New: A deep dive into tonight's opinion demolishing the Trump campaign's bid to stop Pennsylvania from certifying Biden as the winner — and illustrating how the campaign has failed to translate unfounded fraud conspiracy theories into winning legal claims buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Step 1: The judge concluded Trump's campaign and the individual voters who sued lacked standing — the critical hurdle a party must clear to get anywhere in court buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil… 
Step 2: The judge concluded that even if Trump's campaign/the voters had standing, they would fail on the merits — that PA letting counties decide if they would let voters "cure" defective ballots wasn't unconstitutional buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Step 3: The judge finally wrote that even if the Trump campaign/voters had standing, and there was a constitutional violation, the remedy was still not to literally toss out every vote in Pennsylvania.
"This is simply not how the Constitution works."
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"This is simply not how the Constitution works."
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Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis released a statement spinning this loss as a win, because it means they can get on with their "strategy" of getting this to SCOTUS (which assumes they lose on appeal) buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
They also take a swipe at Judge Matthew Brann for being an Obama nominee, but, as GOP Sen. Pat Toomey noted in a statement tonight, Brann is a Republican (he was nominated as part of a compromise package under Obama) buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Big picture: Assume Trump somehow gets SCOTUS to invalidate millions of votes in Pennsylvania — Biden still leads in the Electoral College. Trump has to flip multiple states, and the campaign has yet to score any big wins in court, in any state buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
tldr: When a judge writes, "This is simply not how the Constitution works," things are not going well for you in court buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
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