Trump lawyer details far-fetched strategy to reverse Pennsylvania win for Biden

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: CNBC

A lawyer for President Donald Trump's campaign on Wednesday revealed that the campaign could be relying on pulling off a complicated — and possibly unprecedented — legal and legislative trick shot to undo President-elect Joe Biden's victory in Pennsylvania and possibly in other states.

That far-fetched strategy would require a federal court to invalidate Pennsylvania's certification of its election results, and then get the state's General Assembly to agree to send Trump electors to the Electoral College.

The idea is buried in a footnote in a three-page letter that campaign attorney Marc Scaringi wrote to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.

The Trump campaign is asking that appeals court to hear its bid to block the effect of Tuesday's certification of a win for Biden in Pennsylvania.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-lawyer-details-far-fetched-strategy-to-reverse-pennsylvania-win-for-biden/ar-BB1blY6U?li=BBnbfcQ&ocid=DELLDHP

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When all other dumbass attempts have failed.

[dware]

1. LOL.

This isn't even DOA, it's DRT.

[napi21]

2. Doesn't sook like it would work to me! Lawyers are probably doing this

because DT is screaming "DO SOMETHING" and they're trying to shut him up!

[William Seger]

4. It's a scam - Trump still soliciting donations for his "defense fund"

... and lying about where almost all the money is really going: campaign debts and Trump family and friends graft.

[PoliticAverse]

11. Billable hours are billable hours. n/t

[Lock him up.]

17. Like he ever paid his lawyers... n/t

[keithbvadu2]

20. It's hard to get good help for $20,000 per day.

It's hard to get good help for $20,000 per day.

MSRP

[TeamPooka]

22. campaign money is free for trump

[ewagner]

21. You got it!!! n/t

[SCantiGOP]

30. And Pennsylvania law says

that in that event the Governor, not the legislature, submits the elector list.
The Gov is a Dem.

[regnaD kciN]

35. Yes, but...

...according to right-wing logic, the legislature could submit its own, ad hoc slate of Trump electors, and the SCOTUS could then rule that the Constitution specifically authorizes "state legislatures" to decide how electors are to be appointed, and that therefore the Trump slate must be the one accepted.

Not likely to work, but it would be a real shit-show, because you'd get two sets of electoral votes from PA (etc.) showing up, with two resulting "final electoral college tallies," one giving Biden 306 EV and the other giving Trump 270+, and Congress might decide to blow off the SCOTUS ruling, since there's nothing in the Constitution giving the judiciary any authority in determining electors. (Incidentally, since it would be a matter of competing totals, and not a failure of either candidate to get a majority, it wouldn't be decided by the House state delegations, either. In short, we'd have a full-blown constitutional crisis, and likely a second civil war.)

[SCantiGOP]

36. Right wing logic

A phrase like “Quaker fight club,”
in that neither makes sense.

[Mike 03]

3. Even though these desperate and shameful lawsuits are failing, it still

infuriates me because it's so disrespectful to our country and to Biden/Harris.

[FarPoint]

5. The Presidential Election is OVER!

That means, so is the campaign Donnie!

[Iris]

14. Exactly! I just said this yesterday - he thinks he's still campaigning!

Also doesn't seem to understand want an election actually is with his comment to the PA GOP Senators that "they flooded the market." WTF is he talking about?

[C_U_L8R]

6. They just look more ridiculous by the minute

These unaware clowns don't even know they're clowns.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. It was their intended destination all along

They're like thieves who wait for the cash drawer to be left open and can't help themselves

[Vinnie From Indy]

8. Trump is using the fight to grift millions of rubes.

The lawyers are using the fight to get a taste of all that money flowing into Trump's coffers.

[mr_lebowski]

9. Gotta keep the grift going as long as possible (nt)

[Dawson Leery]

10. It's time for some disbarment.

.

[SunSeeker]

16. THIS

[TheRickles]

32. Why hasn't that already happened? Or at least proceedings, inquiries, resolutions, etc.

[Bayard]

12. When are these judges going to start proclaiming these are, "frivolous lawsuits?"

Telling the trump people to go away and don't come back here wasting my time.

[crickets]

29. I wish they would. It's not going to stop until they do. nt

[George II]

13. Marc Scaringi - that's a new one, another added to the dustbin of trump attorneys.

[birdographer]

15. These clowns will be doing this

on January 21st. Probably on into February.

[durablend]

28. I still think

He's going to have his own swearing-in ceremony (w/Paula White) at the same time the "real" president is.

[marble falls]

18. Understatement of the year: complicated with not much of a chance to work ...

... but he forgot stupid, unethical, "Wile E. Coyote"-like ...

[DeminPennswoods]

19. Commonwealth Court agreed to hear the Kelly/Parnell

challenge to Act 77 that expanded absentee ballot voting. A law that was passed by the GOP-controlled state legislature and was in effect for the April-moved-to-June primary with no objection from either candidate.

It won't affect the presidential certification, but the state was injoined from certifying any uncertified down ballot elections.

The judge issuing the order was an R, Patricia McCullough. Unfortunately she won her 10 year retention election in 2019, so no chance to dump her until 2029.

[DENVERPOPS]

23. The RepubliCON party is probably paying for this

so they can stall and have more time to trash the United States and everyone in it, as they go out the door.
You know, their SCORCHED EARTH LEGACY..............

[mdbl]

24. They Suck!

Always have, and always will. That is their entire legacy.

[McCamy Taylor]

25. Are they hoping to get the SCOTUS involved?

Maybe that was the litmus test for Judge Amy

[beachbumbob]

26. I guess if you have judges ignore all laws and then have a plantiff just make shit up, its more

than just farfetch

[PaulRevere08]

27. tRump's legal strategy in the past has always been to wear the other side down no matter how

valid their cause was. I don't think his mind get around the fact that the other side has deeper pockets this time.

[SayItLoud]

31. Based on what evidence?

Answer: N O N E !

[dware]

33. Evidence, EVIDENCE!!!!

We don't need no steeenking evidence, our word alone should be enough, just trust us on this.

[WheelWalker]

41. Verdict first... then the trial!

[dware]

42. It's the Republican way. nt

[IsItJustMe]

34. This country is one step away from being a totalitarian dictatorship with dump at the helm.

Hopefully that is all averted. I can not conceive why we got this close to a total breakdown of our voting system. Scary as hell.

[KWR65]

37. Your Honor! Trump won the election because I said so! That is proof enough!

[Roc2020]

38. It's all a reality show now

Everybody knows it's over except some Trump supporters that are clinging to fantasy that Trump can still win..those are the people Trump wants to keep milking for cash.

[LiberalFighter]

39. Would half-baked be a better adjective for far-fetched?

[birdographer]

40. I don't think so...

Half-baked indicates that it has been baked, it's half done. It may not be fully baked, but it's halfway there. I don't even like far-fetched, now that you mention it. Although I guess it was fetched. I would be ok with "stupid," mostly.

[JohnnyRingo]

43. They aren't even claiming fraud anymore.

Just somehow convince the court that it should invalidate the popular vote and let the state republicans decide who gets the electoral votes.

...pretty please Mr Judge, with sugar on top?

[Sloumeau]

44. This may be an attempt to try and get the U.S. Supreme Court to rescue them.

They take this to the appeals court. Then it gets shot down. Then they appeal to the Supreme Court.

"Oh, Great Supreme Court, we have no evidence of fraud, but lots of people called Trump on election night and thought he won. That means the will of the people should be overturned, right?"

[Paul Politerude]

45. We shouldn't be Overconfident, because there's One Authority that has yet to Weigh In:

Jesus! If our Lord and Savior hears the anguished pleas of His People, the Evangelicals, who have been scrupulously and meticulously faithful to the values He preached 2,000 years ago, well, the Lord may have to come down here and Set Things Right!

Hallelujah!

[kimbutgar]

46. So "F " the voting will of the people because MF45 lost ?

That is the ultimate bs.

I can’t wait for January 20th it can’t come soon enough.

[SergeStorms]

47. All of those people....

meant to vote for Trump, but somehow got confused and voted for Biden. Of course they have oceans of proof to support that, as soon as they can fabricate it. Easy-peasey, lemon-squeezy, in legal terminology.