I love Robert's inability to understand various codes. In his petition for rehearing, he mentioned Chapter 35 of the DC Code (forgetting to mention which Title was a helpful thing). Checking and finding it to be Title 35, we find the following.
§ 16–3501. Persons against whom issued; civil action.
A quo warranto may be issued from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in the name of the United States against a person who within the District of Columbia usurps, intrudes into, or unlawfully holds or exercises, a franchise conferred by the United States or a public office of the United States, civil or military. The proceedings shall be deemed a civil action.
§ 16–3502. Parties who may institute; ex rel. proceedings.
The Attorney General of the United States or the United States attorney may institute a proceeding pursuant to this subchapter on his own motion or on the relation of a third person. The writ may not be issued on the relation of a third person except by leave of the court, to be applied for by the relator, by a petition duly verified setting forth the grounds of the application, or until the relator files a bond with sufficient surety, to be approved by the clerk of the court, in such penalty as the court prescribes, conditioned on the payment by him of all costs incurred in the prosecution of the writ if costs are not recovered from and paid by the defendant.
§ 16–3503. Refusal of Attorney General or United States attorney to act; procedure.
If the Attorney General or United States attorney refuses to institute a quo warranto proceeding on the request of a person interested, the interested person may apply to the court by certified petition for leave to have the writ issued. When, in the opinion of the court, the reasons set forth in the petition are sufficient in law, the writ shall be allowed to be issued by any attorney, in the name of the United States, on the relation of the interested person on his compliance with the condition prescribed by section 16-3502 as to security for costs.
Ignoring the obvious issue that he is not considered an interested person (he was not running for VP much like Lamberth stated Orly was not running for President, or even eligible). That is the annoying standing thing that confuses birthers.
Instead, we see that:
1. His filing never mentioned it was a petition for leave to have a writ issued. He just mentioned quo warranto and then ask the court to remove the VP.
2. He never filed a bond.
3. Since he was pro se, he did not have an attorney to issue the writ.
4. There is also the pesky matter that Kamala Harris, when Laity filed this, was not in DC and had not usurped, intruded into, or unlawfully held or excised, a franchise granted by the United States.
I wonder, if the insurrectionists had succeeded in stopping the count, would that be considered intruding into a franchise conferred by the United States?