Trump/GOP started the day 1-35 in court.🥳 Trump/GOP ended the day 1-36 in court.🥳 Goodnight.😴

[soothsayer]

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Marc E. Elias
@marceelias
Trump/GOP started the day 1-35 in court.🥳
Trump/GOP ended the day 1-36 in court.🥳
Goodnight.😴

[dweller]

1. Doh !

day in the week that ends in Y ...

✌🏻

[Rizen]

2. What exactly does the 1 in 1-36 mean?

Their case got accepted? What was it?

[hlthe2b]

3. 1 win to 36 losses. The one "win" was an early partial win only allowing (PA, I think) observers

to move closer to the table where votes were being examined/counted (from 10 or 12 feet to six feet as I recall). A big nothing burger.

[Roland99]

4. The one win was actually undoing an extension of curing ballots

Had been extended to nov 12. Was brought back to Nov 9

[hlthe2b]

5. Per Steve Vladeck, professor at the University of Texas School of Law :

One of the campaign’s sole “victories,” for instance, was a Pennsylvania state court ruling requiring observers to be allowed 6 feet from the vote counters, rather than 10 feet. No vote tallies were affected in the process — and even that order could still be overturned by Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-s-election-legal-challenges-won-t-change-2020-results-ncna1247702

I have yet had time to read a subsequent PA Supreme Court opinion, but I have not read that they overturned this partial ruling by a lower court.

[Roland99]

6. From Marc Elias and DemocracyDocket

Link to tweet

Trump and his allies are 1-28 in court cases they have filed post election.

Their one victory was shortening the cure deadline in PA for a small subset of rejected mail-in ballots from 9 days to 6 days. That is it.

[hlthe2b]

7. Well unless you can clarify the descrepancy (i.e., show the PA Supreme Court overruled the prev)

Steve Vladek is every bit the lawyer as Elias (with great respect and nod to Marc Elias) and a constitutional expert as well. Can you show in the PA Supreme Court opinion that this was overruled to explain the discrepancy?

[Roland99]

8. I'm guessing Marc isn't considering the change in distance a win?

Since there was no minimum distance set by the legislature and counting was practically over by then anyway, it was an abstract and meaningless "win" as it had no effect whatsoever on the counting, esp since observers could only observe, not audit.

*shrug*

[Rizen]

9. Thanks.