Michigan Judge Tosses Zuckerbucks Lawsuit over 2020 Election Funding

A Michigan judge has tossed a lawsuit alleging Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson illegally accepted private money to swing the 2020 presidential election in favor of President Joe Biden.

First filed in October 2020, the litigation claimed that then-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg swung the 2020 election in favor of President Joe Biden by awarding millions of dollars to local governments in Democrat strongholds via his Chicago-based nonprofit the Center for Technology & Civic Life.

The Center Square previously reported that CTCL contributed $400 million nationwide into the 2020 election.

The suit alleged those grants awarded violated the Equal Protection clause, saying that CTCL didn’t fund Republican counties. The lawsuit claimed that Benson should have prevented local election officials from accepting the grants or required them to return the funds.

In October 2020, Court of Claims Judge Christopher Murray denied a preliminary injunction. Still, he directed discovery to investigate the claim that grant money was funding the outcome of elections in certain jurisdictions.

After discovery, Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office learned that each named plaintiff lived in a jurisdiction that received grant funding.

In December, the AG’s office filed a motion for summary disposition, arguing plaintiffs lacked standing. Court of Claims Judge Thomas Cameron agreed and dismissed their claims… (Excerpt from Star News Network)