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A federal judge in Wisconsin on Saturday (NZT Sunday) rejected President Donald Trump’s lawsuit seeking to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the state, Trump’s second defeat on the same day in the battlefield state.
Federal District Judge Brett Ludwig dismissed the case as the Wisconsin Supreme Court heard arguments in an appeal from another case in which a state judge ruled against Trump.
The ruling comes before the Electoral College meeting on Monday (local time) when 10 Democrats will cast their votes for Biden.
Biden won Wisconsin by roughly 20,600 votes, a margin that withstood a recount requested by Trump in the state’s two largest counties.
Trump asked in the federal lawsuit that the judge order the Republican-controlled Legislature to replace Biden’s voters with Trump’s.
Evan Vucci / AP
US President Donald Trump shows no signs of giving up in what appears to be an increasingly futile attempt to reverse Joe Biden’s victory.
With time running out, and following a tough defeat in the Supreme Court, attorneys for the president of the United States, Donald Trump, turned their attention to Wisconsin with rare arguments on Saturdays before the state Supreme Court.
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Trump was trying to reverse his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the state with a lawsuit that seeks to disqualify more than 221,000 votes in Wisconsin’s two most Democratic counties. Trump is not contesting any votes in the counties he won.
Also Saturday, former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell asked the United States Supreme Court to hear a federal case she lost in Wisconsin to order the GOP-controlled Legislature to declare Trump the winner.
Powell has also lost similar cases in Georgia and Arizona.
Wisconsin’s highest court agreed to take the case at Trump’s urgent request on Friday, shortly after a state judge ruled against him and with Monday’s Electoral College vote and the state’s 10 electoral votes poised to go to Biden.
J. Scott Applewhite / AP
The United States Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit backed by President Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory, ending a desperate attempt to get state and federal judges to reject legal issues before the highest court in the United States. nation.
The court is controlled 4-3 by conservatives, but their willingness to take the case is not necessarily an indicator of how it will rule. The court previously refused to hear the case before it went through lower courts, and most justices have openly questioned whether the remedy Trump is seeking is appropriate.
Trump tried to disqualify more than 221,000 ballots in Dane and Milwaukee counties. He wanted to disqualify absentee ballots cast early and in person, saying that a proper written request was not made for the ballots; absentee votes cast by persons who claimed “indefinitely confined” status; absentee ballots collected by poll workers in Madison parks; and absentee ballots where the clerks filled in the missing information on the ballot envelopes.
On Friday, the circuit judge ruled that none of Trump’s arguments had merit and that state law was followed during the election and subsequent recount.
Julio Cortez / AP
As Trump takes legal action, Joe Biden is preparing to take office on January 20, 2021.
Biden won Wisconsin by about 20,600 votes, a 0.6 percent margin that withstood a recount requested by Trump in Milwaukee and Dane counties.
Trump and his allies have suffered dozens of defeats in Wisconsin and across the country in trials that are based on unsubstantiated claims of widespread fraud and election abuse. On Friday night, the United States Supreme Court rejected a Texas lawsuit that sought to invalidate Biden’s victory by casting millions of votes in four battle states, including Wisconsin.
A Trump-appointed federal judge in Wisconsin said Thursday that the president’s lawsuit was “unbelievable,” “strange” and “very strange,” and that overturning the results would be “the most remarkable ruling in the history of this court or of power. federal court “. . “
Federal District Judge Brett Ludwig’s ruling was pending.
