Trump campaign asks appeals court to halt Biden from being declared Pennsylvania winner

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Trump campaign asks appeals court to halt Biden from being declared Pennsylvania winner

By Makini Brice and Jonathan Stempel

 

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump drives a golf cart at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, U.S., November 22, 2020. REUTERS/Hannah McKay

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's campaign on Monday asked a federal appeals court to revive a long-shot challenge to Pennsylvania's election results, saying officials should be halted from declaring President-elect Joe Biden as the state's winner.

 

The campaign said a lower-court judge erred in dismissing the case outright, rather than review additional allegations the campaign had dropped from the case but wanted to restore.

 

It said it never got a chance to litigate its "serious and well-founded claims" that Democratic officials schemed to ensure Biden's victory by counting potentially tens of thousands of defective mail ballots.

 

Counties in Pennsylvania faced a Monday deadline for delivering election results to the state's top election official for certification, although some were expected to miss the target.

 

Under Pennsylvania law, the candidate who wins the popular vote in the state is awarded all of its 20 Electoral College votes. The Democratic former vice president received 81,000 more votes in Pennsylvania than Trump, a Republican.

 

The campaign is appealing part of a decision from the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

 

The lawsuit filed by Trump's campaign had alleged inconsistent treatment by county election officials of mail-in ballots.

 

U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann, said in his ruling on Saturday that the case was based on "strained legal arguments" and that he had "no authority to take away the right to vote of even a single person, let alone millions of citizens."

 

Brann also denied the campaign's request to add claims to its lawsuit, including an allegation that its due-process rights were violated.

 

The Trump campaign's appeal is focused on the narrow question of whether Brann improperly refused to let them amend their lawsuit a second time.

 

Pennsylvania's secretary of state has until Tuesday afternoon to respond. If the campaign loses its appeal, it could ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case.

 

(Reporting by Makini Brice and Jonathan Stempel; Additional reporting by Jan Wolfe; Editing by Noeleen Walder, Tom Brown and Peter Cooney)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-11-24

 

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[PatOngo]

When does this loser get it through his stupid head that he lost the election and the majority don't want him, he makes his country look weak!

[simple1]

Trump has finally accepted the truth; Biden won the election!

 

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/23/us/joe-biden-trump

[Dagfinnur Traustason]

Mr. Has Been have spoken.

[Chomper Higgot]

This is all about creating a narrative of Trump

having won but having been cheated.

 

It has two objectives.

 

1. Feed his fragile narcissistic ego.

 

2. Spin out the fund raising so he can continue milking his ‘marks’.

 

Trump’s Presidency is over, it ends in 57 days, after which NYAG James is going to destroy him.

[PatOngo]

9 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Spin out the fund raising so he can continue milking his ‘marks’.

When you hear them speak, it would'nt be too hard to milk them, not the brightest bunch!

[Chomper Higgot]

2 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

When you hear them speak, it would'nt be too hard to milk them, not the brightest bunch!

When?..... If!

 

They've gone awfully quiet these days.

 

 

[Thailand]

GSA confirms transition to start. Trump is dead in the water, no wheels on that wagon. Let litigation commence.