Pennsylvania Judge Halts Further Vote Certification Steps

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GOP effort to invalidate more than 2.5 million votes in Pennsylvania dealt another setback

Republicans faced another procedural setback in a Pennsylvania lawsuit seeking to invalidate more than 2.5 million votes, as a temporary order blocking further certification of election results was stayed on appeal from state officials who had already formalized President-elect Joe Biden’s win the day before.
 

Legal experts said the case had little chance of success, much like the other last-ditch GOP election lawsuits pending in battleground states. Republicans have gained no substantive traction across more than two dozen cases trying to undo results favoring Biden since Election Day, and as of Tuesday, four of six states where President Trump tried to overturn the outcome have certified Biden’s win.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-pennsylvania-legal-setback/2020/11/25/ba01c3aa-2f41-11eb-860d-f7999599cbc2_story.html

 

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It sounds as though the lower court judge's planned Friday hearing was canceled, and her ruling held in abeyance pending consideration by the state Supreme Court, according to local news reports there.

 

https://www.witf.org/2020/11/25/wolf-administration-asks-pa-supreme-court-to-dismiss-lawsuit-aimed-at-throwing-out-mail-in-ballots/

 

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Pennsylvania’s top court expected to act quickly on appeal to let state proceed with election certification

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McCullough scheduled, then canceled, a hearing within hours Wednesday as the case was bumped up to the state Supreme Court after the Wolf and Boockvar appealed to the Democratic majority judicial panel, asking them to dismiss the case.
 

Former Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Byer tweeted Wednesday night that the commonwealth’s highest court will likely act quickly (and is designated to hear any Act 77 challenges, anyway). In the meantime, McCullough’s order is unenforceable – meaning DoS could choose to proceed with certification or wait for the outcome of their appeal, Byer wrote later in an email.

 

 

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https://www.wgal.com/article/pennsylvania-judge-orders-halt-to-further-vote-certification/34789738

 

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Commonwealth Court Judge Patricia McCullough, a Republican, had issued the order and set a hearing for Friday, but canceled it amid the appeal. It wasn’t immediately clear if she intended to hold up the certification of state and local contests on the ballot or interrupt the scheduled Dec. 14 meeting of the state’s 20 electors.

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In Harsh Rebuke, Appeals Court Rejects Trump’s Election Challenge in Pennsylvania

“Voters, not lawyers, choose the president,” a judge for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals wrote in the 21-page repudiation of Mr. Trump’s legal effort to halt Pennsylvania’s certification process.

In a blistering decision, a Philadelphia appeals court ruled on Friday that the Trump campaign could not stop — or attempt to reverse — the certification of the voting results in Pennsylvania, reprimanding the president’s team by noting that “calling an election unfair does not make it so.”

The 21-page ruling by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals was a complete repudiation of Mr. Trump’s legal effort to halt Pennsylvania’s certification process and was written by a judge that he himself appointed to the bench.

In Harsh Rebuke, Appeals Court Rejects Trump’s Election Challenge in Pennsylvania - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

[Tug]

Yup ya gotta have proof not just enuendo and bs theories trump loses again he has not one shred of dignity not a one imo 

[ding]

19 hours ago, placeholder said:

“calling an election unfair does not make it so.”

Thanks for the link.

It seems like Team Trump's play is to get this before a set of jurists who don't require evidence. 

By definition, IF that's the case, those are not jurists.

[Jeffr2]

6 hours ago, ding said:

Thanks for the link.

It seems like Team Trump's play is to get this before a set of jurists who don't require evidence. 

By definition, IF that's the case, those are not jurists.

Team Trump's play is to get brainwashed Americans to donate to his super PAC so he's got money when he's out of office.  Money he can use for literally anything he wants.  He's just fanning the flames, as usual.  Suckers, all of them.

[Berkshire]

53 minutes ago, Jeffr2 said:

Team Trump's play is to get brainwashed Americans to donate to his super PAC so he's got money when he's out of office.  Money he can use for literally anything he wants.  He's just fanning the flames, as usual.  Suckers, all of them.

These Trump supporters are being relentlessly lied to....not by the Democrats...or Biden...or the media.  They are being lied to and betrayed by the man they love most.  Trump knows darn well he lost.  So does the Republican party.  And right wing media.  Even Rudy knows.  But if Trump can suck every last cent from his hardcore cult supporters, he will do it.  The man has no shame.

[Jeffr2]

3 minutes ago, Berkshire said:

These Trump supporters are being relentlessly lied to....not by the Democrats...or Biden...or the media.  They are being lied to and betrayed by the man they love most.  Trump knows darn well he lost.  So does the Republican party.  And right wing media.  Even Rudy knows.  But if Trump can suck every last cent from his hardcore cult supporters, he will do it.  The man has no shame.

Just watching the news.  Trump's now trying to get Republicans to go to the polls and vote in the GA senate race.  Many are planning to boycott because Trump told them is fraudulent. LOL.  Love it! 

 

Also, the GA official who said there was no fraud is now getting death threats, to him AND his family.  What a bunch of violent nutters.  Crazy times.

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Pennsylvania Supreme Court dismisses lawsuit against mail ballots with prejudice in another defeat for Trump

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court dismissed with prejudice a Republican lawsuit seeking to invalidate more than 2.5 million votes cast by mail in the general election, the latest in a string of legal defeats for the GOP as President Trump fails to undo his losses in key battleground states.

Justices on the state high court ruled unanimously late Saturday that Republican petitioners waited too long to file their suit challenging Act 77, the 2019 law that established universal mail voting in Pennsylvania...The ruling with prejudice means that the plaintiffs are barred from bringing another action on the same claim.

Pennsylvania Supreme Court dismisses lawsuit against mail ballots with prejudice in another defeat for Trump - The Washington Post