Be Aware: Trump's Campaign Is Engaged In Lawsuits All Over The Country...

[ancianita]

To Try To Make Safe Voting More Difficult

He might be out of money, allegedly, because his campaign is spending legal bucks to get court rulings that use any means necessary to discourage voting and confound vote counting in Ohio, New Jersey, Nevada, Montana, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Minnesota, with multiple suits in a few of them. Ballot counts are everything, and Trump is in relentless court fights for his legal life.

Summarized by Techdirt.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200917/14305645332/trumps-campaign-is-engaged-lawsuits-all-over-country-to-try-to-make-safe-voting-more-difficult.shtml

Since the Trump Campaign (and the president himself) don't have facts on their side, they've decided to lawyer up. Voter suppression has always been a thing, but these entities want it blessed by courts, if not actually codified.

President Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican Party are devoting millions of dollars to wage a state-by-state legal battle against mail-in voting during the coronavirus pandemic, not only suing state officials but also intervening in cases where they aren’t a party to limit how Americans can vote from home.

BuzzFeed News identified at least 11 cases where the Trump campaign has asked judges for permission to intervene to defend state and local policies that voting rights advocates argue will make it harder for people to safely vote during the pandemic. That’s in addition to more than half a dozen lawsuits the campaign has filed with the Republican National Committee contesting efforts by Democratic governors and other state and local officials to expand mail-in voting.

Here are a few of the things Trump's campaign and the RNC are suing about. In one case, his campaign is trying to limit the number of ballot drop boxes available to voters. In another, they're trying to prevent the automatic mailing of ballots or ballot request forms to voters. And these entities aren't limiting themselves to trying to intercede in election-related lawsuits where they aren't a party. They're also suing states directly to prevent expansions of absentee or mail-in voting.

“My biggest risk is that we don’t win lawsuits,” Trump said at the time. “We have many lawsuits going all over. And if we don’t win those lawsuits, I think— I think it puts the election at risk.”

Early data on mail ballot requests, compiled by the United States Elections Project, show registered Democrats outnumbering registered Republicans. https://rpubs.com/ElectProject/Early_Vote_2020G

Original report by Buzzfeed.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/trump-republican-party-lawsuits-mail-in-voting-covid

[SheltieLover]

1. K&R!

[jorgevlorgan]

2. It is almost as if he is spending more money trying to keep votes from counting

Than convincing people to vote for him. I have a feeling this will backfire substantially. Especially when the campaign completely runs out of cash and cannot even afford lawyers anymore.

[ancianita]

3. Pathetic, isn't it? He has always used courts as his battle zone.

[Mike 03]

4. I was thinking the same thing: Now we know why his campaign is hemorrhaging

money at the same time he's only spending half of what Biden is spending on advertising--because it's going into lawsuits.

And all this time I thought it had been grifted.

[rzemanfl]

6. Those lawyers are grifting too and violating their oaths. n/t

[crickets]

5. He knows he doesn't have enough votes without cheating.

It isn't going to work, though.

[jorgevlorgan]

9. I wouldn't be too sure about that

I mean we definitely have to stay on our toes even though it is hard to see how this could any way be successful.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

17. Given his history of not paying people,

I hope the lawyers got plenty of money up front.

[Blue Owl]

7. tRump himself is one fat, giant walking lawsuit

May karma finally catch up to his sleazy bullshit

[beachbumbob]

8. Trump would love to have DOJ pick this cost up, you know tears the intent

[ancianita]

10. I hear you.

his campaign can't just toss it to the DOJ, can it.

[Brother Buzz]

11. Early this month, California passed a bizarre milestone:

It filed its 100th lawsuit against President Donald Trump and his administration.

"Every time we go to court," against the Trump administration, "for the most part, we win. - Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California

[ancianita]

14. I'll take it!

I love knowing he's both embattled and growing poorer, and hope he feels desperation every day.

[GoCubsGo]

12. It's a good thing the Biden campaign hired a huge army of lawyers to fight this kind of garbage.

Six hundred of them, plus thousands of volunteers:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/07/02/biden-campaign-deploys-600-lawyers-so-trump-cant-steal-this-election/

[ancianita]

15. Hope it works to stop his plan to declare a win and still brazen it all out.

If they can build a case against him for election tampering, his declaration could be sunk with any Barr attempt to take his claim to the SCOTUS.

[Thekaspervote]

13. I have yet to see one of them that was successful. I believe it was NV today judge says the state

Has every right to engage in mail in ballot voitng

[ancianita]

16. He's losing a few, winning a few, from what I've read, but he's forging on.

[SMC22307]

18. K&R.. this is important. (n/t)

[genxlib]

19. They are a "break-in-the-case-of-emergency" for him

Any one of them could get fast forwarded to a packed Supreme Court when he loses.