A new report to the FEC shows President Trump's campaign has dumped about $8.8 million into its flailing efforts to overturn the results of the November election he lost. That includes about $2.3 million for legal services.
That's obviously a lot less than the $207 million Trump raised after the election, as he launched a blizzard of messages to his supporters seeking their help to overturn its outcome.
The details are interesting:
Trump's campaign paid $30k to Jenna Ellis. There's no record of money going to Giuliani, who reportedly wanted to be paid quite a lot.
And some of the firms making the most don't have an obvious role in Trump's post-election litigation.
The campaign paid $600k to Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP, Trump's former personal attorneys.
And it paid $161k to Marks & Sokolov LLC, a firm that specializes in Russia issues.
One other revealing fact: The Trump campaign's effort to overturn the November election in courts and state legislatures has spent nearly as much on text-message ads ($2.2m) as it has on lawyers ($2.3m).
As Trump leaves Georgia, where he complained about fictional election fraud, the state weighed in on a lawsuit seeking to overturn the election. "These claims would be extraordinary if true, but they are not."
The state has filed lots of pages, but this is probably the only one it really needs. The 11th Cir. bounced a similar suit today because plaintiffs lacked standing. That decision binds the district court here.
Georgia: "There is no credible evidence to support the drastic and unprecedented remedy of substituting certified presidential election results with the Plaintiff's preferred candidate."
The filing is by Georgia's Republican AG on behalf of its Republican governor and others.
Meanwhile in Wisconsin, the state Supreme Court won't allow a conservative group to file a new challenge to the results of the election Trump lost there.
There's a concurrence from Justice Hagedorn, a frequent swing vote, expressing dismay at overturning an election. "We are invited to invalidate the entire presidential election in Wisconsin by declaring it “null”—yes, the whole thing."
Hagedorn's concurrence probably doesn't bode well for President Trump's own state lawsuit in Wisconsin that also seeks to invalidate the results of the presidential election he lost.
A Nevada state court just shot down Trump's effort to overturn the election he lost there. The plaintiffs "failed to meet their burden to provide credible and relevant evidence to substantiate any" of their claims.
The judge said a lot of the Trump electors' evidence was inadmissible because it was hearsay and was submitted in the form of written declarations. But the judge considers it anyway and Trump still loses.
Trump's lawyer to a federal judge just now: "It's been a long time since my civil procedure class."
The judge asks why, if Trump's lawyers say only the legislature can redress violations of the Electors Clause, are we here at all? Why didn't you just ask them?
Judge: "I have a very, very hard time seeing how this is justiciable in the federal court."
Judge Ludwig: Trump's request to have the case remanded to the state legislature is "a little bizarre."