United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Love this.

The complaint filed October 27th in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas names Potter County Elections Administrator Christy Benj as the defendant and seeks to represent similarly situated county election administrators across Texas.

The plaintiffs argue that voting systems that use barcodes or QR codes to tabulate votes require a full manual comparison against human readable paper records to detect potential software errors, tampering, or other interference the lawsuit cites concerns about foreign manufactured components in voting equipment potential cyber attacks involving artificial intelligence and federal election security guidance it also argues that texas's existing post-election hand count audits which cover selected locations and ballots do not provide sufficient statewide verification the plaintiffs reference federal requirements for voter verifiable paper records and manual audit capabilities under the help america vote act The plaintiffs are asking the court to order a manual count of all paper ballots before final certification to correct reported results if the hand count differs from electronic totals.

Now, while I love this and this is like a super base lawsuit, this is how it should be.

to have a combination of machine-readable encoded vote data that voters themselves cannot independently verify, and because of the vulnerability of that electronic data to hacking by AI programs or otherwise, something that, as you noted, they have not substantiated in this lawsuit, that it requires this manual... hand count of the votes.

One of the things I find really interesting about this lawsuit is you noted it was filed in the Northern District of Texas before the Amarillo division, where they could guarantee the lawsuit would be heard by Matthew Kaczmarek.

But they are seeking to certify a class, not of plaintiffs, as we traditionally think about a class action, but of defendants so that they can make this a statewide suit against Every local election administrator in Texas and therefore sort of make this a statewide lawsuit, even though they have purposefully orchestrated it in order to get in front of the judge they think will be most tolerant of these claims.

Why would they do that?

This includes short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, silencers, we know them as suppressors by the way, and any other weapons as defined in 26 U.S.C. 5845E.

On August 5th, 2026, a US District Judge in the Northern District of Texas enjoined ATF from enforcing certain provisions of the National Firearms Act, effective August 12th, 2026.

Based on the reduction of the tax, The District Court held that the NFA's registration and transfer provisions were no longer an exercise of Congress's taxing power with respect to those firearms.

The District Court also held that the challenged NFA provisions could not be upheld as an exercise of Congress's power over interstate commerce because Congress did not rely on its power over interstate commerce when it first passed the NFA in 1934.

But these conservative appointments from Trump are doing a great job.

Judge James Hendricks in the Northern District of Texas in the Fifth Circuit is my hero.

OK.

And so he's done more to make America stronger than any judge in history, I think.

Also, they have the corporate and reserve control.

the geopolitical and legal impact, you are excluding Russia and China from Venezuela and maybe from the rest of Latin America, and legal immunity in a foreign court by stipulating that any legal dispute shall be resolved under U.S. law before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District Texas, the U.S. government ensures that Venezuelan courts can never intervene, expropriate, or nullify the rights acquired over the oil fields.

Now, basically, what they are saying is that, according to ProPublica, how they advertise this particular piece, is that this particular legal structure of such document basically hinders any future government in the United States and Venezuela that basically get rid of such contract.

Let's say in the United States a Democrat wins the White House, they cannot overturn this particular deal according to ProPublica and also if Venezuela goes again on a particular terrible governance like Chavismo or a particular scorned opposition government like might be in the future with Maria Corina Machado, they cannot get rid of such deal.