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(Bloomberg) -- The Trump campaigns lawsuit seeking to block Pennsylvania from certifying its election result is based on absurd logic contradicted by the facts in its own complaint, groups representing voters told a federal judge.
President Donald Trump, who alleges a vast Democratic conspiracy in his refusal to concede defeat in the Nov. 3 election, has utterly failed to produce evidence of such a fraud while seeking to scrap tens of thousands of votes over technical disputes related to mail-in ballots, the groups said in a filing Friday evening.
The campaign seeks to justify mass disenfranchisement with an incoherent conspiracy theory, the groups, including the Pennsylvania chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the League of Women Voters, said in the filing in Williamsport.
We did not establish a representative democracy to ask courts to declare who wins our elections, the groups said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trumps-pennsylvania-suit-is-incoherent-conspiracy-voters-say/ar-BB1beH0O?ocid=DELLDHP&li=BBnbfcL
Which is a polite way of saying he's full of shit.
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)Trump. I truly love that idea and would like to see that grow. Good to hear the push back.
catbyte
(34,341 posts)A new lawsuit alleges Trumps effort to overturn Michigans election results disenfranchises Black voters
Trump and his allies have lobbied for votes in Wayne County, home to majority Black Detroit, to be thrown out.
By Anya van Wagtendonk
Nov 21, 2020, 12:09pm EST
With Michigans Monday deadline for certifying its election results looming, attempts by President Donald Trump to overturn the outcome in the state has led to a voting rights lawsuit and could lead to a criminal investigation of officials there.
On Friday, a group of Detroit voters filed a federal lawsuit, alleging that the Trump campaigns legal actions aimed at throwing out some votes in Wayne County, home to Detroit, amounted to a mass disenfranchisement of Black voters.
Repeating false claims of voter fraud, which have been thoroughly debunked, Defendants are pressuring state and local officials in Michigan not to count votes from Wayne County, Michigan, the lawsuit states. Defendants tactics repeat the worst abuses in our nations history, as Black Americans were denied a voice in American democracy for most of the first two centuries of the Republic.
The city of Detroit is nearly 80 percent Black, and overwhelmingly votes Democratic in national elections. President-elect Joe Biden won Wayne County by about 332,000 votes, and it was critical to his 150,000-vote victory in Michigan, a battleground state that was key to Trumps 2016 victory.
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LizBeth
(9,952 posts)Everyone needs to just start throwing lawsuits at Trump. I thought that very clever.
crickets
(25,952 posts)Black voters in Detroit are suing Trump for violating the Voting Rights Act
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214592387
Link to tweet
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)catbyte
(34,341 posts)kick his sorry ass to the curb. That's the American way, asshole.
Loser.