Schrodinger’s Conspiracy – the Dog Ate My Evidence

Back in February, I wrote about a lawsuit in Texas where the lawyer claimed massive conspiracy and fraud to prevent Trump from a second term of office. The defendants included the current President, Vice President, all members of Congress and others.

The fraud was so pervasive, he alleged, that the only viable remedy was to essentially abolish two of the three branches of government and replace them with a temporary “steward”. The situation was analogous, he said, to the Lord of the Rings trilogy where, and I’m quoting from the complaint here:

[T]he rightful King of Gondor had abandoned the throne. Since only the rightful king could sit on the throne of Gondor, a steward was appointed to manage Gondor until the return of the King, known as “Aragorn,” occurred at the end of the story. This analogy is applicable since there is now in Washington, D.C., a group of individuals calling themselves the President, Vice President, and Congress who have no rightful claim to govern the American People.

In legal circles, this lawsuit has been lovingly referred to a “Gondor I”. That complaint was subsequently dismissed and refiled as Gondor II. I noted at the time that this suit had zero likelihood of success.

Six months have passed and now the lawyer has approached the court stating he has a problem. From his pleading:

Essentially, Plaintiffs are requesting time to reevaluate and the chance to get a fresh start with an amended complaint that is workable under the circumstances.

Unfortunately, Plaintiffs have suffered severe setbacks in this case over the last few weeks as the result of a bad actor and saboteur in their own camp. Plaintiffs and counsel were assured many times over that financial resources and a cadre of co-counsel and legal staff were on the verge of being provided to give Plaintiffs the ability to litigate their claims against the vast array of Defendants in this case. Unfortunately, these assurances turned out to be empty promises presumably designed to lead Plaintiffs on and discredit their legitimate claims in this case.

To make matters worse, the same individual responsible for leading Plaintiffs on was also responsible for managing, reviewing, and summarizing much of the evidence being presented to Plaintiffs’ counsel from various witnesses to support many of the factual allegations in Plaintiffs’ pleadings. This individual has now parted ways with Plaintiffs’ legal team after being confronted on various suspected deceptions and is now refusing to turn over this evidence that was in his possession and that supports many of Plaintiffs’ claims in their pleadings. 

Yep. The dog ate my evidence. The Court is unlikely to have much sympathy for a lawyer who filed not one, but two, cases without having the evidence in his possession and is seemingly unable to obtain it elsewhere.

The lawyer has asked for a 90 pause in the proceedings to figure out what to do next. He has another problem not revealed in his pleading. He had sued more than 500 defendants who were supposed to receive legal service of process of the complaint. All of these attempts to comply with the service of process provisions were … defective.

So what we have here is what one commentator has called “Schrodinger's Conspiracy. Stop the steal is a widespread conspiracy with hundreds of people aligned to sabotage Trump. But it's simultaneously so surreptitious that evidence doesn't exist or was stolen.”

I said earlier that his lawsuit had zero chance of success. If anything, his odds have further diminished.