Mike Lindell, chief executive officer of My Pillow Inc., speaks to members of the media while arriving to federal court in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, June 24, 2021.(Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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The complaint itself is a rehash of long-debunked election fraud conspiracies from states like Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Georgia, claims that were first made in Sidney Powell’s infamous Kraken lawsuits earlier this year.In fact, the Supreme Court rejected a similar case brought by Texas in December 2020 that sought to get four other states to overturn their election results.At one point Lindell’s complaint claims that President Joe Biden should be held accountable for failing to “remedy the Constitution” by not fixing the flaws in the electoral system prior to the 2020 election. Not only is this not something the president can do, but Lindell appears to have forgotten who was president in the lead-up to the 2020 election.Even though no lawyer was willing to put their name on the complaint, it does appear to have been drafted by an actual lawyer: Lawrence Joseph, a conservative attorney who has filed briefs at the Supreme Court in support of conservative causes and figures. In fact, he helped Texas draft the complaint last year that was thrown out by the Supreme Court.
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