Trump Pennsylvania Suit Now Suggests Republican Legislature Pick Winner

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President Donald Trump’s campaign revised a pivotal Pennsylvania lawsuit seeking to block certification of the state’s election results, adding a proposal that the Republican-controlled state legislature choose the winner instead of voters.

“This court should enter an order, declaration, and/or injunction that the results of the 2020 presidential general election are defective and providing for the Pennsylvania General Assembly to choose Pennsylvania’s electors,” the campaign said in the 86-page amended complaint it filed Wednesday evening.

Trump and many of his allies have previously raised the possibility of GOP lawmakers ignoring election results based on unsubstantiated fraud claims and directly appointing electors who will support the president. But Wednesday’s filing is the first time the campaign has asked a court to order such a move. Pennsylvania Republican leaders have already said it’s not an option.

The amended suit makes several references to the importance of preventing fraud and points to a few examples of mail-in ballot fraud in Pennsylvania from 1999 and 2014.
But, despite Giuliani’s claims about a vast Democratic conspiracy, the campaign’s complaint in the case fails to include a single allegation of fraud by any voter in the 2020 election.

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[C_U_L8R]

1. How on earth

Did these fools ascend to positions of responsibility and power? This is complete nonsense. End it all now.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. What evidence of defects and under what authority would the PA legislature do so....

[unblock]

3. to them, the evidence is that biden won. ergo, fraud.

they feel entitled to the presidency like they feel entitled to everything else that they want.

[AnnaLee]

4. Is he judge shopping?

Is he putting in suit after suit hoping he finally gets a judge as crazy white supremacist as he is?

[genxlib]

5. I am confident that this isn't going anywhere

However, it is striking to me how few actual humans stand in the way of it.

Once they get to the courts, we are relying on solitary humans to do the right thing. Tracing a pathway to the Supreme Court, it would probably only take a dozen or so to agree with this lunacy. While I have a great deal of respect in our courts, recent history has shown that the Courts are only as effective and honest as the process that puts them there.

It also makes me wonder if things would not go horribly worse if there was an effort to actually manufacture believable evidence. Even if it wasn't fully believed, it could be used as cover for right wing judges to provide favorable rulings.

It is great to dodge a bullet but it sucks to be in the line of fire at all.

[UCmeNdc]

6. Now carry on with your day. We got this.

Link to tweet

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. Guess Rudy's been guzzling too much of that nice chianti.

[Volaris]

8. Well, at least they finally got around to just saying it out loud.

I hope some federal judge yanks Rudy's law licence, and feeds it to the raccoons in the courthouse bushes.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Ghouliani wants to declare all the mail-in votes as "defective" and throw millions of them out

(and at least 1/3rd of them would be GOP ballots)

As a note, that federal law they keep hanging on their hat on relates to elections that could not be "decided". Right now, Biden leads 45 by 82, 462 per the below screenshot (had refreshed the site about 15 minutes ago) -