themselves despite so much stupidity."
I know. The past 4 yrs have been an incredibly embarrassing time for the majority of Americans. I have a T-shirt that says “I apologize for our president” & then repeats the quote in dozens of different languages, ensuring citizens in most countries can read my expression of sincere apology.
Ouch...that kinda stings. I guess the truth does hurt.
Sounds like an idiot to me the Us isthe strongest nation on the planet of course they can feed themselves sounds to Me like they are upset they aren’t the global hedgemon.(I’m british btw)
Americans are good at compartmentalizing. When it comes to certain political beliefs and facts, they just open the stupid drawer.
JS Mariani PRECISELY! You nailed it. I think it’s largely because there are certain emotionally charged & divisive topics that have become the rallying cry for political parties-immigration, abortion, gun rights etc. As a result, a shockingly large # of people vote along party lines solely due to these issues. I know many who would choose to vote in someone who is clearly incompetent vs a Rhodes Scholar, as long as the imbecile is anti-abortion or pro-guns etc. Intelligence & rational choice seems to have taken a holiday.
"Non fact-bound legal argument" now that's the most Republican thing I heard all day.
Hey now at least it has an official name.
@@davidvanderbrook3988 There is a non-zero number of people claiming non-fraud in a non fact-bound lawsuit thous Trump wins. Texas Logic
I love that despite having a majority in the Supreme Court the right wing hasn’t been able to pass one of there law suits. Serves them right that they can’t sway democracy
@@rickwalker8241 ROFL that's awesome. I think you could get a job in DC well until January 20th. After that you become unhireable.
@@davidvanderbrook3988 I'm afraid there is no place for common sense in DC right now or in the foreseeable future.
"AG of Texas is suing democracy, unsure as to why" -NotTheOnion
a state going against the constitution in a federal election negatively impacts all states.
@@ebolachanislove6072 A wonderfully succinct expression of why Texas's lawsuit is not just bogus but dangerous.
The Trump admin was the worst thing that could have happened to the The Onion. Actually News headlines became indistinguishable from satire.
Yes, the USA is not and never has been a democracy. We are a constitutional Republic! Democracy can in fact be sued here
@@alex123bob9 Republic and Democracy aren't mutually exclusive we, in fact, have elements of both just cause one doesn't lean your way doesn't mean you can sue it
If that "fraud is too good to see" case had won, I'd sue all the major lotteries. Their fraud was soooo good (and systematic) that you can't tell that I actually won!
Trump stole billions of dollars from me personally. He was so good at it that there is no evidence or memory on my part that I ever owned the money.
You might be on to something....
A “doctor who” and “the good place” reference in one sentence, impressive
RIGHT?
I recognized the DW reference, but I don't know anything about The Good Place. Care to enlighten me?
@@Twisted_Code At some point in The Good Place it's explained that time in the afterlife doesn't flow in a straight line as it does on Earth, but instead doubles back and loops around on itself in a way that happens to look like the name "Jeremy Bearimy" written in English cursive.
LegalEagle 2017: "Hey, im a real lawyer, isn't this cool to look at how tv shows handle law!"
LegalEagle 2020: "Hello, welcome to the continuing discussion of how a corrupt president and his enablers continue to try and overthrow an election and install a dictator."
Reality is crazier than fiction, welcome to 2020
The TV shows have better arguments than the Republicans these days
50 or so years in the future, there are going to be books and shows about what happened in the last few years... and people will say, "it is unrealistic, they are just playing it up to make fun of the president"... and others will go.. "no, we have actual footage of him doing this exact thing, here is is hoop-shooting paper towels to a bunch of people that lost their homes, giving a smile and thumbs up to a baby that just lost its parents, drawing an extended line on a hurricane map"... the other person will say, "Ok, Ok but you can't tell me that he invited a pillow maker and a woman that believes in incubi/succubi demon diseases to back up an untested and unproved drug during the COVID press conferences"... and the other person will just laugh and laugh.
@@scoobiusmaximus9508 has Texas considered using Bird Law?
Honestly, he is one of the few people who keeps the discussion sane and based in reality. Legal Eagle and Beau of the fifth column are mandatory watching.
"Hey Legal Eagles, it's time to think like a politician."
Do... do I HAVE to?
No... But if you do decide to a nail gun aimed at the pre frontal cortex helps.
You're already off to a good start. Unless someone gives you money, you don't have to do a damn thing
Objection! I believe that is an oxymoronic statement...sometimes without the oxy.
@@MrUndersolo LOL! Ace Attorney spotted!
"Hey Legal Eagles, it's time to think like a politician."
Isn't... that how we got into this mess to begin with?
“Ken Paxton is coming for your votes, and he’s coming for your pens” is one of the greatest things I’ve ever heard
That should be used as ads for the pen maker 🤣
All I saw when I read that is "Ken Paxton is coming for your pens"is. XD
"It's time to think like a politician."
Well, bottle of scotch...we got some work to do.
I believe that's thinking like President Trump's personal attorney.
Thinking as a politician sounds like a contradiction to me.
"We want states' rights when it favors us, but the federal government should step in when it doesn't!"
"we don't confirm supreme court appointments in an election year, unless it's from our party"
I've been watching the antics of the UK Government in relation to Brexit, and I'm experiencing an American version of deja vu here.....
Honestly pointing out the hypocrisy is almost pointless. They know they don't mean what they say, their supporters know they don't mean what they say, and we know they don't mean what they say.
The point is simply and exclusively that they will say and do whatever possibly might rig the system in their favor, damn any standards of conduct or morality. Not only do they not care what we think about it, their supporters actively approve of them doing literally anything in service of winning, because that's all that matters to both of them: winning, and rubbing it in the faces of those idiots that care about things that aren't winning.
In other words, conservatives acting exactly as they have since the inception of this country.
I have been a registered Republican for 17 years (and will probably remain one out of a futile hope of changing things in the primary elections), but from my own observations this is spot on. The Republican party members that currently sit in federal and many state offices will at least part of the time vote for/institute conservative laws/actions, but the vast majority of them have demonstrably nothing in the way of principle and it is sickening.
"Texas AG Ken Paxton is still on the loose, and he's coming for your pens!"
Legal Eagle has by far the best ad segues on CZcams.
For a moment I misread the target of Ken Paxton's larceny.
I know right, so smooth and seamless lol
As a collector of fountain pens, this line struck me hard.
He does need to cheese it up a bit though, for comedy's sake, with the occasional sound of a screaming Eagle (similar to what the Colbert Report used).
He's good but he's no Internet Comment Etiquette with Erik. Just sayin'...
"Before we get into the legal analysis of this asinine lawsuit, I first need to explain the crazy process of our elections..."
I'm not a lawyer, but I'm having my own flashbacks of having to explain our crazy system.
"Why, yes, that IS a mugshot of the Texas Atty General."
Texans: Yeah, we're not surprised.
why is he STILL Atty General? why hasn't he demanded that the charges be dismissed or the trial take place?
@@CearaRed Because Texas has made sure that Republicans will stay in charge in and they will never go after Paxton
Is he as crooked as his smile?
@@janisdeluca3028 more so…
Honestly, the man is an embarrassment to the entirety of my home state and needs to be voted out ASAP so he can face justice.
@@CearaRed ask the latinos (Not to be racist, just that they're the main swing voters) and the Pope
The amount of gaslighting that has gone on is properly disturbing.
In what way
@Aaviskar Parasor Im still confused. How is saying that Trump won is "gaslighting?
@@andrewlanke7563 it revolves around the election being illegitimate despite no evidence of fraud beyond a normal absolutely miniscule amount and court cases over things that the lawyers admit under oath are basically flat out lies, like republican election monitors not being allowed despite actually being present and monitoring the election.
@@andrewlanke7563 To gaslight is to undermine other's reality and make them doubt what they heard is true. When Trump repeatedly claim that he won the election, he is gaslighting the country by trying to convince them that the Biden winning is fake and casting doubt in that.
@@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat i know what Gaslighting is. I was wondering in what way was this post indicating. Was he saying Trump is gaslighting, or is he saying this video is gaslighting Trump
“Timey-wimey, Jeremy bearimy.”
Ok then, hit us with the one-two like that, I see you.
Dr. Who and the Good Place in one phrase, impressive nerdery
NERD!
And yet I knew both references too... :-)
It’s when I finally subscribed to this channel.
DR WHOOOOOO
I had that exact thought!
It's not odd to see Texas doing this. I'm surprised their excuse for why they're doing this wasn't that they're StAnDiNg tHeIr gRoUnD.
A high-ranking Texan read your post and thought, “THIS!!!!”
@@JoeOvercoat I often wish Texas actually pulled that "veiled" threat. The state is basically a micro-nation, let's be real here. So let's assume they just succeeded...
And while riding on their **FREE TEXAS** high, the realization would set in of "Oh crap... We're a landlocked nation literally surrounded by two larger ones who don't care for us very much...
(Sorry Texans, I do judge you by virtue of being Texan. I was born in New York, I have that right. I'd rather clown on you than Jersey any day but you're way more insufferable than even the smell of New Jersey.)
@@XXMatt0040XX Texas has hundreds of miles of coastline and many ports.
@@XXMatt0040XXTexas isn’t land locked, you silly yank.
After watching this nonsense, I have so so so much respect for what Al Gore did in 2000
Sorry but I was in First Grade at the time and I specifically remember looking at presidents and thinking "I'd vote for that guy (Washington) because he's got a sword!"
So I don't know what exactly you mean.
@@JaelinBezel From what I remember what happened is that in 12000 (or 2000) the election came down to roughly 500 votes in Florida deciding whether Florida as a whole would go to Al Gore or Bush. This margin was so small that after a month of recounts there still wasn't a conclusive winner and the Supreme Court finally settled the matter in Bush's favour.
Al Gore had the grace to accept this ruling, which is now in sharp contrast to Trump and his followers attempting to twist the law into a pretzel in an attempt to overturn the results of the election. This despite over fifty legal cases having failed to provide substantial evidence of fraud in any of the swing states, and SCOTUS has made it clear that they're not going to give Trump what he wants unless his legal team shapes up and presents something worth investigating.
@@filipwolffs yeah and more than that it was an actual reason
Gore accepted the results for the good of the country like every candidate before. 2020 was a taste of what happens when a charismatic leader puts himself before the continued functioning of the country.
@@robertpetrovich1923 Trump isnt charismatic. Hes sociopathic
"It's time to think like a politician."
Hold on, I'm not drunk enough yet.
I haven’t committed enough crime, yet.
I haven't got any coke for that
I haven't learned to do absolutely nothing yet.
But I'm not a sexual deviant...
That made me chuckle, because the first time I got to meet a Representative, it was a party in DC, she was thoroughly drunk, nearly crushed me in a hug, gave me her card, and set up for me to use the underground entrance into Congress to watch her take the floor the next day. I actually showed up (I was curious if it'd work), and I was stunned that I was allowed into her office, then got to use the underground passages into the building. (I'm pretty sure that the next morning she had no clue who I was, but she honored her drunken promise.)
Not even a year later, she lost her seat after showing up to a session of Congress drunk off her tits.
That was my first impression of Congress. Drunks who make policy while nursing hangovers. 🤣
"think like a politician"
I'm sorry, Devin, I have a job as a programmer and my ability to think logically and rationally is critical for keeping myself housed and fed.
Oof
As an engineering graduate I’m cracking up 😂😂😂
I think I can guess his response. Sustained.
Unlike for a politician, especially a Republican one, for whom it would be extremely detrimental and likely condemn them to the poorhouse.
Maybe think as someone who is responsible to program bots writing phishing mails? Closest to the mindset of a republican I can think of in this area.
i know "i'll see you in court" is just a thematically appropriate sign-off, but i can't express enough how much i don't actually want that to happen
"This legal brief is Sovereign Citizen level absolute garbage nonsense..."
I would love to see this channel do a Real Law Review on the Sovereign Citizen movement, and all the absolute garbage nonsense associated with it.
Oh, god, they're an absolute gold mine of foolishness. I've seen people across the board dunk on them, and for good reason.
"If I give the right speech at the right time I'll never get in trouble when I break laws!" -sovcits
Wait what is the sovereign citizen movement
@@Coreyhq23 TL;DR, people believe that they are not beholden to their nation in any way, mostly so that they don't have to pay taxes.
@@jimmyseaver3647 And to expand slightly on what you said, these people give prepared obnoxious speeches to the simplest questions.. like who needs a paragraph when asked their name and birth date.. sometimes I wonder if being a sovcit requires you to go out of your way to sound as smug and unlikable as you can manage
"Time to think like a politician"
...... but I actually graduated High School.
In Trump's case, more like "Time to think like a conman".
@@ErebosGR u mean "toddler"
@@ibrahimbashir6780 Toddlers are not malicious.
@@ErebosGR you have not met many toddlers then
Mitch Haelann
_""Time to think like a politician""_
"...... but I actually graduated High School."
It's better if your parents buy you a Degree in something too.
21:57 "'Sovereign Citizen'-level absolute garbage nonsense" is the single greatest phrase I've heard in a long time.
It's honestly been a long time since I've heard a peep about Sovereign Citizens, probably because their arguments cut frighteningly close to what counts as mainstream legal "controversy" in 2020 I guess
Well they made up hundreds of thousands of instances of fraud, why stop there? Might as well make up some new states while they're at it lol
"We're all dumber for having read it"
Loving the Billy Madison paraphrase there.
@zhuull1 Honestly most of us SovCits mind our own business, what you often see on the internet is mostly the wackos who actually don't know what a SovCit is. Education Time: A Sovereign Citizen is a member of a political movement of people who oppose taxation, question the legitimacy of government, and believe that they are not subject to the law. I live in New Jersey, on one of the Native American reserves- we have our own government and laws and often for major crimes we call the actual police.
Objection: when you arrive from the future, you're supposed to be naked. I mean, hey, I don't write the rules. James Cameron does.
Hold it: Maybe his time-travel is compatible with inorganical matter. Maybe it works on different principle while achiveing similar results.
Oh, _that's_ why he warned that the video would be too sexy for children!
The Texas AG looks like he keeps candy in the glove compartment of his windowless panel van.
"It's time to think like a politician!"
Something's leaking out of my ear.
Great, that means you're doing it right!
Or your hair is crying dye
Oil?
Could it be the ectoplasm of your soul?
Too much stupidity can hurt one's brain, as Dr. House will tell you.
Devin: "We're all dumber for having read it"
Closed Captions: "we're all dumber for having reddit"
Me: "hehehe, true"
Haha funni caption go brrr
Billy Madison was a nice touch - it's like Billy was the guy that came up with all these lawsuits. "Fraud exists because the penguin said so!"
Either way sounds accurate.
Devin is so entertaining.
Me a redit user, (heck I've even posted original content): true
Legal Eagle: "It's time to think like a politican."
me with a horrified look on my face: "But I don't want to!"
I have enough thoughts I'd rather forget having, but I'll make an exception for Devin
Think nasty, think nasty, think nasty...
"the only place we can be heard is the supreme Court"
He said on national television....
As a Texan, I can’t believe they did this. What a waste of time and money. How humiliating. Edit: Actually, Sen Thune, Texas not liking being told what to do, but feeling they have complete authority to tell other institutions and individuals what to do is pretty on brand.
I agree
Me too-
Thanks for being reasonable
From Lubbock, Tx: This. Exactly this.
As a Texan, no I believe it.
"Time to think like a politician"
But... I'm capable of changing my mind when presented with independently confirmable factual evidence
But are you capable of changing your mind when presented with a large quantity of money?
double that large sum of money and I'll change my mind 😁😁
Politicians are better at this than the average voter.
YOU FLIP FLOP! GUYS HE CHANGED HIS MIND! WE NEED TO VOTE HIM OUT!!!
Fr though, I’m sick of this idea that if politicians change their stances that they’re inherently a “flip-flop.”
0:23 - You have _perfectly_ replicated the tinnitus I hear when I subconsciously clench my jaw muscles. Congratulations sir, now everyone knows my pain.
You have to clench your jaw for that? I might need to go get my ears checked 😅
Texas also had a single ballot drop off per county. So in Texas there were 214 ballot boxes for mail/absentee voters. (I look at mail balloting as a means to acquire a ballot, not return it. Because I have 32 ballot boxes in my county, most easily accessed, two within two miles, or “walking distance.”)
Imagine a single drop off box in a community of millions.
Estoppel: Asking Dad after Mom already said no.
Make sure dad doesn’t know mom said no first.
@@tinaloye2014 Is this legal advice?
Andrew Melnikov yes but beware it can be classified as fraud 😂
This is both hilarious and the best succinct analysis of this I have read to date. On top of that, you have probably nailed when and how Trump developed this tendency to begin with!
Gestappel: Pestering mom relentlessly until she breaks down and says okay
Conservatives: We want state rights.
Also Conservatives: Let's meddle on other states.
Spoilers: it's _never_ been about states rights.
much like how evangelicals only want freedom of religion for themselves and not for others, conservative states only want states rights for themselves and not for others.
Boy, doesn't that call it exactly right!
@@dynamicworlds1 👏👏👏
It's not that conservatives don't want a nanny state, they just want to be the nanny, or maybe the professor.
Al Gore being a chad: "I disagree, but I accept the decision that I have lost. Congratulations, President-Elect Bush."
Republicans being hypocrites? Tell me it isn’t true!
Don't worry Trump supporters, it’s not over yet.......there’s still Judge Joe Brown, Judge Judy, Judge Mathis, Judge Dredd, The People’s Court, Night Court, food court, basketball court, tennis court, etc.
You forgot the kangaroo court.
They should go straight to the top of the Judge totem pole and appeal to Judge Reinhold. He got over his disbelief in Santa Claus, he might be able to believe their craziness.
All of these Trumpists claim to believe in a God who will be their final judge. If they ever end up in front of that God they believe in, then they will definitely regret their decisions.
I need my VCR repaired so I can watch my old Night Court tapes again
I lol'd, so hard, at this comment
I’m a proud Texan. But I’m an American first. We ain’t all idiots.
I'm a Texan before I'm an American and this is still insane. This isn't in Texas's best interests, it's in Paxton's and makes us look bad. We should care more about Paxton's corruption and Abbot's undermining Texas stability for Wall Street profits.
People and communities first. Care more for your local and regional elections.
It's true. You do have the best onion rings in the country. Also tasty barbecue, various other meats, and a very good german restaurant with superb homemade rootbeer. Some would complain that I'm reducing things to food. I would respond that food is the only truly universal language, and thus the most important cultural mark.
@@hopelesslydull7588 Same here. Paxton is a crook, Cruz is a crook, Patrick is a crazy, our state is a mess.
As a Floridian, I feel this. DeSantis wants to play 'MyLilDictator' with Florida over here, and the legislature mostly lets him.
@@hopelesslydull7588 please do the rest of us a favor and help vote these corrupt guys as soon as you can. They’re not only messing with Texas, but they’re screwing up America’s political system and faith in elections
I’m a N. Carolina Democrat, and I’m glad AG Stein got re-elected and file a brief in defense of the swing states.
When people file complaints full of ridiculous allegations and ask for ridiculous remedies, judges tend not to want to take any of it seriously. There are some valid legal arguments regarding how some states conducted their elections. But the remedy is not to throw out the elections, or throw out all the mail in ballots. A good instructive case is one of the Pennsylvania cases. There, two mail in voters had their votes rejected for technical deficiencies, and they lived in counties that did not let voters “cure” minor deficiencies. While other counties allowed such “cure.” Those voters alleged a violation of equal protection, but they didn’t sue their own county election officials, they sued those of the large city counties that did allow cure. The remedy they requested, to throw out the election or all the mail in ballots, is totally out of proportion to the harm claimed. The judge ruled that there was no violation of equal protection, but even if there was, the remedy would be to allow those voters (and possibly all voters in that situation) to cure their ballots, and for that they needed to sue those counties that did not allow cure. So not only did they sue the wrong defendants, they asked for a ridiculous remedy that no court would ever grant.
GOP: "We're for states' rights!"
States: "OK." *decide their own election processes*
GOP: "No not like that!"
Why haven't you all ban the republican party? They are against people.
@@rajanikumari2080 Because half the people would grab their shotguns if we did.
Also GOP FCC: We don't have authority to decide on net neutrality. States: So we have authority and we are going to regulate it. FCC: No. You cant't do that. Because reasons.
@@rajanikumari2080 Because banning parties is something authoritarians do. Loathsome as they are, banning the GOP would just be playing into their hand.
@@gaiusjuliuspleaser And the Democrat party is any better?
Me: "Oh, so it's like double jeopardy." Devin: "It's like double jeopardy but for civil cases." Me: "YES! I FINALLY understand one piece of legal jargon!"
@@gergenthequietmetalhead4226 Says a person cannot be tried twice for the same crime
@@gergenthequietmetalhead4226 In general, in countries observing the rule of double jeopardy, a person cannot be tried twice for the same crime based on the same conduct. If a person robs a bank, that individual cannot twice be tried for robbery for the same offense.
I think it’s to stop judges piling on count after count when it could just be simplified i.e. instead of “this person committed 14 acts of robbery and this person gets 2 years behind bars per count of robbery” it’s “this person committed a number of robberies and will be sentenced to 28 years in prison” or something like that. I’m unsure though, I know a little UK law but I know hardly anything about US law
@@AmazinglyAwkward Well, say the person had a wild night out in December, stole a car and crashed it into a store. Sure there are a lot of different crimes involved in that, and you can be charged with them. However, if the prosecutor screws up the defendant escapes conviction for that particular incident, the prosecutor can't then drag them back to court for it. If you steal another car in January, however, they're free to charge you again because it' a different incident. You don't get off scot free of all times you stole a car, only the charges from a particular incident or set of incidents included in a particular indictment. Sometimes they'll roll a bunch of related charges together to save time/effort because it's just simpler on everyone to have a single court date to handle the charges. So in the states we DO have "14 counts of robbery" etc, but only to keep from having to have people show up on 14 different days, especially when a lot of the witnesses and evidence would overlap.
@@wordforger ah, thank you for the clarification!
@@AmazinglyAwkward Double jeopardy (as I understand) isn't so much about the judge piling on, but to prevent a 'malicious state' from dragging you back into court over and over again for the same crime because you keep getting off. In some older situations, once you got off, if your star witness suddenly left town, they could arrest you again for the same crime, in the hopes of convicting you this time because your alibi fails ( or some other reason ). Double jeopardy prevents this and allows you to rest knowing that once exonerated the 'state' can't bring it up again.
1:24 How to tell someone you're a Doctor Who fan, without saying that you're a Doctor Who fan.
Okay, I don't know if you write the scripts yourself or if it's collab, but whoever just combined a Doctor Who reference with a Good Place reference is now my monarch and I will provide them with offerings of gratitude weekly.
As a Texan, I am incredibly happy to see such a well made video that exposes Ken Paxton’s crimes. He only remains in power due to corruption, party politics, and public ignorance, and I hope this can somehow aid in his defeat in 2022. Thank you!
A long prison term might also help in his defeat in 2022, but knowing the republicans....
@@mementomori7825 a man in jail serving as the top law enforcement official in the state, sounds like us 😅 fortunately I think it’s only a short amount of time before both parties have a chance at winning state wide elections here, maybe then they will actually have to *try* to find us some decent candidates.
Georgia has gone rebel. You have hope!
Good luck. As a Virginian, I'm rooting for you.
@@mementomori7825 Of course, if he _just so happened_ to shuffle off this mortal coil before Election Day 2022, then not even the Republicans would be able to get him into office...
I have tinnitus and thought for sure that "internal screaming" moment was just in my head 😞
Same, lol
Yep me too, too many loud rock concerts 🤘
Too many steam driven blowers.
Tinnitus keeps me from feeling alone.
What I love about your videos is the comfort in knowing that no matter how much the “truth” is disregarded, the law is the law, and at least for now it’s on the side of justice.
This was the most ridiculous lawsuit in history.
A true embarrassment to the nation.
"Think like a politician", that is, not at all in most cases.
politicians don't think they just do and leave someone else to clean up the mess.
brain promptly abandons body in an act of self-preservation...
Or far too much, but somehow still coming to the same conclusion as if they hadn’t thought at all.
Surely the application of cognitive ability implies one is grossly over-qualified for that position.
@@RatelRegalement Objection. Court machinations and intrigues do need a lot of brain power.
Just because it's a self-absorbed game about power between self-absorbed people, doesn't mean they are stupid.
Don't confuse total disregard for their voter base with stupidity.
"This is dangerous for Democracy."
GOP: "So free real estate?"
"President Trump doesn't have 20 years." Thank you for reminding me, I needed that.
haha
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Considering his age and general condition, he'll probably be lucky if he lives another 10 years.
@@tracychristenson177 We'll be lucky if it's less than 10.
@@Ericwvb2 The whole planet would be lucky if he lives less than a day later. :P
What I'm getting from this is very few people understand the role of the Courts. They aren't a general review body where you can take your complaint and they automatically have to look into it. The role of the Courts is to fashion as limited a remedy as possible against the person responsible for the plaintiff's injury. The plaintiff has to prove their case. All these people seem to think the SC can just step in and do whatever they want.
Be honest with us: There's no "Devin from the Future"; you just wanted to post a video with two fly suit changes.
*whispers* Endochino
That green tie is boss.
Loved that you said "fly" suits!!
He wanted to show off his new lightning powers 🙎🏻♂️⚡⚡⚡🙆🏻♂️
"My neighbor was robbed, and frankly, I take offence at that."
More like "my neighbor's family voted and decided to have pizza for dinner, but I think they should have tacos instead"
"My neighbours had their mower stolen and I'm too cheap to buy my own, and I borrowed theirs. I want to sue the theives for damages!"
But if they had Deep Sentinel...
That’s still reasonable and understandable
@@christopherparks2987 that actually a good way of looking at it. And damn, all of a sudden I have a craving for tacos.
You make the law easier to understand, and very informitive. Keep making these videos.
Man I'm having a blast learning how's the law works in this country, you can always count on LegalEagle for informant videos
“It all makes sense in a timey-wimey, Jeremy Bearimy kind of way”
Our man has watched the Good Place
Also Dr Who.
And Dr. Who, of course. A double reference.
Indeed.
Wait are likes worth points to get into the good place?
Timey wimey, Jeremy Bearimy, wibbly wobbly, stuff......
"Count every vote!"
"Except the ones for the other guy!"
-Trump supporters
Very dictator-y isn't it?
@@Markle2k
It certainly is.. and so far this scheme has worked perfectly, Trump supporters are at boiling point, apparently research before making up their minds is not on their agenda
Count every vote...that comes from us!
Let's be real, for a not insignificant number of people, "count every legal vote" means "count every white vote"
We cannot afford any delusions about what we're dealing with.
Literally
Devin all of your content is amazing ! Keep it coming, educating the masses is a thankless job but I consider myself lucky to find so many individuals like yourself willing to step up.
Okay, call out a thief as a thief, but who is out there making $1000 pens and why?
I love how he just referenced Doctor Who and The Good Place in a joke.
I haven't seen The Good Place. I'm aware of it, but I haven't seen it.
@@Narutonarutonaruto85 Man, that show will kinda change you.
"Time to think like a politician"
Me, exhausted from the Longest Election Ever and finals: sir i just don't know if i have it in me
You don't need to. No politician has it.
Just smile, lie a bit and pay people to smile next to you
I agree, it's now starting to be beating a dead horse. I vote Night Court the TV show, something fun. Enough politics, I’m so tired of hearing about them.
@Guy Panzerboss A politician needs to think about how to get votes going their way, which may require strategic and tactical planning. Being factually right has less value in that game.
You know it's good when it opens with "an hour after I finished making this, the relevant stuff was all gone, but I made the video anyway"
4:40 - Chapter 1 - Does the case satisfy the threshold requirements for supreme court jurisdiction ?
7:35 - Chapter 2 - Standing
9:10 - Chapter 3 - Estopel
9:40 - Chapter 4 - Latches
10:40 - Chapter 5 - Political question
11:15 - Chapter 6 - Mootness
11:55 - Chapter 7 - Remedy
13:00 - Chapter 8 - The merits
14:55 - Chapter 9 - Electors clause
16:15 - Chapter 10 - Trump's motion to intervene
18:30 - Chapter 11 - Bad faith
25:45 - End roll ads
The real MVP
I'm Really late but thanks!
“Why it was filed anyway”
Desperation mostly
And, of course, lack of shame.
False hope to keep raking in those donations.
Paxton is trolling for a pardon. He's been under indictment since 2017 and there are a raft of new allegations from republican whistle-blowers in his office.
You know...
"All animals are equal - but some animals are more equal than others."
To say that they did. To say that they tried to play by the rules and that democrat rot was in every nook and cranny of the government. It will be justification for what is coming.
As a lawyer myself....how in the hell is Paxton still practicing while under a federal indictment? Why wouldn't the Texas Bar have suspended him while that shit was pending? Shame on the voters of of Texas for electing that crook, but shame on the Texas Bar Association for not doing its job to uphold the integrity of the profession.
Most excellent explanations in you videos. I will share widely, and can’t thank you enough for this fantastic public service!
this guys transitions to sponsors are amazing
This whole debacle seems like a large scale version of when a child complains to their parent to take action, but the parent can’t/shouldn’t do anything about it.
I was talking about how Trump has made all his supporters into shitty parents to a shitty child. Child throws a fit and says he's not getting his way. Supporter/shitty parents demand their child get their way and how dare you treat their child like this he's perfect and you're jealous and awful and terrible and shame on you give him everything he likes. To be fair this is kind of politics in general both politicians and constituents on both ends.
Except add in guns and death threats at not being able to make democrats second class citizens who aren't allowed to vote.
It's a spoiled Little Karen complaining to a helicopter parent that Little Jimmy got Skittles in his lunch bag. Not that Little Karen also wants Skittles, no, she just doesn't like them and thinks Jimmy should eat Snickers. So the parent complains about it at the PTA meeting, insisting Little Jimmy MUST have a Snickers, because that's what her Little Karen prefers. Luckily, the PTA (SCOTUS) can't force Little Jimmy to eat Snickers, and Little Karen (Trump) can eat lunch in the hallway if she doesn't like it.
This whole year in politics has been like America is the only child in a divorce between two parents who are both pretty terrible to be honest.
@@sailorstarfairy1 they're both abusive parents, but Biden doesn't beat me as badly, so I want to live with him.
“State’s rights” always has been code.
Mmmm I don't think that's what he's saying here. In this case states don't have rights to define the law in other states, so Texas, et. al should just shut up. There are cases where state rights are rightfully invoked.
@@biketickler65 I know what you mean, I think fizgizan was talking about the first time "State's rights" was mentioned in this video, about republicans usually caring about them, now calling for a nationalized voting criteria
@@biketickler65 name one. "States' rights" is code for "dem dang Colored people" and always has been, since the American Civil War.
I agree but i don't think thats the case this time. Could be wrong an willfully admit that if thats the case
@@biketickler65
Well, no, Devon didn't get into it.
But "states' rights," was code for "right to enforce Jim Crow laws," and other discriminatory practices.
That's what _this poster_ is referring to.
Texas is one state that has championed states' rights. Apparently our politicians here in Texas only believe in states' rights when it's convenient.🙄
I love the analysis and the various/humorous aides Devin uses to make his points. The opening [ Internal screaming] with that expression on his face is so priceless it deserves a trademark. I'd happily pay a reasonable royalty to get to use that image when its most appropriate.. so may applications... lol
11:05 "already planning a floor fight"
too real, Lawyer Stone. Too real.
they aren't blind to their own hypocrisy ; they don't care. they want to win and will try to do so by any underhanded means necessary.
Or possibly more specifically, the leaders don't care. The followers seem to be too devoid of the capacity to research anything
@@Lhikan634 The ones who are aware of their leader's hypocrisy see it as admirable
I thought my tinnitus was acting up for a sec there before I read " Internal Screaming".
Thanks, mio amico! Tutti amici of the law are happy!
Damn, 60 lost cases. President L for the fuckin lose. lmao
No, he didn't really clarify. He lost two dozen cases; the rest of the cases were lumped in private trump suits by citizens that wanted to sue with no evidence. He said 60+ to make it seem like he lost more.
@@jacoboflaherty5282 which the Trump campaign team orchestrated to make it look like they lost less cases...
@@jacoboflaherty5282 losing 24 cases doesn’t make him look much better.
@@SorowFame actually 61 of 62 cases lost or dismissed due to lack of merit.
Not gonna lie Devin, you missed the chance to make this themed around A Christmas Carol, the ghosts of legality past.
That sounds so awesome
Well, we do have the perfect Scrooge
If the fraud is "undetectable" then how would they know that it exists?
Easy. Hugo Chavez called Sidney Powell and informed her of the democratic plot, which he was orchestrating from beyond the grave (damn communists, they never die even after they're dead).
You can't, which of course means that there being no evidence of its existence is in fact evidence that it exists. QED, now give me my election please
They just feelz it in their -souls- , umm whatevers.
@@Markle2k bottom of jack boots
It's an unknown unknown. The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
6:50 "Trump doesn't have 20 years" - but we can hope that he will GET 20 years, hey?
I'm close to Leavenworth.
I'd visit just to throw peanuts to the orangutan "president".
@@rezzonater9554 😂😂🤣
i can visualize Trump in a Rykers Island uniform
Texas was more of an embarrassment than Florida in 2020. That's quite an achievement.
"It's time to think like a politician."
I'm not that attached to my soul but I'd still rather keep it, thank you very much.
"remember, when republicans liked state rights"
You've summed up a large set of of my confusion in a sentence, thank you LE
It isn't actually states rights that they like; they like using states rights as an excuse to block federal laws they don't like.
@@Anvilman Sorry if your I democrat, the below is how I feel about the representatives, but I didn't stop to consider if I was insulting you, til just now. Anyways, I used to be left leaning, since everyone got so extreme I don't know what I am now. But I do believe a lot of the "issues" are divide and conquer strategies of the elite.
Anyways, here's what I wrote first:
yup, donkeys and elephants are closer together than they'll admit.
We're a one party system with sub party's quiveling over bathrooms and fetuses with the goal of gathering every dime possible for the powers that be.
“Timey wimey, Jeremy Berimy...” Love it.
Oh, and the rest of the video was great, too.
to quote the chewbacca defense:
"It don't make no goddamn sense!!!"
haha -- it's a wookie mistake.
I feel the Chewbacca defense would carry more legal merit than all the other suits filed.
Why would a Wookiee, an 8-foot-tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of 2-foot-tall Ewoks?
@@mastadon6384 I mean...at least his actual argument had merit. They wouldn't live on that planet.
@@advancedideamechanics1568 Maybe the wookie is into size difference
supreme court: "texas does not have standing in this case"
texas lawyer: *stands up*
"Your honor, I've got that covered..."
SC: *chops off Texas legs*
@@Don-C.L. There goes the Alamo :(
I imagined this in an anime as a character named Texas flexing on an antagonist called the supreme court 😂
That court fight you talked about, well it became a little more than one, it was a whole riot.
And now they want it to be a war
Nice transitions. Keep growing!
I enjoy low-key savage Devin...his "shits to give" tank is running on empty.
He’s been on fumes all year it seems
Id love for trump fan to try to argue against it all though
me too
the closed captioning at 22:04 says "We're all dumber for having Reddit," when he actually said "we're all dumber for having read it,"
Either works . . .
Ehhhhhhhhhh..... is it?
Lol yes thank you this is the reason I went to read the comment section
¿Por qué no los dos?
The first time you said that ladies name, I could have sworn I heard "the crackhead" which would be a fitting name.
Yay, now the sign in my yard which says "Only cheap pens in this house." finally makes sense!