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The president of the United States, Donald Trump, advanced this Sunday with an appeal against the decision of a federal judge in Pennsylvania who on Saturday refused to block the certification of electoral results in the state.
The outgoing president’s team of attorneys filed an appeal with the 3rd United States Court of Appeals, following the position of Judge Matthew Brann, who issued an order to set aside allegations of widespread irregularities with vote-by-mail ballots.
Trump had argued that the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection under the law was violated when Pennsylvania counties took different approaches to notifying voters before the election about technical problems with postal ballots.
Judge Matthew Brann wrote in his decision that Trump had asked the court to remove the voting rights of nearly seven million voters. In seeking that “surprising result,” he said, a plaintiff might be expected to provide convincing legal arguments and “factual evidence of rampant corruption,” but “it was not.”
Donald Trump has summed up the court failures in an effort to stop the transition of power from Democrat Joe Biden, who is scheduled to take office in January. Without yet admitting defeat in the November 3 elections, the Republican candidate hoped to obtain the annulment of votes by judicial means and, thus, recover the 20 largest voters in that state, decisive in his hopes of re-election.
Counties must certify their results to Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar by Monday, who will then do her own certification. Next, Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf is expected to notify voters of the winning candidate, who is expected to vote on December 14 on what will be the formalization of the result in the Electoral College.
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