Presidency: new legal defeat for Trump in the fight against election results

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ISIn a federal court in the US state of Pennsylvania, current US President Donald Trump lost another defeat in his fight against election results. Trump’s attorneys had only filed “worthless legal arguments and speculative charges” with no evidence, Judge Matthew Brann wrote in a statement released Saturday evening (local time) for his decision. Trump and his Republican allies have also been defeated in other lawsuits in Michigan, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania.

The injunction requested by Trump to prevent Pennsylvania from certifying the election results was therefore rejected. Trump’s lawsuit also aimed to potentially invalidate millions of absentee ballots. The arguments and evidence presented would not even have been enough to invalidate the vote of “a single elector”, wrote the judge. “Our people, our laws and institutions demand more,” he wrote.

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Democrat Joe Biden got the better of the big state, which has 20 voters to give away. According to US media forecasts, Biden now has 306 voters, significantly more than the majority of the 270 votes needed to win. Trump, however, refuses to admit defeat, arguing that massive electoral fraud occurred in the November 3 election. However, it has not provided any concrete evidence for this. For this reason, the judges have already closed many of his cases.

In the state of Georgia, Trump called for another recount of votes in due course on Saturday. The corresponding question was filed on Saturday, his campaign team said. His lawyers said this was to ensure every legal vote was counted. Trump had until Tuesday to request another recount. He was able to do this because the gap between the candidates is less than 0.5 percentage points.

Georgia had already checked the ballots herself. So Biden’s lead over Trump shrank from around 14,000 to 12,670 votes. Responsible Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Governor Brian Kemp confirmed the findings on Friday afternoon. Biden won the votes of 16 state voters. On Friday evening (local time) Judge Steven Grimberg had filed a lawsuit by a conservative lawyer, with whom he wanted to stop authenticating the election result in Georgia.

The Georgia court also dismissed an attack by the plaintiff on postal voting. Granting the injunction requested by the plaintiff “would create confusion, undermine public confidence in the elections and potentially expel more than one million Georgia voters,” he said.

Trump’s legal team explained the recount request by insisting on “honest vote counting,” which must include signature comparisons and other important protective measures. “Let’s stop giving people wrong results. There must be a time when we stop counting illegal ballots. I hope he comes soon, “he said. Biden won Georgia as the first Democrat since Bill Clinton in 1992.

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Trump was also unlucky with another strategy: Republican lawmakers and Michigan state senators he invited to the White House spoke out against attempts to alter election results with legal gimmicks after the meeting. Republicans said Friday they had no information that could change the election outcome. Therefore, “they would follow the law and normal process” in appointing the electorate, Senate and House of Representatives majority leaders Mike Shirkey and Lee Chatfield said. “And the candidates who get the most votes win the elections and the votes of the electorate,” they said.

Biden won the Michigan election by a large margin. The unusual meeting with Republicans that Trump had planned had fueled fears that it would push them to change the outcome of the normally more formal authentication stages. However, US media quoted lawyers who pointed out that such a move would never rise in court, even with the consent of local Republicans.