Trump questions whether Supreme Court would hear election challenge as options dwindle

By Linda So and Raphael Satter

 

U.S. President Donald Trump waves as he walks on the South Lawn of the White House upon his return to Washington from Camp David, U.S., November 29, 2020. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Sunday questioned whether the Supreme Court would ever hear a case airing his unproven allegations of widespread election fraud as senior U.S. Republicans said a transition to a Joe Biden presidency looked inevitable.

 

Trump's comments in a telephone interview with Fox News Channel suggested the Republican president is growing resigned to the results of the Nov. 3 election that handed the White House to his Democratic opponent Biden.

 

They came as the president's team was dealt another blow, with the completion on Sunday of ballot recounts in Wisconsin's two largest counties confirming Biden won the hotly-contested state by more than 20,000 votes.

 

Trump campaign attorney Jenna Ellis said the recounts "revealed serious issues regarding the legality of ballots cast," without elaborating or providing any evidence.

 

"We want every legal vote, and only legal votes to be counted, and we will continue to uphold our promise to the American people to fight for a free and fair election," she said in a statement.

 

Despite the Trump campaign's pledge to keep fighting, a small number of Republicans appeared on Sunday to endorse the notion that Biden had won.

 

Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri, chair of the congressional inaugural committee, said the group of senior lawmakers expects Biden to be sworn in as president on Jan. 20.

 

"We're working with the Biden administration, the likely administration on both the transition and the inauguration as if we're moving forward," Blunt said on CNN's "State of the Union," though he stopped short of acknowledging Trump lost.

 

Governor Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas is one of a few Republicans to refer to Biden as the president-elect.

 

"The transition is what is important. The words of President Trump are not quite as significant," Hutchinson told "Fox News Sunday."

 

SUPREME COURT QUESTIONS

Trump used his interview on Fox News Channel's "Sunday Morning Futures" to repeat the allegations he has made without evidence about widespread electoral fraud. His campaign and legal team have lost dozens of lawsuits by failing to convince judges of election irregularities in states including Michigan, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada, all critical to Biden's victory.

 

Trump was not clear on what legal steps he would take next.

 

"The problem is it's hard to get it to the Supreme Court," Trump said, without clarifying whether he thought the court would decline to hear an appeal or whether his campaign may not even make one.

 

Trump's legal team has offered conflicting statements on their likely course following a defeat in a federal appeals court on Friday in a case they were pursuing challenging Biden's win in Pennsylvania.

 

"On to SCOTUS!" Ellis wrote on Twitter after the ruling, suggesting a plan to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

 

Later, however, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani reportedly told One America News Network that the legal team was still weighing which case might be appropriate to pursue at the top court.

 

The U.S. Supreme Court has always been unlikely to tip the election in Trump's favor, and the president finally seems to be acknowledging that reality, said Jessica Levinson, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.

 

Trump's challenge to the results in Pennsylvania, rejected by the appeals court on Friday, is a particularly poor vehicle for getting to the high court because at its core it involves a procedural question about whether Trump's campaign should have been allowed to expand the case, Levinson said.

 

"There is nothing for the Supreme Court to decide," Levinson said.

 

Trump said he will continue to fight the results of the election, saying "my mind will not change in six months."

 

His comments appeared to signal his intention to continue contesting the outcome even after he leaves office. Aides say he has discussed several media ventures, including starting a television channel or social media company to keep him in the spotlight ahead of a potential 2024 White House bid.

 

Biden won the presidential election with 306 Electoral College votes - many more than the 270 required - to Trump's 232. Biden also leads Trump by more than 6 million in the popular vote tally.

 

(Reporting by Linda So and Raphael Satter; Additional reporting by Jarrett Renshaw, Tim Ahmann, Andrea Shalal and Jan Wolfe; Writing by Lisa Shumaker; Editing by Daniel Wallis)

 

 

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trump's 'big lie' continues claiming the Dems stole the election, whereas it is he who is attempting to steal the election.  

I'm beginning to suspect that President Trump is part of the Deep State and is actively working to undermine the reelection of President Trump.

I'm confident that this is just a ploy of President Trump's to catch the libs off guard and stage an end run around them on his way to the Supreme Court and his reelection.

During the phone in Trump also ranted about ‘Massive Dumps’ without explaining what these ‘Massive Dumps’ were, and it seems the TV crew thought it better not to ask for an explanation.

 

Are Trump’s ‘massive dumps’ a Freudian slip or just the ramblings of a man who’s lost touch with reality?

 

Of course it could be the outcome of the looming reality that awaits him.

 

19 minutes ago, placeholder said:

I'm confident that this is just a ploy of President Trump's to catch the libs off guard and stage an end run around them on his way to the Supreme Court and his reelection.

Exactly, it is a big, tremendous plan, he is playing chess and thinking 10 moves ahead while everyone else is playing checkers.

Time to hang up the gloves Donald. You're a one term loser and the more you open your mouth, the stupider you make yourself look! You're a disgrace!

40 minutes ago, placeholder said:

I'm confident that this is just a ploy of President Trump's to catch the libs off guard and stage an end run around them on his way to the Supreme Court and his reelection.

"reelection"?  Don't you mean judicial coup?

 

The odds of that happening are looking really bad.

10 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

Time to hang up the gloves Donald. You're a one term loser and the more you open your mouth, the stupider you make yourself look! You're a disgrace!

Not being pedantic, but, ‘Impeached, One Term Loser.’

What’s incredible is that there are people out there who actually believe Trump’s lies. 

Edited November 29, 20205 yr by AlexRich

32 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Exactly, it is a big, tremendous plan, he is playing chess and thinking 10 moves ahead while everyone else is playing checkers.

I really hope your joking? 

1 hour ago, placeholder said:

I'm beginning to suspect that President Trump is part of the Deep State and is actively working to undermine the reelection of President Trump.

 

1 hour ago, placeholder said:

I'm confident that this is just a ploy of President Trump's to catch the libs off guard and stage an end run around them on his way to the Supreme Court and his reelection.

The point of my comments is obvious. The liberals claim that there are no cats in the White House but President Trump is just like Schrodinger's except bigger and better and oranger. He can say yes and no at the same  time and mean both. And any physicist who claims otherwise is not nice. Sad!

Trump campaign attorney Jenna Ellis said the recounts "revealed serious issues regarding the legality of ballots cast," without elaborating or providing any evidence.

 

Trump IS the evidence of all negativity. 

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Trump campaign attorney Jenna Ellis said the recounts "revealed serious issues regarding the legality of ballots cast," without elaborating or providing any evidence.

"We want every legal vote, and only legal votes to be counted, and we will continue to uphold our promise to the American people to fight for a free and fair election," she said in a statement.

Statement elaborated: "I want to milk this legal cash cow for all its worth and I will continue to bill every hour of work and any fraction thereof to the government including the time for statements made from inception to delivery. I will therefore use all legal resources to continue and extend this campaign as long as possible. I really don't care if the election was fair and free, and promises to the American people are just an abstract exercise."

stayed up late to watch the interview last night.  wow.  just wow.  amazing. 

unhinged would be a nice adjective.  bigly unhinged.

 

can't believe that bartiromo lady actually believed what trump dumped on the phone.  surely she was just playing along for laughs, acting the provocateur, making agreeable sounds to get him to continue making a fool of himself.

 

whining!

IMO it's about money. As soon as Trump concedes, the flow of cash from gullible donors will dry up. So he will keep up the claim the election was stolen, when the facts say he actually got a record voter turnout for a losing candidate too.

1 hour ago, AlexRich said:

What’s incredible is that there are people out there who actually believe Trump’s lies. 

Even better they are now questioning whether they should even bother voting in the upcoming Georgia senate elections.  After all, 45 and the GOP say the elections are rigged therefore the public feel there is point voting.

You couldn't make this up...........unless you were 45.

No worries... the new team is going to "Build Back Better" Question: What do you think that means?

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2 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

During the phone in Trump also ranted about ‘Massive Dumps’ without explaining what these ‘Massive Dumps’ were, and it seems the TV crew thought it better not to ask for an explanation.

 

Are Trump’s ‘massive dumps’ a Freudian slip or just the ramblings of a man who’s lost touch with reality?

 

Of course it could be the outcome of the looming reality that awaits him.

 

I hate to think too hard about the phrase “massive dumps” following so closely on the heels of American Thanksgiving dinner, but that’s where we are with this lame duck, isn’t it ...

35 minutes ago, animalmagic said:

Even better they are now questioning whether they should even bother voting in the upcoming Georgia senate elections.  After all, 45 and the GOP say the elections are rigged therefore the public feel there is point voting.

You couldn't make this up...........unless you were 45.

Sorry, that should read NO point voting

Trump can kiss his 2024 hopes goodbye once he’s convicted of tax and insurance fraud in New York.

3 hours ago, placeholder said:

I'm beginning to suspect that President Trump is part of the Deep State and is actively working to undermine the reelection of President Trump.

Not incredulous in Trump world.

He just inferred that the FBI and US Attorney General are part of the conspiracy to steal the election from Trump. 

2 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

During the phone in Trump also ranted about ‘Massive Dumps’ without explaining what these ‘Massive Dumps’ were, and it seems the TV crew thought it better not to ask for an explanation.

 

Are Trump’s ‘massive dumps’ a Freudian slip or just the ramblings of a man who’s lost touch with reality?

 

Of course it could be the outcome of the looming reality that awaits him.

 

Chomper isent that what he does when he’s ensconced on his golden throne a tweeting away in the wee hours?lol anyway as far as the Supreme Court taking up his bs imo they should be considering when all this undermining of our democracy becomes a crime!

2 hours ago, stevenl said:

Exactly, it is a big, tremendous plan, he is playing chess and thinking 10 moves ahead while everyone else is playing checkers.

For the sake of argument that Trump is playing chess, Biden is tactfully playing three dimension Go, surrounding Trump's black moves and smothering his "strategic" moves in every direction.

47 minutes ago, Tounge Thaied said:

No worries... the new team is going to "Build Back Better" Question: What do you think that means?

Building Back Better (BBB) is a strategy aimed at reducing the risk to the people of nations and communities in the wake of future disasters and shocks.^[1] The BBB approach integrates disaster risk reduction measures into the restoration of physical infrastructure, social systems and shelter, and the revitalization of livelihoods, economies and the environment.^[2]

Building Back Better - Wikipedia

 

Jenna Ellis can milk the system all she wants, but like cities and towns all over America she will never get paid by Trump. Forgetting about the 400m plus he owes to banks and foreign oligarchs they will take their monies off him one way or another. The election rallies bills  from 2016 an d 2020 owed all over the country by  cities and towns will sue him once he is out of office. There goes another few hundred million from the MASTER Deal maker. He needs to keep bleeding his supporter for money because broke is broke in every mans language.

Lies will not pay the bills.  

3 hours ago, webfact said:

President Donald Trump on Sunday questioned whether the Supreme Court would ever hear a case airing his unproven allegations of widespread election fraud

Probably not , as he has no evidence for this .

One has to read between the li(n)es with 45.

 

Just as his 'elite strikeforce team's' PA presser was at "Four Seasons" Landscaping and Gardening, his 'Supreme Court' is that chain of low budget hotels in the rural south, the kind of place where most rooms still have chalk mark silhouettes on the carpet.

 

The actual Supreme Court hears cases when there is something called evidence, a little thing that 45 seems to pretend isn't important.

Hmmmmm... Stupid IS what stupid DOES ?