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Top Pennsylvania Republicans pressure congressional delegation to challenge Biden's victory

Dozens of Pennsylvania Republican state legislators, including the speaker of the House, are calling on the state's Republican-heavy congressional delegation to challenge President-elect Joe Biden's victory when federal lawmakers certify the presidential election Jan. 6.

"[W]e the undersigned members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly urge you to object, and vote to sustain such objection, to the Electoral College votes received from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania during the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021," the lawmakers wrote in a letter to the state's congressional delegation. Though an initial version included 75 signatories — more than half of the GOP lawmakers in the legislature — it was quickly pulled after some lawmakers indicated they didn't intend to sign onto the letter.

The escalation from Republican lawmakers in the crucial swing state is the most aggressive effort to date from GOP elected officials to block Biden's election, and it comes amid an increasingly forceful pressure campaign from President Donald Trump and his attorney Rudy Giuliani. Though Trump and his allies have been claiming widespread fraud and misconduct, they've produced no evidence to support their allegations and have been repeatedly shot down in their legal efforts to throw out millions of Biden votes across the country.

The new push in Pennsylvania stands in stark contrast to the reaction of House Republicans in Arizona, where Speaker Rusty Bowers rebuked the Trump-led pressure campaign on Friday, calling Giuliani's demands "breathtaking."




https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/04/pennsylvania-republicans-biden-challenge-442972

"Attorney" Jenna Ellis was once fired by client for incompetence.

She has been front and center at several public sessions with Mr. Giuliani over the past week. Convened by pro-Trump Republican lawmakers, they serve no legal purpose and are essentially scaled-down political rallies for the president to vent his frustrations. At one last week in Pennsylvania and another on Monday in Arizona, the president called Ms. Ellis’s cellphone and she held it near a microphone so the crowd could hear him speak.

“I find it astonishing that she’s gotten to this point,” said Stephanie Stout, a lawyer in private practice in Greeley, Colo., who worked with Ms. Ellis a few years ago defending a man who was accused of attempted murder. The partnership was short-lived, Ms. Stout said, because their client fired Ms. Ellis, deeming her not up to the job.

“She just didn’t have the legal chops,” added Ms. Stout, who ultimately won the case on her own. “After that, Jenna decided that I had stolen the case from her.”



https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/us/politics/jenna-ellis-trump.html

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