A federal judge in Wisconsin on Saturday slammed President Donald Trump’s claim that he went to the state to challenge Biden’s victory, further cementing Biden’s victory in the national presidential election.
The loss in Trump’s advanced court – one of nearly 60 last month by his campaign and allies in state and federal courts – comes a day after the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a potentially fatal blow to his bid for a second term.
The Supreme Court refused to hear lawsuits by Texas seeking to invalidate Biden’s national victory by attacking the results in four major states.
The High Court’s refusal came after it similarly refused to hear a challenge to Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania, filed by a member of Congress.
Trump was suing the State Election Commission in the Wisconsin case.
The judge in the case, Brett Ludwig, who represented Trump in the U.S. for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Appointed in the district court, he conducted the hearing, where the president’s lawyers argued to set aside the result of the state’s popular election, which Biden won by more than 20,000 votes.
“This is an extraordinary case,” Ludwig wrote in his ruling on Saturday.
“The sitting president, who did not bid for re-election, has sought the help of a federal court to keep the popular vote separate based on controversial issues in the election administration, issues he could have clearly raised before the vote.”
“This court has given the plaintiff an opportunity to make his own case and he has lost the merits,” the judge wrote.
“In his reply, in brief, the plaintiff ‘asks that the rule of law be observed’ …. it remained,” the judge continued.
Ludwig dismissed the lawsuit “with bias,” emphasizing his belief that Trump had no valid claim.
Trump’s lawyers argued that the Wisconsin Election Commission’s guidance on absentee voters, “along with the behavior of election officials in relying on that guidance,” was so distracted from state election law that “the election itself was a failure.” Ludwig wrote.
But Ludwig wrote that Trump “did not prove that the defendants had violated his rights under the Electors Clause.”
The judge said that, on the contrary, the record shows that voters for the presidency of Wisconsin are required by Article 7, Article 1 by, of the Constitution, to be determined in the same way as directed by the legislators.
Trump has been claiming for weeks that he will win the national election, and by expanding the Electoral College College, by illegally changing the voting process in a number of states, and by widespread fraud in the states that will seal Biden’s victory.
No court has accepted those claims, and Trump’s lawyers have repeatedly failed to present evidence in court that supports his allegations of massive fraud.
The Electoral College is preparing to meet Monday, and to give Biden 306 electoral votes, 36 more than the White House needs to win.
The only possible way for Trump to reverse Biden’s victory now seems to be that somehow Congress has refused to certify the election result.
Ludwig noted that at the end of the Supreme Court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, President George W. Bush. Disagreeing with the 2000 case of ending the vote count in Florida for the election contest between Bush and Al Gore, he wrote that Congress “rules on the validity of the election vote” on the “sixth day of January.”
Jinsberg’s remarks were cited earlier this week in Trump’s campaign when he sidestepped the importance of last Monday’s “safe harbor” deadline, which required states to certify their election results.
The campaign said in a statement on Monday that the only fixed day of the US Constitution is the inauguration of the President on the afternoon of January 20.
“Despite the media’s best efforts to declare the fight over, we will make electoral integrity a champion until every legal vote is deemed fair and accurate.”
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