Posted on 11/27/2020 1:09:41 PM PST by gattaca
The president's campaign will continue pushing their legal fight toward the Supreme Court
The Trump 2020 campaign's legal team suffered another blow in court on Friday, as a federal appeals court in Philadelphia rejected the attorneys' effort to contest the results of the presidential election in Pennsylvania.
Judge Stephanos Bibas wrote on behalf of the three-judge panel that reviewed the appeal, "Free, fair elections are the lifeblood of our democracy. Charges of unfairness are serious. But calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here."
Trump's attorneys have vowed to appeal the case to the Supreme Court, despite the round dismissal from the appeals court.
Senior strategy adviser for the Trump campaign Steve Cortes told Just the News that "We will be appealing to the United States Supreme Court, which has always been where we wanted to end up. The sooner the better. We want to make these cases before the high court and we believe we have a compelling argument to make."
The case was argued last week by President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who presented the case that the results of the election had been undermined by widespread voter fraud across Pennsylvania. But Giuliani offered little tangible evidence to fortify his claims.
All three of the judges on Friday's panel of 3rd U.S. Circuit Court judges were appointed by Republicans, including Judge Bibas who is a Trump appointee. Until 2019, President Trump's sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, sat on the court for two decades.
On Tuesday, the state of Pennsylvania certified its election results in favor of Joe Biden, who will officially receive the Keystone State's 20 electoral votes. Biden led Trump in Pennsylvania by about 80,000 votes.
Following Friday's ruling, senior Trump campaign attorney Jenna Ellis tweeted, "The activist judicial machinery in Pennsylvania continues to cover up the allegations of massive fraud. On to SCOTUS!"
“The claim that Biden received 80,000,000 votes is a LIE.”
The hate in this country towards PDJT runs wide and deep. Biden didn’t get 80 million votes. The candidate who wasn’t Trump got that many.”
That’s probably what the left is saying, but it isn’t true. Sure, biteme got the hate Trump votes and never Trump votes, but if you look at the votes of the nation as a whole, it’s impossible that Trump performed so well OVERALL and just underperformed so drastically in these swing states. Trump won bellwether states like Ohio and Florida by not-small margins. And he won most bellwether counties. So how does it work that biteme won SO OVERWHELMINGLY in swing states, and OVERWHELMED the vote count that obutthole received? The answer is that he didn’t.
Then I hope it’s a good one. This is the big time.
“Then I hope it’s a good one. This is the big time.”
I hope the case is excellent. I also hope the Christians on SCOTUS bear in mind that if PDJT isn’t in office for the next four years, thousands more babies will die. I know they’re not supposed to consider that, but they’re humans so how could they not?
By reading the judges opinions, it sounds like it’s limited to repub poll watchers not being allowed to watch. Judge said the same thing as last court that it’s not enough to overturn the election so it’s not worth the time. Only amounts to 10,000 but the people who testified at the hearing the other day estimated a lot more than that. It can only be estimated, that’s the problem I guess. Seems like the machines would time stamp things, dunno.
I heard someone say they have to present the exact case presented in the lower court. No tweaking. Don’t know if that’s true or not, but what someone said.
I'm no lawyer, so I'm just spit-balling here: Trump's legal team can take all the various election-fraud lawsuits that they're losing in all of those swing-state appeals courts and merge them all together into one SCOTUS appeal. [To lawyers in the crowd: Please hammer away at my wild aarse guess.]
This is clearly a fraudulent election of Biden and everyone knows it. We’ll have to fight, there’s little question about that. It’s a matter of how thoroughly we can clear this rot from the system and how long it’s going to take.
I thought a major part of this case, and what will be heard by SCOTUS, was that SOS acted illegally by allowing absentee and mail in ballots to come in three days after the election and other issues not approved by the legislature. When do these items get addressed because those votes are in the hundreds of thousands or at least that was my understanding.
“We will officially be a 3rd-world country and I’ll be taking proactive measures accordingly.”
Yes but it may become the best third-world country.
This moron doesn't even know what form of government we are.
The basis of the lawsuit had NOTHING to say about being “UNFAIR”... the signing statement ruling by the 3 judge panel is COMPLETELY INACCURATE. What the suit had was hundreds of affadavits, as well as the UnConstitutional basis of the conduct of the Election as PA ran it— DISALLOWS the election under the US Constitution.
It also cites MANY precedents for the basis of the claim in prior elections. And it had STANDING.
The Appeals Court had NO idea the Constitutionality of their Ruling. It is not Constitutional at all, and neither was PA Elections.
From what I read this lawsuit was screwed up by the lawyers from the get go. It did not make the right points at the right times. It failed to either include or exclude what was necessary at the time it was filed.
I’m just wondering how many times this will be posted.
This was a unanimous 3-0 appeals court ruling with 3 federal judges appointed by Republican Presidents. The judge who wrote the opinion was a Trump appointee, Judge Stephanos Bibas.
Very disappointing.
It most assuredly was not “hey this was unfair”. Judges on this panel are intentional or unfortunately judicial morons, and chickenshites.
Agreed. A enormous thing to consider.
Oh, wait . . . no one knows exactly which ballot was switched. Doggone.
The panel of judges take a dim view of no one of the election officers admitting tamperings as a general principle ordered by them.
a fast track to the Supreme court may not be of much use if they don’t have something more to offer. Than maybe again by preparing for a big case in such a short amount of time they can still be doing something to process more information about what happened and actually find something to turn this around. Maybe going through these dead ends and having it dismissed so it can go up to the supreme court and then they show their stuff is the plan. My guess is they don’t have anything to prove it, but then again who knows. But, just because you cant prove something does not mean it is not obvious!
“Nothing can be changed at SCOTUS. They will evaluate based on the evidence & presented & the record of the appellate hearing.”
SCOTUS does not have to accept the appeal.
Second post from you that is quite defeatist and completely untrue. You know it is untrue. The filing from Giuliani is available online— how about you read it. And then, not derive some conclusion by extrapolation from what you “think” Trump expects. You are in for a shock, or maybe not since this seems to be agitprop. Na Zdorovie, have another snort for “balance”.
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