Delco Defamation Defendants Want To Subpoena Stollsteimer
This is getting interesting.
Greg Stenstrom of Glen Mills and Leah Hoopes of Chadds Ford want to subpoena Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer in the defamation case against them in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court, and plaintiff James Savage is fighting this.
Savage is the former Delaware County, Pa. Voting Machine Warehouse supervisor. He is accused by Stenstrom, Ms. Hoopes and others of being instrumental in rigging Delco’s votes against Trump in 2020 hence giving Pennsylvania’s electoral votes to Joe Biden.
Ms. Hoopes and Stenstrom make the allegations in their book The Parallel Election.
Savage, represented by J. Conor Corcoran, is also suing President Donald J. Trump and Rudy Giuliani.
Why is Savage fighting the subpoena?
You would think it would only help him. Stollsteimer, after all, is a fellow Democrat who publicly declared that he investigated the claims and that they were unfounded.
Certainly makes one go hmmmm that Savage would be concerned about what a subpoena would reveal.
The defendants also want to subpoena former US Attorney for Eastern Pennsylvania William McSwain who said that he turned over all materials that they had presented to him to then Pennsylvania Attorney General (now Governor) Josh Shapiro on Nov. 9, 2020, as directed by then US Attorney General William Barr.
Shaprio did not investigate.
Shapiro denies receiving the material.
The defendants are asking that he get a subpoena too.
Ms. Hoopes and Stentrom also want a subpoena to compel Delaware County to disgorge all communications between its officials, solicitors and Savage with Factcheck.org, a partisan Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) affiliated with the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
The defendants, who are representing themselves, are making a truth defense. Truth is an absolute defense in all defamation lawsuits albeit for it to work they are going to have basically prove their claims.
Why is the case being heard in Philly when it concerns Delco?
Pennsylvania laws allows the plaintiffs to basically bring their case in the county of their choosing.
