The Pennsylvania judgment dismissing the Trump campaign’s lawsuit is quite interesting. The Trump campaign was joined by 2 republican co-plaintiffs each of whom had posted mail in ballots which had been rejected. One had failed to put his ballot paper in the ‘secrecy’ ..
.. envelope as required while the reason for rejection of the other was unknown.
Their gripe was that they should have been told of the rejection & given a chance to cure the defect (‘notice & cure’ in the American parlance). Pennsylvania’s electoral code (each state has ..
Their gripe was that they should have been told of the rejection & given a chance to cure the defect (‘notice & cure’ in the American parlance). Pennsylvania’s electoral code (each state has ..
.. its own) does not provide for notice & cure but a senior state official had apparently emailed some but not all state counties suggesting it be used. The criticism was that by not telling ALL counties to adopt the procedure, an arbitrary & unequal system resulted with ..
.. some voters having greater rights than others.
This argument was tossed out for a bunch of reasons, some banal (e.g. they were suing the wrong person) but the main one was that the relief sought went far beyond the injury alleged. The two plaintiffs were not asking for ..
This argument was tossed out for a bunch of reasons, some banal (e.g. they were suing the wrong person) but the main one was that the relief sought went far beyond the injury alleged. The two plaintiffs were not asking for ..
.. their votes to count but for the 7 million votes of other Pennsylvanians to be invalidated.
The proceedings were attended by farce with multiple amendments of the plaintiffs’ case & several changes in legal representation, Rudy Giuliani himself going on the record only on ..
The proceedings were attended by farce with multiple amendments of the plaintiffs’ case & several changes in legal representation, Rudy Giuliani himself going on the record only on ..
.. the morning of 17th Nov, the day the motion to dismiss was heard. Giuliani had not appeared in court since ‘92 & was hopelessly out of his depth, seemingly knowing nothing of the applicable electoral law.
The judgment is colourful & withering, e.g.
‘Plaintiffs’ only ..
The judgment is colourful & withering, e.g.
‘Plaintiffs’ only ..
.. remaining claim alleges a violation of equal protection. This claim, like Frankenstein’s Monster, has been haphazardly stitched together from two distinct theories in an attempt to avoid controlling precedent.’ 🙂
I have no doubt there will be an appeal but this thread ..
I have no doubt there will be an appeal but this thread ..
.. hopefully gives some flavour of the desperate shenanigans & internal turmoil of the Trump camp.
Biden won the state by 80,000 votes.
Biden won the state by 80,000 votes.
And I should have made clear this thread is not a summary of the 37-page judgment, just a look at a cherry-picked part of it.
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