Latest Breaking News
Showing Original Post only (View all)Trump campaign jettisons major parts of its legal challenge against Pennsylvania's election results [View all]
Source: Washington Post
President Trumps campaign on Sunday scrapped a major part of its federal lawsuit challenging the election results in Pennsylvania. Trumps attorneys filed a revised version of the lawsuit, removing allegations that election officials violated the Trump campaigns constitutional rights by limiting the ability of their observers to watch votes being counted.
Trump and Rudolph W. Giuliani, his personal attorney, have said repeatedly that more than 600,000 votes in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh should be invalidated because of this issue. Trumps pared-down lawsuit now focuses on allegations that Republicans were illegally disadvantaged because some Democratic-leaning counties allowed voters to fix errors on their mail ballots. Counties have said this affected only a small number of votes.
Cliff Levine, an attorney representing the Democratic Party in the case, said on Sunday evening that Trumps move meant his lawsuit could not possibly change the result. Now youre only talking about a handful of ballots, said Levine. They would have absolutely no impact on the total count or on Joe Bidens win over Donald Trump. Kathy Boockvar, Pennsylvanias Democratic secretary of state, submitted a court filing in response to the Trump campaigns actions reiterating her request for the judge to dismiss the lawsuit.
The shift comes amid a string of losses in the Trump campaigns post-election legal effort, which claimed without evidence that voter fraud, irregularities and rule-breaking led to President-elect Joe Bidens victory. Taken together, the flurry of post-election litigation has affirmed the integrity of the election: many of the complaints have been tossed, and not a single vote has been invalidated.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-lawsuit-pennsylvania/2020/11/15/4aab8048-279b-11eb-9b14-ad872157ebc9_story.html