If you thought the legal battles over Georgia’s 2020 November election were over, they aren’t. InsiderAdvantage readers may remember that Georgia’s Republican Party Chairman David Shafer joined then-President Donald Trump as co-plaintiff in contesting the outcome of our state’s presidential election in Donald J. Trump and David J. Shafer v. Brad Raffensperger et al.
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The state GOP filed 1,500 pages of exhibits documenting irregularity and fraud sufficient to invalidate the election. The lawsuit was very underreported by the Georgia media, especially since state law requires election contests to be heard within 20 days of being filed. At the end of that period, though, the case was never assigned to a Fulton County judge who was eligible to hear it.
“Our case was not assigned to a judge and set for a hearing until January 8, 2021 — two days after Congress counted and certified the votes of the Electoral College,” Shafer writes in a letter to the party faithful. “Our court system, in a massive failure of justice, simply ran out the clock, delaying and delaying until our claims had been mooted.”
Shafer also reports that two of Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s co-defendants, Cobb County and DeKalb County, “filed a motion against President Trump and me demanding that we personally pay their legal fees. Not content with denying us our day in court, they are now seeking to punish us personally and deter anyone from ever again questioning the integrity of our elections.”
That has led just-returned U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg Randy Evans, a longtime Atlanta lawyer, to join the Trump/Shafer legal team. The team with new addition Evans, Shafer’s letter says, “have filed notice of appearance to represent us against Secretary Raffensperger’s co-defendants.” Clearly, the state party intends to fight Cobb and DeKalb Counties to the bitter end.
