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5 Nov, 5 tweets, 3 min read
New: Trump Cannot Just “Go” To The Supreme Court To Fight Election Results. Here’s What Would Need To Happen To End Up There.
buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Trump's rhetoric over the past 24 hours — "We will be going to the Supreme Court" — has created an appearance of legal uncertainty around the election results that doesn’t exist yet, given the court cases actually filed so far buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
In the latest case Trump's campaign filed in Georgia, they're *not* asking to stop ballot counting. They're alleging there's evidence ballots that arrived after Election Day are being improperly mingled, and asking a judge to make sure that doesn't happen buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Relevant to whether the PA case pending before SCOTUS re: ballots that arrive after Election Day, which the Trump campaign just moved to intervene in, ends up being relevant to the election outcome (see: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…)
The third new case the Trump campaign announced today is in, here's the petition in the Commonwealth Court of PA: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7310…

It claims PA SoS unlawfully extended a deadline from 11/9 to 11/12 for absentee voters to provide missing ID.

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6 Nov
In the latest case filed by Republicans in Nevada (challenging use of computer software to check signatures and alleging lack of public access to observe counting), the judge has set a hearing for today at 2pm PST/5pm EST

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Here's the NV SoS oppo to Rs' motion to block the use of computer software to verify signatures and ensure observer access: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7326…
They say:
1) The voter plaintiff who claimed someone else cast her mail-in ballot was given a chance to fix it and declined Image
2) The purported Trump campaign observer also claimed to be a member of the media (the filing notes he's a polit. strategist and Fox News contrib), and those come with different rights re: access to counting. But regardless, they say no evid. counting happened without observation Image
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6 Nov
Here is where things stand today on the pending Trump/GOP legal challenges:
- Nevada Rs (Trump campaign not a party) filed in federal court last night challenging computer software to verify signatures and claiming media wasn't allowed to observe counting assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7325… Image
- The new NV case repeats a Trump campaign allegation from yest. of people casting ballots who weren't eligible to vote in the state, but note the case isn't asking to invalidate ballots — at most, they're asking for absentee ballots to be verified by people and not a computer Image
- The Commonwealth Court of PA is holding arguments right now (no remote access, unfortunately) in PA Republicans' case seeking to block counties from allowing absentee voters with deficient ballots to cast provisional ballots to "cure" votes  Image
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5 Nov
New: In one of the Trump campaign's cases, the Commonwealth Court of PA issued an order directing the local court in Philadelphia to enter an order requiring all observers and candidate reps be allowed to observe ballot counting w/in 6 feet + other COVID measures Image
The Trump campaign had appealed after a Philadelphia judge denied (see attached) the campaign's request for "closer observation" of counting, finding election officials were following the law.

This does not stop the counting of ballots in Philadelphia. Image
The Trump campaign had also asked the Commonwealth Court to order Philly election officials to segregate/preserve ballots that were already canvassed so they could check to make sure they complied with election law, but the court's order today doesn't address that Image
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5 Nov
A hearing is starting now in the Superior Court of Chatham County, Ga., in the Trump campaign's petition seeking an order ensuring absentee ballots that arrive after the state's Election Day deadline aren't counted, stay tuned. Here's the petition: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7310… Image
Jonathan Crumley for the Trump campaign begins by making clear the case is only about ballots that arrived after the state's Election Day deadline for absentee ballots, not to stop counting legally cast ballots: "Nobody is seeking to stop the counting of any legal ballots"
Recall the 11th Circuit reinstated Georgia's Election Day deadline for receipt of absentee ballots, reversing a lower court judge who had extended the deadline
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4 Nov
Morning, here's where things stand on the legal front:
- Trump said early this a.m.: "We will be going to the US Supreme Court." Except in very rare circumstances that do not apply here, you cannot just "go" to SCOTUS.
buzzfeednews.com/article/kadiag…
- There are two pending cases in lower courts in PA. One is about voters with defective mail-in ballots in Montgomery County, Pa., who have been given a way to cure their votes. The judge is hearing arguments right now on a TRO motion.
- The other PA case was filed last night by state Republicans seeking to block counties from letting voters whose mail-in ballots were disqualified from casting provisional ballots. There's a status conference this afternoon.
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4 Nov
The case number for this in the Commonwealth Court of PA is 600 MD 2020, I'm still working to get a copy of the filings (if anyone has them or is able to pull them, hit me up!)
Here's the preliminary injunction request filed by Rep. Mike Kelly and other Rs arguing to stop PA counties from letting voters who returned mail-in ballots w/ defects cast provisional ballots
(as usual, legal twitter came through, you all are awesome.) pacourts.us/assets/files/s…
Update: The Commonwealth Court of PA will hold a status conference tomorrow at 1:30pm on R's request for a prelim. injunction to block counties from letting voters "cure" mail-in ballots with problems by casting provisional ballots
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