Ga. Voters Oppose State Officials’ ‘Attack’ on Fed. Judge
Ga. Voters Oppose State Officials’ ‘Attack’ on Fed. Judge
David Cross spoke to Law360 about Georgia voters challenging the state’s election methods expressing their opposition to a motion by state election officials, saying the officials publicly attacked the integrity of U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg after she criticized what she said was an attempt to depose her former law clerk.
Representing the plaintiffs, David said the defendants have “dragged this case out with obstruction, vexatious tactics, and many misrepresentations,” adding that lawyers for the officials have been hostile since 2019 in an attempt to frustrate the plaintiffs’ efforts and discredit the case publicly.
“Secretary [Brad] Raffensperger has publicly criticized Judge Totenberg on multiple occasions, wrongly dismissing her as biased when she actually has exhibited extraordinary patience with a lot of poor conduct from the secretary’s office and his lawyers,” David said. “Some of his lawyers have not been particularly professional in this case in a long time, which destroyed any real diplomacy with the state long ago.”
David also noted that the defendants have no rebuttal to the findings of the plaintiffs’ expert in regard to the alleged vulnerabilities of Georgia’s election system, and instead chose to attack the integrity of the plaintiffs, their expert and counsel, and the court.
“That they filed the motion for clarification at all was shocking given how trivial this issue is and given the motion misstates the facts,” David said. “They probably were embarrassed by how ridiculous their request to depose the clerk was, and so they’re trying to run from that now. But this is really about undermining public confidence in the court and painting themselves as victims of unfair treatment, which is highly misleading and inappropriate.”
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