When attorneys face off on Monday in Atlanta to argue whether or not an imaginative theory involving some sort of concocted multi-national conspiracy to rig the results of the presidential election in favor of Joe Biden, a Denham Springs native will be the lead attorney defending the integrity of the election against the claims of an odd assortment of plaintiffs.
Amanda Callais, a partner in the Washington, D.C., firm of Perkins Coie, attended Denham Springs High School for two years before completing her secondary education at the Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts in Natchitoches.
Callais, 37, is a 2006 summa cum laude graduate of LSU with a B.A. in Political Science and History. She obtained her Juris Doctorate from Tulane Law School where she graduated summa cum laude and was a member of the Order of the Coif, an honor extended to the top ten law school graduates. She clerked from 2012 to 2013 for Judge Carl Barbier, of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
Monday’s hearing is one of a string of some 40 legal actions brought by President Donald Trump and his team in efforts to overturn the Nov. 3 election which Trump lost by some 7 million votes. All but one, a minor victory involving a procedural issue, have been rejected by courts in Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
The latest effort, which has taken on the name of the “Kracken” lawsuit, is so named for the mythological “kraken” sea monster of Scandinavian folklore and sailors’ propensity for telling tall tales. Among the plaintiffs who propose to offer their “expert” testimony is one individual known only as “Spyder.”
A MOTION TO EXCLUDE TESTIMONY filed by Callais and co-counsel Adam M. Sparks claims that the so-called experts of the plaintiffs are either not qualified to address the issue of voter fraud, fail to disclose methods by which they reach their conclusions, offer erroneous information and/or offer only speculation to support their theories.
Plaintiff Attorney Sidney Powell, who has since been disavowed by the Trump team, submitted a legal argument fraught with misspellings (she spelled the rather basic word “District” three different ways), errors in geography (she placed a Michigan county in Wisconsin), created a whole new county in Michigan that never existed before, brought the long dead Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez into her bizarre conspiracy, and managed to claim that machine algorithms “deliberately run by Dominion Voting Systems that generally took more than 2.5% of the vote from Mr. Biden and flipped them to Mr. Trump for more than 5% fraudulent vote increase for Mr. Biden.” (Okay, somebody’s gonna have to explain that unique mathematical equation to me. I mean, how do you take votes from Candidate A and give them to Candidate B while AND create a greater number of votes for Candidate A in so doing?)
A brief in support of the motion to dismiss plaintiffs’ motion took aim at the plaintiffs’ motives and their efforts to upset a legal election:
“Plaintiffs, a group of disappointed Republican presidential electors, filed a Complaint alleging widespread fraud in the November general election in Georgia, weaving an unsupported tale of ‘ballot stuffing,’ the switching of votes by an ‘algorithm’ uploaded to the state’s electronic voting equipment that switched votes from President Trump to Joe Biden, hacking by foreign actors from Iran and China, and other nefarious acts by unnamed actors. Plaintiffs did not bring this election challenge in state court as provided by Georgia’s Election Code.
“Instead, they ask this (federal district) Court to change the election outcome by judicial fiat and order the Governor, the Secretary, and the State Election Board to ‘de-certify’ the results of the election and replace the presidential electors for Joe Biden (who were selected by a majority of Georgia voters by popular vote as provided by state law) with presidential electors for President Trump.
“Their claims would be extraordinary if true, but they are not. Much like the mythological ‘kraken’ monster after which Plaintiffs have named this lawsuit, their claims of election fraud and malfeasance belong more to the kraken’s realm of mythos than they do to reality.”
The Perkins Coie WEB PAGE notes that Callais “focuses her practice on political litigation. She represents voters, campaigns, political committees and activists at the state and federal level in actions related to elections, including redistricting and voting rights, as well as cases implicating important matters of First Amendment speech and association.
“In particular, (she) has considerable experience successfully challenging repressive voting measures, including voter identification and registration laws, as well as other restrictions that make it more difficult for eligible voters to participate in their representative democracy. Amanda regularly achieves favorable outcomes in high-profile, complex cases, from the trial through appellate levels.”
She is the daughter of Al and Lori Callais. Her mother is a retired Denham Springs High School teacher and was a candidate for the Louisiana House of Representatives in 2019.
Louisiana Voice 
So proud of our native daughter, doing Louisiana proud, working successfully and effectively to preserve our democratic traditions and representative republic. Amanda is doing important work on a historic election dispute that will shape our country for the foreseeable future. Lori and Al Callais and their three daughters are dear friends. Congratulations to Mama and Dad on your eldest daughter’s accomplishments. This is one for the history books.
Jerel Giarrusso
Definitely my kind of gal, and a fine example of what daughters of Louisiana ought to aspire to.
Is this supposed to be satire? Aswell says this is all just an “imaginative theory” and a “concocted multi-national conspiracy”? What a biased article! I was expecting to read the facts, not opinions of an author who has the leanings of a communist Democrat. His readers must only watch CNN and never use the Internet. He thinks you are supposed to believe the pathetic lies they are telling the American people about the worst rigged election in the history of our nation. The television news that deceived the American people by withholding all information about Hunter Biden’s laptop, making sure nothing was reported before the election!
America is taking her last breath because there has been a communist coup d’etat of this Republic and they have lied, cheated and stolen this nation from the American People. America was slowly stolen using the Communist Manifesto tenets as well as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Their purpose is world domination which began in 1917 with the Bolshevist Russian Revolution complete with the Spanish Flu. Here is a good article that puts it together! http://stateofthenation.co/?p=33778
Hey, a**hole, you better hope if you ever meet me face-to-face, you don’t make the mistake of accusing me of having “communist leanings.”
First of all, I served my country honorably, did you? You wouldn’t know a communist from a combine. Wasn’t it the Republican Party that was supposed to be so patriotic and ardently anti-communist? Why, then, does the party support a president who refuses to confront Russia/Putin for interfering with our elections and for the massive computer hack of our government? Aren’t the Republicans and President Tweet Thang supposed to be anti-socialists? Why, then, do they keep promoting socialist giveaways via massive tax breaks to the big corporations. There is no bigger socialist titty-baby than corporate America. But you wouldn’t know that; you’d rather read tripe from something called State of the Nation, a low-brow conspiracy gin mill.
Now go put on your tin foil hat and keep reading your conspiratorial B.S. websites and leave the thinking to those who are capable of doing so. You obviously are not.
This must be written for people who watch and believe the crap coming from CNN.
Nah, Popcicle it’s for those who believe OAN, Fox, Newsmax, QAnon and for those who don’t know how to spell popsicle. It’s written for those who claim the coronavirus is a hoax designed for political manipulation (they even “manipulated” more than 300,000 Americans into dying to carry it out), that the vaccine injects tracking devices in our bodies, that Trump didn’t lose the election by more than 7 million votes and that Rudy was just tucking his shirt into his pants.
It was written for those who believe that there’s a Democratic-run child trafficking operation being run from the basement of a pizza parlor in Washington, that Wayfair is engaged in online human trafficking.
It was written for those who can’t seem to grasp that Trump has lost case after case in court before judges he appointed – including three U.S. Supreme Court justices who voted not to hear arguments in his cases. Let that sink in: judges he appointed.
It was written for those who don’t seem to understand that we live in a democratic republic where we hold elections without assistance from foreign governments – even when President Tweet Thang refuses to acknowledge intelligence data that implicates those foreign governments who attempt to do so.
It was written for those too dense (that would be President Tweet Thang, et al) or too beholden to Russia/Putin to understand the implications of the massive computer hack of our government by Russia.