The hearing on the Trump campaign’s federal lawsuit seeking to stop Pennsylvania officials from certifying the vote results is set for Tuesday after a judge denied a new lawyer’s request for a delaying campaign.
U.S. Central District Judge Matthew Brenne Donald J. for President Inc. Attorneys for Trump said and counties and state election officials have claimed they must “be prepared to argue and question” in Williamsport federal court.
The Trump campaign seeks to block the certification of results that give President-elect Joe Biden 20 state votes, claiming the election process to be unequal across the state.
Pennsylvania’s Secretary of State, Kathy Booker, has been told in court to drop the lawsuit, calling the allegations “at best, various malpractices in the garden.”
Bern scheduled a hearing to discuss the campaign request for a temporary restraining order as well as the defendants’ request to dismiss the case.
After Pittsburgh attorneys left to represent Trump’s campaign on Friday, Philadelphia election attorney Linda Carnus and two Texas attorneys also withdrew Monday.
Republican U.S. Camp Hill’s lawyer, Mark Scarini, who lost the Senate primary in 2012, notified the judge, but did not find the delay.
The Associated Press has declared Biden the winner of the presidential race, but Trump has refused to admit and is blocking Biden’s efforts toward a smooth transition of power. The only disqualified state, along with Georgia, Biden has garnered at least 290 election votes – so much so that overturning the Pennsylvania result would not pave the way for a second term for Trump.
Biden’s term in the state now stands at about 70,000 votes.
Trump is the legal challenge center on how to allow some county voters to fix or “cure” the mail-in ballot, which lacks confidential envelopes or has other problems. The presidential campaign claims that the inconsistent practices of counties violate the constitutional rights and equal protection of due process under the law and result in “unlawful dilution or disruption” of properly cast votes.
The lawsuit alleges that “Democratic Heavy Counties” notified voters in a timely manner about the lack of secrecy envelopes or other problems, but the counties in the Republican territories “follow the law and do not provide notice and treatment.” ”
The lawsuit seeks to implicate Buchanan and the election board in seven Biden-majority counties, which have allowed Republican presidential campaign claims to be “improperly healed.”
Booker’s lawyers described Trump’s claims as general complaints and speculative injuries that would not guarantee the disposal of election results.
They told Brennan that other counties could allow their voters to fix the problem in the mail-in ballot, but chose not to do so.
Electoral practices do not need to provide the least common denominators, they wrote, and the plaintiff’s arguments would improperly penalize those counties that would help voters avoid disqualification from voting.
There is no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election. In fact, election officials from both political parties have publicly stated that the election went well and that international observers have confirmed that there were no serious irregularities.
The Trump campaign and its allies have pointed to common issues in each election: problems with signatures, secrecy envelopes and postal marks on the mail-in ballot, as well as the possibility of a small turnout going wrong or lost. Going by a wide margin in Biden Trump’s major war states, none of those issues will affect the election outcome.
Trump’s campaign has also introduced legal challenges that his poll observers were unable to investigate the voting process. Many of those challenges were overcome by judges, some within hours of their filing; And again, none of the complaints show evidence that the election result was affected.
While filing in court last week, a group represented by Pennsylvania’s ACLU argued that giving the Trump campaign what it wanted would also create its own constitutional problems.
“It would mean that Pennsylvania does not participate in the election college, but Pennsylvania will run in the U.S. in January. No delegates will be sent to the House, and by December 1, the Commonwealth will have only 25 state senators and zero state delegates. ” Brann.
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