By ROGER SOLLENBERGER
JANUARY 22, 2021 10:00AM (UTC)
Texas attorney Paul Davis, who was fired earlier this month after posting several Instagram videos of himself on the front lines at the
Jan. 6 Capitol riots, filed an impressively grandiose lawsuit in federal
court on Monday, requesting that Congress disappear entirely and that
nearly everyone who holds high office in the United States, along with
Mark Zuckerberg, be barred from ever seeking election or voting again.
He also asked the court to tell the Justice Department and FBI not to
arrest him.
The complaint, filed in the Waco Division of the Western District of Texas by Davis and co-counsel Kellye SoRelle, a failed Republican
candidate for state office, claims that every vote cast in the 2020
general election was illegal, and therefore that "entire 117th Congress
is illegitimate." Consequently, Davis argues, every action this Congress
has taken, including impeaching former President Trump and certifying
President Joe Biden's victory, is "null and void."
The lawsuit was filed in the name of a few small conservative minority groups, including Latinos for Trump and Blacks for Trump, along
with a number of related but unspecified individuals. The only
plaintiff whose full name appears in the document is Joshua Macias, a
Navy veteran and the founder of Vets for Trump, who was arrested in
November after he and a friend brought a semiautomatic rifle and samurai
sword from Virginia Beach to a Philadelphia ballot processing center.
Macias also submitted, under penalty of perjury, a false sworn affidavit
in Davis' lawsuit, upon which hinged the suit's sole claim of actual
injury.
The 54-page complaint opens by stating plainly that it is "not a 2020 presidential election fraud lawsuit," and doesn't seek to change
the declared winner of any elections. (Based on the subsequent
arguments, that appears blatantly false.) A footnote on the first page
reads: "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."
