President Trump’s campaign vowed that it will appeal a scathing Pennsylvania court decision that dealt a crushing blow to his attempt to overturn the state’s results, promising to bring the case all the way to the Supreme Court.
After the federal judge in the key swing state of Pennsylvania tossed the lawsuit over the weekend, saying the suit lacked evidence and was “strained,” the Trump campaign said it would quickly move forward with an appeal.
“Today’s decision turns out to help us in our strategy to get expeditiously to the U.S. Supreme Court,” Trump’s lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis said in a statement. “Although we fully disagree with this opinion, we’re thankful to the Obama-appointed judge for making this anticipated decision quickly, rather than simply trying to run out the clock.”
“This is another case that appears to be moving quickly to the United States Supreme Court,” they later added.
Trump’s lawyers have been alleging widespread voter fraud in several states, claiming that the Democrats stole the election from Trump. There has been no evidence of widespread voter fraud, and the campaign’s lawsuits have been getting dismissed time and time again.
The judge in the Pennsylvania suit, U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Brann, tossed the case “with prejudice.” That means the campaign is not allowed to resubmit the case.
“One might expect that when seeking such a startling outcome, a plaintiff would come formidably armed with compelling legal arguments and factual proof of rampant corruption … . That has not happened,” Brann wrote in the opinion. “Instead, this Court has been presented with strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations, unpled in the operative complaint and unsupported by evidence.”
The judge also said the court was not going “to disenfranchise almost seven million voters.”
Joe Biden became the projected winner of the race four days after the election when Pennsylvania turned blue, at which point he had more than 270 electoral votes heading his way. The Dec. 14 Electoral College vote will make it all official.
A Biden campaign spokesman said in a statement about the lawsuit, “Yet another court has rejected Trump and Giuliani’s baseless claims of voter fraud and their appalling assault on our democracy. The judge’s ruling couldn’t be clearer: our people, laws, and institutions demand more — and our country will not tolerate Trump’s attempt to reverse the results of an election that he decisively lost.”
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