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🗓️ 10 September 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is Michael Popoc Legal A.F. election interference, Fulton County, Georgia. |
0:05.6 | What could go wrong? |
0:06.6 | We've got a new lawsuit that's been filed by Julie Adams, who's one of five people who sits on the Fulton County Election Board and |
0:15.9 | this lawsuit that she filed which is pending before Fulton County Judge |
0:20.6 | Judge Robert McBurney has all the hallmarks of what we can expect from MAGA right-wing |
0:28.4 | activists and policy institutes in their attempts to so discontent and to try to overthrow the results of the |
0:35.8 | 2024 election using 20 to 2020 as its blueprint. This suit brought by one member of the Fulton County Election Board |
0:46.6 | against all the other members of the Fulton County Election Board tries to rely on a |
0:51.6 | 2020 constitutional law amendment in Georgia, which allows there to be an |
0:58.0 | exception to the general principle and general doctrine that a person can't sue a government under the doctrine of sovereign immunity |
1:06.2 | unless the government allows it to do so, gives it permission. That is the standard. However, |
1:11.8 | Georgia now allows for the suits against government and government entities if it's seeking what's called declaratory relief, meaning you're asking a judge to declare your rights. It's what we call a declaratory judgment suit, not a suit for damages. |
1:27.7 | He could have a component of it that has injunctive relief asking somebody, asking a judge to stop or stay or force a certain behavior, but that's the exception. |
1:37.5 | And riding behind this change in the law, MAGA right-wing groups like American First Policy Institute, AFPI, which is behind this lawsuit |
1:48.4 | being brought by one MAGA board member against the entirety of the board is trying to have a judge declare that what the |
1:57.3 | Georgia law says on the books, which is every county board shall must certify election results once the data and information has been |
2:07.5 | tabulated and certified by the employees, by the clerk, and by the people responsible for running the election, |
2:15.5 | they then have to, having reviewed it, they then have to certify it, shall certify it. |
2:20.4 | Well that's not what the plaintiff in MAGA want. |
2:23.0 | What they want is to have not mandatory ministerial acts, |
2:28.0 | the way that Mike Pence, the vice president, |
2:31.0 | in counting the Jan 6 electoral votes votes has been declared to have had, |
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