The campaign for incumbent president Donald Trump filed a number of lawsuits contesting election processes, vote counting, and the vote certification process in multiple states. Many cases were quickly dismissed, and lawyers and other observers noted that the lawsuits are not likely to have an effect on the outcome of the election. Trump, his supporters, and his attorneys asserted widespread election fraud in public statements.
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The campaign for incumbent president Donald Trump filed a number of lawsuits contesting election processes, vote counting, and the vote certification process in multiple states. Many cases were quickly dismissed, and lawyers and other observers noted that the lawsuits are not likely to have an effect on the outcome of the election. Trump, his supporters, and his attorneys asserted widespread election fraud in public statements. The Department of Homeland Security released a statement saying that the election was the \”most secure in American history\” and that there was no evidence any voting systems malfunctioned. Four lawsuits orchestrated by conservative lawyer James Bopp in Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania were dropped on November 16 after a federal appellate court said voters could not bring some constitutional claims. Sidney Powell was dropped as a lawyer for the Trump campaign on November 22. By November 27, more than thirty of the legal challenges filed since Election Day had failed. In Pennsylvania, judges refused to block 8,927 mail-in votes in Montgomery and Philadelphia counties. Federal judges in Georgia and Michigan rejected last-ditch efforts by the Trumpcampaign to overturn the election results on December 7. In the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Judge Timothy C. Batten Sr. wrote, “They want this court to substitute its judgment for two-and-a-half million voters who voted for Joe Biden…
And this I am unwilling to do. ” Loyola Law School professor Justin Levitt said, ‘here’s literally nothing that I’ve seen yet with the meaningful potential to affect the final result’ Barry Richard, who helped to oversee the Republican-led Florida recount effort during the 2000 election, called the lawsuits ‘entirely without merit’ and said they ‘will not be successful’ . Gerry McDonough, an attorney who worked for the Gore campaign, said Trump ‘has no chance of overturning the result—it’s just impossible’”. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a statement calling the 2020 election ‘the most secure inAmerican history’, noting no evidence that voting system changed in any way compromised or lost votes, or was deleted or lost or lost. One of the law firms that handled many law firms for the Donald Trump campaign and one that handled one of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party v. Jones v. Bovarock, faced internal criticism for its efforts on litigation. Voluntarily dismissed that day: ‘‘The suits continue to defy reason and logic, and are purely theater .. It’s all a farce’’ In the U.S. District court for the Eastern District of Michigan, a judge refused to halt the vote count or certification of the winner. A judge in Wayne County, Michigan,. The campaign dropped its ‘Sharpiegate’ lawsuit in Arizona. ‘The lawsuits seem to have no merit whatsoever’
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