After Being Fired Over Capitol Insurrection, Lawyer Finds Legal Work Suing... Pretty Much Every Politician And Mark Zuckerberg

When will the election lawsuits end?

Paul Davis (Image via Twitter)

Usually, we find our most specious legal filings in the pro se ranks, but 2021 (nèe 2020) loves proving these are unusual times. Paul Davis, formerly of Goosehead Insurance before a little thing like an attempted coup abruptly ended his career there (Davis claims he was “peacefully protesting” and never entered the Capitol), is showing that yes, attorneys can get caught up in wild conspiracy theories. Maybe Lin Wood and Sidney Powell really are trailblazers.

Davis, along with Kellye SoRelle — a lawyer and failed candidate for the Texas House of Representatives — filed a complaint yesterday in federal court in the Western District of Texas. The complaint has a lot of outlandish claims and seems destined to be thrown out of court. Filed on behalf of Latinos for Trump, Blacks for Trump, as well as a series of individual plaintiffs, the complaint claims it “is not a 2020 presidential election fraud lawsuit” (indeed, it throws its legal predecessors in crazy election lawsuits under the bus, saying in a footnote, “This is not a Sidney Powell lawsuit. This is not a Rudy Giuliani lawsuit. This is not a Lin Wood lawsuit. This is not a Team Trump lawsuit. This is not a Republican lawsuit. This is not a Democrat lawsuit.”) but still seeks to have a federal judge throw out the results of the election.

The complaint alleges that defendants — every single member of the 117th Congress, every state governor and secretary of state, and Mark Zuckerberg, because… reasons — made changes to election laws in advance of the 2020 election in violation of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) which resulted in civil rights violations. It asks that all actions of the new Congress — including certification of Joe Biden’s win and the second impeachment of Donald Trump — be invalidated.

Adding to its pie-in-the-sky wishlist, the complaint also asks the court to bar the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or any other federal agency from taking either Davis or SoRelle into custody for their actions on January 6th “absent a showing for good cause by clear and convincing evidence that said counsel committed some overt and intentional act of violence that directly resulting in substantial injury to the person of another.” As if that’s the legal standard for arrests. It’s cute how they’re just pushing ahead like unlawful entry and trespass aren’t a thing you can get arrested for.

Anyway, the full complaint is a wild ride, and available in full below.

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