Tag Archives: Jenna Ellis

The Daily Mail reports: A conspiracy theory touting lawyer who has championed Donald Trump’s election fraud claims is stirring controversy by suggesting Vice President Mike Pence should “face execution by firing squad” for treason. “If Pence is arrested, @SecPompeo will save the election. Pence will be in jail awaiting trial for treason. He will face execution by firing squad. He …

Peter Montgomery reports at Right Wing Watch: On Monday night, Ellis tweeted that the Insurrection Act “does not apply” to the post-election wrangling. She was rewarded with comments calling her a bad lawyer, a shill for the left, and someone who’s only in the fight to make money and raise her profile. Some argued that this is war, and everything …

Via press release from the Trump campaign: “The ‘Safe Harbor Deadline’ is a statutory timeline that generally denotes the last day for states to certify election results. However, it is not unprecedented for election contests to last well beyond December 8. “Justice Ginsburg recognized in Bush v. Gore that the date of ‘ultimate significance’ is January 6, when Congress counts …

Axios reports: President Trump’s lawyer Jenna Ellis has informed associates she tested positive for the coronavirus, multiple sources tell Axios, stirring West Wing fears after she attended a senior staff Christmas party on Friday. Driving the news: There are concerns about the potential for another White House superspreader event, though it was unclear whether Ellis posed a risk when she …

The New York Times reports: Arguing that “a license to practice law is not a license to lie,” nearly 1,500 lawyers issued a letter on Monday calling on bar associations across the country to investigate and, if needed, penalize the members of President Trump’s legal team, including the architect of his post-election strategy, Rudolph W. Giuliani. “It is indefensible for …

Mediaite reports: Jenna Ellis visited Fox Business to push a voter fraud conspiracy which has already been rejected by Republican election officials. Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo brought Ellis in, on Friday morning, with a video showing Georgia election workers moving suitcases from underneath a table. “You see individuals going to this table, and underneath the table there are suitcases, …

The Wall Street Journal reports: In her online bios, Ms. Ellis has portrayed herself as “an experienced defense attorney who was formerly an attorney for the U.S. Department of State and a Colorado prosecutor.” She also has described herself as a constitutional-law attorney and as having “extensive experience in litigation in both trial and appellate levels.” Ms. Ellis’s work as …

The Washington Post reports: A federal appeals court on Friday rejected President Trump’s request for an emergency injunction to overturn the certification of Pennsylvania’s election results, delivering another defeat to the president’s attempts to reverse the outcome in a state that has already formalized President-elect Joe Biden’s victory there. Jenna Ellis, a legal adviser to Trump’s campaign, said after the …

Law & Crime reports: The senior legal adviser of President Donald Trump’s campaign shared a quote on Twitter that was falsely attributed to former president Theodore Roosevelt. The critical response was immediate and efforts were quickly made to clean up the mess, but that only made things worse. Multiple Twitter users pointed out Ellis’s clumsy use of the debunked meme …

Raw Story reports: A Pennsylvania judge issued a scathing order rejecting the president’s claims of massive voter fraud. The ruling was described as a total shellacking and a dunk. As expected, Trump suffered a Twitter meltdown. But his legal team didn’t seem that much more stable. The ruling showed that Jenna Ellis, one of the lawyers on Trump’s team, had …

CNN reports: Jenna Ellis has been one of President Donald Trump’s most ardent defenders since joining his campaign as a legal adviser and surrogate a year ago, but in early 2016 she was one of his toughest critics and deeply opposed his candidacy, according to a CNN KFile review of statements she made on her official Facebook page and in …

ABC News reports: Over the weekend, Giuliani and his own team of lawyers, which also includes Trump campaign legal adviser Jenna Ellis, attempted what was described to ABC News as an internal campaign “coup”— an attempt to wrestle power away from the current longstanding Trump campaign leadership by claiming the president had given them full control moving forward, multiple sources …

Mediaite reports: Trump campaign legal adviser Jenna Ellis appeared on the Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show Wednesday night. In the segment, she pushed a false story that went viral early Tuesday and ended up on President Donald Trump’s Twitter feed before it was eventually debunked. The false story gained traction, in large part, thanks to a tweet by conservative commentator …

The Christian Post reports: A California court has issued a preliminary injunction against Pastor John MacArthur and Grace Community Church, banning them from conducting, participating in or attending any indoor worship services until the case is resolved. In what lawyers for the Sun Valley-based megachurch described as a “setback,” a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge on Sept. 10 granted …

From the far-right Washington Times: Los Angeles County has canceled a lease on a large portion of the Grace Community Church parking lot amid a legal fight over the megachurch’s refusal to abide by a public-health ban on indoor worship. The Department of Public Works informed the Sun Valley church in a Friday notice that the lease on the property, …

The Christian Post reports: Holding indoor services once again in defiance of California’s COVID-19 lockdown orders, Pastor John MacArthur of Grace Community Church on Sunday told his congregation, “We are holding church … because our Lord commands it.” The megachurch met hours after an appeals court blocked a ruling that had allowed it to meet for worship. “They don’t want …

Earlier this week Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis and a far-right Christian legal group sued the state of California, Los Angeles County, and state officials over the lockdown. Today Los Angeles County sued back: The complaint against Grace Community Church was filed with the Los Angeles County Superior Court. “The County took this action reluctantly, after working with the church …

Deadline Hollywood reports: The Simpsons got out a response to a Trump adviser’s swipe at Kamala Harris, Joe Biden’s new running mate. Jenna Ellis, senior legal adviser to the Trump campaign, tweeted on Wednesday, “Kamala sounds like Marge Simpson.” Harris had been making her first appearance with Biden since he selected her as running mate. In the new post by …

Via press release: Thomas More Society Special Counsel Jenna Ellis and Charles LiMandri filed suit in the Superior Court of the State of California County of Los Angeles on behalf of Pastor John MacArthur and Grace Community Church against Governor Gavin Newsom, Attorney General Xavier Becerra, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, and other California and Los Angeles County public health …

ABC News reports: Worshippers on Sunday attended a Sun Valley church that held indoor services, despite a state order prohibiting such services. Grace Community Church on Roscoe Boulevard held services that did not require visitors to wear a mask. Those who left the service Sunday evening say the church is a vital service. “It is our right to express our …