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One week after President Donald Trump sent FBI agents to seize Fulton County\u2019s 2020 ballots as part of a criminal probe, a Georgia judge has apparently had it up to here with Trump-style election deniers.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe 2020 election is over,\u201d said Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, dismissing Trump-supporters\u2019 lawsuit and effort to review ballots and materials they allege would prove Trump should have won Georgia.<\/p>\n

On top of tossing the suit, the judge ordered the four plaintiffs \u2014 consisting of a treasure hunter and members of a Georgia affiliate of the Tea Party Patriots \u2014 to pay nearly $40,000 to Fulton County and the county Superior Court clerk\u2019s office for filing the frivolous suit.<\/p>\n

McBurney ruled the lawsuit \u201cpresented zero factual or legal questions\u201d concerning the county\u2019s liability for certain claims and gave the plaintiffs until Monday to pay the attorney fees.<\/p>\n

The Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC) reports McBurney’s ruling is the \u201clatest twist\u201d in a long-running legal battle that centers on allegations of voting fraud in the 2020 election. Lead plaintiff Garland Favorito has become an influential figure among a group of Georgians who are convinced that fraud cost Trump the election, despite countless state and federal investigations finding no evidence of significant fraud in 2020. Then-President Joe Biden\u2019s victory was confirmed by two recounts, including a hand count of every ballot.<\/p>\n

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One of Favorito\u2019s consultants reviewing ballot images was Jovan Pulitzer, an inventor and scavenger who the AJC reports as having once \u201csearched for the Ark of the Covenant.\u201d Another face behind the fight was Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, who joined Pulitzer in spreading election fraud conspiracies during a state Senate hearing at the Georgia Capitol. <\/p>\n

\u201cAn attorney for Favorito, Todd Harding, has been involved in at least three other lawsuits alleging fraud in Georgia\u2019s November and January U.S. Senate elections,\u201d AJC reported in 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is nothing more than a circus that\u2019s being put on by those who promote the \u2019big lie\u2019 that Trump won the election,\u201d Fulton Commission Chairman Robb Pitts said in 2021. \u201cWhere does it end? The votes have been counted. The elections have been certified. It\u2019s over.\u201d<\/p>\n

But even today, it apparently is not over because Trump has sent his politicized FBI to investigate and count ballots on their own under the cover of a federal warehouse.<\/p>\n

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One week after President Donald Trump sent FBI agents to seize Fulton County\u2019s 2020 ballots as part of a criminal probe, a Georgia judge has apparently had it up to here with Trump-style election deniers.\u201cThe 2020 election is over,\u201d said Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, dismissing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n'The 2020 election is over': Judge throws out MAGA lawsuit and imposes steep fine - Next Address America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1557\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"'The 2020 election is over': Judge throws out MAGA lawsuit and imposes steep fine - 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