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by Ian MacDougall
Nov. 13, 2:56 p.m. EST
The reelection campaign .. having failed to persuade the majority of .. voters, is now making its case to the .. courts ...
One pattern has emerged .. a frenzied search for a sympathetic judge ... a succession of suits .. make essentially the same claims before several different state and federal judges ...
One Michigan suit was apparently dispatched with such haste that it was filed first in the wrong federal court ...
A new suit .. Wednesday .. goes so far as to append, in its entirety, another lawsuit .. filed .. two days earlier ...
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-trump-campaign-cant-find-a-judge-who-will-ignore-facts-but-its-trying
lame54
(35,262 posts)underpants
(182,624 posts)grumpyduck
(6,223 posts)Fake lawyers!
struggle4progress
(118,234 posts)Kristine Phillips
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON A group of 1,000 attorneys, including retired federal and state judges, state attorneys general and law professors criticized the Trump administration over baseless claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election.
"Every candidate has a right to ensure that an election is conducted lawfully. However, court challenges, if any, must be based on facts, on evidence," stated the letter, which asked public officials to stop making false claims of systemic fraud that President Donald Trump has claimed "stole" the election from him.
"The President of the United States has directed the filing of court cases seeking to stop ballots from being counted on the ground that there has been widespread ballot fraud. His sons have sharply criticized Republicans who are not backing their fathers claims,"
Republican lawmakers, including Sens. Ted Cruz, Lindsay Graham and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, have made statements backing Trump's lawsuits and claims of fraud ...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/11/13/election-2020-trump-voter-fraud-claims-slammed-ex-officials/6276446002/
NCjack
(10,279 posts)keep a list of the RWNJ judges y'all rammed through?"