Trump is appealing a case he lost in Pennsylvania and hopes to reach the Supreme Court

Trump had already advanced, in a tweet posted at the stroke of midnight on Saturday, that his campaign would appeal the decision, and his lawyers were confident that the appeals court would quickly decide on the case in order to reach the Supreme Court. ” as soon as possible”.

Outgoing US President Donald Trump’s campaign filed an appeal Sunday against a court decision that had filed his most important case in the key state of Pennsylvania, with the goal of reaching the Supreme Court.

Trump’s team filed an appeal with the U.S. Third Court of Appeals, corresponding to Pennsylvania, one day after a federal judge in that state dismissed his request in a ruling that harshly criticized the allegations without evidence of fraud from. of the president.

Trump had already advanced, in a tweet posted at the stroke of midnight on Saturday, that his campaign would appeal the decision, and his lawyers were confident that the appeals court will quickly decide on the case so they can reach the Supreme Court. ” as soon as possible”.

That highest court in the country is made up of a conservative majority of six judges versus just three progressives, but Trump’s campaign will have a hard time convincing those judges that there has been fraud in Pennsylvania, which hasn’t been done so far. presented compelling evidence.

The Pennsylvania lawsuit seeks to invalidate hundreds of thousands of votes cast in the mail, arguing that the ability for voters to correct mistakes in their ballot papers in some counties hurts Trump’s party.

The magistrate who filed the case Saturday, Conservative Matthew Brann, said Trump’s campaign had resorted to “flawed and unsubstantiated legal arguments and speculative accusations” in an attempt to reject those votes.

“In the United States of America, this cannot justify removing the right to vote for a single voter, let alone all voters in its sixth most populous state,” Brann wrote.

The decision was a major setback for the Trump campaign’s legal strategy, which has already lost other cases in Pennsylvania, in addition to Michigan, Georgia, Nevada and Arizona in its unproven allegation of election fraud.

That lawsuit was the last active large-scale lawsuit in Pennsylvania, and Brann’s decision implied that Pennsylvania counties have a free hand to certify the outcome of the election, for which the deadline was met this Monday, and confirm as well as the territory winner to president-elect, Joe Biden.

Without Pennsylvania, it is virtually impossible for Trump to overturn the election result, as Biden’s lead in Electoral College is such (306 votes to 232), that the current president would have to demonstrate gross fraud in several claims to prevail.

Trump has already received two more setbacks this Friday: the first in Georgia, which certified Biden’s victory, and the second in Michigan, where two state lawmakers he invited to the White House said after the meeting, that you have no information that could change the election outcome in your state.

Trump’s team has only until December 8 to develop its legal strategy, because that day all states would have to resolve any disputes and the governor of each territory must send the certified results to Congress.