Susman Godfrey-Dominion Voting Systems building 'legal armada' to sue Trump supporters for billions-

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Dominion has brought in Susman Godfrey attorneys. This is a big deal. I know a ton of lawyers at that firm and I am one of the few transaction lawyers who is invited to their holiday party.

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"With billions of dollars in lawsuits now in the balance, Dominion Voting Systems has quietly expanded its legal armada in recent days, as the election technology company goes after Trumpworld and conservative media giants," The Daily Beast reported Monday. "Clare Locke—the legal firm spearheading Dominion's lawsuits against Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and pillow magnate Mike Lindell—recently brought in seven attorneys from the Texas-based firm of Susman Godfrey, which has experience litigating against the so-called 'Kraken' suits filed by one-time Trump attorneys Lin Wood and Sidney Powell."

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"There are great synergies between the work that the Susman team had done on the 2020 election and the defamation cases we were pursuing for Dominion," said Clare. "As those discussions unfolded we also discovered the two firms have a great cultural similarity in having a ready for trial approach to litigation....

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The Susman firm is one of the top trial firms in the country.

[Budi]

1. This will be a pleasure to follow. About Time.

Thanks for the good news

Dominion Builds Legal Behemoth To Drain Trumpland of Billions

https://www.thedailybeast.com/dominion-builds-legal-behemoth-to-drain-trumpland-of-billions?via=ios

[Phoenix61]

2. I hope they get every single cent they are asking for.

Plus legal fees. It’s about time those lying asshats pay for what they have done.

[Cicada]

3. Clearing their name matters more than the money

No Republican politician will hire them while repub voters think they are crooks. They need to have widely followed lawsuits proving they were innocent. They will not settle with anyone. They need to have a trial proving their innocence.

[PortTack]

4. ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️

[multigraincracker]

5. Live by the law suits,

die by the law suits.
Time for cashing in on his Karma.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. Why the White House's latest law firm offensive is different from most. Susman represented clients who sued Fox News an

Why the White House’s latest law firm offensive is different from most. Susman represented clients who sued Fox News and other parties favored by trump and won

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/white-houses-latest-law-firm-offensive-different-rcna200610

But with Susman Godfrey, it’s not quite as obvious — and while the official order was over 900 words long, none went into detail about the firm’s alleged transgressions. (The order noted that Susman Godfrey “administers a program where it offers financial awards and employment opportunities only to ‘students of color,’” which Team Trump apparently finds outrageous, though this hardly warranted an aggressive response from the Oval Office.)

So why did Trump target this specific firm? Many of the news reports about the executive order noted that Susman Godfrey represented Dominion Voting Systems in the defamation case against Fox News, and it seems plausible that the president would want to punish a firm that clashed with a politically aligned media outlet.

Reuters’ report noted that Susman Godfrey “is also representing Dominion in defamation lawsuits against the president’s former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell, and others related to false claims that the 2020 election was rigged against Trump.”

It’s also of interest that firm represents The New York Times in its copyright suit against OpenAI and Microsoft.

But let’s also not forget that it was just last month when Media Matters filed suit against Elon Musk’s X (the social media platform formerly known as Twitter), and the progressive media watchdog is represented in the case by — you guessed it — Susman Godfrey.

To be sure, I’ve seen no evidence to suggest that Trump signed an order targeting the firm at the behest of his top campaign donor, but as the dispute unfolds, it’s a detail worth keeping in mind.