The Supreme Court filing on the Arizona elections lawsuit contains a number of shocking developments.

Kari Lake and Mark Finchem, both Republicans, on Thursday filed the Supreme Court appeal to ban the state’s use of electronic voting machine tabulators.

Attorney Kurt Olsen, who is working on the Arizona lawsuit, broke down the three major developments that shed more light on Maricopa County’s election malfeasance.

In April 2022, prior to the midterm elections, the two plaintiffs initiated legal proceedings against Arizona state and county election officials in federal court alleging that the voting machines lacked reliability and thus should not be authorized for use.

“Plaintiffs have a constitutional and statutory right to have their ballots, and all ballots cast together with theirs, counted accurately and transparently, so that only legal votes determine the winners of each office contested in the Midterm Election,” the complaint said.

“Electronic voting machines cannot be deemed reliably secure and do not meet the constitutional and statutory mandates to guarantee a free and fair election,” Lake and Finchem argued.

Kari Lake was a gubernatorial candidate, while Mark Finchem was the nominee for secretary of state in the midterm elections. Lake, now a Senate candidate, lost the governor’s election by a razor-thin margin, whereas Finchem lost by a more significant margin. Then Secretary of State Katie Hobbs certified her own gubernatorial victory against Lake and that of Finchem’s opponent in the secretary of state race Adrian Fontes.

U.S. District Judge John Tuchi dismissed the complaint, stating that the plaintiffs’ claims were “too speculative to establish an actual injury.”

The judge’s dismissal was upheld by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in October 2023, reiterating that Lake and Finchem’s assertions were speculative.

In a unanimous per curiam opinion, the three-judge panel determined that the suit contained an excessive number of hypotheticals that required proof. These hypotheticals included establishing security breaches in the election equipment, showing that the vulnerabilities were exploited, and proving that the security breaches affected the outcome of the election.

Lake and Finchem submitted a 210-page petition to the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, alleging that the chaos that transpired on Election Day in Maricopa County on account of erroneously certified vote tabulation machines prior to the 2022 election is a direct consequence of newly discovered evidence to that effect.

“Newly uncovered evidence also shows Arizona’s Maricopa County flagrantly violated state law for electronic voting systems—including using altered software not certified for use in Arizona — and actively misrepresented and concealed those violations,” the court filing said.

“Perhaps worse — although potentially unknown to Maricopa — the Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., systems used in Maricopa and almost thirty states have a built-in security breach enabling malicious actors to take control of elections, likely without detection.”

The Supreme Court filing pointed out that Maricopa County had “experienced a massive disruption with its electronic voting machines” during the 2022 general election.

“Evidence from Maricopa’s tabulator system log files presented to the Arizona Senate Committee on Elections showed that on Election Day, Maricopa’s vote center tabulators rejected over 7,000 ballots every thirty minutes beginning almost immediately after the vote centers opened at 6:00 am and continuing past 8:00 pm — totaling over 217,000 rejected ballot insertions on a day when approximately 248,000 votes were cast.”

The Supreme Court filing contains sworn affidavits from qualified witnesses to the election malfeasance in Maricopa County, including from election integrity expert Dr. Walter Daugherity:

Ballot Tabulation Failures: There was an extremely large number of ballot tabulation failures at the 223 voting centers in Maricopa County on Election Day, including 180,894 errors which were printer or system failures, as documented in the tabulator System Log files. A total of 138 of these 223 vote centers show a ballot insertion rejection rate of 20% or more, which is 100 or more times the EAC’s acceptable limit of 0.2%.

41. Timing of Ballot Insertion Errors: Across the county, over 7,000 ballot insertion failures occurred in almost every single 30-minute period for the entirety of Election Day, starting at 7:00 A.M. and continuing to 8:00 P.M., with a smaller number of failures prior to 7:00 A.M. and after 8:00 P.M. This was thus an enormous and continuous problem which did not get better overall during Election Day, despite numerous technicians’ making adjustments throughout the day.

42. Inconsistencies in the Redacted Cast Vote Record: 43 voting centers do not appear at all in the redacted CVR, but are listed in the County’s reconciliation report (attached as Exhibit C) as having been tabulated at Central Count instead of using the voting center results recorded on their memory cards,

43. Mismatched Signatures: With 99.999% confidence, the projected number of mismatched signatures in 2022 is at least 127,186 out of 1,311,734 early votes.

Dr. Daugherity explained how “insertion errors” wreaked havoc in Maricopa County’s election.

The SCOTUS filing contains a flow chart of voting procedures that lead to failures.

“Of 464,926 tabulator-scanning ballot insertions, 230,353 ballots were cast,198,162 ballots were returned to the voter, and 36,411 times there was a “system hang” or ghost “paper jam” requiring operator intervention. Of the 198,162 ballots returned to the voter, 17,268 were proper since they were at the request of the voter (see ¶ 9 above), leaving180,894 which were errors,” Dr. Daugherity noted.

The election integrity expert then showed the “count of ballot insert failures” as shown in a timeline throughout the day.

“This shows that, across the county, over 7,000 ballot insertion failures occurred in almost every single 30-minute period for the entirety of Election Day, starting at 7:00 A.M. and continuing to 8:00 P.M., with a smaller number of failures prior to 7:00A.M. and after 8:00 P.M.,” he noted. “This was thus an enormous and continuous problem which did not get better overall during Election Day, despite numerous technicians’ making adjustments throughout the day.”

This caused massive upheaval and long voting lines, as were documented by several voters and election observers.

Here is the problem w/ what happened in Maricopa County on Election Day. This is Anthem, north of Phoenix at about 1:15 pm. Ruby red district of about 30K people. Only one polling location. Ballot tabulators not working in the morning. 2 hr wait to vote midday and still at 6 pm. pic.twitter.com/CY35yQWwq5

— Randy DeSoto (@RandyDeSoto) November 14, 2022

As conservative influencer Charlie Kirk pointed out, voting machine malfunctions in predominately red precincts in Maricopa County became the source of contention that voters were being “disenfranchised.”

This same scene played out tens of thousands of times all across Maricopa County. How many voters were disenfranchised or simply ran out of time? If the majority of ED voters were Democrats, this would be the number 1 news story in America still today. Total joke pic.twitter.com/noY1RRQv0Q

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) November 14, 2022

Disturbingly, Dr. Daugherity points out that it is not possible to know the true outcome of voting at 43 voting centers because of the ‘reconciliation’ procedure at Central Count without accompanying voting center results recorded locally on memory cards.

“As a result, there is no way to know what the true outcome of the votes in those voting centers are, nor the total votes for the entire election,” he noted.

Maricopa County, Arizona election auditor Benjamin R. Cotton testified that “It is clear, based on my findings, that unauthorized programs, databases, configuration settings and actions were present on the voting systems in Maricopa County for the elections in both 2020 and 2022.”

“The election software used in the November 2020 and 2022 elections is not the Democracy Suite 5.5B software version approved by the EAC. The failure to maintain the EAC certification configuration should, among other things, immediately lead to the decertification of these systems. The placing of the master cryptographic keys on the election database in plain text and unprotected allows any actor with access to the voting system complete control over the election results. Any changes to the voting results leveraging these key would likely not be detected. This is an egregious breach of basic security practices that must be remedied immediately,” he added.

The election auditor then displayed that there were concerning securing lapses, which he described as a “flagrant failure to protect the election encryption and decryption keys within the election databases.”

There was a “god key” detected in the voting machine code. As summarized by Patrick Byrne, “Dominion placed the master cryptographic keys in plain text and unprotected on the election database except for Windows-login, which are easily bypassed. Leaving these highly sensitive cryptographic keys in this state violates all cyber security protocols and allows a malicious actor to take control of the machine and change results without detection.”

As Mr. Cotton stated in his declaration: “It is like a bank having the most secure vault in the world, touting how secure it is to the public and then taping the combination in large font type on the wall next to the vault door.”

The lawsuit filing can be read below:

SCOTUS Filing: Arizona Laws… by Kyle Becker

The Supreme Court filing’s appendix can be found below:

SCOTUS Filing: Arizona Laws… by Kyle Becker

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“This is an Attack on America”: Shark Tank Celebrity’s Rant Against Woke Left Policies Goes Viral

Shark Tank investor Kevin O’Leary laid it all out on what he thinks the Woke left’s policies are doing to America.

It kicked off with a scorched earth rant on New York’s unprecedented violation of American norms to exact political retribution against former President Donald Trump that has since gone viral. It ended with him asking a simple question: “Where are the adults?”

“More importantly, the message about the American brand. You think about America. The reason this is the number one economy on earth is that we have laws and we have due process and we have property rights. It attracts foreign capital from all around the world. All of that is being shaken to the core here.”

“The concept of seizing assets in 30 days on a bond number that’s never been issued,” he added. “No insurance bond company’s ever issued anything near this, so there was no chance it was going to happen. And only giving 30 days notice and time. That’s a really bad message, and I think New Yorkers should think well past Trump, whether he’s president or not, or whether this attorney’s general is gone in four years or not. It’s irrelevant.”

“This is case-setting against the American brand. The most stable country on earth, anywhere, to put capital to work over a long period of time, particularly in real estate, is the United States of America,” he went on.

“This is an assault on what we believe to be core, and I find it extraordinary,” he continued. “I think it’s very troubling. It has absolutely nothing to do with Donald Trump at this point, in my view, and it is completely bipartisan.”

“This is an attack on America. I don’t know how you can look at it any other way,” he added. “As an investor, and I know plenty of investors are completely disturbed by this, but I mean, no one is going to put any money to work in New York in these amounts until this thing settles down.”

“The whole world is watching and everybody’s waiting for one thing we haven’t got yet. Adult supervision. Where is it? Where are the adults in this crazy narrative?” he carried on. “Certainly there’s got to be adult supervision at some point, and I understand the war going on here and all the political, yada, yada, woof, woof, woof, but we need an adult in the room.”

O’Leary’s simple but poignant ramp was buttressed by that of Constitutional attorney Jonathan Turley, no conservative by any means, had to say about the egregious judgment.

“Trump does not have much runway left. He is at that point where he is committed, he can’t really stop the plane but he needs it to take off, because at the end of that runway, if he doesn’t get that bond, he could be viewed in default and he can be viewed as losing his right to appeal,” Turley said. “That would be the worst possible prospect not just for Trump, but for the New York legal system.”

“I think what the court did here was outrageous,” Turley continued. “It came out with this figure, none of us can really figure how he could justify that. He could have said a billion or two billion because it would have the same level of relevance in connection to the evidence, but it would also have the same impact. You can’t just go to a person and say produce half a billion dollars if you want any other judge to look at what I did.”

Democratic Attorney General Letitia James campaigned on investigating Trump in 2018, and attacked him as an “illegitimate president.” She sued Trump in September 2022 for civil fraud, claiming he overstated the value of real estate holdings in order to obtain loans.

This is a nearly universal practice by real estate developers, as O’Leary has pointed out before, and the lending firms that Trump did business with did not complain about the practice. Donald Trump, indeed, paid his loans back as agreed. Therefore, there were no “victims.” Trump was nonetheless hit with a $454 million civil penalty issued by Judge Arthur Engoron without giving the former president the benefit of a trial by jury.

“You don’t have to like Trump not to like what is happening here, and this is one of the premier legal jurisdictions that I think is going to have an existential moment here of whether they can separate themselves from the personalities and the passions of the moment,” Turley said.

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Around 200 BLM and radical activists gathered outside the UC Theatre at the University of Memphis on Wednesday night to counter-protests Kyle Rittenhouse’s scheduled address.

A 17-year-old Rittenhouse defended himself against BLM activists in Kenosha, Wisconsin in August 2020. Rittenhouse, who was armed, believed he was in mortal danger and fired on two left-wing protesters and injured a third.

NEW: BLM mob charges at people leaving the Kyle Rittenhouse event at the University of Memphis before blocking them from leaving in the parking garage.

Do these clowns not remember the last time they tried doing this when Rittenhouse was in the vicinity? 😂

Police had to step… pic.twitter.com/BbfpsdVIUT

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 21, 2024

“BLM mob charges at people leaving the Kyle Rittenhouse event at the University of Memphis before blocking them from leaving in the parking garage,” reported Collin Rugg of Trending Politics News.

“Do these clowns not remember the last time they tried doing this when Rittenhouse was in the vicinity?” he added with a laugh. “Police had to step in to prevent the mob from injuring the attendees.”

Charlie Kirk of TPUSA detailed the incredible lengths that the U. of Memphis went to in order to “hamstring” the campus event, along with the left-wingers’ threats of violence.

🚨HAPPENING NOW: Leftwing agitators are swarming the University of Memphis ahead of tonight's campus event with Kyle Rittenhouse, chanting "Lock his a** up" and later "F*** his a** up."

The school has gone to incredible lengths to hamstring this event, including:

1 – Forcing… pic.twitter.com/DXdndXO8Cu

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) March 21, 2024

“HAPPENING NOW: Leftwing agitators are swarming the University of Memphis ahead of tonight’s campus event with Kyle Rittenhouse, chanting ‘Lock his a** up’ and later ‘F*** his a** up’,” he said.

The school has gone to incredible lengths to hamstring this event, including:

1 – Forcing us to change our ticketing system the day of the event. The university’s excuse is they want to ensure “fair and equitable” ticketing. This means the hundreds of students who thought they had tickets will not get in. This has never happened at one of our events.

2 – Protester groups were somehow tipped off about the school’s new ticketing system and the timing of when they’d be made available, allowing them to reserve large numbers of tickets to stage a walk out. We know this because our students are also in those group chats and alerted us. This also has never happened before.

3 – We had thousands of people register for tickets to this event, but the school would only give us a venue with 330 seat. No overflow. No larger venue.

4 – Our chapter president has been doxxed with his number and address published on social media. The campus police and school administrator shrugged their shoulders.

5 – The administration has said they cannot step in or ask protesters to leave if they attempt to disrupt the event or shout down Kyle.

6 – The school has allowed into the event the student that doxxed our chapter president, knowing this person was responsible for the doxxing.

7 – The protestors have entered the event and are taping the names of the people involved in Kyle Rittenhouse’s legal defense. The school is not stopping them.

“This is what happens when school administrators pander to petulant children,” he continued. “You get chaos. Our brave students will press forward but this is unacceptable, especially in a Tennessee.”

“Memphis had record homicides last year, but apparently our students and Kyle Rittenhouse are the problem for the University of Memphis,” he added.

Rittenhouse became a divisive figure throughout the nation in 2020, due in part to dishonest media coverage. It was a shock to BLM activists when he was exonerated of criminal charges in the autumn of 2021 on the grounds of self-defense.

Additionally, numerous members of the U of M community and students were enraged that he was speaking on campus.

The BLM rioters in Kenosha had gathered to voice their outrage at the death of George Floyd, a career criminal who had resisted arrest and died of a fentanyl overdose while being forcibly detained by police officers. A radical mob assaulted and harassed Rittenhouse, one had a

Photographs that captured the incident appeared to show a man kicking Rittenhouse prior to the teen’s weapon being seized by another man on a skateboard. The man riding the skateboard was the same individual who was seen immobile on the ground in the video.

A witness, Julio Rosas, said that when the gunman stumbled, “two people jumped onto him and there was a struggle for control of his rifle. At that point during the struggle, he just began to fire multiple rounds, and that dispersed people near him.”

“The rifle was being jerked around in all directions while it was being fired,” Rosas said.

All of the radical BLM activists shot by Kyle Rittenhouse were white.

The University of Memphis had issued a statement on March 15 ahead of the campus event:

It turned out that it was Kyle Rittenhouse that needed a ‘safe space’ to protect him from BLM activists.

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George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said that former President Donald Trump’s failing to post a bond would be the “worst possible prospect.”

Trump’s attorneys said Monday the former president was having difficulty posting a bond of over $450 million to cover the judgment in a civil fraud case issued by New York Judge Arthur Engoron. Turley told Fox News host Martha MacCallum that the former president’s inability to appeal by not posting the bond was the “worst possible prospect” for both the former president and the New York legal system.

“Trump does not have much runway left. He is at that point where he is committed, he can’t really stop the plane but he needs it to take off, because at the end of that runway, if he doesn’t get that bond, he could be viewed in default and he can be viewed as losing his right to appeal,” Turley said. “That would be the worst possible prospect not just for Trump, but for the New York legal system.”

“I think what the court did here was outrageous,” Turley continued. “It came out with this figure, none of us can really figure how he could justify that. He could have said a billion or two billion because it would have the same level of relevance in connection to the evidence, but it would also have the same impact. You can’t just go to a person and say produce half a billion dollars if you want any other judge to look at what I did.”

“Shark Tank” co-star Kevin O’Leary said after the judgment he would not invest in New York any longer, calling it a “mega-loser state.”

“What bothers me about this is that there are so many ways that the judge could have worked this out to achieve the purpose of the bond rule,” Turley said. “The whole point is you don’t want someone to flee with their assets … You know, Trump Tower is a fixed asset, he’s not going to not abscond with it overnight. You could take the 100 million in cash, you can get those types of agreements and achieve the purpose, but the purpose seems punitive and you saw that on ‘The View.’”

Democratic Attorney General Letitia James campaigned on investigating Trump when seeking her current office in 2018, labeling him an “illegitimate president.” She sued Trump in September 2022, alleging he overstated the value of real estate holdings in order to obtain loans.

“You don’t have to like Trump not to like what is happening here, and this is one of the premier legal jurisdictions that I think is going to have an existential moment here of whether they can separate themselves from the personalities and the passions of the moment,” Turley said.

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Biden Impeachment Hearing Goes Off the Rails When Witness Calls Out Democrats by Name as ‘Liars’

Republican Gov. Kay Ivey signed a bill into law Wednesday barring public schools and universities from having offices to promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).

The bill, which was introduced in February, also prohibits publicly funded schools from promoting and endorsing “certain divisive concepts” as well as requiring bathrooms to be based on “biological sex.” Ivey signed the bill into law after it passed 75 to 28 in the state House of Representatives and said the bill was designed to stop a “liberal political movement counter to what the majority of Alabamians believe,” according to CNN.

Ivey also noted in a statement to CNN that the law does not change the fact that her administration “will continue to value Alabama’s rich diversity.” The law is set to go into effect on Oct. 1.

Additionally, the legislation prohibits students, employees and contractors from being required to attend any “training, orientation, or course work that advocates or requires assent to a divisive concept.” The bill lists eight “divisive concepts” including the idea that “any race, color, religion, sex, ethnicity or national origin is inherently superior or inferior,” or that moral character, inherent racism, or “fault, blame, or bias should be assigned” based on “race, color, religion, sex, ethnicity, or national origin.”

Other states have also begun to crack down on DEI practices, such as the Iowa Board of Regents in November 2023 ordering all DEI programs at the state universities be eliminated, with limited exceptions for programs in line with federal regulations. In March, the University of Florida closed its “Office of the Chief Diversity Officer, eliminated DEI positions and administrative appointments, and halted DEI-focused contracts with outside vendors” after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a law in May 2023 to ban DEI at state-funded universities.

Ivey’s office did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation

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Judge Scott McAfee Grants Review of Decision Permitting Fani Willis to Stay on Trump Case

The Biden impeachment hearing on Wednesday went ‘off the rails’ when former Hunter Biden business associate and now whistleblower called out Democrats by name as liars during his Congressional testimony.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Rep. Daniel Goldman (D-NY) were called out by name by Mr. Bobulinksi prompting disruption and an inquiry into whether a witness can call out Democratic Party members as liars.

“They continue to lie directly to the American people without hesitation and remorse,” Bobulinski said. “Rep. Dan Goldman and Jamie Raskin, both lawyers. and Mr. Goldman, a former prosecutor with the SDNY from New York, will continue to lie today in this hearing and then go straight to the media to tell more lies. ”

“Hunter Biden’s defense attorney Abbe Lowell weaponizes his letters to Congress to try to smear my name,” he continued. “Mr. Chairman, let me state the cold hard facts…”

“Mr. Chairman,” Raskin spoke up.

“In an attempt to save his powerfully connected client and his father, I challenged Mr. Lowell to make those claims on national television so he can be held accountable for his lies,” Bobulinski went on. “Prior to my successful business career, I was an officer in the United States Navy at Navy’s Elite Naval Nuclear Power Training Command. I later served as the command’s Chief Technology Officer…”

The hearing devolved into a discussion about whether or not Bobulinski was allowed to effectively call Democratic congressmen ‘liars.’

“Well, Mr. Chairman, save his time, but he called members of this committee ‘liars’ and I just want to know whether the order and decorum requirements of House Rule 11 apply to witnesses appearing before the committee. Does it apply or does it not?” Raskin asked.

“There’s decorum from the members. We’ve asked for that. There’s no language that I’m aware of pertaining to a witness,” House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) correctly pointed out. “Thank you.”

“So…make sure we didn’t waste any of his time on the opening statement. Mr. Bobulinski, I’m sorry for the disruption. Please continue your opening statement,” Comer went on.

More importantly, Bobulinski laid out more damning evidence of Biden family influence-peddling with the knowledge and assistance of former vice president Joe Biden and current president Joe Biden.

Another witness and former Hunter Biden associate, Jason Galanis, corroborated Bobulinski’s testimony that points to the Biden family selling political influence to foreign actors.

Former Biden Business Associate Jason Galanis details how Hunter Biden leveraged Joe Biden in his “business” deals.

“Mr. Zhao was interested in this partnership because of the game-changing value add of the Biden family, including Joe Biden, who was to be a member of the… pic.twitter.com/SudhHhdmoj

— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) March 20, 2024

“Mr. Zhao was interested in this partnership because of the game-changing value added of the Biden family, including Joe Biden, who was to be a member of the Burnham-Harvest team post-vice presidency, providing political access in the United States and around the world.”

As reported by Just the News, this directly answers outstanding questions about the Biden family foreign-influence scheme.

“Emails obtained by Just the News earlier this month show a Chinese businessman who partnered with Hunter Biden’s Burnham firm was primarily motivated by access rather than financial consideration. This is bolstered by the closed door testimony by Galanis, who told the committee. ‘The entire value-add of Hunter Biden to our business was his family name and his access to his father, Vice President Joe Biden’.”

“The emails show Henry Zhao—owner of Harvest Fund Management, which would partner with Burnham and Hunter Biden—was interested in the partnership because of the ‘access’ the firm could provide him the political family,” the report noted.

“[During] yesterday’s meeting Hunter underlined the value of being cautiously conservative in valuation as Henry believes in this first and foremost as an access vehicle with potential for future growth,” an employee wrote in an email.

“In late February, impeachment witness Jason Galanis—one of Hunter Biden’s partners in the Burnham venture—told Congress the firm served as a place to integrate the ‘Biden Family Office’ with a ‘large-scale financial company’ to this end,” the report added.

House Oversight Chairman James Comer has been persistent in demanding to know what the Biden family was offering as a product or service in exchange for millions of dollars from foreign actors hostile to the interests of the American people.

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Judge Scott McAfee Grants Review of Decision Permitting Fani Willis to Stay on Trump Case

A Georgia judge on Wednesday granted approval to an appeal filed by former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants of a ruling that permitted Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to proceed with the prosecution of the 2020 election case.

Judge Scott McAfee of the Fulton County Superior Court, who invalidated the defendants’ endeavors to disqualify Willis last week, has now granted a certificate of immediate review, permitting the Georgia Appeals Court to examine the case.

McAfee wrote that the matter “is of such critical importance to the case that it requires immediate review.”

Legal analysis was provided by Phil Holloway (update).

Although the prosecution is not halted, this action permits appeals regarding the disqualification endeavor to proceed prior to the trial.

The Georgia Court of Appeals is currently tasked with reviewing the decision not to disqualify Willis and determining whether or not to hear the case. Although McAfee’s ruling from last week permitted Willis to continue working on the case, it compelled Nathan Wade, her chief deputy on the case, to resign.

The main defense counsel for Trump in the case, Steve Sadow, described McAfee’s motion filed on Wednesday as “extremely significant.”

“The defense is optimistic that appellate review will lead to the case being dismissed and the DA being disqualified,” Sadow said in a statement.

Attorneys for Donald Trump and his co-defendants appealed the judge’s decision on Monday on the grounds that he said that testimony given during the trial had an “odor of mendacity.”

Judge Scott McAfee ruled on Friday that Willis and her office could continue prosecuting Trump, contingent on her ex-lover Nathan Wade resigning from his position as special counsel. Wade complied with this order and stepped down.

“In its Order, the Court found that District Attorney Willis’ actions had created an appearance of impropriety and an ‘odor of mendacity’ that lingers in this case, as well as of the continuing possibility that ‘an outsider could reasonably think that District Attorney Willis is not exercising her independent professional judgment totally free of any compromising influences’,” Trump’s legal team argued.

“Despite this, the Court declined to disqualify District Attorney Willis, finding that eliminating only the Special Assistant District Attorney would cure the lingering appearance of impropriety,” they added.

Trump’s lawyers noted that case law requires dismissal of the case or at the ‘very least’ the disqualification of Willis and her entire prosecutorial team.

On Friday, CNN legal analyst Michael Moore stated that the ruling against Fani Willis by Judge Scott McAfee is “not a good look” for the district attorney’s office and amounts to a significant gift for the defense.

McAfee refrained from disqualifying Willis from the case, but ruled that in order to rectify a “appearance of impropriety” arising from an alleged financial conflict of interest, either she or special prosecutor Nathan Wade must resign. Moore stated that the judge’s ruling is unfavorable to the prosecution and that Willis will likely encounter additional legal opposition on “CNN News Central.”

“This was a self-inflicted wound that should have been healed and taken care of months ago,” Moore said. “But basically they just let it get infected now to this place where the district attorney has been called by a court that she has to practice in front of and her office has to practice in front of, she’s been called now unprofessional. And this frankly  … is a gift to the defense, I believe, as they will use this as they talk about whether or not the case has merit or whether or not it was brought for other reasons, whether or not it’s a professional prosecutor and all that. We’re going to hear all that down the road.”

“But we’re also going to hear, I expect, comments from the Georgia legislature, as they have moved forward with their panel inquiry into her conduct,” Moore added. “We’re going to hear now this finding echoed around the halls of Congress by the likes of people like Jim Jordan and things like that. So this is not a good day for the state and it’s not a good look for the state.”

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Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) exploded at a Congressional hearing intended to expose evidence of potentially impeachable offenses committed by President Joe Biden in furtherance of his son Hunter Biden’s foreign influence-peddling schemes.

The president’s son defied a Congressional subpoena and skipped the public hearing, one day after former Trump adviser Peter Navarro reported to a Miami prison for the same offense leading to Contempt of Congress charges. He will now serve four months in prison.

Jordan asked a series of questions that elucidate the Biden administration’s refusal to answer to the Constitutional rule of law, nor to investigate critical matters of national security.

“Who planted the pipe bombs on January 6th? Nobody seems to know. Who leaked the Dobbs draft opinion? The leak that led to an assassination attempt on Justice Kavanaugh,” he said.

“How about this one: Who left cocaine at the White House? Biden administration doesn’t seem to have time to answer these questions,” he went on. “They’re too busy investigating parents at school board meetings, labeling Catholics ‘extremists,’ retaliating against whistleblowers. They’re too busy putting together a sweetheart deal for Hunter Biden.”

“The deal that got laughed out of court, and oh, the guy who put together the deal that got laughed out of court. That’s the guy they named Special Counsel,” he added.

“You know what Democrats do have time for? Going after President Trump. They’ve been doing it for eight years. They spied on his campaign. Then it was the Mueller investigation, 19 lawyers, 40 agents, $30 million and found nothing. Then it was impeachment, then it was raiding his home, then it was the Special Counsel, then it was the 14th Amendment.”

“The Party of Democracy said, we’re going to keep the guy off the ballot who’s leading in every single poll,” he said. “The ranking member said that President Trump should be disqualified from even running for office. Thank goodness we have a Supreme Court who disagreed with the ranking member and the Democrats nine to zero. Not 5-4, not 6-3, not 7-2, not 8-1 — 9 to 0 they disagreed.”

“Now, Democrats say, how dare, how dare Republicans investigate Joe Biden?” he went on. “How dare they look into the money, the business and the brand? Millions of dollars, as the chairman said, millions of dollars from foreign entities run through 20 different companies for what? I mean, 20 different companies for what Devon Archer told us what it was for — access to the brand and the brand was Joe Biden, the brand that played rounds of golf, took calls and meetings, attended lunches and dinners with Hunter Biden and his business partners. The brand that… conditioned 1 billion of American tax money on the firing of the prosecutor, pressuring the company Hunter Biden sat on the board of… and oh, by the way, was getting paid a million bucks a year.”