Kentucky CPI Activist Sues for Election Fraud
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 America to dismiss meritorious lawsuits at the earliest stage, the motion-to-dismiss stage.
On September 30, 2026, one defendant filed a brief urging the Supreme Court not to hear Young's appeal. The following URL is Defendant Jeremy Mattox's opposition brief:
On October 7, 2026, Young mailed his reply to the Supreme Court. You can read it at the following URL:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dcx4cktn9smmz78t0x80r/Reply01-GY-to-Mattox-oppo-brief-Oct0726.pdf
At the end of Young's reply, he wrote:
"The Van Tatenhove standard of review, which is not a standard of review at all, allowed hundreds of federal and state courts to become far more hostile to all plaintiffs than the Twombly decision did. Twombly opened the door of America's justice system to the enemies of all plaintiffs, Ashcroft v. Iqbal drove a tank through the doorway, and hundreds of federal and state trial and appellate courts after 2007 turned the entire neighborhood into rubble with 2,000-pound bombs. This massive, ongoing miscarriage of justice can be partly corrected by reversing the Iqbal and Twombly opinions in their entirety and finding that both opinions are bad law. WHEREFORE, I respectfully request that this Court grant my petition for certiorari, report to the American people how all nine Justices voted re the certiorari decision, and allow both sides to present briefs on the four questions presented for review. Respectfully signed on October 7, 2026."
Defendant Jeremy Mattox and his lawyer might have made a mistake when they filed their weak, poorly-written opposition brief. Their brief and and Young's reply might make the US Supreme Court more, not less likely to hear his appeal and reverse its Twombly and Iqbal decisions of 2007 and 2009.