At least now, the fight is back in the forests, where Republican state parties will put their best election lawyers to work in venues they understand and under rules they know. These are the real experts in their respective jurisdictions, and they may have some surprises in store.
As a general rule, election recount contests rarely succeed, but that’s because even in close races, the loser is usually tapped out financially and emotionally exhausted from the campaign. Spending months fighting in court is daunting. That doesn’t fit Mr. Trump. He loves the fight. And this one might actually be somewhat fair.
The issue is the remedies and how supervised these remedies (audits, recanvass, recounts) will be. The Dems can and will cheat even during the remedies, so we need strong judicial intervention.