Pennsylvania officials can certify election results that currently show Democrat Joe Biden winning the state by more than 80,000 votes, a federal judge ruled Saturday, dealing President Donald Trump’s campaign another blow in its effort to invalidate the election.
Just read the full opinion. It is brutal. For example, an individual who mailed in a faulty ballot (did not use the external envelope), is claiming an equal protection violation, because he/she was not give opportunity to “cure” the error, unlike voters in other counties where this was afforded. The remedy sought is to throw out 6.8 million ballots. But the judge notes that the appropriate remedy would be to have the individual’s (single) ballot counted, not to disenfranchise nearly 7 million voters.
Or this:
That Plaintiffs are trying to mix-and-match claims to bypass contrary precedent is not lost on the Court. The Court will thus analyze Plaintiffs’ claims as if they had been raised properly and asserted as one whole for purposes of standing and the merits.
Or this:
The standing inquiry as to the Trump Campaign is particularly nebulous because neither in the FAC nor in its briefing does the Trump Campaign clearly assert what its alleged injury is. Instead, the Court was required to embark on an extensive project of examining almost every case cited to by Plaintiffs to piece together the theory of standing as to this Plaintiff – the Trump Campaign.
Wow!!!
($20,000 per day for sheer, rank, incompetence).
Donald J. Trump: Impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives. Acquitted by the U.S. Senate. Convicted and Thrown out of Office by the American people. Justice, at last!
U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, turned down the request for an injunction by President Donald Trump’s campaign, spoiling the incumbent’s hopes of somehow overturning the results of the presidential contest.
From the excerpts I’ve seen so far, it looks like Judge Brann “turned down” the Trump filing the way the R.A.F. turned down the Luftwaffe’s request to pop round for a visit in 1940.
Late edit to add: To be fair to the Luftwaffe, a lone unescorted He-111 with one engine ablaze and a dead gunner, surrounded by Spitfires, had a better defense than the Trumpies were able to muster here.
Nicely done. [polite Oxbridge voice] “Errmmmm…Reischmarschall Goering? Errmmm, yerss, about these Channel flights? Tellibly sorry to say… NOT THIS SUMMER, MOTHERFUCKER!!!”
Sooo … if enough states (not all) certify their results - and the total adds up at least 270, then the other open state Trump lawsuits are of no consequence? Is that correct? And if so, will that cow over at the GSA have no choice but to certify Joe Biden as our next president? I’m really at my wit’s end.