Remember how Ben Ginsberg, one of the Florida 2000 recount veterans on the Republican side who were parachuted in to help out the Coleman legal team, asked to be officially let into the legal proceedings with a pro hac vice plea? There have been some mutterings about how, if he’s supposed to be an officer of the court, it’s rather unseemly for him to be having the sort of blowhardish, horsepuckey-laden, grandstanding press conferences in which he’s been hurling all manner of factually-unsupported statements that he doesn’t dare utter in open court. There may well have been threats to have him sanctioned over his behavior. This would explain why he’s suddenly withdrawn his pro hac vice motion.
In other news: Team Coleman finally admits that the missing 130-odd Minneapolis ballots really did exist after all. This may well be a sign that they’ve given up arguing the facts and are now gearing up instead for their appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court. Hmmm — have even the RNC’s and RSCC’s deep pockets started to be depleted over this? I can’t imagine Norm setting up to wind things down if he was still flush with their cash.
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thank you, pw
For the nonlawyers among us. A motion pro hac vice is a request to the court to admit an attorney who does not belong to the bar in the court’s jurisdiction to practice (often as the attorney of record) in the case in question. Ginsberg isn’t a member of the Minnesota bar, so Normie’s lawyers filed a motion on his behalf asking that he be allowed to serve as (one of) Normie’s attorneys in this trial.
These things happen all the time in interstate divorce/custody cases. But Ginsberg ought to be conducting himself as an attorney rather than as a PR flack. Hence, rather than face court sanctions for having proven himself to be a jerk, they are withdrawing the motion. Since he’s not an attorney in the case now, he’s free to be as big a horse’s ass as he wants to be.
normie and his high falutin lawyers seem to asnt to play calvinball here
and this is the party that complains about judicial activism and nonexistent voter fraud
save those youtubes, folks
we’re gonna have a lot of chances to demonstrat repuglitard hypocrisy in the near future
who has done more to advance the cause of fradulent voting, ACORN, or norm coleman
while the repuglitards can’t produce a single illegal vote cast by any ACORN related voter, we got norm coleman advocating for HOW MANY ILLEGAL VOTERS ???
when we have a dispute about which party supports voter fraud, WE CAN GO TO THE VIDEO, FOLKS
I hope the repuglitards understand that their actions are going to hang around conservatives’ necks for THREE OR FOUR GENERATIONS
Thanks, Counsellor!
Thing is, I’m guessing that Ginsberg, who saw attorneys on his side get away with shutting down a Florida courtroom in the 2000 “Brooks Brothers Riot”, seriously thought he could pull similar crap in Minnesota and keep his pro hac vice status.
Perhaps Coleman hanging out with the GOP Senate caucus the other day in DC was really a break-up lunch: “We can’t go on like this. It’s not us, it’s you.”
IANAL, PW. I’m a statistician who has played with lawyers. Mrs. BC is a former paralegal and now a scholar of legal rhetoric (in the traditional Aristotelian sense of that abused word.)
If Ginsberg really thought he could pull that crap in a place like Minnesota, he’s a bigger idiot than I thought he was. I didn’t think that was possible, but apparently it is.
Republics always want to play Calvinball. There is nothing new about that at all.