Trump loses Wisconsin lawsuit in latest legal defeat

AP ^ | December 11, 2020 | SCOTT BAUER Associated Press

[JewishRighter]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — President Donald Trump lost a Wisconsin lawsuit Friday seeking to disqualify more than 221,000 ballots and overturn his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the battleground state, the latest in a string of legal defeats.

Reserve Judge Stephen Simanek ruled against every argument Trump made challenging ballots in the state’s two largest counties, saying the election was properly administered and there was no wrongdoing as the president alleged.

[dljordan]

“I have no confidence that there are 5 SCOTUS members brave enough to withstand what would happen in the streets if they followed the Constitution. “

No, they’ll be thinking of Antonin Scalia’s untimely death of ‘natural causes’ and a nice bank account at the Bank of Malta just like Roberts and Sotomayor have.

[RinaseaofDs]

I completely agree, but that’s logic and common sense talking.

Increasingly, it appears these Governors are acting like there will never be an election in which the matter is in doubt, ever again.

You look at NY and CA, IL, OH, MI, GA. They seem impervious. They know something we don’t. Guessing, it’s that there is a magic box that will decide the outcome of any election before the election is held.

[Revel]

Just curious. Who actually filed this lawsuit. Was it Trump or someone else ?

[yoe]

Remember this when the Chinese take over...he will be among the first to be shot. Why? Because he is not trustworthy...a traitor to his country.

[RitaOK]

No one should expect state courts to decide anything that favors Trump.

These Court “losses” give plaintiff legal Cause to pursue the Appeal Process. The case moves up to the next higher court, all the way to the US Supreme Court.

[JewishRighter]

Not sure why this isn’t in Breaking News

[Puppage]

Never gunna happen. We we’re screwed, and NOTHING will change that. This is all BS.

[PMAS]

No state judge is gonna ever overturn an election in his/her own state.
Lower Courts are just stepping stones to SCOTUS.

[PIF]

Perhaps one of the reasons is that all election irregularities - cheating fraud etc has to have a formal complaint filed with the Wisconsin Election Commission. No such complaints were filed not one. So as far as the commission is concerned nothing out of the ordinary happened.

[PIF]

No one formally complained, so nothing happened.

[Bellagio]

This is a so-called "political question."

"The idea behind that doctrine is that some issues are so completely given over to other branches of government that the courts can't rightly rule on them. In our Constitutional order federal elections are handed over entirely to the several states."

What??? 'The idea behind...'??? Bwahahahahaha!

There IS NO IDEA BEHIND IT! It is THE LAW, the duty and responsibility to right wrongs, to right the ship that has become corrupted! The SCOTUS is the final remedial body and arbiter of constitutional challenges, usurpation, conflicts and review against the mischief of the depraved. And that goes for the unlawful conduct of state officials that would alter a national outcome by defrauding lawful votes cast within their states in order to overcome the majority will and replace it with the minority will. This in-turn defrauds other states out of THEIR lawfully appointed EC delegate votes by having the corrupt states illegitimate/fraud delegate slates certified and counted that would change the outcome of who will be our next POTUS from a legitimate election to an unconstitutional illegitimate one!

Not at all in the constitution there is a hand-off to the several states when there is a clear usurpation of supreme law by state official underlings(without such authority) behaving as legislative surrogates/proxies in changing the the time, place and manner in which and how EC delegates get appointed. That authority is given SOLELY to the state legislatures by the constitution. That is not doctrine, an idea or confusing! These corrupt state officials have deliberately and collectively coordinated to interfere in the election process by making last-minute changes to election law to facilitate election/vote fraud in order to steal the EC delegates from being assigned to Trump which ultimately impacted the outcome of the POTUS election giving Biden the 270 delegate votes he would need on Jan 6, 2021.

There IS NO 'political question. There is only THE LAW that must be followed and the SCOTUS must intervene!

[billyboy15]

“The sole Constitutional remedy and the only one in keeping with the inherent federal nature of our legal order is that any remedy is limited to the state’s own court system and legislature, and it’s just nobody else’s business, including SCOTUS.”

LOL, are you serious? You are saying that no matter what a State official or officials do to cheat, steal or otherwise game an election it can ONLY be remedied by the State? They investigate (or not) themselves, declare all ok and proceed with the theft, evidence to the contrary such as no post marked ballots and other violations of the laws the State already had on the books be damned?

Show me in the Constitution where it say the States can make the rules for elections and then violate them at will without getting the Legislature involved?

[Robert DeLong]

The ruling came as Republicans in the state Legislature took testimony from partisans who criticized how the election was conducted. But among those who testified was Dean Knudson, a Republican on the state Elections Commission who, like Simanek, said there was no evidence of extensive voter fraud.

Bot there sure are a lot of blind Republicans. They must really be Democrats posing as Republicans.

[Old Yeller]

State judges aren’t going to stick their necks out if they know the SC will be left with the final decision.

[T-Bird45]

First off - IANAL, merely a reasonably well-informed citizen so bear with me on any errors on law or precedent. I particularly note you make no comment as to how Bush v. Gore in 2000 bears on this where SCOTUS did intervene in a state-level political question.

I next take note that the doors you leave open in your closing are effectively non-optimal when viewed towards potential success. So it’s just bend over & kiss it all goodbye???

[wastedyears]

This BS is so disheartening. 😭

[Robert DeLong]

Bot = Boy 8>)

[eeriegeno]

There would have been no ‘overturning’ of the election! The election would have been fairly called if this clown had ruled in Trump’s favor!!!

[Thilly Thailor]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_question

[Thilly Thailor]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_question