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struggle4progress

(118,234 posts)
Fri Nov 13, 2020, 04:47 PM Nov 2020

Campaign can't find a judge who will ignore facts

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

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Campaign can't find a judge who will ignore facts (Original Post) struggle4progress Nov 2020 OP
Not so big now are you turtleman lame54 Nov 2020 #1
Boy, Rudy really came through in the clutch didn't he? underpants Nov 2020 #2
Fake judges! grumpyduck Nov 2020 #3
1,000 ex-judges, attorneys slam false claims of voter fraud struggle4progress Nov 2020 #4
Can't find a judge who will ignore the facts! Donnie, Billy, Mitchy, didn't ONE of you NCjack Nov 2020 #5

struggle4progress

(118,234 posts)
4. 1,000 ex-judges, attorneys slam false claims of voter fraud
Fri Nov 13, 2020, 05:06 PM
Nov 2020

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 father’s 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)
5. Can't find a judge who will ignore the facts! Donnie, Billy, Mitchy, didn't ONE of you
Fri Nov 13, 2020, 05:29 PM
Nov 2020

keep a list of the RWNJ judges y'all rammed through?"

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