Judge To Trump: ‘Calling An Election Unfair Does Not Make It So’
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11/27/2020 01:46 pm ET Updated 17 hours ago
Judge To Trump: ‘Calling An Election Unfair Does Not Make It So’
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Donald Trump ’s legal team suffered yet another defeat in court Friday as a federal appeals court in Philadelphia roundly rejected the campaign’s latest effort to challenge the state’s election results.
Trump’s lawyers vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court despite the judges’ assessment that the “campaign’s claims have no merit.” "Free, fair elections are the lifeblood of our democracy. Charges of unfairness are serious. But calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here,” 3rd Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas, a Trump appointee, wrote for the three-judge panel, all appointed by Republican presidents. The case had been argued last week in a lower court by Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who insisted during five hours of oral arguments that the 2020 presidential election had been marred by widespread fraud in Pennsylvania. However, Giuliani failed to offer any tangible proof of that in court.
U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann had said the campaign’s error-filled complaint, “like Frankenstein’s Monster, has been haphazardly stitched together” and denied Giuliani the right to amend it for a second time. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals called any revisions “futile.” Chief Judge D. Brooks Smith and Judge Michael Chagares were on the panel with Bibas, a former University of Pennsylvania law professor. Trump’s sister, Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, sat on the court for 20 years, retiring in 2019.
Biden campaign spokesman Mike Gwin said Friday in response to the judges’ ruling according to CNN that “This election is over and Donald Trump lost, both in Pennsylvania and nationally. Desperate and embarrassingly lawsuits like this one will continue to fail and not change the fact that Joe Biden will be sworn in as President on January 20, 2021.”
Trump has said he hopes the Supreme Court will intervene in the race as it did in 2000 when its decision to stop the recount in Florida gave the election to Republican George W. Bush. On Nov. 5, as the vote count continued, Trump posted a tweet saying the “U.S. Supreme Court should decide!”
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Sore loser!
Poor loser!
Whiny little bitch!
Electorally and by popular vote!
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Well said.
Just like calling yourself a very stable genius does not make it so.
sure it does, trump just need slide a match pack under his foot with the bone spurs, if he can remember which one...