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Robed Matthew Brann’s decision implies that Pennsylvania counties have a free hand to certify the results of the November 3 election, For which this Monday the deadline is met, and thus confirming the president-elect, Joe Biden, as winner of the territory.
The lawsuit was intended to invalidate millions of votes cast by mail arguing that the ability of voters to correct errors on their ballots in certain counties hurt Trump’s Republican party.
The magistrate ruled that Donald Trump’s campaign had resorted to “flawed and meritless legal arguments, and speculative accusations” in his attempt to discard millions of votes.
“In the United States of America this cannot justify the suppression of the right to vote for a single voter, let alone all voters in its sixth most populous state,” Brann wrote.
The decision marks a profound setback for the legal strategy of the Trump campaign, which has already lost other cases in Pennsylvania, in addition to Michigan, Georgia, Nevada and Arizona in its complaint without evidence of voter fraud.
This lawsuit was the last major lawsuit that was active in Pennsylvania, and the lawyer for the outgoing president, Rudy Giuliani (who ‘ran the shampoo’ while blaming Hugo Chávez of alleged fraud), defended it personally during a hearing Last Tuesday.
Without Pennsylvania, it is virtually impossible for Trump to reverse the election result, since the advantage of Biden in the Electoral College is such (of 306 votes against 232), that the current president would have to demonstrate a major fraud in several states to prevail.
Trump has already received 2 other setbacks this Friday: the first in Georgia, that certified Biden’s victory; and the second in Michigan, where 2 state legislators whom he invited to the White House affirmed, after the meeting, that they had no information that could change the outcome of the elections in their state.
Without flipping the result in multiple states, something extremely unlikely, Trump will not be able to prevent Biden from assuming the presidency on January 20, and the ways to achieve it are closed with each passing day.
Trump’s team only has until December 8 to develop its legal strategy, because that day all the states should have resolved any dispute and the governor of each territory must send the certified results to Congress.
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