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WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – Former Donald Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell has asked the Supreme Court to overturn Joe Biden’s election victories in Michigan and Georgia, continuing a wave of risky litigation despite repeated rejections in court. .
The latest requests appeared in the court’s online record on Tuesday (December 15), a day after the Electoral College confirmed Biden’s victory. Although Trump has not relented, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell congratulated Biden as president-elect on Tuesday.
The Supreme Court has already rejected two efforts to overturn Biden’s victories, first a challenge to his triumph in Pennsylvania and then a lawsuit in Texas that sought to reverse the results in four key states.
Powell, who is no longer associated with Trump’s legal team, filed a lawsuit last month on behalf of Republican voters in Michigan and Georgia. She described their litigation as “unleashing the Kraken,” a reference to a mythical sea monster unleashed by Zeus in the 1981 fantasy film Clash of the Titans.
In rejecting Michigan’s lawsuit, US District Judge Linda Parker said it “offered nothing but speculation and conjecture that votes for President Trump were destroyed, discarded or traded for votes for Vice President Biden.”
In Georgia, US District Judge Timothy Batten orally dismissed the lawsuit after an hour-long hearing.
Ms. Powell is seeking to challenge those rulings directly in the Supreme Court, bypassing the federal court of appeals level.
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