Roy Moore is a loser: Sweet Home Alabama- 2

[47of74]

30 minutes ago, Cartmann99 said:

@47of74, I know you are a law student, so I have a question for you.

I just opened the link, and there are five people's names listed as defendants, and then "fictitious defendants 1-19". Further down it says:

Is this supposed to be unknown defendants? How do you sue people who are fictitious? 

Thanks!

Yep, generally that's the case that a fictitious defendant is an unknown defendant, such as John or Jane Doe.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_defendants 

It's probably people who have hurt Roy's fee-fees but he doesn't know their names yet. 

 

Edited May 1, 2018 by 47of74

[older than allosaurs]

It's exciting times at the Etowah County courthouse these days. They've got Roy suing half the former teenagers in town. They've got big-deal youth evangelist Acton Bowen locked up on an ever-growing set of sodomy charges. They've got the sheriff, Todd Entrekin, explaining why it was ok to skim off the money he gets to buy food for prisoners and use it to purchase a $740,000 beach house. (It is in fact legal for Alabama sheriffs to pocket any unspent food money, but prisoners at Entrekin's jail say they get literal dog food, and not much of that.) 

Entrekin is running for re-election, and he says that the people who oppose his feeding priorities also oppose the death penalty, so it's all fake news. I know that last sentence makes no logical sense, but that's not my fault.

And did Entriken endorse Roy Moore last year? You bet he did. And was Roy Moore's lawyer Trenton Garmon on the Board of Directors for Acton Bowen's ministry? You bet he was.

[older than allosaurs]

On 5/1/2018 at 9:17 PM, older than allosaurs said:

It's exciting times at the Etowah County courthouse these days. They've got Roy suing half the former teenagers in town. They've got big-deal youth evangelist Acton Bowen locked up on an ever-growing set of sodomy charges. They've got the sheriff, Todd Entrekin, explaining why it was ok to skim off the money he gets to buy food for prisoners and use it to purchase a $740,000 beach house. (It is in fact legal for Alabama sheriffs to pocket any unspent food money, but prisoners at Entrekin's jail say they get literal dog food, and not much of that.) 

Entrekin is running for re-election, and he says that the people who oppose his feeding priorities also oppose the death penalty, so it's all fake news. I know that last sentence makes no logical sense, but that's not my fault.

And did Entreken endorse Roy Moore last year? You bet he did. And was Roy Moore's lawyer Trenton Garmon on the Board of Directors for Acton Bowen's ministry? You bet he was.

Updating my own self, because this scene fascinates me. Entrekin lost the primary, so he'll be out as sheriff after 11 years. And he's selling the beach house. Perhaps not coincidentally, allegations have emerged since the election that he hosted drug and sex parties with underage girls back in the '90s, when he was a deputy. Where did he meet some of those 15-year-olds you might ask? At Roy Moore's favorite cruising spot, the Gadsden Mall.

Quote

 

AL.com reports Entrekin denied the claims during a phone interview.

“I’ve never had sex with any 15-year-old girl or had drugs around or anything. I have never done drugs in my life,” he said. “That’s the most absurd thing I’ve ever heard of. Never, ever has anything like that happened before.”

 

Meanwhile, Gadsden native and former hotshot youth pastor Acton Bowen, whom Entrekin's department helped investigate (credit where it's due), has collected upwards of 25 felony child sexual assault charges and seems to have given up trying to make his ever-increasing bail.

 

[CTRLZero]

A supporter of Roy Moore from Nashville is going through a nasty divorce and some of the typical crud is coming to light.

Lee Beaman - birds of a feather and all that conservative jazz

Excerpts from Nashville Scene:
 

Spoiler

 

Auto dealer and conservative political mega-donor Lee Beaman is due in court next week in his multimillion-dollar divorce case.

In her trial brief, Beaman’s fourth wife Kelley alleges that Lee Beaman made her watch videos of him having sex with a prostitute — what he called “training videos.” On more than one occasion, Kelley Beaman alleges, her husband persuaded her to have joint sexual encounters with prostitutes. Kelley Beaman says that Lee Beaman was so addicted to pornography that he would watch it on his iPad while sitting in the same room as his family, including his minor son.

. . . . [deleted paragraphs on child support, etc.]

Lee Beaman, a board member at both Belmont University and Montgomery Bell Academy, has used his fortune to fund his favored political causes for years. He spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the successful efforts to defeat Nashville’s last two major transit initiatives: the Amp in 2013 and the citywide transit referendum earlier this year. He was also a major funder of the 2009 campaign to pass an English-only amendment to Nashville’s charter.

Among his frequent donations to both local and national conservatives, Beaman made a maximum contribution to Roy Moore’s U.S. Senate campaign three days after The Washington Post reported allegations that the former Alabama judge had sexual relationships with teenagers while he was in his 30s. Beaman has given more than $40,000 to groups supporting Marsha Blackburn’s campaign for Senate.

Mark Brown, a spokesperson for the Tennessee Democratic Party, urged Blackburn and other Republican groups to donate Beaman’s money to charities like the YWCA.

“Congresswoman Blackburn’s enthusiastic receipt of financial support from alleged abuser Lee Beaman, set against her opposition to the Violence Against Women Act, is troubling,” Brown said in a statement.

Lee Beaman and Kelley Beaman, who met when she was 21 and he 45, according to court filings, continued to live in the same home after he filed for divorce last year. The living situation was not peaceful, according to earlier court documents published by Scoop Nashville. The documents depict Lee Beaman as wearing a body camera in his own home around the clock to protect himself from “false and unsubstantiated allegations.”

 

 

[AmazonGrace]

 

[Cartmann99]

2 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

 

I was confused for a minute and thought that the old perv was running for something new, but this is about the 2017 campaign. 

I want to know what he told his wife about why he wanted to drop this lawsuit. 

[onekidanddone]

5 hours ago, Cartmann99 said:

I was confused for a minute and thought that the old perv was running for something new, but this is about the 2017 campaign. 

I want to know what he told his wife about why he wanted to drop this lawsuit. 

The Lord told him so

[Soulhuntress]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/poll-roy-moore-leads-republican-field-challenge-doug-jones-n995021

Sweet Rufus here we go again!

[47of74]

The Lord told him so

And when he says the Lord he means Jeeeeeeeeeeezus, who is as white as he is and shares his hatred of the poor and teh gays. And sees absolu fornicating tely nothing wrong with fornicating with underage girls young enough to be your grandchildren.

[RosyDaisy]

This is not looking good for Doug Jones (D). He won't win this time around. If Moore doesn't win, I predict Mo Brooks will. I'm praying that doesn't happen. We need a Democrat in that Senate seat.

[GreyhoundFan]

"Roy Moore cites Brett Kavanaugh’s survival of sexual misconduct allegations as he ponders another Senate race"

Spoiler

A new fundraising pitch for Roy Moore, the Republican who lost a special Senate election in Alabama amid accusations of sexual misconduct in the 1970s, cites the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh as a reason he might run again next year.

The fundraising message, signed by Moore’s wife, Kayla Moore, points to Kavanaugh’s ability last year to “survive” accusations of sexual misconduct in the 1980s and says Moore is still “seriously considering another run for the United States Senate!”

Moore, a former Alabama Supreme Court justice, is seeking to raise money for a fund to cover legal expenses on multiple fronts.

He is facing a lawsuit from Leigh Corfman, who alleged in a Washington Post report during the 2017 election that he sexually abused her when she was 14 and he was in his 30s.

Moore has also filed several lawsuits, including one against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who he claims incorrectly portrayed him as a pedophile in an episode of his satirical exposé series, “Who Is America?”

Moore’s fundraising pitch says that during the race he lost to now-Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.), he was subject to “falsehoods and deceit” by Democrats and Republicans who “conspired to destroy his political career.”

“It was no strange coincidence that only 10 months later these same false and scurrilous tactics would again be used in the midst of a very important Supreme Court nomination process of Brett Kavanaugh in 2018,” the pitch says. “Judge Kavanaugh would survive to be appointed to that high court.”

Moore voiced interest in another Senate run during a radio interview last month. Two other Republicans, Rep. Bradley Byrne (Ala.) and former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville, have said they plan to seek their party’s nomination.

 

[Cartmann99]

3 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

"Roy Moore cites Brett Kavanaugh’s survival of sexual misconduct allegations as he ponders another Senate race"

  Hide contents

A new fundraising pitch for Roy Moore, the Republican who lost a special Senate election in Alabama amid accusations of sexual misconduct in the 1970s, cites the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh as a reason he might run again next year.

The fundraising message, signed by Moore’s wife, Kayla Moore, points to Kavanaugh’s ability last year to “survive” accusations of sexual misconduct in the 1980s and says Moore is still “seriously considering another run for the United States Senate!”

Moore, a former Alabama Supreme Court justice, is seeking to raise money for a fund to cover legal expenses on multiple fronts.

He is facing a lawsuit from Leigh Corfman, who alleged in a Washington Post report during the 2017 election that he sexually abused her when she was 14 and he was in his 30s.

Moore has also filed several lawsuits, including one against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who he claims incorrectly portrayed him as a pedophile in an episode of his satirical exposé series, “Who Is America?”

Moore’s fundraising pitch says that during the race he lost to now-Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.), he was subject to “falsehoods and deceit” by Democrats and Republicans who “conspired to destroy his political career.”

“It was no strange coincidence that only 10 months later these same false and scurrilous tactics would again be used in the midst of a very important Supreme Court nomination process of Brett Kavanaugh in 2018,” the pitch says. “Judge Kavanaugh would survive to be appointed to that high court.”

Moore voiced interest in another Senate run during a radio interview last month. Two other Republicans, Rep. Bradley Byrne (Ala.) and former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville, have said they plan to seek their party’s nomination.

 

 I'm fixing to go make myself a grilled cheese sandwich and then go paint shit until I forget about this skeevy bastard for a while. The jackasses of the world are really getting to me today.

[47of74]

Even fuck head doesn't want Moore to run again

Quote

President Donald Trump warned Wednesday the "consequences will be devastating" for his party and policies if Alabama Republican Roy Moore seeks a U.S. Senate seat again in 2020 after his last campaign was battered by allegations of long-ago sexual harassment of teenagers.

Moore lost in the once-reliably red state in a 2017 special election amid the sexual misconduct allegations , which he denied. He told The Associated Press earlier this month that he is considering another campaign next year.

Trump, who backed Moore in 2017 despite the allegations, tweeted "I have NOTHING against Roy Moore," but warned that "Roy Moore cannot win." He added that if Democrat Doug Jones retains the seat in 2020, "many of the incredible gains that we have made during my Presidency may be lost."

Trump's comments come as national Republicans have tried to keep Moore out of the race.

 

[GreyhoundFan]

Uh-oh, Roy Moore (R-Sleazoid) is not happy with the orange moron: "Roy Moore hits back at Trump in defiant interview"

Spoiler

A defiant Roy Moore brushed aside Donald Trump’s warning not to run for Senate again, telling POLITICO on Wednesday that Alabama voters are capable of deciding for themselves whether he’s fit for office.

“The president doesn’t control who votes for the United States Senate in Alabama,” Moore said in a phone interview. “People in Alabama are smarter than that. They elect the senator from Alabama, not from Washington, D.C.”

The scandal-plagued former judge said he is “seriously considering” running for Senate again and plans to decide in a “few weeks.”

Moore's recalcitrance comes as Republicans, including Trump, are warning him to stay out of the race against Democratic Sen. Doug Jones. Republicans view the Alabama contest as a linchpin of their Senate majority — ousting Jones in 2020 would give the GOP a larger cushion with the party mostly on defense on the Senate map.

Jones narrowly defeated Moore in a special election in 2017 amid allegations of sexual misconduct by Moore with young girls decades ago. Those allegations emerged after Moore won the GOP nomination by defeating the Trump-endorsed candidate, then-interim Sen. Luther Strange.

Trump tweeted Wednesday morning that he has "NOTHING" against Moore, despite the sexual misconduct allegations against the former judge. But, he wrote, Moore “cannot win, and the consequences will be devastating.” That came after Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., also tweeted at Moore to steer clear of the race.

Top allies to Senate Republican leadership have made clear they view Moore as the best chance Democrats have to maintain the seat.

“We believe most Alabama Republicans realize that nominating Roy Moore would be gift wrapping this Senate seat for Chuck Schumer,” said Steven Law, president of Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC aligned with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

Moore is convinced he could capture his party's nomination in the face of the president's opposition again. He said some Republicans are fearful that he still has support in the state.

“They know I'll win," he said. "That's why they're upset."

He also continues to deny the multiple allegations of inappropriate behavior against him that were reported on during the 2017 race. “It was fake news then, [and] it’s fake news now,” Moore said.

Republicans have believed for weeks that Moore was likely to run for Senate again. They also acknowledge there’s little they can do to stop him, and that he has a hard-core base of supporters in the state that likely gives him both a high floor and low ceiling of support. Alabama election laws require winning a majority of the vote to secure a party nomination, so Moore could have an opening to make a runoff in a crowded primary field.

Opposition to his potential candidacy has been fairly unified throughout the party. Sen. Todd Young of Indiana, the National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman, had spoken with Trump in recent weeks and raised concerns about Moore, according to two people familiar with the discussion.

Trump’s tweet Wednesday was widely praised by Republicans, who believe the president is uniquely able to chip away at Moore’s support given his popularity among the GOP base in deep-red Alabama.

The dynamics of the race "were different before the president weighed in, but they're fundamentally changed after the president weighed in,” said Josh Holmes, a top McConnell adviser. “I don't think Roy Moore could win a primary before the president weighed in, and I know he can't win one after the president weighed in.”

With or without Moore, the GOP contest appears wide open. Several Republicans are already running: Rep. Bradley Byrne, state Rep. Arnold Mooney, and Tommy Tuberville, the former head football coach at Auburn University.

Each of the candidates face hurdles to emerging from the field. Byrne, the first candidate in the race, had more than $2 million in the bank at the end of the first quarter. Though a potential problem looms: Byrne called on Trump to step aside from the presidential race in 2016 after the "Access Hollywood" tape. Though he eventually said he would vote for Trump and has been a staunch supporter since the president took office, it’s unclear whether he can clear the hurdles of his previous criticism.

Tuberville, meanwhile, has put together a strong campaign team of veteran consultants, but he's a first-time candidate without experience as a campaigner or fundraiser. Mooney, a staunch conservative, already earned the endorsement of Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) — but as a state representative, he also faces a battle to prove fundraising ability and broader support.

Leaders of the conservative Club for Growth are watching the race closely and have met with Mooney and Tuberville, who could both receive a major boost from an endorsement. The group opposes Byrne and would not back Moore if he does run. David McIntosh, the Club president, said they had “good meetings” with both Mooney and Tuberville.

“We are waiting to see if either put together a great campaign and raise the money necessary to be competitive,” McIntosh said.

If Moore does run, as appears likely, Republicans' goal would be to defeat him outright and deny him a spot in a runoff. But given his potentially unshakable base of support in the state, some Republicans acknowledge it’s possible he could make a runoff again as he did in 2017. One Republican working on the race, who requested anonymity to discuss internal strategy, said polling had shown about 15 percent of the primary electorate views Moore “very" favorably. This Republican said in a crowded field, Moore would be unlikely to grow his support beyond that.

A second Republican involved in the race, however, said Moore has a “hard-core following” that could put him in a runoff. This Republican emphasized that Trump’s opposition would likely mean any opponent could defeat him one-on-one, but Moore making a runoff is a potentially disastrous scenario for Republicans given the unpredictability of those matchups.

“I think it's a disaster if it's misplayed,” this Republican said.

National Republicans are not yet picking a candidate to back, and the state GOP is staying out of the primary. Terry Lathan, the state party chair, said in a statement that they will remain neutral: “It is up to the candidates to make their case to the Republican primary voters to secure their support.”

The primary, set for next March, is still far away. The filing deadline is in December, leaving plenty of time for other candidates to enter the race. Even as the other candidates build their campaigns, Republicans in Washington plan to bash Moore, if he runs, as unelectable not just for the allegations of sexual misconduct, but for the other controversies in his past, including being twice removed from the state Supreme Court.

"Last time around was a sprint. This is a marathon,” said Jesse Hunt, a spokesperson for the NRSC. “Roy Moore has proven he's incapable of winning a general election, and no stone will be left unturned as it pertains to his background."

 

[47of74]

Busted

Quote

Former Senate candidate Roy Moore’s attorney was arrested Wednesday night.

Trenton Roger Garmon, 39, was booked into the Etowah County Jail around 8 p.m., according to jail records. He was arrested by Gadsden police and charged with driving under the influence of controlled substances, second-degree possession of marijuana, and drug paraphernalia.

Court records do not yet reflect the charges.

Garmon, who worked as an attorney for Moore during his failed campaign bid for the U.S. senate last year, is being held in the county jail on bonds totaling $3,000.

 

[older than allosaurs]

3 hours ago, 47of74 said:

Busted

 

Oh this guy. He's the one who resigned from the board of youth pastor Acton Bowen's ministry after Bowen was arrested for sexually assaulting lots of minors. He made a long incoherent statement about the board's requirement that Acton use "Covenant Eyes" computer software and follow the Billy Graham rule with both women and boys, and how maybe those weren't sufficient.

While representing Moore, he put out a widely derided demand letter telling media, especially Alabama media, to stop being so mean to Roy: https://abovethelaw.com/2017/11/roy-moores-lawyer-pens-demand-letter-as-embarrassing-as-his-client/?rf=1

And the DUI backstory, from today's Gadsden Times, is bonkers:
 

Quote

Spoiler

 

According to the police report on the crash, a resident in the 800 block of Randall Street was inside his house when he heard a crash outside. He went outside and saw the driver of 2012 Jeep Cherokee get out of the Jeep and punch the front of his 2016 truck.

He said the driver — identified as Garmon — then maneuvered the Jeep in front of his truck, put the Jeep in reverse and collided with the truck, then left the scene.

He said he saw Garmon drive east on Randall Street, go into the oncoming lane and run the red light at Randall and Sixth streets.

While officers were talking to the Randall Street resident, Garmon came back around the block. According to the report, Garmon was investigated for driving under the influence and arrested for DUI and other charges.

According to the report, Garmon maintained he did not have a motor vehicle accident. Officers found minor damage to the parked truck, and minor damage to the tire and rear of the Jeep. The truck also had paint transfer from the back of the Jeep.

According to the police report on the crash, a resident in the 800 block of Randall Street was inside his house when he heard a crash outside. He went outside and saw the driver of 2012 Jeep Cherokee get out of the Jeep and punch the front of his 2016 truck.

He said the driver — identified as Garmon — then maneuvered the Jeep in front of his truck, put the Jeep in reverse and collided with the truck, then left the scene.

He said he saw Garmon drive east on Randall Street, go into the oncoming lane and run the red light at Randall and Sixth streets.

While officers were talking to the Randall Street resident, Garmon came back around the block. According to the report, Garmon was investigated for driving under the influence and arrested for DUI and other charges.

 

According to the report, Garmon maintained he did not have a motor vehicle accident. Officers found minor damage to the parked truck, and minor damage to the tire and rear of the Jeep. The truck also had paint transfer from the back of the Jeep.

 

A few years back he was suspended (then reinstated) for impersonating a pastor while ambulance chasing. And he was arrested in April of this year, not sure for what. And then there's his totally sober and reliable looking mugshot.

Edited June 6, 2019 by older than allosaurs
syntax and more stuff

[GreyhoundFan]

He's baaaaack: "Roy Moore, who fell short in Senate bid in 2017, says he will run again for Alabama seat"

Spoiler

Roy Moore, the Alabama judge whose Senate bid fell short over allegations of sexual misconduct with teenage girls in the 1970s, announced Thursday he will run again for the seat, ignoring President Trump and top Republicans who argue he can’t win.

“I will run for the U.S. Senate in 2020,” Moore said at an event in Montgomery, Ala., “Can I win? Yes, I can win.”

Moore lost a U.S. Senate seat in the solidly Republican state to Democrat Doug Jones in a 2017 special election to fill the vacancy created when Trump tapped Jeff Sessions to be attorney general.

About a month before that election, The Washington Post published accounts from four women who said Moore pursued them romantically in the 1970s when they were between the ages of 14 and 18. Moore has acknowledged contact with these women, but denies any sexual contact.

Moore lost to Jones by a little more than one percent of the vote — the first Democrat in 27 years to win a U.S. Senate seat in the state — and has been eyeing a rematch ever since.

Republicans in Washington fear a Moore candidacy would cost them the seat in 2020, their best opportunity to seize it back with Trump at the top of the ticket. The winner would serve a six-year term.

“Why is there such a fear, such an anger to somebody running. The mere mention of my name causes people to get up and arms in D.C. Is it because I’m a staunch conservative? Is it because I believe in God, marriage, morality? Is it because I believe in the right of the baby in the womb?” Moore, 72, told reporters and supporters in making his announcement.

Trump, who held a rally for Moore after the allegations were made, tweeted last month that Moore would lose again if he ran.

“Republicans cannot allow themselves to again lose the Senate seat in the Great State of Alabama,” Trump tweeted. “I have NOTHING against Roy Moore, and unlike many other Republican leaders, wanted him to win. But he didn’t, and probably won’t.”

“If Alabama does not elect a Republican to the Senate in 2020, many of the incredible gains that we have made during my Presidency may be lost, including our Pro-Life victories,” Trump continued. “Roy Moore cannot win, and the consequences will be devastating . . . Judges and Supreme Court Justices!”

Alabama’s senior Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R) echoed Trump’s concerns Wednesday, ahead of Moore’s campaign announcement and said he would not support him.

“There are a lot reasons known to you and everybody else,” Shelby said. “I think Alabama could do better. I think he would be a disrupter. I think we can win that seat back as the Republicans but I won’t support him.”

“I think if Roy Moore’s nominated it would be difficult to hold the seat,” he added.

Some Republicans are hoping Sessions will run again for his former seat, a move he has not ruled out. Shelby said if Sessions does run, “he’d probably clear the field.”

Several Republicans have already announced bids, including Rep. Bradley Byrne; Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill; state Rep. Arnold Mooney; and former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville.

Moore served twice as the Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice, once from 2001 to 2003 and again from 2013 to 2016. Each time he was removed from the position, once for ignoring a federal court order to remove a 5,280-pound granite Ten Commandments monument in the judicial building and the next time for instructing probate judges not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

A conservative Christian, Moore said he believes religion should guide government decisions, and has been brazen in his disregard for any separation between the two.

During a GOP primary debate in 2017 against Trump and Republican-establishment backed pick, Luther Strange, Moore said that “God is the only source of our law, liberty and government.”

 

[GreyhoundFan]

I agree with Karen:

 

[RosyDaisy]

I don't see Doug Jones keeping his Senate seat. Maybe if Roy Moore wins the Republican nomination and faces Jones in the general election, Jones will win (big fat maybe). Otherwise he doesn't stand a chance against any of the other Republican candidates.

[GreyhoundFan]

Why is this not surprising?

 

[Cartmann99]

Information on Larry Klayman from the Southern Poverty Law Center:

Quote

Given his particular obsession with the supposed dangerousness of the Obama administration — and the supposed illegitimacy of Obama himself — the fact that the president made it back onto the ballot in 2012 seems to have been some kind of tipping point for Klayman. In a rambling manifesto published in April of that year, Klayman claimed to have the power to impanel “citizens’ grand juries” and indict perceived enemies of the American people. Citing the Magna Carta, Marbury vs Madison (the 1803 case which established that the U.S. Supreme Court has the final say over laws’ constitutionality), and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s 1992 opinion in United States v. Williams, Klayman concluded: “Although the customary practice for summoning a federal grand jury is by a court … the [Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure] does not preclude citizens from exercising their own rights to impanel grand juries under the Constitution. … [A]nd if a true bill of indictment results, the courts are technically required to commence proceedings and the executive branch to enforce the court’s edicts.”

Using language and logic reminiscent of that put forth by antigovernment “sovereign citizens” groups (which have long claimed the right to convene their own private grand juries, hold trials in pretend courtrooms, and mete out justice according to their own rules), Klayman continued, “if the courts refuse and the executive branch does not carry out its duties by, for instance, arresting the criminally accused, Americans do have a right to make ‘citizens arrests,’ hold trials and legally mete out punishment in their own right.” Though decades of failed sovereign citizens’ grand juries have amply illustrated that no such right exists, Klayman pressed ahead with his ridiculous scheme. On Sept. 18, 2013, a “citizens grand jury” in Ocala, Fla., found President Obama guilty of “defraud[ing]…the American people into electing an illegal person for the Office of President of the United States, “sentenced” the president to 10 years imprisonment, and demanded that he “forthwith surrender himself into the custody of the American people and the people of Florida.”

The president failed to turn himself him, and less than a month later, on Oct. 13, 2013, Klayman appeared on the steps of Washington, D.C.’s World War II Memorial and called on the assembled crowd to “wage a second American nonviolent revolution, to use civil disobedience, and to demand that this president leave town … put the Koran down and … come out with his hands up.” Obama’s “last chance,” he said, would come on Nov. 19, when Klayman’s newly formed “Reclaim America Now Coalition” would descend on Washington’s LaFayette Park and refuse to leave until the president resigned.

Klayman predicted that at least 2 million people would attend the Nov. 19 kickoff. In the event, only about 100 people — 1/20,000th the promised number — made it to the rally, which featured speeches by a raft of far-right bigwigs who had aligned with Klayman and his Reclaim America effort. Coalition members included Jihad Watch, an anti-Muslim hate group whose director, Robert Spencer, believes that Islam is an inherently violent religion and that multiculturalism is an anti-Christian conspiracy to destroy the West; You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International, an anti-gay “ministry” and hate group whose leader, Bradlee Dean, has argued that it is moral to execute LGBT people; Ride for the Constitution, a shadowy coterie of truckers who made news in October with plans to jam Washington, D.C., roads until their demands, which included the president’s impeachment, were met; Gun Owners of America, a pro-militia group that has been described as “eight lanes to the right of the NRA”; and a bevy of other extremist organizations united by their loathing of America’s 44th president.

 

[GreyhoundFan]

I'm not surprised that Klayman is his attorney. Who else would represent Moore?

[older than allosaurs]

4 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

I'm not surprised that Klayman is his attorney. Who else would represent Moore?

Well there's Trent Garmon, whom we've discussed further back in this thread. He's every bit as bonkers as you'd expect.

[Cartmann99]

6 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

I'm not surprised that Klayman is his attorney. Who else would represent Moore?

 Mrs. Moore's been watching old episodes of Matlock and Perry Mason  just in case she has to take over.

[47of74]

More bad news for Roy

Quote

Sacha Baron Cohen on Thursday defeated an appeal by former Alabama judge Roy Moore accusing the British comedian of defamation for falsely portraying him as a pedophile in an interview for the show "Who Is America?"

In a 3-0 vote, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said the interview was constitutionally protected speech, agreeing with a lower court judge that it was "clearly comedy and that no reasonable viewer would conclude otherwise."

The court also said Moore waived his right to pursue his $95 million lawsuit by signing a standard consent agreement before the interview, which he knew would be televised. It also dismissed related claims by Moore's wife Kayla.

Larry Klayman, the Moores' lawyer, called the decision a "travesty," saying the consent agreement was ambiguous because Judge Moore crossed out a provision waiving claims related to alleged sexually oriented behavior and questioning.