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Legal experts have been saying for a week now that President Donald Trump’s court cases to throw out ballots and turn around his election loss were bound to fail.
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Throughout Friday, the failures piled up.
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- The Trump campaign lost six cases in Montgomery County and Philadelphia County in Pennsylvania over whether almost 9,000 absentee ballots could be thrown out.
- The Trump campaign dropped a lawsuit in Arizona seeking a review by hand of all ballots because Biden’s win wouldn’t change.
- A Republican candidate and voters in Pennsylvania lost a case over absentee ballots that arrived after Election Day, because they didn’t have the ability to sue. A case addressing similar issue is still waiting on decisions from the Supreme Court — which has remained noticeably silent on election disputes since before Election Day.
- Pollwatchers in Michigan lost their case to stop the certification of votes in Detroit, and a judge rejected their allegations of fraud.
On top of it all, a law firm leading the most broad challenge in Pennsylvania — perhaps the most significant state for Trump’s post-election fight — dropped out.
“The Trump campaign keeps hoping it will find a judge that treats lawsuits like tweets,” said Justin Levitt, a Loyola Law School professor and elections law expert, on Friday. “Repeatedly, every person with a robe they’ve encountered has said, ‘I’m sorry, we do law here.'”
Martin Sole
Article URL : https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/14/politics/trump-election-cases-status/index.html