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A federal court in the US state of Pennsylvania has given current US President Donald Trump another defeat in his fight against the election results. Trump’s attorneys had only presented “worthless proven legal arguments and speculative allegations” without evidence, Judge Matthew Brann wrote in a statement released Saturday night (local time) for his decision. Trump and his Republican allies have also suffered defeat in other lawsuits in Michigan, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
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 voters to give away, 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, Trump refuses to admit defeat, claiming that massive electoral fraud occurred in the November 3 election. However, it has not provided strong evidence of this. For this reason, the judges have already dismissed several of their claims.
In the state of Georgia, Judge Steven Grimberg had dismissed the lawsuit of a conservative lawyer on Friday night (local time), with which he wanted to stop the certification of the electoral result. The Georgia court also dismissed a plaintiff’s attack on mail ballots. Granting the plaintiff’s court order “would create confusion, undermine public confidence in the election, and potentially expel more than one million voters from Georgia,” he said.
Trump’s additional strategy also remains unsuccessful
Biden’s narrow election victory in Georgia has now been officially confirmed. Responsible Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Governor Brian Kemp certified the results Friday afternoon. Biden won the votes of the 16 electors in the state with a minimum majority of 12,670 votes. Due to the adjusted result, the state had started a count. As a result, Biden’s lead had shrunk, before he led with around 14,000 votes. However, Trump has until Tuesday to request another recount.
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 Friday they did not yet have information that could change the outcome of the election. Therefore, they would “follow the law and normal process” in electing voters, declared Senate and House Majority Leaders Mike Shirkey and Lee Chatfield. “And the candidates who get the most votes win the elections and the electorate’s votes,” they said.
Biden won the Michigan election by a wide margin. The unusual meeting with Republicans that Trump had scheduled had fueled fears that he would pressure them to change the outcome of the normally more formal notarization steps. However, the US media cited lawyers who emphasized that such a move would never have stood in court, even with the consent of local Republicans.
Biden will be sworn in as the new president on January 20.
