The court fined Karamo nearly $60,000 for her continued effort to undermine the 2022 election results
LANSING — We wanted to make sure you saw that MAGA extremism is costing Michigan GOP Chair Kristina Karamo nearly $60,000 as a Wayne County judge sanctioned her and Dan Hartman, the MI GOP’s conspiracy peddling attorney, for their groundless claims of misconduct in Detroit’s election.
MSNBC reporter Steve Benen’s recent article describes exactly how far Karamo continues to go with her right wing conspiracies. The Michigan GOP is deeply out of touch with Michiganders as the leader of the state party continues to fall down the rabbit hole of extremism – from claims of infectious demonic possession and election denialism.
Read more about the downward spiral of the Michigan Republican Party’s leadership below:
MSNBC: Yet another GOP election denier faces court-imposed sanctions
- As regular readers might recall, Karamo raised eyebrows, for example, by talking publicly about her concerns regarding “demonic possession,” which she said can spread from person to person through intimate relationships.
- Karamo also spread Jan. 6 conspiracy theories, rejected vaccines, derided transgender women, condemned evolutionary biology, suggested cohabitation before marriage opens the door to normalizing pedophilia, and expressed great certainty that the 2020 election results were illegitimate.
- …In an order signed Monday, Circuit Court Judge Timothy Kenny described the Oct. 26 suit … as “rife with speculation, an absence of facts and a lack of understanding of Michigan election statutes and Detroit absentee ballot procedures.”
- …Courts should certainly exercise great caution before discouraging worthwhile litigation, but there’s also value in punishing those who clog the courts with cases that never should’ve been filed.
- …American courtrooms are not supposed to be abused by politicians filing frivolous cases in pursuit of partisan theatrics. The judiciary is not a toy. There is a reasonable expectation that all litigation, even if ultimately unsuccessful, has at least some merit. When political actors file performative cases in pursuit of scoring points, it’s also reasonable to expect them to pay a price
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