BREAKING: CVS announces it is now accepting *walk-in* appointments for #coronavirus vaccines across the country. No appointment necessary. This comes after President Biden's order yesterday for all pharmacies taking part in the federal vaccine program to allow walk-ins.
BREAKING: Pennsylvania has certified the results of the November election. Joe Biden officially wins the state and its 20 electoral votes.
Of the states President Trump is contesting in court, Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania have certified and sent Biden electors to the Electoral College on Dec. 14 -- putting him at 279 electoral votes. Arizona, Nevada and Wisconsin have not yet finished certification.
The president continues to contest the results in all six of those states, but certification of the vote makes an already-uphill climb in the courts much more difficult; federal courts tend to defer to states in how they run their elections.
A federal judge in Pennsylvania just dismissed the Trump campaign’s lawsuit with prejudice — meaning it can’t be refiled — and tore into their claims: “This court has been presented with strained legal arguments without merit ... Our people, laws and institutions demand more.”
We have a Frankenstein’s Monster reference in this opinion.
Here’s the meat of the decision. The Trump campaign asked the court to overturn the election and effectively disenfranchise ~7 million people: “It is not in the power of this court to violate the Constitution.”
The new dashboard shows 725 new cases (was 1,139 yesterday) and a gigantic 51,419 new tests. The seven-day weighted average of the positive rate is at 1.8 percent.