Joe Biden's Murica! - Drops Out, Endorses Kamala Harris

[shogun]

^^I see Trump is still a competent businessman? $3M to help your opponent? lol Good thing supporters footing the bill?



And in slightly old news... looks like they're turning on their own. First FOX News, then the Georgia secretary of state, for calling the vote count for Biden.

Georgia's Republican (Trump supporting) secretary of state getting death threats

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 25016.html

And in more concerning news...

Trump Administration Fires Almost All of Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board

The Trump administration has reportedly ousted eleven members of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board.

The story: Multiple sources told Foreign Policy that Pentagon liaison Joshua Whitehouse sent the directive on Wednesday afternoon, saying a total of eleven board members were removed effective immediately.

They included former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright; onetime ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee Jane Harman; retired Adm. Gary Rougheadl and Rudy De Leon, a former chief operating officer at the Pentagon.

Former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor; former Treasury Department undersecretary David McCormick; chief US nuclear negotiator Robert Joseph; former Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick; former top defense official Franklin Miller’ and former Deputy National Security Advisor JD Crouch II were fired as well.

https://www.dailyhandle.com/trump-admin ... icy-board/

Packing the pentagon with loyalists? Christ. Looks like the Orange idiot will tear that country down to get his way.

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Pa. Supreme Court dismisses Republican congressman's bid to toss mail-in ballots, halt certification

Pennsylvania certified Biden's victory Tuesday

By Paul Best | Fox News


The Pennsylvania Supreme Court dismissed a case Saturday night brought by Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., and a handful of other Republican voters who sought to overturn last year's law creating no-excuse mail-in voting as well as halt further action in certifying Pennsylvania's votes. 

Pennsylvania certified President-elect Joe Biden's victory Tuesday, but Judge Patricia McCullough ordered Wednesday that the state must halt certification "to the extent that there remains any further action to perfect the certification."

Pennsylvania passed universal mail-in voting last year with Act 77, but Kelly sought to overturn that law and deem all mail-in votes in the 2020 election illegal. 

"As a remedy, Petitioners sought to invalidate the ballots of the millions of Pennsylvania voters who utilized the mail-in voting procedures established by Act 77 and count only those ballots that Petitioners deem to be 'legal votes,'" the opinion from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court reads. 

The court went on to say that petitioners should have challenged the law when it was first passed in 2019, instead of waiting until the election was over a year later. 

“Petitioners filed this facial challenge to the mail-in voting statutory provisions more than one year after the enactment of Act 77. At the time this action was filed on November 21, 2020, millions of Pennsylvania voters had already expressed their will in both the June 2020 Primary Election and the November 2020 General Election and the final ballots in the 2020 General Election were being tallied, with the results becoming seemingly apparent," the opinion from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court reads. 

"Nevertheless, Petitioners waited to commence this litigation until days before the county boards of election were required to certify the election results to the Secretary of the Commonwealth. Thus, it is beyond cavil that Petitioners failed to act with due diligence in presenting the instant claim. Equally clear is the substantial prejudice arising from Petitioners’ failure to institute promptly a facial challenge to the mail-in voting statutory scheme, as such inaction would result in the disenfranchisement of millions of Pennsylvania voters.”

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pa-sup ... cation.amp

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

Biden’s doctor says he has hairline fractures after twisting his ankle playing with his dog.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/29/us/p ... prain.html

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

US Department of Justice Bill Barr says there is no evidence of widespread fraud in the US election after completing their investigation.

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Biden’s doctor says he has hairline fractures after twisting his ankle playing with his dog.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/29/us/p ... prain.html

kamala prolly peed a lil bit hearing that. a few steps again and is we time now!

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US Department of Justice Bill Barr says there is no evidence of widespread fraud in the US election after completing their investigation.

Rage tweets incoming..... firing by tweet also possible.

Barr knows he isn't immune from legal jeopardy. He has no choice but to stay on the right side of history here. Especially when we see even Trump lawyers openly calling for other Republicans to be shot for doing their job lawfully. No longer just the left being threatened, so it matters all of a sudden.



Skip to 1:50 then to 4:45 for MAGA chud goodness.

Fitting that FOX News and the right are being torn apart by the same rabid authoritarian conspiracy nuts they cultivated and coddled for YEARS. Karma.

[De Dragon]

Toadie Barr trying to somehow land on the right side of this fack fest that is the GOP election fraud hoax. Disgusting and hypocritical in light of the fact that he enabled its chief proponent essentially from when he got the AG job

[VexXx Dogg]

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Michigan State Representative confirms Rudy Giuliani farted during an election hearing

Jake Lahut

Dec 4, 2020, 10:47 AM


Following a viral video appearing to show Rudy Giuliani experiencing flatulence on camera during a Michigan election hearing on Wednesday, a state lawmaker has confirmed the fart was real.

There were two instances of President Donald Trump's personal attorney appearing to pass gas during the hearing.

State Rep. Darrin Camilleri said both farts did indeed happen and were not edited into the video.

Camilleri tweeted Friday about how he was featured in the video clip of the incident shown on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" Thursday night.

"In normal times, using our time and taxpayer dollars to investigate illegitimate claims of election fraud would be wasteful, but in the middle of a pandemic, it's cowardly and cruel," Camilleri told Insider.

https://www.businessinsider.com/rudy-gi ... 020-12?amp

[redmanjp]

been watching a few clips of the series myself


but seems the Clintons did the same thing

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121856&page=1

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Joe Biden officially secures enough electors to become president

by MICHAEL R. BLOOD and NICHOLAS RICCARDI | Associated Press

Friday, December 4th 2020

California certified its presidential election Friday and appointed 55 electors pledged to vote for Democrat Joe Biden, officially handing him the Electoral College majority needed to win the White House.

Secretary of State Alex Padilla's formal approval of Biden's win in the state brought his tally of pledged electors so far to 279, according to a tally by The Associated Press. That's just over the 270 threshold for victory.

These steps in the election are often ignored formalities. But the hidden mechanics of electing a U.S. president have drawn new scrutiny this year as President Donald Trump continues to deny Biden's victory and pursues increasingly specious legal strategies aimed at overturning the results before they are finalized.

Although it's been apparent for weeks that Biden won the presidential election, his accrual of more than 270 electors is the first step toward the White House, said Edward B. Foley, a law professor at Ohio State University.

"It is a legal milestone and the first milestone that has that status," Foley said. "Everything prior to that was premised on what we call projections."

The electors named Friday will meet Dec. 14, along with counterparts in each state, to formally vote for the next president. Most states have laws binding their electors to the winner of the popular vote in their state, measures that were upheld by a Supreme Court decision this year. There have been no suggestions that any of Biden's pledged electors would contemplate not voting for him.

Results of the Electoral College vote are due to be received, and typically approved, by Congress on Jan. 6. Although lawmakers can object to accepting the electors' votes, it would be almost impossible for Biden to be blocked at that point.

https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/ ... -president

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pledged to vote for and actually voting for are not the same. dont count the chickens till the eggs hatch.

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Florida Lawyer Under Felony Investigation for Telling Fellow Republicans to Commit Voter Fraud in Georgia Senate Runoffs

COLIN KALMBACHERDec 3rd, 2020, 11:23 am

A Republican lawyer who lives in Florida is under investigation by election officials in Georgia after allegedly encouraging other members of his party to violate the law and register to vote in the Peach State’s upcoming Senate runoff elections. Election officials also say that Bill Price, a Florida resident, illegally attempted to register to vote in Georgia himself and that they plan to stop his voter registration from taking effect.

According to Atlanta-based ABC affiliate WSB-TV, attorney Price can be seen in a since-deleted Facebook Live video addressing members of the Bay County GOP in Florida on Nov. 7–roughly half an hour after the 2020 presidential election was called by most media outlets for Joe Biden.

“We absolutely have to hold the Senate and we have to start fighting back, and we have to do whatever it takes,” Price says in the video. “And if that means changing your address for the next two months, so be it. I’m doing that. I’m moving to Georgia and I’m gonna fight and I want you all to fight with me.”

Journalist Nicole Carr, who saved a copy of the video just before it was deleted, notes that Price goes on to tell the crowd he plans on moving to his brother’s home in Georgia so he can register to vote for incumbent Republican Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue.

The attorney also reportedly repeated his brother’s name and address out loud for the party faithful to copy it down in the hope that they will actually follow his advice and illegally register to vote in the upcoming elections that will determine control of the U.S. Senate.

https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/f ... e-runoffs/

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pledged to vote for and actually voting for are not the same. dont count the chickens till the eggs hatch.

You may not be entirely aware that there are electors chosen by each political party in each state and D.C.

What you are insinuating is that of the 306 electors selected solely by the Democratic Party of their respective state, at least 38 will not only choose to cast their vote for a different candidate but to also cast their vote for Donald Trump.

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On Election Day, when Americans vote for the presidential and vice presidential candidates of a political party, they are actually voting for the slate of electors who have pledged to cast their votes for that party. Electors’ names may or may not appear on the ballot beneath the names of the candidates, depending on the election rules and the format of the ballots in each state.

Then, on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December, members of the Electoral College meet in their respective states and cast their official votes for president and vice president. Forty-eight states and the District of Colombia have a winner-take-all system, in which the party whose candidate wins the popular vote in a state appoints all that state’s electors to the Electoral College.

https://www.history.com/news/electors-c ... al-college

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

Lin Wood says it’s 1776 again
Tells voters not to vote in Georgia senate runoffs in January and goes on a crazy rant

[toyolink]

The level of ongoing self inflicted pain the Trump camp and their supporters are experiencing is really unhealthy and with Covid19 taking advantage of distractions things are just at the worse case scenario door step.
The whole situation is a real horror event and no fun to observe.

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Trump's wild Inauguration Day exit

President Trump is considering a made-for-TV grand finale: a White House departure on Marine One and final Air Force One flight to Florida for a political rally opposite Joe Biden's inauguration, sources familiar with the discussions tell Axios.

Why it matters: The former network star is privately discussing using his waning powers as commander in chief to order up the exit he wants after dissing Biden by refusing to concede the election, welcome him to the White House or commit to attending his inauguration.

The big picture: The Trump talk could create a split-screen moment: the outgoing president addressing a roaring crowd in an airport hangar while the incoming leader is sworn in before a socially distanced audience outside the Capitol, as NBC News first reported.

Immediately announcing he is running for re-election in 2024 would set up four years of Trump playing Biden's critic-in-chief.

The visual also would embody the vast difference in the two leaders' approaches to the pandemic.

And flying off from the South Lawn before landing in Florida would let Trump escape protests, the normal pleasantries of welcoming the incoming president to the White House — and sitting there while Biden takes the oath of office.

What they’re saying: The Trump campaign declined to comment on his plans.

White House spokesman Judd Deere said: “Anonymous sources who claim to know what the President is or is not considering have no idea. When President Trump has an announcement about his plans for Jan. 20 he will let you know.”

https://www.axios.com/trump-biden-inaug ... c7be1.html

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Georgia set to reaffirm Biden's victory for 3rd time after recount, dealing major blow to Trump's attempt to overturn the results

By Chandelis Duster, CNN

Updated 1641 GMT (0041 HKT) December 7, 2020

Georgia is set to recertify its presidential election results on Monday, which will again find Joe Biden as the winner following three counts of ballots, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said.

News of the recertification is a yet another blow to President Donald Trump, who has for weeks baselessly claimed a "rigged" election in the state and attacked election officials for not overturning the results in his favor. Monday's certification will lock in the state's results for Biden before the December 14 Electoral College vote, though Trump has continued to inveigh against Raffensperger, a Republican, and called for additional signature verification -- which is, at this point, procedurally impossible.

"We have now counted legally cast ballots three times and the results remain unchanged," Raffensperger said during a press conference Monday morning. "Whether it is the President of the United States or a failed gubernatorial candidate, disinformation regarding election administration should be condemned and rejected. Integrity matters. Truth matters."

He continued, "Today, the secretary of state's office will be recertifying our state's election results. Then the safe harbor, under the United States code to name electors, is tomorrow, and then they will meet on December 14 to officially elect the next President."

Biden won the state with more than 12,000 votes, becoming the first Democratic presidential nominee to win the Peach State in nearly three decades. Republican Gov. Brian Kemp certified the results of Biden's victory on November 20, following a statewide audit, which included a hand-count of the nearly 5 million ballots cast in the election.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/07/poli ... index.html

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

Is this satire?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE9HCDrbKe0
check the other videos on his channel

[pete]

Is his shirt ironed in any of them?

[shogun]

^

Thaz all about those runoffs in Georgia. MAGA base not gon' energize themselves.

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Biden pledges to vaccinate tens of millions, reopen schools in first 100 days

12/08/2020 04:13 PM EST

President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday vowed to administer 100 million coronavirus vaccinations and reopen most schools during his first 100 days in office, while repeating his promise to mandate face coverings on airplanes, in federal buildings and other places under the government's control.

The new pledges came as Biden introduced his picks to lead key health agencies and coordinate the federal response to a pandemic that's infected almost 15 million people in the U.S.

“As a new president, I’m going to speak directly to the American people,” Biden said during the event in Wilmington, Del. “We need your help. Wear a mask for 100 days. It’s the easiest thing you can do to reduce Covid cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.”

Biden was flanked by Vivek Murthy, his pick for surgeon general, and Jeffrey Zients, who will coordinate the coronavirus response for the incoming administration. Other members of the team, including health secretary-designate Xavier Becerra, appeared by remote feed.

Biden's pledge to administer 100 million shots is in line with vaccine supplies the government has already secured. But since the two vaccines closest to winning FDA authorization each need to be given in two doses, it will will only cover 50 million people. In his speech, Biden echoed federal experts who've recommended priority be given to front-line health workers, the elderly and then other groups at higher risk of infection, including teachers.

https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/ ... ols-443733

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Arizona Supreme Court rejects effort to overturn results, affirms Biden win

The ruling came hours before the so-called "safe harbor" cutoff, a federal deadline by which states must resolve election-related disputes in state courts to guarantee Congress will count their electors' votes.

Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward had initially filed the challenge in Maricopa County Superior Court, seeking to have a judge void Biden's 10,457-vote win in Arizona. In her claim, she questioned the signature verification process used by Maricopa County to authenticate mail-in ballots, as well as the duplication process election officials used to count ballots that tabulation machines couldn't read.

Ward brought the election contest under a state law that allows voters to dispute certified results if they suspect misconduct, illegal votes or an inaccurate count. But, over a day and a half of testimony and oral arguments, her team failed to prove anything beyond a handful of garden variety mistakes, Superior Court Judge Randall Warner said.

In an order issued Tuesday after Ward appealed to the Arizona Supreme Court, Chief Justice Robert Brutinel agreed.

The court agreed Ward's challenge had failed to "present any evidence of 'misconduct,' 'illegal votes' or that the Biden Electors 'did not in fact receive the highest number of votes for office,'" he wrote — "let alone establish any degree of fraud or a sufficient error rate that would undermine the certainty of the election results."

"Elections will not be held invalid for mere irregularities unless it can be shown that the result has been affected by such irregularity," he wrote. "The validity of an election is not voided by honest mistakes or omissions unless they affect the result, or at least render it uncertain.

Noting the decision was unanimous, he concluded: "It is ordered affirming the trial court decision and confirming the election of the Biden Electors." Those 11 electors are scheduled to cast their presidential votes Monday. 

https://amp.azcentral.com/amp/6487995002

[shogun]

The Republican cult reaching new lows.

They were so sure that confirming Barrett and Kavanaugh would mean a purely transactional relationship. They got played.

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Supreme Court Rejects GOP Bid To Reverse Pennsylvania Election Results

December 8, 20204:57 PM ET


Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Updated 6:30 p.m. ET

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an effort to overturn the results of the presidential election in Pennsylvania, signaling the high court would not go along with President Trump's unprecedented efforts to win another term despite a decisive defeat in the popular vote and Electoral College.

The lawsuit was brought by Republican Rep. Mike Kelly, who argued a 2019 state law authorizing universal mail-in voting is unconstitutional and that all ballots cast by mail in the general election in Pennsylvania should be thrown out.

"The application for injunctive relief presented to Justice [Samuel] Alito and by him referred to the Court is denied," said the court's one-sentence order, which did not suggest any dissent among the nine justices.

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/08/94423051 ... on-results

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Safe Harbor Day has passed and Congress must accept the State's extant electoral slate.

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Safe Harbor Deadline (Tuesday, December 8, 2020). A slate of presidential electors qualifies for “safe harbor” status if, at least six days before the electors meet to cast their votes, the state makes a “final determination” of any dispute by “judicial or other methods or procedures” pursuant to state law enacted prior to Election Day. A state’s appointment of a slate of electors that qualifies for safe harbor status must be treated as “conclusive” by Congress and governs in the counting of electoral votes as regulated by later provisions of the ECA.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/ ... nt+Act.pdf

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Trump backers lose Wisconsin case, notching the fourth loss in a week

For the fourth time in a week, a court has thrown out a lawsuit that sought to flip Wisconsin's electoral votes from President-elect Joe Biden to President Donald Trump. 

In the latest case, U.S. District Judge Pamela Pepper late Wednesday declined to change the results of the election that Biden won by about 21,000 votes. 

"This court’s authority to grant relief is confined by the limits of the Constitution. Granting the relief the plaintiff requests would take the court far outside those limits, and outside the limits of its oath to uphold and (defend) the Constitution," wrote Pepper, who was nominated to the bench by former President Barack Obama. 

The lawsuit was brought by William Feehan, the chairman of the La Crosse County Republican Party. He is represented by Sidney Powell, who was recently ousted from Trump's legal team.

In the lawsuit, Feehan and Powell contended deceased former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had a hand in voting machines used in Wisconsin and around the country that they claim were likely hacked by Iran and China. They have not provided the public with the names of the sources making these claims, and have given one of them the code name Spider. 

Pepper determined Feehan didn’t have legal standing to bring his lawsuit and had brought it against officials and entities who couldn’t be sued.

“Federal judges do not appoint the president in this country,” Pepper wrote. “One wonders why the plaintiffs came to federal court and asked a federal judge to do so. After a week of sometimes odd and often harried litigation, the court is no closer to answering the ‘why.’ But this federal court has no authority or jurisdiction to grant the relief the remaining plaintiff seeks. The court will dismiss the case.”

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/pol ... 877321001/

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Supreme Court rejects Texas lawsuit challenging swing-state election results


The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that sought to invalidate 10 million votes in four battleground states — Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin — that President Trump lost.

Why it matters: It's the latest and most significant legal defeat for Trump and his allies in their floundering attempt to overturn the 2020 election results. Trump tweeted Wednesday, "We will be INTERVENING in the Texas (plus many other states) case. This is the big one. Our Country needs a victory!"

Background: Paxton's suit asked justices to extend the deadline for election certification to Dec. 14, buying time for officials to investigate alleged voting irregularities in the four states.

17 states filed a brief in the Supreme Court in support of Texas, including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and West Virginia.

Over 100 House Republicans also backed the suit, including Minority Whip Steve Scalise (La.). Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) notably did not sign onto the brief.

The four states targeted by Paxton had until Thursday afternoon to respond.

Michigan responded: "The challenge here is an unprecedented one, without factual foundation or a valid legal basis."

Pennsylvania said the lawsuit is a "seditious abuse of the judicial process" and pleaded for the court to "send a clear and unmistakable signal that such abuse must never be replicated."

Georgia wrote: "Texas’s claims are no different than the multiple cases pressed in state and federal courts in Georgia over the past weeks. .... And none of that litigation has gone anywhere."

The state of Ohio — where Trump won — also wrote in opposition to the suit: "[T]he relief that Texas seeks would undermine a foundational premise of our federalist system: the idea that the States are sovereigns, free to govern themselves."

Between the lines: Paxton is battling whistleblower allegations in Texas that he illegally aided a wealthy real estate officer and engaged in bribery, the New York Times notes. The long-shot lawsuit he filed prompted speculation that he may be angling for a pardon, which Trump has privately been discussing handing out like "Christmas gifts."

The big picture: Courts have already dismissed dozens of lawsuits and appeals by the Trump campaign and its allies in Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania and other states.

Attorney General Bill Barr said earlier this month that the Department of Justice has not yet seen any evidence of widespread voter fraud.

A growing number of Republicans are publicly acknowledging Trump's loss, but the vast majority of congressional Republicans have not.

https://www.axios.com/texas-supreme-cou ... db4d2.html

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Trump’s Wisconsin Election Suit Dismissed by Federal Judge

December 12, 2020, 3:42 PM AST

Updated on December 12, 2020, 4:22 PM AST

- Judge appointed by Trump rejects several arguments in suit

- On Friday, Texas effort to overturn vote failed at top court


A federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump threw out a lawsuit filed by his campaign in Wisconsin that sought to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory in the battleground state.

The suit against Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers and other state officials was dismissed with prejudice on Saturday by U.S. District Judge Brett Ludwig, who heard arguments Thursday from Trump campaign attorneys claiming the state’s mail-in voting procedures during the coronavirus pandemic were put in place illegally.

The president “has not proved that defendants violated his rights under the Electors Clause. To the contrary, the record shows Wisconsin’s Presidential Electors are being determined in the very manner directed by the Legislature, as required by Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution,” wrote Ludwig, who took up his current post in September.

The judge said Trump’s argument that disagreements over the conduct of an election by state officials created a federal claim is contrary to the Constitution and “common sense.”

If Trump were correct, “any disappointed loser in a presidential election, able to hire a team of clever lawyers, could flag claimed deviations from the election rules and cast doubt on the election results,” the judge said. “This would risk turning every presidential election into a federal court lawsuit over the Electors Clause.”

‘Ordinary Disputes’

While Trump’s arguments about the conduct of the election weren’t frivolous, “when they are cleared of their rhetoric, they consist of little more than ordinary disputes over statutory construction,” the judge wrote in a 23-page order. “Plaintiff’s Electors Clause claims fail as a matter of law and fact.”

Ludwig added that “for the first time in the nation’s history, a candidate that has lost an election for president based on the popular vote is trying to use federal law to challenge the results of a statewide popular election.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... eral-judge

[sMASH]

tmrw is the big day, once u have no tie.