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A Pennsylvania judge ruled that Trump’s attorneys had only presented “tried and tested legal arguments without value or speculative accusations.”
A federal court in the US state of Pennsylvania has awarded current US President Donald Trump another defeat in his fight against the election results. Trump’s lawyers had only presented “worthless proven legal arguments and speculative allegations” without evidence, according to Judge Matthew Brann in a statement published Saturday (local time) for his decision.
The injunction requested by Trump to prevent Pennsylvania from certifying the election results was rejected. Trump’s lawsuit was also aimed at potentially invalidating millions of absentee votes. The arguments and evidence presented would not even have been sufficient to invalidate the vote of “a single voter,” the judge wrote. “Our people, our laws and institutions demand more,” he wrote.
In the important state, which has 20 constituencies to assign, Democrat Joe Biden prevailed. According to US media forecasts, Biden now has 306 voters, significantly more than the majority of 270 votes needed to win.
However, so far Trump has refused to admit defeat, claiming that there was massive electoral fraud in the November 3 election. However, it has not provided strong evidence of this. Because of this, judges have already thrown out several lawsuits in Michigan, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania by Trump and his Republican allies.
New count requested in Georgia
Meanwhile, in the state of Georgia, Trump requested another vote recount on time. The corresponding request was submitted on Saturday, his campaign team said. His lawyers said this was to ensure that all legal votes were counted. Trump had until Tuesday to request another recount. He was able to do this because the gap between the candidates is less than 0.5 percentage points.
Georgia had already checked the ballot papers herself. Then, Biden’s lead over Trump was reduced from around 14,000 to 12,670 votes. Responsible Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Governor Brian Kemp had confirmed the results on Friday. Biden won the votes of 16 Georgia electorates as the first Democrat after Bill Clinton in 1992. On Friday, Judge Steven Grimberg had dismissed a lawsuit by a conservative lawyer seeking to stop the certification of the election results in Georgia.
The Georgia court also dismissed a plaintiff’s attack on mail ballots. Granting the court order requested by the plaintiff “would create confusion, undermine public confidence in the election, and potentially drive more than one million voters out of Georgia,” he said.
Trump’s legal team explained the recount request by insisting on an “honest recount,” which should include signature comparisons and other important safeguards. “Let’s stop giving people wrong results. There has to be a time when we stop counting illegal ballots. Hopefully it will come soon,” he said.
Trump also had bad luck with another strategy: Republican deputies and senators from the state of Michigan invited by him to the White House spoke out against attempts to alter the election results with legal tricks after the meeting. Republicans said they did not yet have information that could change the outcome of the election. Therefore, they would “follow the law and normal process” in naming voters, said Senate and House Majority Leaders Mike Shirkey and Lee Chatfield. “And the candidates who get the most votes win the elections and the voters’ votes,” they said.
Biden won the Michigan election by a wide margin. Trump’s unusual meeting with Republicans had fueled fears that he would pressure them to change the outcome of the normally more formal steps of notarization. However, the US media cited lawyers who emphasized that such a measure would never have been upheld in court, even with the consent of local Republicans.
State results are key to winning a presidential election. The head of state is not elected directly by the people, but by electors who cast their votes according to the results of their state. According to calculations by the US media, Democrat Biden has 306 electorates behind him, he needs 270 for the presidential election, Trump has 232 electorates. Biden will be sworn in as the new president of the United States on January 20.
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