The judge, Nicholas Ranjan of the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Pennsylvania, ruled Sunday that Trump’s federal lawsuit against the Commonwealth Secretary over the use of dropboxes, question papers and other voting procedures should be held while state lawsuits over mood moving forward.
It’s a backlog for Republicans where there are several ongoing cases that could determine how battlefield state voters vote in these elections. Ranjan was appointed by Trump, and federal courts may in some cases be considered more friendly to conservative interests.
“Having carefully considered the arguments put forward by the parties, the Court finds that the appropriate course of action is at least preliminary. In other words, the Court will apply the brakes on this lawsuit, and allow the state courts of Pennsylvania to weigh in and interpret the state statutes that underlie the plaintiff’s federal-constitutional claims, “Ranjan wrote Sunday.
Earlier, Ranjan had told Trump and the Republicans that they needed to provide evidence of fraud in the Pennsylvania vote this year because Democrats were seeking it. Progressive groups that received hundreds of pages of evidence did not mention it enough.
“The court finds that instances of voter fraud are relevant to the claims and defense works in this case,” Ranjan wrote earlier this month.
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