JUST IN: Plaintiffs including two GOP congressmen from PA have filed a new lawsuit seeking to invalidate the state's recently passed mail in ballot law as unconstitutional and to stop certification of the statewide election results scheduled for Monday.
Meanwhile, in a new filing from today in the big federal suit in Pennsylvania...
JUST IN: Federal judge in Pennsylvania dismisses the Trump campaign's central effort to stop certification of the statewide vote.
Story soon.
Key quote: "This Court has been presented w/strained
legal arguments w/o merit & speculative accusations, unpled in the...complaint & unsupported by evidence. In the USA, this cannot justify disenfranchisement of a single voter, let alone all voters of 6th most populated state."
Here's the link, belatedly, to Judge Brann's (fairly scathing) ruling. 1drv.ms/b/s!AnM-WBnwB3…
I'll be following a hearing in Nevada challenging the vote in Clark County & seeking a new election there.
The Trump campaign isn't involved. Case was brought by a failed GOP candidate for congress Jim Marchant.
But if successful it could help Trump by delaying certification.
Lawyer for Marchant is objecting--in a highly unusual way--to a pro hac vice motion by lawyers for DNC saying this is a local case.
"This is not a matter of national interest," he says.
Marchant is also objecting overall to the DNC intervening in the case at all.
In 15 minutes or so, a hearing will begin in federal court in Atlanta in a lawsuit seeking to halt certification of the vote in Georgia. Here’s a quick primer on the case.
The suit, filed by the lawyer L Lin Wood, alleges that the vote in GA was “suspect and tainted with impropriety” largely by how elections officials handled absentee/mail-in ballots.
Wood says the problems stem from an agreement reached in March b/t the GA secretary of state & the state’s Dem party which essentially strengthened the procedure for verifying mail-ins. He claims that agreement violated state law.
NEW: Trump campaign voluntarily dismisses its federal suit in Michigan seeking to invalidate the Wayne County vote results.
This follows a voluntarily dismissal of a similar suit in Michigan yesterday.
The Trump campaign and its proxies have now lost or withdrawn from all of their major legal efforts in Michigan.
The Michigan Supreme Court is still considering an appeal by the campaign of a loss in a state suit that closely mirrored the federal suit that was dumped today.
Weird thing about the federal dismissal:
In the notice the lawyer notes--in what seems like a political not legal point--that the Wayne County Board of Canvassers declined to certify the vote. But the board DID certify the vote.
After, 2 GOP members tried to rescind their votes.
NEW: Wow.
US Justice Department under AG William Barr is dropping charges against Salvador Cienfuegos, ex-defense minister of Mexico so that he can be charged in Mexico.