Post-election lawsuits related to the 2020 United States presidential election
After the 2020 United States presidential election, the campaign for incumbent President Donald Trump and others filed 60 lawsuits contesting election processes, vote counting, and the vote certification process in multiple states. Nearly all the suits were dismissed or dropped due to lack of evidence; judges, lawyers, and other observers described the suits as ‘frivolous’ and ‘without merit’ Trump, his attorneys, and his supporters falsely asserted widespread election fraud in public statements, though few such assertions were made in court.
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After the 2020 United States presidential election, the campaign for incumbent President Donald Trump and others filed 60 lawsuits contesting election processes, vote counting, and the vote certification process in multiple states. Nearly all the suits were dismissed or dropped due to lack of evidence; judges, lawyers, and other observers described the suits as ‘frivolous’ and ‘without merit’ Trump, his attorneys, and his supporters falsely asserted widespread election fraud in public statements, though few such assertions were made in court. In one instance, the Trump campaign and other groups seeking his reelection collectively lost multiple cases in six states on one day. Every state except Wisconsin met the December 8 statutory \”safe harbor\” deadline to resolve disputes and certify voting results. The Trump campaign suffered several setbacks on November 13. 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. A law firm hired by the campaign in Pennsylvania quit amidst concerns they were being used to undermine the electoral process. A judge in Wayne County, Michigan, refused to halt the vote count or certification of the winner. In Pennsylvania, judges refused to block 8,927 mail-in votes in Montgomery and Philadelphia counties. 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.
By November 27, more than thirty of the legal challenges filed since Election Day had failed; by December 14 over fifty lawsuits had been dismissed. On December 18, lawyers for theTrump campaign told employees to preserve all documents related to the Sidney Powell in relation to the Trump 2020 presidential campaign. One suit, Michigan Welfare Rights Org. et al. v. Donald J. Trump et al., was brought by black voter groups in Michigan against Trump and his 2020 presidentialcampaign. The suit was dropped on December 22. A California law professor wrote that the suits ‘continue to defy reason and logic, and are purely theater and purely theater … It’s all a farce and a legal claim, and you have to have a legal case to back it up and there’s not that’s just that’s not the case… And there’s literally nothing that I’ve seen yet with the potential to affect the final result of the election I’ve just seen.’ On December 7, federal judges in Georgia and Michigan rejected last-ditch efforts by pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell to overturn the election results on December 7. In the U.S. 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.. And I am unable to do.’ On December 11, the Supreme Court on December 11 declined to hear a case supported byTrump and his Republican allies asking for electoral votes in four states to be rejected.
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