"VOTERS, NOT LAWYERS, CHOOSE THE PRESIDENT": HOW JUDGES ACROSS THE COUNTRY OBLITERATED TRUMP'S

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DEMOCRACY-RATTLING LEGAL CRUSADE

In his latest attempt to explain away his failure to overturn the 2020 election through the courts, President Donald Trump on Saturday suggested federal judges, including some he appointed, were just too scared to do their jobs. Speaking with Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade, Trump falsely claimed to have “proven” election fraud—even as dozens of judges have dismissed his outlandish claims as lacking sufficient evidence or legal merit—and said “no judge, including in the Supreme Court of the United States, has had the courage to allow it to be heard.” Prior to Election Day, Trump brazenly laid out how he expected those he named to the bench to rule in potential post-election lawsuits, and continued to do so earlier this week. But all three Trump-appointed Supreme Court justices ruled against his cause on Friday, dismantling a bid led by the state of Texas to throw out election results in four states that Biden won. Trump hit back at the high court on Saturday, telling Fox he is “so disappointed in them.”

Trump’s comments come as court filings, the Washington Post reports, illustrate the sweep of the president’s unprecedented legal effort and how the nation’s judiciary held up against it. At least 86 judges, including dozens of Republican-appointed ones, were involved in shutting down at least one lawsuit filed by Trump or his allies after the election. More than 50 such cases had failed or been tossed out of court as of Friday, according to the Post, and only one, a minor suit, had prevailed. “In an era when so many institutions of American life have bowed to partisan tribalism, the dozens of opinions serve as a resounding reaffirmation of the judiciary’s nonpartisan commitment to basic principles of reason, fact and law,” according to the Post. The Supreme Court’s “repudiation” of Trump’s efforts, noted the New York Times, “was a blunt rebuke to Republican leaders in Congress and the states who were willing to damage American democracy by embracing a partisan power grab over a free and fair election.”

The Post’s court filings review revealed “striking diversity in the political orientation and experience” among the judges who rejected post-election suits, a group made up of 54 men and 32 women who ranged from age 42 to 82 but that nevertheless offered a “remarkable show of near-unanimity.” “What we saw here were a bunch of overzealous lawyers trying to make the transition from the political realm, where facts and law have ceased to be very important, into the judicial realm, where the norms are still hard and fast,” said Charles Gardner Geyh, a professor at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/12/voters-not-lawyers-choose-the-president-how-judges-across-the-country-obliterated-trumps-democracy-rattling-legal-crusade

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1. Yes they did.. 81 Million of them.. the

lawyers Represented the People in Court bc trump went barking mad & couldn't handle the LOSSES!