(They have not won Pennsylvania, and it might not be relevant to the final tally)
PA governor responds to Trump effort to stop vote-counting and prematurely claim victory >>>
Trump's Michigan lawsuit, intended to stop counting, has been filed in the state's Court of Claims.
This is the Trump campaign lawyer listed on the Michigan docket:
The filing asserts that an official "election challenger" named Eric Ostergren was blocked from monitoring the count.

Their demands include stopping the count, holding an emergency counrt hearing and setting aside un-monitored ballots.

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5 Nov
There is no scenario in which this could actually work -- legally or otherwise.
There are many reasons the suggestion is ludicrous but one is this: Congress settles disputes over electors, and the House would never allow these votes to be counted.
And that requires this plan to clear so many other virtually impossible hurdles that it would almost certainly never get this far.
Read 4 tweets
4 Nov
JUST IN: Postal Service files a new explanation in court explaining its failure to comply with Judge SULLIVAN's order but says it complied in spirit anyway.
SULLIVAN is *furious.* He says “11th hour” decision not to comply is a problem.

“Someone may have to pay a price for that,” he says.
SULLIVAN emphasizes he doesn’t hold the DOJ attorney responsible. “It’s your clients, each and every one of them, starting at the top of the food chain.”
Read 17 tweets
4 Nov
Trump begins his campaign to delegitimize potential late Biden gains while votes are being counted.
He deleted and reposted it to fix a poles/polls typo
Trump is doing what many feared: declaring that he won states that are, in reality, still too close to call while suggesting the counting should end becaus early counts reflect leads.
Read 5 tweets
4 Nov
NEW: For all the dire predictions about polling disasters, violence, disruptions and disinformation — Election Day has largely been smooth ... for now.

The latest on what election observers are (and aren't) seeing across the country, w/ @ZachMontellaro

politico.com/news/2020/11/0…
@ZachMontellaro There have been sporadic issues with voting machines, ballot printing and delays — most of them quickly resolved — but none of the systemic problems many feared. politico.com/news/2020/11/0…
@ZachMontellaro One reason for this: coronavirus. The pandemic led states to loosen restrictions on early voting, which relieved pressure on in-person polling locations, despite record-breaking turnout across the country. politico.com/news/2020/11/0…
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27 Oct
NEW: Lawyers for Strzok and McCabe declined this week to help DOJ vouch for the accuracy of handwritten notes used as evidence to dismiss the case against FLYNN.

But DOJ told Judge Sullivan both attorneys had verified the notes anyway. The details:

politico.com/news/2020/10/2…
Sullivan had already upbraided DOJ for "inadvertent" alterations made to Strzok/McCabe's notes. He asked the department last week to certify by Monday that there were no other alterations to the evidence.
politico.com/news/2020/10/2…
But in making that certification, DOJ raised new questions by indicating McCabe and Strzok's lawyers agreed there were no other alterations. Emails reviewed by POLITICO indicate both lawyers affirmatively declined to help assess the validity of the notes.

politico.com/news/2020/10/2…
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27 Oct
NEWS: A federal judge has denied DOJ's motion to substitute the U.S. government as the defendant in a private defamation suit against President Trump brought by E. Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of raping her in the 1990s.

politico.com/f/?id=00000175…
Naming the U.S. as defendant would likely have killed the suit, since the federal government is immune from civil litigation.

"Ms. Carroll would be left with no remedy, even if the president’s statements were false and defamatory," the judge wrote. politico.com/f/?id=00000175…
NOTABLE: Kaplan says that because no one can order Trump to speak, or not speak, about anything, he can't be construed as acting as an employee of the government when he opined on @ejeancarroll's accusation.

politico.com/news/2020/10/2…
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