Yes, Judge Peter A Thompson has ruled from the Maricopa Superior Court of Arizona, that success for Mrs. Kari Lake’s lawsuit was contingent upon her being able to prove malicious intent on behalf of the country election officials. [Read 10-page Ruling HERE]
The Maricopa County officials have denied malicious intent and are afforded great benefit of doubt; after all, the election result was duly certified.
Therefore, absent direct evidence of corrupt intent by the election officials, which would require them to make admissions in court, any certified outcome is considered valid.
Additionally, yes there were multiple documented problems with ballots, tabulators and chain-of-custody violations; and yes, there were multiple simultaneous failures which would have impeded accurate voting by the residents of Arizona; however, the Lake campaign could not quantify to a demonstrable certainty, the exact number of votes that were impacted by the simultaneous collapse of voting systems, processes and ballot control standards.
Absent Mrs. Lakes’ ability to scientifically and empirically quantify the exact number of votes impacted, there is no basis for a judgement in favor of the plaintiff.
Lastly, the defendant has requested that Mrs. Lake be punished by the court for attempting to question the certification of the election as validated by her opponent, the court will consider what punishment to impose and proclaim the sanctions after Monday, December 26, 2022.
[Full Ruling Here]
“Plaintiff has no free-standing right to challenge election results based upon what Plaintiff believes – rightly or wrongly – went awry on Election Day. She must, as a matter of law, prove a ground that the legislature has provided as a basis for challenging an election. …
“[O]ne who would contest an election assumes the burden of showing that his case falls within the terms of the statute providing for election contests.” … “It was Plaintiff’s burden to establish each element by clear and convincing evidence. If Plaintiff herself failed to sustain her burden of proof, the matter is decided.” …
“As far as evidence of misconduct is concerned, the Court finds nothing to substantiate Plaintiff’s claim of intentional misconduct.” … “Plaintiff’s own witness testified before this Court that the BOD printer failures were largely the result of unforeseen mechanical failure.” …
“It bears mentioning that election workers themselves were attested to by both Plaintiff’s witnesses and the Defendants’ witnesses as being dedicated to performing their role with integrity. Not perfectly, as no system on this earth is perfect, but more than sufficient to comply with the law and conduct a valid election.” (LINK)
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The court will now determine what punishment to apply to Mrs Kari Lake.
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WROL
Meaning????
Without Rule of Law
https://bunkerbasics.com/what-is-wrol/
Please no initials…spell it out.
The law has been turned on its head.
They are making up law (fabricating new ways to interpret existing law) in order to dismiss the criminals and punish the victims.
If this stands there is zero incentive to not commit election fraud.
There is even an example of it in the sham trial: Lake’s lawyer at one point had cited a case in support of one of the claims that would have allowed the judge to not have to traverse new ground had he the courage to make an honest ruling.
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Sorry you live in a society that’s run by a cult of malevolent cult of Lucifer worshipping pedos that use bribery and blackmail to achieve their objectives of global scientific dictatorship. Been going on for at least 100 years.
They’ve perfected their methods with MK Ultra and other sick CIA programs.
How many Epsteins do you think are out there? One? Two? Two hundred? Keep in mind Gislaine Maxwell’s father was a high level Mossad agent murdered in mysterious circumstances.
This pedo blackmail cult controls the banks, the courts, the Fortune 500 companies, the NGOs, the IMF, the World Bank, the WEF, and the board of directors of Chase.
You think it’s a coincidence they are trying to normalize child abuse through the courts and medical system?
Strange but true
It’s a never ending game of lunacy! God help us!
That it is.
Old witch.
I’m struggling to figure out who the crone on the left is…
Mrs. Mike Pence? Or Mike Pence in drag?
That is Rosa Delauro, the U.S. representative for Connecticut’s 3rd congressional district and she has been since 1991.
Thank you…I’ll never forget that face…
OMG. She is currently the chair of the powerful House Committee on Appropriations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Appropriations
Yep, she replaced Nita Lowey, another loon, a couple of years ago.
KaweahKid: Keith Richards
Ouch…🤣
More like Ronnie Wood to me. LOL
Sinema in 40 yrs or Cruella DeVille?
You have to be a freak to be on the team of democrats
why don’t WE help us?
Punishment ? Seriously ?
Meaning money, not jail. Besides the ordinary situation of the losing side having to pay court costs, sometimes one or both sides get fined over whatever the judge considers improper behavior or motions made by lawyers during the trial.
I’m interpreting it to mean that because Lake was not able to prove any of her assertions to the satisfaction of the judge, that makes it a “frivolous” lawsuit, therefore wasting the court’s time and resources, therefore she has to pay more. I don’t know the specifics of Arizona laws about frivolous suits, but most states have them.
Interesting that the court could have recourse to determine frivolity, seeing as how the court ruled on the initial requests to proceed to trial. If the court was convinced that there was possibly something there worth adjudicating, it sure as hell doesn’t rate frivolous.
I’m only guessing, since I haven’t studied Arizona law. I do know Lake’s lawyers were not very aggressive about discovery or requiring depositions, which handicapped their ability to prove intent. After Lake publicly bragged they would put Hobbs on the stand, and then they didn’t, I had a hunch it was over.
Robert Barnes stated earlier this week that a case like this needs many months of work for counsel to prepare. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that the Hobbs team prepared well in advance for this case, knowing the election would be challenged.
On the bright side? They cannot use mis-sized ballot images again. Jarret said this also happened in 2020 and the primary. Now everyone knows about it and will fix far more quickly.
It STILL needs to be investigated fully
Typically in civil matters “Purposeful Intent” doesn’t matter unless you’re dealing with damages after reaching a verdict for the Plaintiff. So, Kari is being screwed but we certainly didn’t expect anything else!
On to the State Supreme Court and then if needed to the US Supreme COurt
won’t matter but i assume you realize that.
the most surprising thing to me about this ruling is that people are 1-surprised by it, and 2-keep believing that another thoroughly corrupt institutional tool of the ruling elite will somehow change the trajectory.
its really simple: if they give you permission to use the tool, it won’t work against them.
when you have a barrel of rotten apples, you don’t toss a good one in to correct the barrel. thats not how this is going to work.
so… how many more red lines?
As I said in a comment on this thread, there is not a judge on this continent who will vote against a blatantly fraudulent election-no matter the quality and volume of evidence.
As you relayed MANY times…we are not voting our way out of this.
Ballots instead of votes
Mail in ballots
Ballot drop boxes
DMV voter registration
Undersized printed ballots.
Sharpies to mark ballots
Dominion voting machines switching votes
Fractions of votes
Judges refusing evidence
5 State legislatures shut down count votes within minutes of each other.
Slow burn of tyranny continues.
Oh, good!—the James Comey canard of “no intent”.
Looks like the judge has “no intent” of upholding the Constitution.
Oh yes…I see you are familiar with the old intent ploy. How about connecting the dots. How the hell do you prove intent? Maybe they were expecting the Col. Nathan R. Jessup confession from “A Few Good Men”….
Hell yes I did it!!!!
The election is completely fragged and these s&-%$#– are splitting hairs.
It’s funny how the “NO INTENT” defense doesn’t work for any of the January 6th defendants!
It actually did work to plead no intent for many of them in cutting deals for reduced charges.
“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked man rules, the people groan and sigh.” Proverbs 29:2
Not surprised.
Courage is in short supply in this day and age.
“The land of the free and the home of the brave” has become an utter sarcasm.
indeed. that lack of courage is flowing both ways right now – in spades.
Exactly!!
To MD:
Honesty also, and integrity, character, and a sense of RIGHT AND WRONG.
These SOPHISTS are all the same — in it for the win, no matter the cost to one’s soul.
So if they’re just stupid and incompetent….no harm no foul! Stick a fork in us.
why not stick a fork in THEM instead?
and there are still people on the right that think you can “out vote” the fraud.
Enter Harmeet Dhillon and her band of boneheads…..
dunno about you, but i intend to mash that vote button even harder than last time.
we got em on the ropes for 24, boys!
Yeah she’ll step in, get some RINOs elected and claim all is right with the world.
Merry Christmas judge!!!
I don’t knoe…do Mormons celebrate Christmas?
They do.
Which suit is this? Didn’t another judge allow a suit to go forward earlier this week?
I have a feeling this country is headed towards a bad reckoning if judges continue with the “no standing” bs.
Imagine telling a rape victim she has no standing. What is the difference?
2020 sc no standing edict will live for a 1000 years ellis.
“No standing” is an ejection seat.
“will live for a 1000 years ”
the sad part is that, but for passivity and atrophy, it really does not HAVE to.
It’s more akin to forcing the rape victim to prove the attacker intended to rape her. I mean he could have OD’d on Viagra and then tripped and repeatedly fell on her.
Kinda like having the requirement of four–MALE–witnesses to a rape.
Speaking of reckoning…
This morning, I read a synopsis of a book by Peter Turchin who uses historical analysis combined with various mathematical models–including AI–to predict future discord and societal collapse in nations. Open the link below and scroll down to the bottom. I read the first and last chapter of Mr. Turchin’s book, plus an explanation of his methodology, and this guy is dialed in. I won’t spoil it for the curious, except that history may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme in harmony.
Just saying….
https://peterturchin.com/PDF/AoD_Chapter14.pdf
It wasn’t “no standing” it was “laches” a legal term for waiting too long to file. How can it be “laches” when the suit and the service of the defendants was done in a matter of hours of the legal time limit beginning (after the election had been “certified”) and forenotice had been given.
To me it looks like the judge is wrong on many counts.
I also don’t buy the Bozo defense, it’s OK because the election workers and computer techs were stupid and incompetent.
Georgia, a 2020 elections lawsuit. Their Supreme Court says voters have standing and sent it back to the lower courts again.
Lady Liberty’s scales of justice are an apt representation of our nation. Just a hollow, cold, empty monument to what they once represented.
maybe in 24 we can send mobs to start tearing down those statues?
I’ve been living with this down here in Arizona. I’m at my w it’s end. The Arizona Supreme Court is supposed yo be conservative. This decision is strike two. I’m going to see how it plays out. If the Supremes don’t do the right thing, I’m out.
Call me when there is either divine intervention or we are getting ready to crucify politicians along I 95.
No wait… let’s vote.
Call me when there is either divine intervention or we are getting ready to crucify politicians along I 95.
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Have hammer, will travel /s
For some reason I have a vision of rebel slaves crucified by Marcus Crassus’s legionnaires lining the Appian Way…
Intent was established when election official admitted that printers did the same thing in 2020 and primary……did not fix the problem but let it persist. They Knew the printers would kick out ballots that day hence intentional……
They made sure of it.
When the guy said that they were changed that morning, the next questions should have been. Who changed the settings? And who authorized the changes? That change was intentional.
I have lost faith. Why have any laws? Why have signature verification if no one checks the accuracy? Omg. We are screwed.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
All 3 branches of federal and state government are corrupt.
The country is in stage 4 of a deadly cancer. Terminal? Palliative care? Hospice? Or a miracle to pry this evil loose.
Add local to that. Some of the nastiest communists and other marxsts I’ve occasion to know, are sitting on town councils with a smile and a grin.
Absolutely. The rot goes all the way down to local and from there the individuals who live in the locality. Country is rotten to the core.
Treasuring up for themselves the wrath of the Eternal Judge, aren’t they?
Much woe to them, so blind and deceitful.
It’s not too late to reverse course for these individuals.
Pull the plug on her. It’s over.
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness—-That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
The only scary part of par. 2, DOI THAT YOU QUOTED is “alter or abolish.” Do you realize that the real danger is an ART. V convention? Can you imagine the “runaway “ we would have? Delegates have plenipotentiary powers! CA has 55 delegates. Our constitution would be abolished and re written. The results of which you would detest!
generally speaking, thats the point where they start nuking everything that looks like cancer, and then take the knife to anything thats left….
What cannot be saved won’t. Survival is the key.
Think of it like this; you have gangrene in your leg and the doc says he must amputate to save your other leg–and your life. Do you argue with the doctor and prolong the surgery and hope it will just go away. Or, do you do what must be done to save what can be saved?
get new lawyers……
Agreed
When the decision is pre-determined, does it matter?
Mike Lindell is financing this.
to do what with?
Lake should have new lawyers for the appeal since appeals are kind of a specialty.
She’ll also appeal any ‘punishment’ meted out by the judge too.
It’s all good information.
Ms. Lake could have a modern day dream-team of lawyers, but all it takes is a judge (judiciary) that is corrupt beyond description and those dream-team lawyers might as well be first year law students.
Color me jaded, but I wonder if the outcome was predetermined, and the trial was just to placate the malcontents.
Pedantic justice.
trust the plan.
indeed. remember when they all said, in unison, not to show up, dont protest, dont get angry, dont act, just sit back and let justice do its thing?
well, justice just had its way with you. here is the result of inaction.
Live your best life. Nobody is coming to save us.
Viva Mexico….
Not true.
WE ARE BROTHERS.
I will come to the side of any…. Knowing you is irrelevant… There are tens-of-thousands of us.
We, right here, are the nobodies that will determine the future.
You are NOT alone.
Who is outside the Jan 6 defendants jail right now?
Wyoming Treeper probably Ashli Babbit’s mother
Is there a verifiable list of names of those incarcerated, and the charges used to hold them?
We must be smart! We have to figure out their methods of stealing elections and then sabotage their efforts. We have to thwart them at every end of their election steal plot!
It definitely won’t be the military (see Sundance’s article earlier this week), and it damn sure won’t be the Republicans.
Wouldn’t it be ironic if Putin capped off a nuke and took out DC? Talk about the enemy of my enemy…..
Hopefully when it’s in session and all are present
My flag has been flying upside down since these criminals stole the Presidency from President Trump. Until that’s corrected it’s staying that way.
Mine since McCain threw the race to Hussein.
Every snail mail I make sure it’s upside down.
Great minds think alike. 🙂
This last storm took ours down & I won’t be putting it back up.
For what legitimate reason did someone change the printer settings? Absent such a reason, and I haven’t heard one offered yet, malicious intent is clear. I agree it would be difficult to show that it affected the outcome but such a standard is absurd–do anything you want and the challenger will always lose because there’s no practical way to show the effects. Whenever malicious intent is shown, the burden should shift to the election winner to prove that the outcome is not affected. Since that can’t be shown in a close election, a re-vote should be ordered.
Wasn’t it the case that these printer settings were changed at a large number of polling stations and that the overwhelming majority of these polling stations were in areas that lean Republican?
why bother to argue the merits or the evidence? that was never what this was about nor what it was going to hinge on.
You’re making WAY too much sense!
So If I kill someone while driving drunk then I should only be charged with DUI as I did not have the “intent” to kill someone.
Sure, as long as you are registered Democrat and the person you killed was a Trump supporter.
Case closed.
Well said… Remember when the statute against Hillary clearly said that it was CONDUCT that was the violation in her emails, NOT INTENT, and yet Comey let her off because he “couldn’t prove ‘intent'”?
Yeah, right. And it made no diff back then, either.
Wasn’t it convenient how the U.S. AG at the time (Loretta Lynch) temporarily conferred her prosecutorial powers onto the Director of the FBI?
Should purposeful intent even matter? I happen to think the evidence does strongly support the purposeful intent hypothesis, but it seems to me all that should matter is that there were enough problems with the election process that they could plausibly have affected the outcome of the election. This, I think, was entirely proven.
Seems that the team Dillon lawyers were just about as effective as team send in the Kraken lawyers were in 2020
Robert Barnes thought the plaintiff lawyers did an OK job. He also thought it unlikely that a judge would rule in favor of the plaintiff no matter how strong their argument and the evidence supporting it because according to him, in general, judges these days are unwilling to make any rulings that would challenge official election results. Barnes said he thought the value we should expect to get out of this trial is how it showcases for people who were previously unaware of it the degree of lawlessness that governs our election process and the unwillingness of the judiciary to do anything about it.
And then what?
We work to fix it from the bottom up. It won’t happen overnight, but as more people see what is happening, more will be open to eliminating the fraud. Even most Democrats don’t want they’re elections stolen.
It will have to become truly horrible for them to wake up.
As the country is being looted by Ukraine and illegals, criminals and deadly drugs flood across the border, we don’t have that much time.
Actually, Sidney’s briefs DID prove everything. She is a superb lawyer, and tenacious as hell.
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And that’s why the judges wouldn’t hear the case. They just make it up as they go along.
The law means nothing. She learned that the hard way.
They pretended the election was honest and Peter A Thompson pretended to believe them.
“Absent Mrs. Lakes’ ability to scientifically and empirically quantify the exact number of votes impacted (…)”
On that basis no election results can ever be disputed. The Democrats are sailing… and the Republic, sinking!
The comments are horrible! Many of them with Ukraine flag next to their names!
Fake War – Fake Commenters.
lol
I just checked out what you said, and the comments are horrible. Pray for America.
Bots will bot.
No surprise. Twitter is a cesspool of liberal maniacs.
Are there no non-compromised judges left in this country?
Faux elections are the stuff of banana republics and Communist regimes (like the one currently occupying the White House as a CCP puppet, itself installed under a fraudulent election / color revolution).
Are there not judges willing to stand up, lest the consign our country – and their children and grandchildren – to living in a Collectivist dystopia (even though it may on paper still be called “The United States of America”)?
Short answer is NO.
Nothing new under the sun . History has a catalogue of solutions if we care to study it .
The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow) working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one.
Thomas Jefferson
Sheer madness. Election law was broken. And admitted to. Chain of custody was broken. The law was broken, but now it’s called a mistake? And the part that gets ugly. Since Katie Hobbs certified a fraudulent election, it must stand! After all it’s been certified. And for questioning a fraudulent stolen election you are silenced and made to pay damages, (sanctions? like jail time?) Seriously, who wants to live in this demonic world.
Mrs. Lake needed the expertise and service of those cops in the UK who suspected that woman was thinking prayerful thoughts and ended up arresting her.
I bet they would know whether there was malicious intent. And then they could arrest somebody.
Run out the clock. That’s what the appeals process in this case is designed to do. Are they going to unswear Hobbs once she takes office? No. The courts will conclude that, yes, Lake was screwed, but it’s too late to do anything about it.
We are ruled. We are no longer citizens. We are subjects.
We are serfs.
Not even serfs. In the eyes of the ruling class, we’re no more than insects to them.
Cattle
Chattel.
Pleading ignorance, is the deep state’s best defense. Being criminally corrupt and fraudulent, but done unintentionally is acceptable.
Two years and nothings changed. What republican would want to run for any elected position in Arizona?
Banana Republicans.
McCain Republicans. Same difference.
Cloak yourselves with the full armor of God. Prepare for what is ahead. Eph6:12 sums it all up! Don’t forget Katie Hobbs called all MAGA supporters “enemies of the State! As did Mr. Biden
We no longer have rule of law in this country. That’s fine. Take the mask off so the rest of us don’t have to follow the rules either. Like not filing tax returns.
They seem to be steeped in the moral sewer of “Rules for thee but not for me.”
Yeah but eventually everybody else decides that’s fun to do as well. And then all hell breaks loose. We’re about there.
Is America the Dorian Gray of nations ?
He does live right across the border from Mexico. So he’s familiar with the question, silver or lead? The hard part would be coming up with enough excuses to write an opinion, but I’m sure his new paralegal Marc helped him with that. I see NOTHING. NOTHING. I got to get home. The candles on my John McCain shrine are growing dim.
I think I’ve seen that shrine. Is it located at the cell phone lot at the Phoenix airport? A small green structure?
😂😂😂😂😂
Plata o plomo.
The judge and the MCBOS/Democrats totally ignored and disregarded AZ legislated laws regarding the process and procedures for handling and assessing the legality of the ballots. That’s willful intent on behalf of the defendants. Also, given the judge’s biased behavior in a so-called fair hearing of such magnitude, he should be compelled to go before the state bar association, have his license revoked and removed from the bench. Kari and AZ GOP down ballot candidates need to appeal this unlawful judgement up to the AZ Supreme Court and if necessary SCOTUS. Just remember in Bush vs. Gore, SCOTUS admonished FL for not following state legislated laws regarding that election.
Merry Christmas!!!
No longer home of the free!
Viva Mexico!!
When anyone has to cheat to win, malicious intent is always the reason.
Errors of the magnitude in Maricopa country are Hanlon’s Razor in reverse. It MUST be assumed malice (intent, premeditation) was the motive. To assume otherwise is to pretend, to intentionally ignore the evidence.
And yet people still think non-violent means are going to save this republic.
Count me as one that thinks otherwise. We’re screwed.
I’ve been of that mind set for far too many months. I passed pissed off nearly 2 years ago now.
My opinion, say the right jumps into ballot harvesting like is being advocated now and wins at it. The left will turn right around and challenge the wins in some court and and the right will lose against the very arguments they just used for the last 2 elections.
There ain’t no way of voting ourselves out of this mess and the courts are of no help. The left did all the test polling before swinging for the fence on national ballot harvesting in the 2020 election after the test run in California in 2018. Biden stated as much several times in the run up to Nov 2020. They’ve been working the courts for over 10 years in the run up to 2020, they needed some catastrophe to allow mail in ballots on a grand scale, all the rest was in place. What a stroke of luck, along came covid. Now if any of you think that was accidental, you are thinking too small. Covid was released on purpose, they had it all worked out.
The only amazing thing to me is how many people are in on this, I’d have never guessed we had so many downright deceitful people in this country. Look at all the coordination it took across the various voting precincts in 2020. Plan to run the observers out and bring in the phony ballots, not just in Detroit, but in nearly all of them. The scam water break and all the other excuses to send observers out. This was a large coordinated operation. Reading the comments on twitter to Kari just backs up how many deceitful folks are out there. Absolutely sad.
I was scratching my head over some stuff that has happened in my mostly red state the past year plus. We have a near super majority in the house and senate, but a lefty governor for some reason. We’ve had that before. What I discovered is she installed judges in only four years in our supreme court making it left leaning. I now worry about my state turning blue, I know for a fact the left is out in force here these days doing the things they do in silence while everyone else is just working and living.
This disenfranchisement is the largest civil rights violation since slavery.
This is a can of the the old “No Standing” in a Shiny New Box!
Gravely disturbing and deeply disappointing. And now they’re going to punish her. How much more, people?
It should not matter if it was purposeful or not. If what happened impacted enough votes then that is enough for a do-over.
The Japanese should have said they bombed Pearl Harbor by accident.
Other recall efforts..?
Punishment? isn’t the law work both ways, unless they can prove kari lake have malicious intent there should be no punishment.
It’s apparent the judge did not respond correctly to the count’s dismissed..not broken ARS election laws was proven multiple times with chain of custody… not done at all.. equals intent. And county witnesses said we’ve done this for this and two other elections equals intent. The experts on polling and outcomes clearly showed the loss of votes to the Lake campaign and of course all those hundreds of thousands of affidavits from impacted voters weren’t allowed to be admitted. Nothing to see here folks, just be ready to be ruled as closing counsel Liddy stated.
Intent shouldn’t matter. The election was not done correctly so it shouldn’t count.
You know that,
and I know that,
but that doesn’t matter…
Arriving at this point is no mystery–ever since the laws on “hate crimes” were written, there was no doubt this was coming.
Hate Crimes = means that you are NOT punished for what you did: you are punished for WHAT YOU WERE THINKING WHILE YOU DID IT.
There is no reason anyone should be surprised at this. Run out the continuum. No mystery. None at all.
Just like the increasing availability of “assisted suicide” follows like clockwork on the continuum where easy abortion began revving up back in 1973–soon fifty years ago. Euthanasia at any age for any reason should not surprise anyone.
“Unbelievable” and “I’m shocked” are words that indicate someone wasn’t paying attention.
Now, if Ms. Lake had been elected, you can BET a Democrat challenge that introduced all manner of extenuating circumstances, specious legal theories, and a tsunami of made-up evidence would have been accepted, analyzed, and favorably ruled upon.
Sundance you called it.