Election challenges put lawyers' credibility on the line
Opinion by Jennifer Rodgers
Updated 7:49 PM ET, Wed November 18, 2020
A key component of President Donald Trump's ongoing attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election has been to try to use the courts to invalidate Joe Biden's election victories in enough states to win the Electoral College ...
His lawyers, however, have by and large turned around to slink back down the slope by withdrawing from his election litigation ...
Act One kicks off with the inevitable Presidential Twitter rants .. claiming without evidence that fraud was rampant ...
... lawyers representing the .. Campaign .. got to work in Act Two .. filing lawsuits in .. chosen .. states in complaints that set forth various legal claims about .. supposedly rampant fraud. These filings have been .. panned by .. experts ...
when Team .. lawyers actually stood before judges who started asking .. questions about .. allegations and .. proof .. sweeping claims of fraud turned into something .. different, with .. lawyers furiously backtracking. And .. proceedings ended, in case after case, with .. allegations .. dismissed. As .. losses started to mount, Trump's lawyers not only withdrew from .. positions in their .. papers, many .. fled .. themselves ...
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/18/opinions/trump-giuliani-election-lawsuits-credibility-rodgers/index.html
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