Judge throws out Trump bid to stop PA vote certification
Source: The Morning Call
Pennsylvania officials can certify election results that currently show Democrat Joe Biden winning the state by more than 80,000 votes, a federal judge ruled Saturday, dealing President Donald Trumps campaign another blow in its effort to invalidate the election.
U.S. Middle District Judge Matthew Brann in Williamsport turned down the request for an injunction by President Donald Trumps campaign, dealing a sharp blow to the incumbents hopes of somehow overturning the results of the presidential contest.
Trump had argued that the U.S. Constitutions guarantee of equal protection under the law was violated when Pennsylvania counties took different approaches to notifying voters before the election about technical problems with their submitted mail-in ballots.
Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar and the seven Biden-majority counties that the campaign sued had argued Trump had previously raised similar claims and lost.
Read more: https://www.mcall.com/news/pennsylvania/mc-nws-pa-trump-court-vote-certification-20201121-4m2recbqfjeslhm5kevazb5l3y-story.html
groundloop
(11,513 posts)Gothmog
(144,890 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,372 posts)By Jon Swaine
November 21, 2020 at 6:38 p.m. EST
A lawsuit brought by President Trumps campaign that sought to block the certification of Pennsylvanias election results was dismissed by a federal judge on Saturday evening. U.S. District Judge Matthew W. Brann granted a request from Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar to dismiss the suit, which alleged that Republicans had been illegally disadvantaged because some counties allowed voters to fix errors on their mail ballots.
Rudolph W. Giuliani, Trumps attorney, personally took charge of the case and appeared at a hearing in Williamsport, Pa., Tuesday in an attempt to justify it. In his order, Brann wrote that Trumps campaign had used strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations in its effort to throw out millions of votes.
In the United States of America, this cannot justify the disenfranchisement of a single voter, let alone all the voters of its sixth most populated state, Brann wrote.
Trump was beaten in Pennsylvania by President-elect Joe Biden.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/us-judge-dismisses-trump-campaign-lawsuit-in-pa/2020/11/21/cc097fbe-2c50-11eb-9b14-ad872157ebc9_story.html
Cha
(296,778 posts)Thank You, BRDS!
BumRushDaShow
(128,372 posts)And I was thinking maybe because he was going to lay it on THICK with the dismissal narrative and that he apparently did!!!
Cha
(296,778 posts)rudy had a clue this was coming? lol
George II
(67,782 posts)Cha
(296,778 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)....told trump to have coitus with himself (from Big Bang Theory!)
BumRushDaShow
(128,372 posts)I have been trying to check the news outlets on and off today hoping he would rule before Monday when they are supposed to certify the votes.
Some idiot GOP Congressman here in PA filed a suit just today in state Court trying to declare the GOP's OWN election law "unconstitutional" and throw out all the absentee ballots (including the ones that included votes for him), which he can't do because the law actually had stipulations written in it that requires that anyone challenging the constitutionality needs to file within 6 months after passage, and the law was passed a year ago!
Taraman
(373 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)The Judge dead-stopped Trump's bullshit train
Ha. Ha. Ha.
Gothmog
(144,890 posts)Prof. Hasen is having fun https://electionlawblog.org/?p=118942
The judge just excoriates this suit, which those of us in the field have called ridiculous from the start:
In other words, Plaintiffs ask this Court to disenfranchise almost seven million voters. This Court has been unable to find any case in which a plaintiff has sought such a drastic remedy in the contest of an election, in terms of the sheer volume of votes asked to be invalidated. One might expect that when seeking such a startling outcome, a plaintiff would come formidably armed with compelling legal arguments and factual proof of rampant corruption, such that this Court would have no option but to regrettably grant the proposed injunctive relief despite the impact it would have on such a large group of citizens.
That has not happened. Instead, this Court has been presented with strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations, unpled in the operative complaint and unsupported by evidence. In the United States of America, this cannot justify the disenfranchisement of a single voter, let alone all the voters of its sixth most populated state. Our people, laws, and institutions demand more. At bottom, Plaintiffs have failed to meet their burden to state a claim upon which relief may be granted. Therefore, I grant Defendants motions and dismiss Plaintiffs action with prejudice.
In a 37-page opinion, the court concluded:
Defendants motions to dismiss the First Amended Complaint are granted with prejudice. Leave to amend is denied. Among the grounds that could justify a denial of leave to amend are undue delay, bad faith, dilatory motive, prejudice, and futility. Given that: (1) Plaintiffs have already amended once as of right; (2) Plaintiffs seek to amend simply in order to effectively reinstate their initial complaint and claims; and (3) the deadline for counties in Pennsylvania to certify their election results to Secretary Boockvar is November 23, 2020, amendment would unduly delay resolution of the issues. This is especially true because the Court would need to implement a new briefing schedule, conduct a second oral argument, and then decide the issues.
The court had many problems with the complaint, but this goes to the heart of the merits: Granting Plaintiffs requested relief would necessarily require invalidating the ballots of every person who voted in Pennsylvania. Because this Court has no authority to take away the right to vote of even a single person, let alone millions of citizens, it cannot grant Plaintiffs requested relief.
George II
(67,782 posts)....for tying up the courts with idiotic claims.
sheshe2
(83,637 posts)Love ya!
I agree that Ayanna is brilliant. Glad she is from my state, just wish that she was my Rep. Kennedy was, he left us and our new one was a Democrat before he was a Republican, voted Baker and went back to being a Dem.
George II
(67,782 posts)One was a Democrat for a long time, couldn't get the job he wanted so switched to "independent", got elected to that position, immediately became a republican. He was voted out 4 years ago again as an "independent" and thankfully disappeared.
Another was an independent, became a Democrat, went back to independent, then republican, then independent and now republican again!!!
What's up with these idiots?
sheshe2
(83,637 posts)I read about some weird stuff that happened in Florida. I don't remember enough to post...just effing with Dems.
Cha
(296,778 posts)WINNING!
TY George!
Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)Oh. Man.
Maxheader
(4,370 posts)You worthless bastard...
Maeve
(42,269 posts)The suit, in which President Trump sought to block the certification of the states election results, made strained legal arguments without merit, District Judge Matthew W. Brann wrote.
George II
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BREAKING: A federal judge has rejected the Pennsylvania Trump lawsuit in which Rudy Giuliani was involved. He has dismissed the suit.
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US District Court Judge Matthew Brann said the Trump campaign asked him to disenfranchise almost seven million voters and said he could not find any case in which a plaintiff has sought such a drastic remedy in the contest of an election.
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With such request, he said, one might expect compelling legal argument and factual proof of rampant corruption. Instead, he said, this court has been presented with strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations.
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In the United States of America, this cannot justify the disenfranchisement of a single voter, let alone all the voters of its sixth most populated state.
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William769
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(1,304 posts)I love it.
Marthe48
(16,894 posts)This one is done. I hope.
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Pat Toomey, our R senator, who famously is always testing to see which way the wind is blowing, said Trump should accept the results.
https://triblive.com/news/pennsylvania/judge-throws-out-trump-bid-to-stop-pa-vote-certification/
PAs @SenToomey (R) acknowledges Joe Bidens win and urges the transition process to proceed:
I congratulate President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on their victory. They are both dedicated public servants and I will be praying for them and for our country pic.twitter.com/ksR9pbm6e3
Jonathan Tamari (@JonathanTamari) November 22, 2020
Marthe48
(16,894 posts)inch by inch. Ty
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,283 posts)Also. Trump got more votes (and percentage of the vote) in Philadelphia than he did in 2016.
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