Out, Damn Lie, Out!
Sidney Powell is out talking trash about Sidney Powell. Sidney Powell is trying to wipe blood off Sidney Powell’s hands. Sidney Powell is training for the contortionist olympics.
Come to find out, Sidney Powell is now saying that all her talk about how the election was stolen and how the voting machines were were part of that steal and she could prove it and by gawd the voting machines are a bunch of communists trying to slaughter Donald Trump and good Christian Americans … was ridiculous.
Sued for defamation by the voting-machine vendor in question, Powell is now scoffing in federal court at the idea that anyone could have taken her seriously. “Reasonable people would not accept such statements as fact,” Powell averred in her motion to dismiss the lawsuit.
Dominion voting machine makers sued her. Sidney Powell’s answer is that no reasonable person would have believed her. I agree with that but Sidney Powell, of all people, should know that there’s enough unreasonable people – 74 million to be almost exact – to cause plenty of trouble – January 6th to be a damn fact.
I’m not saying that this is bad lawyering, but damn, this sure ain’t good lawyering.
We haven’t heard from Rudy Giuliani yet but I imagine his response will be worth writing home about since Dominion is asking for one billion dollars damages. The pillow guy got sued, too.
The Tucker Carlson-Alex Jones defense — my lies and garbage were for entertainment purposes only — won’t fly with court filings. A lawsuit is not a TV show.
There will be disbarments, probably instigated by one of the judges whose time she wasted.
1Seems to me to be the lawyer equivalent of filing for bankruptcy. Sure, it might get you out of your current jam, but it seems that a large part of your success is built on your credibility. If your defense is “I have no credibility” then you’ve effectively torpedoed your career. Good luck with that. It’s a bold strategy. Let’s see if it works out for her.
2RE “There will be disbarments….” (1) reminds that without real consequences there is little determent to future misbehavior.
Let’s see some severe “odious actions have ramifications” please, for all that “stop the steal” tribe.
3Reasonable people don’t generally think lawyers are lying to them, either. If you lied to a judge, you’re likely facing disbarment. I have no problem with that. If you didn’t actually lie in court, I hope that your career is over for lying to everyone else.
4Sydney Powell is 65, almost 66. Explanations I’ve seen say she is defending against the damages by in effect, submarining her legal career.
Given a choice between paying actual and exemplary damages from personal funds versus becoming a disbarred attorney with a reputation for “tactical” statements which fall short of the truth, I can understand the choice. Ultimately, it may be the plan won’t work and she will have “both.”
5I’m practicing law without a license here, but isn’t that an admission of guilt, with maybe a mental impairment loophole?
6I’d say her legal career was pretty much over even before the defamation suit. Her response is correct in at least one regard; reasonable people would not have taken any of the kraken poop seriously.
While it is possible to find clients who are unreasonable and have money to pay lawyers, they are rather rare and the competition for them is fierce.
She was, apparently, a somewhat successful lawyer at one time, the question is, was she always crazy or is that a recent development?
I was reminded by a friend a few days ago of a successful lawyer we know who depended on his wife to run his office and keep him grounded. When she died fairly young, he fell apart and was eventually disbarred. My friend was bringing me up to date with him: he is now selling off assets and appears to be heading for bag-lady status.
The same considerations arise in the Lin Wood situation.
7What Powell and Giuliani were banking on was that the people they wanted to believe them — you know, all those unreasonable people — would have no clue about what’s going on in the courts now. And they were right — they won’t — because FOX, Newsmax and OAN certainly won’t air it.
Unfortunately for them, those aren’t the people who matter. The judges certainly DO know what they said and the consequences of what they said and that they merit at least censure if not disbarment.
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On a side note — on my first reading, I mistook this sentence
“Sidney Powell is training for the contortionist olympics.”
for
“Sidney Powell is training for the cartoonist olympics.”
Yeah, that fits too.
8If class action suits make sense, maybe we oughta have class defenses too. All of the failed trumpettes and insurrectionists could claim “Visions of sugarplums dancing in our heads”.
9Grandma Ada- you beat me to it. Sounds like the not guilty due to mental defect defense. That seldom works in murder cases let alone defamation civil suits. That’s why they’re in court because she was spewing false information as a living.
10I don’t think it sheltered Fox when they defended ftucker carlson saying no one should believe him because he’s entertaining. He’s also a bit sick in the head.