CPI Member Geoff Young's Petition for Certiorari in the US Supreme Court Might Be More Likely to be Granted -- A weak opposition brief filed by one defendant and Young's reply might induce SCOTUS to hear his appeal.
On September 27, 2023 Geoff Young, a member of CPI living in Lexington, Kentucky, filed a federal lawsuit for election fraud against Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, the Kentucky Democratic Party, Fayette County Democratic Party, US Congressman Andy Barr (R-KY6), the Republican Party of Kentucky, Republican Party of Fayette County, Republican Party of Clark County, Kentucky Educational Television, and state Circuit Judge Jeremy Mattox for conspiracy to rig several primary elections against him starting in 2014. Young's fight against corruption in Kentucky has always been bipartisan or non-partisan.
Federal Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove (who is no longer a judge) dismissed Young's complaint before requiring the defendants to admit or deny any of his allegations against them. Young appealed his dismissal and sanctioning order to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, but a 3-judge panel upheld Van Tatenhove's three dismissal and sanctioning orders.
Young responded by filing a petition for certiorari in the US Supreme Court, and that court assigned it Docket Number 26-262. Geoff Young's petition can be read at the Supreme Court's website:
In his petition, Young asked the Supreme Court to reverse its 2007 decision in Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 and its 2009 decision in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662 and to declare that both decisions have always been bad law. Both decisions made it much easier for all judges in Ame
