President Donald Trump continued to mislead Doubt the results of the 2020 presidential election – which was won by President-elect Joe Biden three weeks ago – early Saturday morning. But after a lawsuit failed in the courts, and the Federal Election Certificate deadline is approaching, Trump is rushing out of the way to try to turn the election around.
The president’s latest legal defeat came on Friday when a three-member appeals court rejected Trump’s campaign campaign lawsuit against Pennsylvania election officials, claiming that the state’s “unconstitutional distinction” in the “unanimous decision” against the national Trump electorate. “I’m busy. ”
Specifically, the lawsuit sought two points from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals: to overturn a lower court’s decision barring Trump’s legal team from amending its claim, barring claimants from overseeing the counting process, and barring “certified vote averages from taking effect.” . “(Pennsylvania certified its election results on Tuesday.) The court also did not approve.
In its decision, the court reprimanded not only the Trump legal team’s lack of evidence for its own claims, but also the lawyers for making “vague and conclusive” allegations, and for calling for a remedy “quite disproportionate to the procedural challenges raised.”
“The campaign never alleges that a ballot was rigged or used by an illegal voter,” Judge Stefanos Bibas, who was nominated by Trump to the court in 2017, wrote before the court. “He never accused any defendant of behaving worse than the Trump campaign or the Biden campaign of his votes or the counting of his votes. Saying something discriminating doesn’t happen. ”
“The allegations of injustice are serious,” Bibas said. “But it does not mean that the election is unfair. The charge requires specific allegations and then evidence. We don’t even have it here. ”
Earlier, Trump’s Pennsylvania lawsuit was overturned in a similar, burning judgment in Federal District Court by Judge Matthew Brain, who wrote: . Evidence.
In a tweet Following the publication of the decision, Jenna Ellis, a legal adviser to the Trump campaign, who in 2016 called Trump “immoral, corrupt, a liar, a criminal, a scoundrel,” ordered a “working judiciary machinery in Pennsylvania.”
Alice wrote on Friday, “On Scots”
.RudyGiuliani And I am of the opinion of the Third Circuit:
The working judicial machinery in Pennsylvania largely covers allegations of fraud.
We are very grateful for the opportunity to present evidence and facts in the PA State Legislature.
On SCOTUS!
– Jenna Ellis (@ Jenna Ellis Esk) November 27, 2020
However, there is no guarantee that the Supreme Court will accept the case if the Trump campaign runs on an appeal, experts say, and even less so if the court stays on its side.
“Yes, the Trump campaign can now ‘go to the Scouts,’ but what?” Prof. of the Law School of the University of Texas. Steve Vladek wrote on Twitter. “The court will never take this dumpster-fire of litigation. And, as today’s unanimous Third Circuit opinion written by the Trump Appointment clarifies, the restraining order has no remote basis for the rest of the appeal. “
The Trump campaign faces equally slim chances of success elsewhere. Although it is committed to pursuing lawsuits in other swing states, Trump’s legal team has so far performed poorly: total, its Post-election record in court Is at 1-38, According to Democratic voting rights lawyer Mark Elias, And the campaign “is on a solid pace of losing 50 before the electorate meeting in December.”
Just before the Elect December meeting meets on December 14, December 8 is the fastest-approaching federal deadline for state certification of election results. According to the New York Times, “If the states resolve all disputes and certify the results,” the results should be unaffected by further legal challenges, ensuring that the states won by Mr. Biden will send Biden representatives to the Electoral College College.
That certification will essentially accelerate the President’s legal challenges. And the meeting of the Electoral College Ledge in the following weeks will slam the door more forcefully to counter Trump’s unbearable voter fraud claims. Biden won 74 more votes than Trump – 36 more than the minimum required to win the presidency. It’s possible, though not quite possible, but some voters in the states won by Biden prefer to cast their vote for Trump – but the Times said, “The rogue voters have been between a few and a lot, and have never changed the outcome.”
Trump continues to spread lies about voter fraud that does not exist
Yet, the Trump campaign has failed time and time again to provide any evidence of voter fraud in court, which has not stopped the president and his lawyers from blatantly lying about the legitimacy of the election. In the end, their lies include a variety of nonsense conspiracy theories Biden “made in thin air” ballots Former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been instrumental in helping election machines before his death in 2013.
And even on the most rare occasions since election day where Trump has come close to acknowledging the reality of his loss, he has married or confessed with claims of more false, baseless fraud.
“[Biden] Won because the election was tough, ”Trump said Tweeted earlier this month.
He also took the same line in a public comment on Thursday, when asked by reporters if Biden wanted to leave the White House when he takes office.
“Sure, I will. And you know that. But I think a lot will happen between now and January 20, “Trump said, according to a transcript provided by the White House. “There is a lot of fraud. We are like a third world country. ”
For all of Trump’s hedging, however, Biden’s term is only growing. On Friday, payments were requested through the Trump campaign in two counties in Wisconsin and the former vice president received 132 new votes. All told, Biden’s national popular vote margin now stands at over six million votes.
And on Monday, the General Services Administration – the transition team – was given the authority to begin the transition – the government agency in charge of ensuring the victory of the presidency to make government resources available.
Trump didn’t let that pass get in the way: “[GSA administrator] Emily Murphy has done a great job, but the GSA doesn’t decide who will be the next president of the USA. ” He tweeted on Tuesday.
On top of that, it’s true, if only technically. “Voters, not lawyers, choose the president,” Bibas wrote in his decision, rejecting the Trump campaign’s appeal. “Ballots, not briefs, decide the election.” And those voters have decided – regardless of Trump’s claim – that Biden will be the next president of the United States.
