Lawyers for election pollster scathingly threaten Trump with sanctions after 'transparently improper' defiance of court

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Law & Crime

Jul 22nd, 2025, 10:51 am


Attorneys for a retired 2024 election pollster and a top Iowa newspaper on Monday scathingly mocked President Donald Trump's "transparently improper" procedural gamesmanship and asked a federal judge to consider issuing sanctions if his defiance continues.

In the view of defendants the Des Moines Register, media company Gannett, and veteran pollster J. Ann Selzer, Trump is acting like "compliance" with court orders is "optional" and, therefore, he should not be rewarded with the stay of a deadline for filing an amended federal complaint without the inclusion of "illegitimate" current and former state lawmaker "co-plaintiffs" and "without adding 'new parties, allegations, or claims[.]"

"This is the second time Plaintiff Donald Trump has defied an order from this Court directing him to file an amended complaint removing the allegations he added 'to defeat the Court's jurisdiction over the case,'" the filing said. "The first time, after this Court denied Plaintiff's remand motion and ordered him to file an amended complaint within seven days, he instead filed a motion for stay."

"This Court promptly denied that motion and ordered Plaintiff to file his revised pleading on July 18th," the defendants continued. "He's now pulled the same stunt again."

Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/attorneys-for-pollster-and-newspaper-suggests-trump-should-face-sanctions-for-defiance/

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Full headline: 'Pulled the same stunt again': Lawyers for election pollster scathingly threaten Trump with sanctions after 'transparently improper' defiance of court order

Link to FILING (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26024667/pollster-suit.pdf

REFERENCES

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143401895
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143466103
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143488485
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143488801

[moniss]

1. Usually there should be no slack given to lawyers who file

basically a stay of the denial of a stay of a denied motion. Making the court plow the same ground over and over usually gets a lot of heat. But because it is in Iowa who knows at this point?

[BumRushDaShow]

2. That has been 45's tactic

including during the "Executive Privilege" and "Immunity" filings in 2023 - 2024 that he had his various lawyers doing over and over along with the appealing and appealing.

[tonekat]

3. I hope we see more of these actions

They serve to illustrate the hypocrisy.

[melm00se]

4. Simple

dismiss the case with prejudice.