https://electionlawblog.org/?p=122670

The lawsuit, filed in January by a conservative election watchdog group and 10 failed GOP congressional candidates against a slew of state and county elections officials, claimed the November election in California was rife with “mass irregularities and opportunities for fraud.”

The plaintiffs argued that such conditions have been brewing in California for years, but were exacerbated by changes made last year to make sure all voters in the state had access to a ballot during the COVID-19 pandemic.

But those arguments, similar to claims made in dozens of other lawsuits disputing the 2020 election, were rejected.

Federal Judge Andre Birotte wrote in a 13-page ruling published Tuesday that the plaintiffs didn’t offer concrete evidence that problems affected the outcome of California’s November elections. Birotte also said he agreed with the defendants’ statement that the lawsuit amounted to “an incremental undermining of confidence in the election results, past and future.”

https://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/eip-dismiss.pdf

Joe lifted sanctions, now time to ramp up

https://www.courthousenews.com/icc-swears-in-new-top-prosecutor/

“Mr. Khan comes to this demanding job with outstanding credentials in international criminal law,” the court’s president, Judge Piotr Hofmański, said while introducing Khan, who will serve as chief prosecutor for the next nine years.

Khan began his career at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. He is no stranger to the ICC, having previously served as defense counsel before the court for clients like Kenyan Vice President William Ruto; Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi; and Congolese Vice President Jean Pierre Bemba Gombo.

His time as a defense lawyer drew much criticism during the selection process, especially from African states that were unhappy with his history of defending alleged war criminals from the continent. After repeated delays caused by by arguments over the procedure, the process concluded in February when Khan became the first prosecutor to be elected by secret ballot rather than chosen by consensus.