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1. You are wrong. Go to the link. The Trump lawsuit dropped the original Counts I & II of the complaint, the ones alleging violations of law arising from denial of observation of the vote. It deleted paragraph ii of the prayer for relief.
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.pamd.127057/gov.uscourts.pamd.127057.125.1.pdf https://twitter.com/PereGrimmer/status/1328360849522765824
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.pamd.127057/gov.uscourts.pamd.127057.125.1.pdf https://twitter.com/PereGrimmer/status/1328360849522765824
2. This means, @PereGrimmer & others complaining about this, that the amended complaint no longer seeks legal relief for this. Doesn't necessarily mean they dropped the factual allegations, but it means they're no longer asking a court to do anything about it.
3. I realize this is a distinction sometimes lost on non-lawyers. Sometimes, you still think something is true, but for various reasons of law or evidence you stop trying to use it to get a court to rule in your favor. Judging by the revised complaint, that's what happened here.
4. To any lawyer, the counts in the complaint & the prayer for relief are where you look to see WHAT THE PLAINTIFF IS ASKING THE COURT TO DO. Which is the bottom line in any civil lawsuit. They asked to throw out votes on this basis, & have now withdrawn that.
5. This is, in fact, precisely why courts ask plaintiffs to submit this kind of markup of a revised complaint, so the court and the defendant can see exactly what changed in the lawsuit when a complaint was revised.
