By Jerry Bellun e
Jerry Bellune@yahoo.com
President Trump’s legal team plans new lawsuits after a 2nd Supreme Court rejection.
“We move immediately to plan B which is to bring …
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By Jerry Bellune
Jerry Bellune@yahoo.com
President Trump’s legal team plans new lawsuits after a 2nd Supreme Court rejection.
“We move immediately to plan B which is to bring lawsuits now in each 1 of the states," his attorey, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, said.
“They’re a version of the 1 that was brought in the Supreme Court,” he said.
Texas, SC and other state attorneys general filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court against Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
The suit alleged the elections were run contrary to the Constitution.
The nation’s top court rejected the suit late Friday.
SC Attorney General Alan Wilson had joined Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and other Republican attorneys general to contest the election results.
Had Trump’s allies prevailed, Democratic Party candidate Joe Biden’s 306 electoral college votes would have dopped to 244, far less than the 270 he needs.
Biden hhave lost 10 electoral college votes in Wisconsin, 16 in Michigan, 20 in Pennsylvania and 16 in Georgia.
Trump would have gained 62 electoral college votes in those 4 states and wound up with more than the 270 votes needed to win.
Wilson said, “Regardless of your ideological beliefs, we must all agree that free and fair elections are the keystone of democracy.
“Our Constitution’s election clauses must be followed and the Constitution must be a guiding light for fair elections to continue to take place.
"Our values and the rule of law are worth defending.”
Pennsylvania’s House speaker and majority leader Thursday filed an amici curiae brief with the Supreme Court against the state of Pennsylvania and in favor of the Texas lawsuit.
A brief filed by Pennsylvania House Speaker Bryan Cutler and Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff, both Republicans, requests the US Supreme Court “carefully consider the procedural issues and questions raised by the plaintiff concerning the administration of the 2020 general election in Pennsylvania.”
“The unimpeachability of our elections requires clear procedures of administration so that everyone gets a fair shake. Unfortunately, outside actors have so markedly twisted and gerrymandered the Commonwealth’s Election Code to the point that [we] amici find it unrecognizable from the laws that they enacted,”
The US Supreme Court had rejected without explanation an earlier motion by Pennsylvania Republicans to challenge the outcome.
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