Trump lawyer's motion to dismiss likened to Monty Python's 'dead parrot' in judicial smackdown

A judge on Friday made quick work of former Trump lawyer Ken Chesebro's motion to dismiss his case based on a clerical error.

In the original motion, Chesebro argued that his case should be dismissed on the grounds that Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade did not properly file his oath of office for the case in a timely fashion, which makes all the work that Wade had done on his case to that point "void as a matter of law."

But in a ruling flagged on Twitter by Atlanta Journal Constitution reporter Tamar Hallerman, Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee put an official end to Chesebro's longshot bid to have all charges against him dismissed.

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At the end of his ruling, McAfee made reference to the famous Monty Python sketch in which a pet store owner tries to convince a customer that the dead parrot he sold him is actually alive.

"If this parrot of a motion is somehow not yet dead, the Defendant has failed to establish how Special ADA Wade's actions resulted in prejudice, i.e., how his assignment singlehandedly changed any specific actions taken during the investigation or resulted in the true bill of the indictment," the judge argued. "Nor has Defendant established a constitutional violation or structural defect in the grand jury process sufficient to justify outright dismissal."

"The motion is DENIED," the judge concluded.

Chesebro was indicted earlier this year by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for his efforts to keep former President Donald Trump unlawfully in power after he lost the 2020 presidential election.