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Outgoing US President Donald Trump suffered another defeat in court after a federal appeals court in Philadelphia rejected the latest effort by his legal representatives to challenge the results of the elections in the state of Pennsylvania.
However, Donald Trump’s lawyers promised to appeal to the Supreme Court, even though the judges’ evaluation revealed that “the campaign’s claims are not valid.”
“Free and fair elections are the lifeblood of our democracy. The accusations of injustice are serious. But calling them unfair elections does not mean that they are. The accusations require specific accusations and then proof. We have neither,” he added. wrote Trump-appointed Judge Stephanos Bibas, who sits on a panel of three judges, all appointed by Republican presidents.
This request to contest the election results was discussed last week in federal court by Donald Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, who argued during a five-hour speech that this year’s presidential election was marked by widespread fraud in Pennsylvania.
However, no concrete evidence has been presented to the court.
Judge Matthew Brann emphasized that the Trump team’s complaint was riddled with errors and “like Frankenstein’s monster, it was stitched up at random,” denying the lawyer’s right to change it a second time.
The appeals court classified the changes as “useless” in a panel comprised of Chief Justice Brooks Smith and Judge Michael Chagares, along with Stephanos Bibas.
“The voters, not the lawyers, choose the president. The ballots, not the arguments, decide the elections,” Bibas said in the ruling, which also denied the Trump campaign’s request to prevent the state from certifying the results.
Pennsylvania officials announced Tuesday that they had certified their vote count in favor of President-elect Joe Biden, who defeated Trump by more than 80,000 votes in that state.
Nationally, Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris garnered close to 80 million votes, a record in the US presidential election.
Donald Trump has revealed that he expects the Supreme Court to intervene in these lawsuits as it did in 2000, when it decided to stop counting votes in Florida and handed the election to Republican George W. Bush.
Since the Nov.3 election, Trump and his team have branded the vote fraudulent and have filed a series of lawsuits to try to block the results in six states key to the election outcome.
So far they have garnered little ‘sympathy’ from judges, with virtually everyone rejecting allegations about the alleged security breach in postal ballots used by millions of people due to the covid-19 pandemic. .
